Realms In The Firmament

Chapter 1627: Who was the Murderer?

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

He didn’t want to hurt Ye Xiao’s feelings, but he didn’t tell Ye Xiao what he really thought. ‘You are making too many good friends, who are all different from each other. One day, when you can’t give them anything good, you will lose many of them!’

However, he didn’t say it. He didn’t want to break the confidence and pride of this young man.

There was still a long life ahead of him!

Ye Xiao looked determined. He thought of Liu Changjun, Ning Biluo, Zhao Pingtian, Li Wuliang, Shangguan Zhuifeng, Lan Langlang, Zuo Wuji, Wan Zhenghao, and many others…

“My brothers will stay with me forever. They won’t leave me!”

He believed it. “There are ugly things in the world, but there are also good things.”

…

Something happened in the City of Chaos again.

One night.

Many people of the Great Ye Army were assassinated that night. The assassins must be good because there was no trace left behind as if they didn’t exist. They always disappeared before people noticed them—whether they killed the target or failed to do so didn’t matter.

The assassins weren’t going after the leaders. They just killed those who were in charge of small groups, like the head of a squad. Among the men who were killed, there was a captain, and that was the highest position. Nobody at a high position got harmed.

That was the problem…

People who died were not powerful. They were all below level nine of the Divinity Origin Stage. That was all.

None of the assassins were normal. Some people were found dead a long time after the assassination…

Within one night, the Great Ye Army had lost over five hundred men!

It wasn’t a lot. The Great Ye Army had a lot of people. However, these hundreds of men were all middle-level leaders. Without these men, the manpower system of the Great Ye Army couldn’t run!

Ye Yunduan knew how serious it was, so he gathered people up for a meeting.

“Where did the assassins come from?” It was apparently the first thing they must find out.

If they knew where the assassins were from, they could make preparations to prevent further damages. They could even figure out the reason for the assassination. This must be the first step of an intrigue. They should do something in advance in order to face the possible dangers!

The meeting fell into silence. Nobody said anything.

The Great Ye Army had been expanding faster than people had expected. The three guards of Ye Yunduan became three great generals. The seven old masters were surely not satisfied with such an arrangement.

The Great Ye Army was just a local force of some unruly men. Ye Yunduan called the three guards Great Generals… That was embarrassing… It would upset the five sky kings…

Ye Yunduan promoted the three guards of him, and also promoted some Saint Origin Stage cultivators. He set these men into the Great Ye Army to control everything.

The old masters had no power outside their own clans. They seemed to be as prestigious as before, but they were not. People all behaved humbly in front of the old masters, but their words wouldn’t affect any decision Ye Yunduan made.

The seven old masters were not happy about it. They were disappointed.

Ye Yunduan wasn’t completely foolish, though. The twenty-eight Saint Origin Stage cultivators under his leadership weren’t ordinary people. The weakest among them was at level six of the Saint Origin Stage. The strongest was already at level eight.

Ye Yunduan called them the Twenty-eight Generals upon Clouds.

These twenty-eight men were standing in the hall for the meeting.

“Master, please listen to me. I think… these assassins are from either the House of Chaotic Storms or the Hall of Returning Nature. I am not just making a blind guess. I have reasons. In fact, I think it is most likely the Hall of Returning Nature.”

A man with big beards stood out and expressed his thoughts.

The others either nodded to agree or were lost in thoughts.

Master Qin raised his head. It seemed he wanted to say something, but then he lowered his head. ‘Well, if you are so certain that it is the Hall of Returning Nature, I wonder what proof you have.’

Ye Yunduan seemed to be satisfied. He said, “Well, you must have your reasons. Tell us!”

“There are three. First, we have lost many people this time, who were all middle-level leaders. They were capable men, but none of them were able to warn the others before they died. Some of them were killed at the same time. There must be many assassins working at the same time. They are powerful. It must be a powerful force that did that to us.

“The Hall of Returning Nature has a department in charge of assassination, which has thousands of assassins. They can do this! Second… The Hall of Returning Nature had tried to kill Master Guan and Master Song once. Well, we killed them and kicked them out of the city. The master of the Hall of Returning Nature is a proud man. He will definitely try to do something to take his revenge. I don’t see why they wouldn’t do this to get the revenge they want. Third, the Red Phoenix is one of the most important people of the Hall of Returning Nature. She failed last time, so she wouldn’t just let it go, would she? She is narrow-minded! She must have persuaded the Hall of Returning Nature to run this assassination…”

Many people nodded while listening to this man.

That wasn’t so absurd after all!

Ye Yunduan nodded. He wanted to praise the man, but another person stood up all of a sudden. “I think it is not that simple.”

Ye Yunduan agreed with the man with big beards, so he was surprised somebody didn’t. He asked, “Why?”

“I mean… I don’t think the Hall of Returning Nature is the only organization behind this assassination… There were two assassins who met each other and… It seems their codes didn’t match… Anyway, they had a fight. Many people saw it. They fought in a short time and then immediately ran away. They were not from the same organization.

“In other words, they should be assassins from the Hall of Returning Nature, but there was also another force involved. I think it was the House of Chaotic Storms.”

Ye Yunduan frowned and said, “The House of Chaotic Storms? What is your proof?”