"Stop looking. There are no living people inside!"
From another direction outside Great Shang, the Great Star Commander shouted a warning.
This group had been assembled by Lian Feihong, with the Impermanent Killers and Zhou You as its two main forces.
The Impermanent Killers were veterans of slaughter. By observing the lingering aura, they keenly detected the remnants of a family annihilation here. Clearly, this place had been visited by a formidable figure.
The grandmaster assassins, Peacock and the others, wore grave expressions. To silently slaughter an entire Shang household without a sound—such power was simply too terrifying.
Even if the Impermanent Killers deployed all their elites, they could not accomplish such a thing.
"The Demon Weapon Overlords have already arrived. The information was indeed correct!"
Excitement colored Lian Feihong's face as he solemnly said to Zhou You, "Nanchen Prefectural Lord, the sacred artifact has arrived. We shall act according to circumstances."
Zhou You gazed at the skies above Great Shang and said meaningfully, "Since when did killing someone require lining up?"
At the words "lining up," the Impermanent Killers all found it rather ironic, but that was the truth.
A single Heart Demon Ring had drawn eighteen Demon Weapon Overlords into besieging him. The Charm Empress lurked behind like a yellow sparrow, spreading the news far and wide and drawing every faction into the fray—the Human Seed Cult, the candidates of the great families...
Too many wolves and too little meat. Even killing someone required lining up. That was the current reality.
What had originally been a private assassination had now turned into an open and aboveboard public gathering, already straying from its original purpose.
But perhaps this was precisely the situation some people had deliberately guided into being.
"This place is no longer Great Shang..."
Zhou You spoke