Tianhai City, the city lord's mansion, an underground secret room.
Hong Zhan was devouring a large amount of elixirs and improving his cultivation.
Although the Tianyin True Water was cold, how could it be colder than his primeval essence? At this moment, it could only be used as a catalyst, prompting his cultivation to continue to improve.
Five days later, with a bang, a black wind swept around, freezing a large amount of frost from the secret room.
Hong Zhan exhaled lightly and opened his eyes, he exhausted all the Heavenly Yin True Water and finally broke through to the fourth level of the True Sea Realm.
"Master, why is your yin energy so terrifying?" Lu Qi's voice came not far away.
Not far away, dozens of zombies were gathering in one place, constantly introducing the yin energy in the secret room into Lu Datong's body, and the zombie king led by Lu Qi was Lu Qi.
"Is there enough yin energy?" Hong Zhan asked.
"It's too much, the master is so powerful, I have never seen such a high-level yin energy, plus the high-level corpse qi you provide, it won't be long before I can refine Lu Datong into a zombie." Lu Qi kept flattering.
"Then I'll trouble you, if the yin energy is not enough, I will supplement it for you." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!" Lu Qi said.
"In view of your diligence, I will help you catch some corpses in the future to help you improve your strength." Hong Zhan smiled.
"Thank you, master." Lu Qi said extremely excitedly.
"I'll leave it to you here." Hong Zhan nodded and walked out of the secret room.
After seeing Hong Zhan leave, Lu Qi suddenly collapsed to the ground, and then complained frantically: "I'm so miserable! I don't want to work, I don't want to be diligent, I just want to be a free waste!"
Outside the secret room, several subordinates saw Hong Zhan coming out and stepped forward to salute.
"Is there any new real water news?" Hong Zhan asked.
"Not for the time being, we have been looking for it, and if there is any news, we will report it immediately." One person said.
Hong Zhan nodded, and then said: "How are the cheats collected?"
"We have been collecting it, and now we have sorted out some of them and sent them, and the prisoners in prison are also constantly writing their own knife secrets, and we are sorting them out to confirm their authenticity." One person said.
"Hmm." Hong Zhan nodded.
The stone of its mountain can attack jade, he wants to improve his sword path, he needs more knife secrets.
"The prisoners in prison, some of them were forced to join the Corpse God Sect, they ate the poisonous pill containing corpse worms and had to obey orders, now, we can help them get rid of the corpse worms in their bodies, how to deal with these people?" One person asked.
"Identify the people who can be subdued and carry out reorganization and subduing, our source of troops cannot only be supported by the eight major families, we must embrace all rivers and grow the team as soon as possible." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!"
"I have already agreed with Lu Xiao that the teachings he brought from Pingnan Sect will fully help us train our troops, and if we select out those who have no problems, let them train our troops, and master an army of monks that belongs to us as quickly as possible." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!"
"Also, don't be reluctant to give up money, let the Lord of Tianhai City in the Han Palace become justified as soon as possible, and let the eight major families quickly help implement the appointment documents." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!"
"Go get busy."
"Yes!" Everyone was ordered to retreat.
Hong Zhan sat down at the desk next to him, where a large number of knife secrets were piled up, he picked up one and read it with great interest.
Just like that, two months passed.
One day and night, Hong Zhan was looking at a new knife secret book with great enthusiasm.
Suddenly, his hair exploded all over his body, and he felt a huge threat coming to him, so he suddenly turned around and punched him.
Rumble! The fists and swords collided, and a wave of air exploded. A black shadow with a sword was beaten back by him, retreated into the darkness and disappeared.
"Assassin?" Hong Zhan's face darkened.
This is the Lord's Mansion of Tianhai City, there is a formation isolated outside, and there are his subordinates, how can there be an assassin close to him?
He rushed out of the study with a knife, and with a bang, he was hit back by a black gas barrier. His study was wrapped in a formation barrier, and black energy quickly spread all around.
At this time, several long swords stabbed him directly in the black air.
"What a guts!" Hong Zhan's eyes were cold.
Shout! The Nine Netherworld Yin Wind erupted on his body, forcing away all the black energy around him, and he slashed it with a single knife.
Countless blades suddenly appeared, and with a bang, the slashing of the long swords shot backwards, and several figures screamed and retreated sharply. However, there were still people who were cut in two and died on the spot.
"No, his cultivation is beyond the intelligence description."
"The information is wrong."
"The situation is not right."
……
Secretly, everyone exclaimed.
"Tu Hai!" Hong Zhan shouted.
There was another large amount of sword light shining, and with a bang, another person was slashed backwards and flew out, dying on the spot.
"Calm the soul!" A voice shouted in the dark.
Buzz! A black light suddenly enveloped Hong Zhan, rushing straight to Hong Zhan's eyebrow orifices, like some kind of special soul power attack.
Hong Zhan roared angrily, his soul power exploded, and with a bang, the black light collapsed.
"This is impossible, it is not the Soul Sea Period, and it cannot break my soul bead." The person in the dark exclaimed.
Rumble! A red knife light flashed, and a person screamed in the dark, an arm was thrown away, and blood was splattered.
"The situation has changed, withdraw quickly!" Someone in the black gas exclaimed.
"Is it too late to leave at this time?" Hong Zhan said coldly.
