Taking Office
"Neigh~"
"Neigh~~"
The steeds whinnied, the wheels spun fast, and hooves kicked up billowing dust. The carriage was dragged along at breakneck speed, jolting up and down along the mountain road.
But there was no one inside.
Once they were certain that the "soon-to-be Prefect of Shanyang Prefecture," the Top Scholar, was dead, the Celestial Master and the Daoist Boy fled without the slightest hesitation. The Celestial Master grabbed the boy and used the Earth Escape Art to vanish in an instant.
All that remained was the startled steeds, hauling the carriage onward.
High above, amid the fierce mountain winds, Ning Xuan gazed into the distance.
He wore a gray robe and an ordinary mask, the kind anyone could buy at the market.
Of course he had to conceal his face when assassinating a prefect.
With a constitution of 15, the advantage of high ground, and the Three-Layered Shadowless Blade, which stacked its power threefold, he had killed Huang Cihe inside the carriage from five li away.
He had hurried over.
He had originally been lying in wait by the main road. After a little trick revealed that the person inside the carriage wasn't Huang Cihe, he rushed to the mountain path. Fortunately, his senses were exceptionally sharp now; otherwise, his ambush really would have failed.
Now, he had succeeded.
But not entirely.
Because he had originally planned to kill the Celestial Master and the Daoist Boy as well.
He could certainly have killed the two of them.
He had made every preparation to do so, because he had already guessed that they were the very pair who had invaded Ning Manor while he was away.
He had locked onto them. They were as good as dead.
But they hadn't died. Not only that, they had escaped right