The Foremost Grand Duke of the Present Age
Dead silence!
There were at least six assassins in the venue, each prepared to deliver a fatal strike.
It had to be said that the death of Jinshui Manor's Old Marquis had indeed left the Golden Cell rather disorganized, allowing so many dangerous individuals to infiltrate the place.
And to ensure the mission's success, the methods they had prepared were undoubtedly sophisticated and terrifying enough. Yet because Han Su had implanted that subtle awareness, the ultimate weapons of all six assassins misfired at once.
Xu Ji on the stage paid no attention to any of this. He was a newcomer who had only just stepped halfway into the Mysterious Circle. Encountering someone at an investigator's level was enough to leave him awestruck; after meeting even stronger people, he had simply grown numb to it.
He had no idea what methods those people could use to kill him directly, so he simply chose not to care.
Right now, he focused solely on experiencing the ascension ceremony. Before his eyes, the Golden Spear he held together with the others shone with a dazzling light, while the Golden Pen in his other hand, hidden behind his back, trembled violently.
To outsiders, the holy relic was still the Golden Spear. This was also one of the Golden Cell's strategies for protecting their own holy relic.
Whenever they spoke of the holy relic to the outside world, they used the Golden Spear as a substitute name.
Over time, many outsiders had come to believe that the Xu Family's holy relic really was nothing more than a spear. Of course, such tactics were not uncommon among other families either.
Falsehood mingled with truth—many things were known only to these noble lords themselves.
Of course, even though it was