I Am Supreme

Chapter 630: Where Have The Secret Weapon Experts Gone To?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In truth, First Court King Qinguang was unsure of Yun Yang's abilities; it was not like he knew any better than the next person! Hearing what King Chujiang had told him, he was dumbstruck.

"My eyes are opened once again through today's incident. It's really… tsk, tsk, tsk…"

Emperor Song and King Wuguan clicked their tongues while entering their rooms, shaking their heads. The sounds of their clicking tongues trailed after them. The other Yama Kings looked thoughtful as well, occupied with all sorts of ideas.

Just based on the outcome, what happened today was an utterly ordinary battle. It was a simple case of the victim being ambushed and persevered until the arrival of assistance. Under such arduous circumstances, he had continued fighting bravely and finally managed to anticipate the arrival of relief troops, thus turning defeat into victory and had subdued the ambushing enemy instead. Was this not the most ordinary thing?

Although it was not very common, it was still reasonable, and it largely appeared only in novels. Such a plot was one of the most common tropes in contemporary literature!

Nonetheless, the entire incident was absurd in the eyes of ace cultivators like the ten Yama Kings. It was filled with far too many plot holes and too many illogical understandings!

A habit of an assassin was their tendency to analyze an entire battle, especially one that was so strange. Everyone's eyes were riveted on the King of Equality.

The King of Equality spoke faintly, "The ambushing party deployed a total of sixteen top-notch assassins. The weakest one among them even fares better than our Gold ranked killers. The overall line-up is formidable. It's more than enough to target any one of us and by that, I mean those of us whose abilities had breakthroughs."

"Still, such a line-up's final result was a sweeping defeat. We've caught ten men on the spot and only one managed to escape."

"The five men who died - two of them were chopped into half, fast and smooth, I believe everyone is able to discern this. An elaboration of the process should be the attacker giving his all and killed both men in one go. There weren't any tricks, it was a clean and direct death."

The group nodded.

"One of them died from a kick. There's a thorough footprint on his lower abdomen. Not only did the kick go through the body forcefully, it destroyed the meridians, bones, and organs in the abdomen. The kick killed him instantly."

"One more seemed not to have suffered from surface injuries but in actual fact, his interal organs are all crushed. The saber grip in his hand was full of cracks as well. It should have been Yun Yang's violent counterattack that destroyed his weapon and passed the force through the man's weapon to shatter his organs. How can one not die from such an attack?"

"As for the last person, he died by the blade. The fatal injury was the cut on his throat but it's different from a usual throat cut. Usually, throat slices are horizontal but the cut this person received was vertical and it ran upwards. The blade probably trembled where it passed too, causing the wound to show odd, ragged shapes. These signs are evidence that Yun Yang was also attacked and injured when he was killing the man but he didn't stop his advance to tend to his wounds. He then pressed on to end this man."

The kings knew that the King of Equality's analytical and inferring skills were outrageously strong, so they listened quietly without interrupting him.

"I'm more perplexed as to how we can achieve the assassins' death now."

The King of Equality said, "From the tracks we saw along the way, Yun Yang performed brutally efficient and direct kills the moment he struck. He first killed two men in a go - despite succeeding, his mystical Qi was still depleted - and he was taking someone with him, reducing the agility. So when he met the third person, he should have used some peculiar trick that allowed him to stomp the person to death - and from this stomp, he gained momentum to shift to the next location."

"Then, when he met the fourth person, he would cultivate to the maximum of his mystical Qi again to shock the person to death. It would be a true execution of a maximum limit or else it can hardly form an outcome. Still, all of us know that Yun Yang's real cultivation base stops half a step away from the Dao realm. The one who was shocked to death by his saber is a cultivator of eighth heaven pinnacle."

"The difference between their exact capabilities isn't far, so the only reason that can cause this outcome is that Yun Yang must have given it his all at that time."

"I believe that it's also due to the repeated maximum cultivation and continuous depletion that it was beyond his power to control when he was killing the last assassin. Maybe the killers were about to assemble, so he's sacrificed a little to finish off the person quickly. Does anyone have any objection to the inferences above?"

"None, we totally agree."

The other nine Yama Kings nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

Each one of the ten court Yama Kings was significant figures in the assassination field. Naturally, they were familiar with the ways of attacking and killing. There were no differing opinions and they reached a consensus immediately.

"Based on the reality above, I can even infer further that although Yun Yang has killed five of the enemy's men rapidly, he's paid a pretty penny for it. Not only has he exerted his maximum twice, he's even lightly wounded! Does anyone object to this point?"

"No, no. It's exactly how it was!"

"Due to this reason, Yun Yang was slightly delayed after killing the five people and caused him to be encircled by the enemy with barely any chances to escape. Of course, one of the factors was due to Shangguan Lingxiu but the main reasons were still due to Yun Yang's inability to regain his composure and force. If Yun Yang were to still be at his peak after killing the five men, he could've left before the enemy assembled even when he's to take Shangguan Lingxiu along. Anyone has any other opinion regarding this?"

"No! It should be like this!"

"Let me ask you again. You can raise any question or doubts regarding the abovementioned inferences. Does anyone have anything to say before we start?" asked the King of Equality.

The other nine Yama Kings did not reply at once but responded seriously after a long contemplation. There was no one who had any objections or doubts.

The King of Equality sighed, "You fellows have assumed that things are easy, for not having any issues. I have plenty of doubts. Almost everywhere is a question mark, everything is an issue, a big issue! Why aren't there differing opinions?"

The rest were shocked when they heard him, asking, "What question? What discovery did you make?"

The King of Equality said, "The first doubt is the battle tracks left on the battleground, that is… from the inn all to along the way of the assassination, we can easily affirm that there was a cooperative effort of secret weapon experts. Other than the secret weapon experts, there were at least two to three excellent Deicide Bow archers! You won't tell me that you didn't realize this, right!"

The group nodded. "So what if we realize it?"

"Nothing, really. Just that Yun Yang had hopped off the inn and unavoidably met the attacks of the Deicide Bows - the combined shooting of at least three archers… where have these secret weapon experts, especially the three Deicide archers, go to when he was besieged? If they had attacked continuously, it should have affected the battle substantially!" the King of Equality pointed out silently.

The group hissed with startled eyes in unison once they thought about it.

"Figured it out now? Shocked? From the group that besieged him initially, five died while the sixth's arm was severed. This is already a rare result by the looks of it, but the real mystery is still at the back. When the enemy encircled Yun Yang, their advantage would be to finish him off quickly. This should be when those apt in secret weapons show their talent but those secret weapon experts and Deicide archers didn't even execute one singular hidden weapon or an arrow! Why is this? Where have these secret weapon experts gone to?"