<h4>Chapter 1268: Taking Another Chance</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Exodus Tales <strong>Editor: </strong>Exodus Tales
Tang Ang got up with glistening eyes. He looked at Tang Xiu’s indifferent expression and then respectfully said, “Master, I’d like to have another chance to fight.”
“How many methods have youe up with from thest fight?” Tang Xiu asked.
“11!” Tang Ang replied respectfully.
Tang Xiu’s brows raised and he nodded with satisfaction. “You finally didn’t disappoint me. You want another chance, so I’m going to give it to you. Let’s go!”
“Where to?” Tang Ang asked.
“To the ce I’m going to give you this chance.” Tang Xiu smiled.
2 dayster.
Tang Xiu took Tang Ang to South Korea, the pair of master and disciple rushing towards their destination as two cars sped up to the airport.
“Has the investigation been carried out?” Sitting in the car, Tang Xiu asked while gazing at the scenery passing by.
The Great Tang Empire’s intel operatives gave a few documents to Tang Xiu and replied with a respectful expression, “Your Majesty, Ximen Wandai n has built a secret base in the Southern part of South Korea, where he has been training assassins since. Each of these assassins is an elite among elites, and there’s a total of 23 instructors as well as supervisors in charge of training them, all of whom are practitioners. Five of them areparable to a Golden Core Stage expert. Aside from the two experts of this n who drift from ce to ce often, they can be regarded as the top experts in the country.”
“This Ximen Wandai name doesn’t seem to originate from South Korea, no?” Tang Xiu said.
The intel operative shook his head and said, “This n is indeed not a native of South Korea. Their origins are Chinese. Like the Joyous Pce in Japan, they were unable to stay in China in the past and then migrated here. The centuries of development led to the separation of nationality from their origins and eventually made them form an independent force that can sway this country. It can be said that the Ximen Wandai n is the one that holds the true power in South Korea. Further, we found from our investigation that the ancestors of the Ximen Wandai n should be from China’s Sichuan Province in the past. Also, their most known expertise is... face-shifting.”
Face-shifting?
Tang Xiu recalled a particr art spread out among the folks in China’s Sichuan Province, then another thought shed in his mind as he smilingly said, “Ah, it seems that the stic surgery service in South Korea didn’te out of nowhere. Face-shifting, huh? That sounds interesting!”
The intel operative couldn’t help but chuckle at hisment and immediately said with a smile, “What you said does make sense, Your Majesty. This subordinate is really dull and was unable to make such a conjecture previously.”
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The Southern region.
The secret assassin base of the Ximen Wandai n was located in a forested hill along the coast. The hilly area itself was not high, but the forest here was dense and covered arge area.
When the car stopped at a fork in the road at the foot of a mountain, the agent got out of the car and opened the rear door for Tang Xiu. Then, he said respectfully, “Your Majesty, given our investigations, this is the most suitable entry point to sessfully enter the area, though we’d need to cross six lines of defense to get there. Would you like this subordinate to lead a team and clear all the enemies at those lines of defense?”
“No need.” Tang Xiu shook his hand and said, “You’re to wait for us here.”
Having said that, he grabbed Tang Ang and quickly disappeared into the woods.
The winding river had a clear and transparent freshwater, and a few colorful fishes swam freely in the creek water. Several snow-white hares could be seen running on the river bank scaring several birds away.
Tang Ang halted his pace when he spotted two military tents across the river and several big men in ck uniforms around them.
“I won’t move, everyone there will be your enemy.” Tang Xiu said, “Go! I want you to hone yourself in the fight and be stronger.”
“Understood!”
Tang Ang nodded in response and his eyes flickered. His figure turning into a flying arrow, he suddenly appeared outside the tent on the opposite side of the river with a sharp dagger in his hand. As a flickering de light shed, the throats of two big men in ck uniforms were easily ripped open.
“Who are you?!”
An angry roar came from the surroundings, shouting in Korean, which neither Tang Xiu nor Tang Ang understood.
Tang Ang didn’t even bother to pay attention to the other party’s shouts. His figure flickered once again and another ck-uniformed man fell to the ground. When several big men were killed, Tang Xiu appeared in front of Tang Ang and faintly said, “You’re a cultivator, not some assassin.”
Tang Ang stared nkly for a moment. He immediately understood Tang Xiu’s meaning and nodded. “I understand what you mean, Master. I’ll use cultivators’ custom to kill the enemies, then.”
