Another Trip to the Imperial Capital (Two-in-One)

Yun Qingyang stepped forward and sealed the black-clad man's cultivation, while Ma Feifei knelt down beside Zhao Xiaodao, looking at the unconscious Gongsun Qiong, and asked, "Is she alright?"

"It's alright, the president fainted due to exhaustion. She'll wake up after a rest." With the crisis averted, Zhao Xiaodao's tense expression relaxed. He used his Spiritual Power to examine Gongsun Qiong's body and found that she was unharmed.

Ma Feifei nodded upon hearing this. He could roughly guess why Gongsun Qiong had fainted. Although Gongsun Qiong had no cultivation, she possessed Righteous Qi within her. The reason the system had alerted Ma Feifei earlier was because Gongsun Qiong had released this Righteous Qi.

However, Gongsun Qiong possessed Righteous Qi but lacked the cultivation to maintain Righteous Qi, which is Spiritual Power. In this situation, Sheer Force releasing Righteous Qi would definitely cause a backlash, and fainting was already a good result.

Since Ma Feifei didn't have the "Thousand Gold Formulas" with him and couldn't use the "Book Spirit Protects Master" skill, he simply let Gongsun Qiong wake up naturally.

"Let's help Sister Gongsun to the carriage to rest first, then we can continue on our way." We still have about two days to go before reaching the capital. Since Ma Feifei is here, we might as well escort her all the way. Anyway, the Bookstore isn't doing much lately, so we might as well take this opportunity to complete the assistance mission.

Upon hearing Ma Feifei's words, everyone's faces lit up with joy. With the owner of the Mysterious Bookstore escorting them all the way, this journey would be virtually safe.

"What about him?" Yun Qingyang brought the unconscious man in black over and threw him on the ground like a salted fish. The man in black swayed back and forth a couple of times due to inertia, and then lay still.

Zhao Xiaodao picked up Gongsun Qiong and carried her onto the carriage. Ma Feifei stood up, turned around, and looked at the man in black on the ground, stroking his chin in thought. He had originally intended to take him back to the Bookstore for interrogation, but now that he had chosen to escort Gongsun Qiong to the capital, he naturally couldn't just leave the man in black back at the Bookstore.

Thinking of this, Ma Feifei looked at the spatial ring in Yun Qingyang's hand and said, "I remember a spatial ring should be able to hold a living person, right? Let's put him in there and lock him up for two days, then we'll talk about it when we get back to the Bookstore."

Both spatial rings and spatial bags belong to the spatial series of products; in the professional terminology of the cultivation world, they are called Sumeru rings. However, while spatial rings can be called Sumeru rings, spatial bags cannot. No living beings can be placed inside a spatial bag; if one is, the creature will die instantly.

The spatial ring is different; it contains a self-contained small world, and living people can enter it without any problems.

"No way!" To everyone's surprise, Yun Qingyang shook her head and refused. Her spatial ring contained so Duobao, and ever since Ma Feifei inexplicably lost many high-level spiritual artifacts after running in a few times, even Ma Feifei couldn't enter Yun Qingyang's spatial ring anymore, let alone let anyone else run in.

Ma Feifei thought about it and realized it made sense. Even a kind and honest kid like herself couldn't resist taking a few treasures when she went in; what would happen if someone else went in?

Without thinking about anything else, he grabbed the man in black and headed towards Gongsun Qiong's carriage. Since he couldn't put it in there, he might as well carry it with him.

Inside the carriage, the man in black groggily awoke to a greenhouse before him, the air filled with a faint, pleasant fragrance. He leaned against a wooden wall, and sitting opposite him was a young man, the very person he had been tasked with assassinating.

The man in black felt a chill in his heart. He realized that his cultivation had been sealed and that he was now a prisoner whose life and death were no longer in his own hands.

Thinking this, the man in black simply closed his eyes, intending to continue pretending to be unconscious.

"Alright, stop pretending." Ma Feifei kicked the man in black's leg, somewhat speechless. Are all big shots at the Spirit Saint realm this cheeky? Do they think everyone in the car is an idiot?

The man in black, his little trick Foresight, showed no embarrassment. He opened his eyes, looked at Ma Feifei with a serious expression, and said, "I will not tell you that I was sent by the Phantom Organization to assassinate the Ninth Princess of the Chu Kingdom. You don't need to ask. Do with me as you please."

"..." Ma Feifei was completely dumbfounded and subconsciously glanced at Yun Qingyang next to her.

Yun Qingyang, holding the Qingshuang Sword, sat next to Ma Feifei eating Plum Blossom. Seeing Ma Feifei looking at her, she asked curiously, "Is there something wrong with that?"