He slashed out with a single knife, and a hundred blade lights suddenly appeared, and the next moment, a hundred blade lights converged, turning into six blade lights, shooting directly into the black air.
In the illusion of the God Slaying Knife, the sword spirit was quietly looking at the outside world, its eyes suddenly widened, and said: "No, this is not the Eight Styles of God Slaughter, he fused the third and fourth styles to derive other moves? Is he creating knife techniques?"
Rumble! The black gas barrier outside the study suddenly exploded.
However, he saw four figures being stabbed, covered in blood, falling to the ground, and could no longer get up, but two figures endured their injuries and rushed out of the house.
"Want to leave?" Hong Zhan's eyes were cold, and he chased after a figure.
The figure was extremely fast, left the city lord's mansion, and fled to a mountain forest.
"Tu Shanhai!" Hong Zhan shouted.
"Don't!" The black shadow screamed and greeted him with his sword.
Rumble! Dao Gang cut off the long sword, and even took advantage of the situation to cut off one of the black shadow's arms, and the black shadow was slashed backwards, his internal organs were shattered, he spat out blood, and fell to the ground.
Hong Zhan jumped forward and stabbed into his dantian with a knife, and with a bang, the black shadow was abolished.
The huge movement quickly attracted a large number of monks to watch, but Hong Zhan carried the deposed black shadow straight to the city lord's mansion.
A total of nine people assassinated him, two were beheaded, and five were devoted, but unfortunately, one ran away.
When Hong Zhan returned to the city lord's mansion, he saw Ye Yu coming back with the last fish that escaped the net.
"Your Majesty, the ministers are derelict in their duties." The subordinates quickly surrounded them.
Hong Zhan ordered: "First calm the surrounding situation and minimize the impact of the movement just now."
"Yes!" Everyone responded.
Ye Yu's face was ugly and said: "Your Majesty, I was working outside the mansion before, not in the mansion, so I didn't expect an assassin."
"Interrogate first, talk about it later." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!" Ye Yu said.
Next, the assassins were interrogated by Ye Yu.
Hong Zhan asked his other subordinates and learned that when this group of assassins made a move, there was no movement at all, not only did they assassinate the patrol guards first, but the formation arranged was even more sound-isolating, extremely professional.
Soon, the results of Ye Yu's interrogation came out.
"Your Majesty, they come from a killer organization called 'Shadow Hall', and the nine of them are all cultivating in the middle and late stages of the True Sea Realm." Ye Yu said.
"Shadow Hall? Who hired them?" Hong Zhan asked.
"I don't know, according to their description, the organization of the Shadow Hall is extremely strict, and the employer and the killer will not meet. They don't know who the employer is." Ye Yu said.
"What is the strength of the Shadow Hall?" Hong Zhan asked.
"I don't know, now I can only find out that these killers belong to the first echelon of the Shadow Hall, because they have a soul fixation bead and have even successfully assassinated the monks of the Immortal Fetus Realm." Ye Yu said and handed out a black bead.
Hong Zhan took the soul fixation bead to investigate, but saw that it was a treasure that stored and changed soul power.
"Where is their headquarters?" Hong Zhan asked.
"The largest city in Yunzhou, Huoyun City." Ye Yu said.
"The state capital of Yunzhou?" Hong Zhan said unexpectedly.
"Yes, they said that the Corpse God Sect is attacking Fire Cloud City in an all-out way, and the Shadow Hall has the idea of moving away from the headquarters, but it has not yet been implemented." Ye Yu said.
Hong Zhan pondered for a while and said: "If the assassination fails today, there will definitely be a second wave of killers. You prepare, we will set off tomorrow, we will go to Huoyun City and destroy the Shadow Hall, I want to see who hired them to assassinate me."
"Yes!" Ye Yu said.
Hong Zhan turned his head and walked towards the underground secret room not far away.
In the depths of the secret room, yin energy surrounded it, and the moment Hong Zhan entered, Lu Qi's voice came: "Master, it's done, look."
But in the center of a group of zombies, Lu Datong seemed to come to life, its eyes were red, its mouth was spitting out fangs, and its whole body was billowing with black air, fierce.
"Zombie King?" Hong Zhan's eyes lit up.
"Yes, Lu Datong has also been refined into the zombie king, but zombies need to suck blood from time to time to maintain their state. Lu Qi said.
"Okay, next, you pair these zombies with a group of my subordinates and be responsible for protecting them." Hong Zhan said.
The assassination just now reminded him that he didn't want his subordinates to be assassinated as well.
"All of them?" Lu Qi was surprised.
"Yes, Lu Datong is paired with Han Palace, and I will arrange for you to match other zombies." Hong Zhan said.
"Okay!" Lu Qi nodded.
"I will immediately arrange for someone to come over and try to get it done within a day, and at this time tomorrow, you will control a zombie king and go to Huoyun City with me." Hong Zhan said.
"Only one day?" Lu Qi was stunned.
"Can't finish it?" Hong Zhan wondered.
"If you finish it, it's too rushed, I will be very tired and have no time to rest." Lu Qi said pitifully.
"Work overtime and do a good job. Go back and find a corpse for you to eat." Hong Zhan said, and then walked out of the secret room.
In the secret room, only Luqi was left, it slumped on the ground again, wailing: "Woowoo, I don't want to work overtime, I want to sleep soundly, I want to go out to play, I want to rest."