“That’s not what I meant.” Tang Xiu shook his head and said, “You have to use anything you’re good at to kill your enemies, and you must keep your vignce and stay on guard all the time. If the other party hides their strength and you only resort to using such sneak attacks with a dagger, you are be bound to suffer a great dealter.”
Tang Ang thought for a moment and felt that Tang Xiu’s was right. He immediately unleashed his immortal sword and controlled it to hover around him before traversing deeper.
At the second line of defense.
Tang Ang directly manipted his immortal sword to kill several big men in ck uniforms in a sh.
At the third line of defense.
...
At the sixth line of defense.
After Tang Ang shook the blood off the immortal sword and stored it in his body. Tang Xiu, who followed him, looked at the bodies on the ground and shook his head. “They’re all just some ants. They only practiced some kind of Qigong art and are at most at the level of a martial arts grandmaster. However, they have a thick murderous aura. They’ve obviously killed many people.”
Tang Ang took out the map given by the intel agent previously, carefully observed it for a while, then found the location of the secret base. He didn’t talk much and flew directly there.
Two minutester, he appeared midair above the base. Tens of figures scrambled out lightning-fast and a group of people surrounded him in a sh. At the same time, hundreds of assassins under training shouted and came one after another. They quickly joined them and created threeyers of encirclement inside and outside the area.
“Who are you daring to break into my training base?”
An overwhelmingly loud voice came from the deepest part of the base. Immediately after, three figures flickered in a sh and instantly appeared in mid-air above Tang Ang. They looked down at Tang Ang with a threatening stance and boiling killing intent, though they didn’t attack him immediately.
Tang Ang frowned. Although he had already been briefed on the road to this base, he didn’t expect to see so many people here. To his surprise, many of them were cultivators, and some of the assassins under training even emitted True Qi fluctuations, obviously indicating their recognizable strength even though they were only martial artists.
Still, there should still be two powerful experts in this ce ording to the intel.
Tang Ang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, “Exterminating demons is a must to defend traditional values and to rectify and help justice to prevail. This one came here to challenge you. Which one of you dares toe up and fight with me?”
“What?”
Everyone in the training camp wore bizarre expressions. They never thought that such a dumb kid would trespass the base and state something stupid like “exterminating evils and defending justice”.
<i>He... he speaks Chinese, doesn’t he?</i>
Suddenly, some sharp-minded people immediately caught the gist of the situation.
Of the three men standing high in the air ring fiercely, the curly-haired burly man in a ck robe wore a contemptuous look and observed Tang Ang from head to toe. He couldn’t sense any force fluctuation from the kid at all, making him wonder and be suspicious. <i>How can this kide to this guarded area? How did he get through? Is he a blind cat that went through some dead rats to get here?</i>
“Are you a Chinese, Brat?!” The burly man squinted and asked in Mandarin with a grim face.
“I’m from China, indeed.” Tang Ang nodded.
“Did you get here by chance, or do you have some other purpose?” the burly man asked again. “Or, did youe here before and now want to make trouble?”
“My Master shut me out for having no actualbat experience, so he sent me here to challenge some halls. Your ce is a training camp for assassins, so none of you are good people. I already stated previously that I’m going to exterminate evils and defend justice. I’ll kill you all so you can be a good person in your next life.”
“BWAHAHA...”
The instructors and hitmen who understood Mandarin allughed and looked at Tang Ang as though he was an idiot.
The burly man standing in the air shook his head with a wry smile. Then, he waved his hand and shouted, “Which one of you who wants to send him to Western Paradise?”
“Let me do it!”
A man with a naked upper body wickedly grinned and instantly dashed towards Tang Ang, shing at Tang Ang’s neck with the dagger in his hand without pausing.
<i>Stab...</i>
A faint sound was heard. But it wasn’t Tang Ang’s neck that was torn by the man. It was the sound of the immortal sword he unleashed directly impaling the man’s body, crushing his heart and killing him in a single strike.
The sudden change caused the smiles on everyone’s faces to freeze and their eyes to bulge out as if they couldn’t believe what they just witnessed.
He died... just like that? A famous trainee was so easily killed by this kid? What the hell was that damn sword and how could it fly in the air?
In mid-air, the three burly men exchanged dismayed nces, but their faces now looked solemn. The one in the middle shouted fiercely, “Your sword is a magical weapon, isn’t it, Brat? I can sense a powerful auraing from you. Are you a cultivator from China?”
“That’s right,” said Tang Ang calmly.
The burly men said in a deep voice, “We have neither feud nor grudge with any Chinese cultivators. Why did you break into our site and kill our people? Are you not afraid to cause a war between the two countries?”