"I..." Ma Feifei opened her mouth, unsure of what to say.

"Pfft~" On the soft couch on the left, Zhao Xiaodao, who had been taking care of Gongsun Qiong, finally couldn't help but laugh out loud. However, she didn't dare to look in this direction. Instead, she lowered her head, her delicate shoulders trembling slightly.

Ma Feifei snatched the Plum Blossom from Yun Qingyang's hand, stuffed it into her mouth, and complained, "Why are you eating Plum Blossom? When we get back, I'll research how to grow walnut trees, then you'll be eating walnuts."

Yun Qingyang wasn't angry that Ma Feifei had taken the Plum Blossom from her. She took them out of her ring again and began to chew them slowly. As for the walnuts that Ma Feifei mentioned, they were not even on her radar.

What could Ma Feifei say to such an utterly stupid mother dragon? He could only sigh, turn to the man in black on the ground, and continue asking, "If I remember correctly, you were the one who tried to assassinate me last time, weren't you? Can you tell me who wanted to kill me?"

Phantom Organization is merely an assassination organization. All assassinations are carried out because an employer places a contract with the Phantom Organization. After receiving payment, the Phantom Organization sends assassins to kill the client's target. The Phantom Organization itself has no personal grudges against anyone.

Since Ma Feifei was repeatedly targeted by the Phantom Organization, it was clear that he had offended someone and was being Revenge against. Moreover, the most important thing was that the person who targeted Ma Feifei must have known him for a long time, because the last time Ma Feifei was targeted for assassination was last year, after he helped Yang Chengzhi win first place in the Dragon Ranking Competition.

Ma Feifei had repeatedly reflected and deduced at night that during that period, Mysterious Bookstore was just starting out and not very famous. He himself was also developing his business stealthily, and he only came into contact with a few people on a daily basis. He had not offended anyone at all.

Logically speaking, it's impossible for someone to hire an assassin to kill you, so Ma Feifei found this very puzzling and really wanted to figure out why. You can't be assassinated without even knowing who the attacker is, can you?

"It was me last time, but I don't know who wanted to kill you. I only know that someone placed an order with the organization half a year ago. The first person to accept the order was the Phantom Organization Azure Dragon Envoy of the Thirty-Six Envoys, but that attempt failed. After a while, the mission ended up with me." The man in black was surprisingly cooperative and didn't seem to be defiant at all, answering honestly.

"Azure Dragon Envoy? The one with the knife, and the other one with the sword?" Ma Feifei stroked his chin, recalling the scene from half a year ago. At that time, besides someone trying to kill Ma Feifei, someone else tried to save him. The two were dressed similarly, the only difference being that one was dressed in black and the other in gray, and one was carrying a knife and the other a sword; their strengths were also about the same, and from their conversation, it could be learned that they were both assassins from the Phantom Organization.

The man in black frowned, shook his head, and said, "The members of the Phantom Organization are scattered throughout the Azure Dragon Continent. They never come into contact with each other on a regular basis. Even when they receive missions, it's done one-on-one by internal personnel. So, apart from the internal personnel who have all the information about the Phantom Organization members, the members themselves are not familiar with each other."

The man in black had no idea about knives or swords; all the organization mentioned when accepting the mission was that the last member to accept this mission was the Azure Dragon Envoy, and then they failed; nothing else was mentioned.

After listening to the man in black, Ma Feifei fell silent. He didn't completely believe what the man in black said, but Ma Feifei felt that the man in black's statement that the members were not familiar with each other was believable.

Based on Ma Feifei's understanding of the Phantom Organization, its assassination range is extremely wide, from emperors to rogue cultivators. Once the Shadow Phantom Organization accepts a job, it can basically seal the fate of that person. More importantly, the Phantom Organization has existed for five thousand years, yet it still maintains a great deal of mystery. No one knows where the Phantom Organization hides or how many members it has. Yet, the Shadow Phantom Organization has a very high success rate in assassinations, which is enough to prove that the members of the organization are extremely powerful.

There are not many cultivators at the Spirit Saint realm on the entire Azure Dragon Continent today, and those at the Spirit Saint Fifth Stage level or above are even fewer. Basically, it would be quite good if there were a few among the five kingdoms.

The Phantom Organization is different. No matter how many Spirit Saint the Azure Dragon Continent has, how many the five kingdoms divide, or how many neutral forces divide, the Phantom Organization is not included. They can have as many as they want.

This is why rumors circulate on the mainland that many important figures from the five countries actually serve the Phantom Organization.

