Back when they had exposed each other's identities, Fang Li had said that although he and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka were both the finest talents produced by the Seven Nights Clan's millennia-old training system, there was still a gulf between them as vast as heaven and earth.
The reason for that so-called vast gulf lay right here.
The core inheritance that only those who inherited the name Seven Nights could obtain—the Assassination Arts the Seven Nights Clan took such pride in.
Only by inheriting these Assassination Arts, passed down for a thousand years, could one gain the ability to freely enter and leave heavily guarded military sites without a sound.
Otherwise, if just anyone possessed such abilities, the Clan Leader would be little more than a figurehead and might have long since been overthrown.
Therefore, these unique and strongest Assassination Arts in the world—once developed to their pinnacle by the Assassin Sect, now comparable to art itself, and continuously accumulated and refined over a thousand years—could only be learned by one who inherited the name Seven Nights and ascended to the position of Clan Leader.
Aside from the successive Seven Nights, only a few elder figures within the clan knew of this.
When Ayanokoji's Father left the Seven Nights Clan, he was only in his thirties and had fallen just one step short of the throne of Seven Nights. How could he possibly have known about this?
Ayanokoji's Father did not even know that, among all the successive Seven Nights, not a single one had ever completely mastered the mysteries of the Seven Nights Assassination Technique. They could only learn twenty or thirty percent of it before growing old.
After all, aside from Fang Li, the youngest among the successive Seven Nights had only received the name Seven Nights and taken the