In other words, this person appears to be a high-ranking official in a certain country, but in reality, he is also a member of the Phantom Organization.

In situations like this, everyone naturally needs to keep their identities confidential to prevent them from being leaked; after all, once their identity is exposed, given the world's hatred for the Phantom Organization, that person would probably be finished.

Most importantly, apart from Qin State, the other four of the five kingdoms all had cases of their rulers dying at the hands of the Phantom Organization. This alone is enough to make them extremely cautious.

Thinking about this, Ma Feifei vaguely felt that the gray-clad man with the sword should know him, otherwise he wouldn't have first reminded him through Gongsun Qiong, and then helped him when the black-clad man tried to assassinate him.

"But back then, besides Yun Qingyang, I didn't know any important people." Ma Feifei thought, stroking his chin.

Seeing that Ma Feifei remained silent, the man in black paused for a moment before finally asking, "I mean, could you please let me go?"

"Hey! You old man, you're really wicked. Do you think I'd let you get away with this?" Ma Feifei was amused to hear how shameless the man in black was.

Let him go, then go back to the Phantom Organization and have someone assassinate him again? Does he think Ma Feifei is stupid?

"Am I old?" The man in black seemed very concerned about his appearance. Upon hearing Ma Feifei's question, he took out a bronze mirror from his pocket and kept looking at his face. He asked suspiciously, "Not old at all. Although I'm a bit older, my face looks no different from when I was twenty!"

Ma Feifei one look and thought, "Oh! He's still a narcissist."

'Snap~'

Snatching the bronze mirror from the man in black, Ma Feifei looked at the fair, delicate face with disgust. "Can't you use an old face for your age? Don't you feel disgusted? Grandpa, tell me how old you are this year."

It is absolutely impossible for someone under a hundred years old to possess a cultivation level of at least the Spirit Saint Fifth Stage realm; at least, no male cultivator on the Azure Dragon Continent has ever achieved this.

The fastest is Chang Kong, who is already over a hundred years old.

When his age was mentioned, the man in black seemed a little embarrassed and said in a low voice, "I'm not too old, just over a hundred."

"Wow? A genius! So young and with such high cultivation? Over a hundred years old?" Ma Feifei was a little surprised. To cultivate to the Spirit Saint Fifth Stage realm at over a hundred years old, there are Jidu only a handful of such people in the entire Azure Dragon Continent.

"Nine hundred and sixty-two years old..."

"..."

Ma Feifei glanced silently at the man in black, handed the bronze mirror to Yun Qingyang, and took out the Epic-grade- quality book "Six Secret Teachings" from his spatial bag.

Upon seeing this, the man in black was terrified and flailed his arms wildly, crying out, "No, no, no..."

'Bang~'

With a swing of the book, the man in black was knocked unconscious again, lying motionless on the ground.

"You dare Laozi with me!"

Ma Feifei put away "Six Secret Teachings," then squatted down and began rummaging through the man in black.

"What are you searching?" At this moment, Yun Qingyang had stopped eating the Plum Blossom and was instead looking at herself in the bronze mirror that Ma Feifei had given her. Seeing Ma Feifei searching the man in black, she couldn't help but ask.

"Strange, where's his spatial ring or spatial bag? I can't find it. And I didn't see that crescent-shaped longsword either." Ma Feifei said suspiciously, touching the man in black's body.

I was so preoccupied with the Phantom Organization that I forgot that a big shot like him, at the Spirit Saint Fifth Stage realm or above, would surely have a lot of treasures on him. That's when I remembered to search the man in black. But apart from his clothes, the man in black had nothing on him at all. It's really unbelievable.

Upon hearing this, Yun Qingyang silently turned her head back to look in the mirror.

Ma Feifei stopped searching, seemingly remembering something. He turned to look at Yun Qingyang and asked suspiciously, "Did you take the treasure from him?"

Yun Qingyang looked in the mirror, shook her head violently, and said, "No."

Ma Feifei, with her sharp eyes, instantly noticed that Yun Qingyang had an extra spatial ring on her right hand besides her own. She immediately flew into a rage, lunging at Yun Qingyang: "You, Yun Qingyang, you secretly kept it all to yourself! Hand it over right now!"

"I picked it up from the ground."

"I believe you're hiding something. You're even worse than this old man. Hurry up and hand it over, we'll split it fifty-fifty."

"Then you should tell me first, which one is five."

"..."

Zhao Xiaodao, lying on the soft couch, silently watched Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang, who were huddled together, and then glanced down at the sleeping Gongsun Qiong, a hint of disappointment inadvertently showing in his eyes.

Sigh~