King of Assassins-Hisse

"I didn't expect Master Linley to still remember me. I'm so happy. Oh, right, let me introduce myself first. My name is... Cesar!" the middle-aged man sitting opposite Linley said with a smile.

"Cesar?" Linley had never heard that name before.

"Cesar?!" Delin Cowart's voice suddenly rang out in Linley's mind. "I never expected that little freak Cesar to still be lingering on the Material Plane of Yulan Mainland."

Linley froze.

Grandpa Delin knew this Cesar? What era had Grandpa Delin lived in? If he knew him, then how old was this Cesar?

"Linley, this Cesar is a very abnormal fellow. He cultivated incredibly fast and killed without blinking an eye. In my time, Cesar had already stepped into the Saint Domain. Although he had only just entered the Saint Domain back then, more than five thousand years have passed since then. Given his cultivation speed, his strength is probably even more terrifying now."

Linley's heart clenched violently.

This middle-aged man before him, who looked only thirty or forty, had already been a Saint Domain expert when Delin Cowart was still alive. Delin Cowart had lived for only a little over a thousand years before dying, yet this Cesar was, by careful calculation, at least around six thousand years old.

A six-thousand-year-old freak!

"Master Linley, what's wrong?" Cesar asked with concern. "Your complexion doesn't look very good."

"It's nothing, Mr. Cesar. Please, sit." Linley tried his best to remain calm, but whenever he thought of the other man's identity, he could not suppress the shock in his heart.

Linley quickly regained his composure.

"May I ask what brings you here today, Mr. Hisse?" Linley asked directly.

"Master Linley, I greatly admire your skill at stone carving. If that little girl Delia hadn't asked me, I would have bought your stone sculpture that day." Cesar curled his lips, then suddenly looked at Linley with shining eyes.

"Master Linley, when are you and that Delia getting married?" Be sure to inform me when the time comes.

"My fiancée!"

At this moment, Linley looked at Hisse with a puzzled expression.

The image of that beautiful golden-haired figure surfaced in his mind, but he quickly recovered.

Afterward, at Hisse's request, Linley carved a stone sculpture modeled after Hisse himself. In return, Linley asked Hisse for the formula for Blood Fusion Poison.

Although Linley knew that, after transforming, his current strength should be enough to kill Claire, he still had to make two preparations just in case.

For the remaining time, Linley focused on cultivating the secret manual Wharton had given him. Bebe had now reached the peak of Level Eight Magical Beast.

While these events were taking place in Fenlai City, Wharton and the others had already been back in the O'Brien Imperial Capital for two months. They arranged for Jason and the others to stay in their family residence.

When preparing to establish his own power, Wharton bought an even larger estate outside the O'Brien Imperial Capital. It could house over ten thousand people and was practically a small town.

Over the next month, Hillman led the families from Wushan Town, along with some residents willing to follow him and pledge themselves to Wharton. After spending nearly a year on the journey, they finally arrived in the O'Brien Empire. Everyone was gathered at the estate outside the city, with Jason and Hogg placed in charge of managing them.

Ever since returning to the Imperial Capital, Wharton had obtained two barrels of tiger blood from Little Gold to help Jason and Gibbs awaken their Tiger-Striped Bloodline. Perhaps because Little Gold was a mutated tiger magical beast, the tiger stripes that should have been fur after their transformations instead grew purple-gold scales like those on Little Gold's body. They looked like a fusion of Dragonblood Warriors and Tiger-Striped Warriors. Still, the awakening was successful overall, and their defense was far greater than that of ordinary Tiger-Striped Warriors. Because of this, within just a few months, both of them broke through to the middle stage of Level Seven. After transforming, they were enough to rival Peak Level Eight Warriors.

As for these commoners who had always followed the Baruch clan, even traveling hundreds of thousands of miles to join Wharton, most had done so because the kindness of Hogg and their ancestors had earned their recognition. But it also showed their loyalty to the Baruch clan. Wharton valued them greatly, even though their overall strength was still rather low.

The Foundation-Building Pills refined earlier had already been used up, so Wharton refined another batch and gave them to these people. He especially laid a solid foundation for some of the younger disciples and taught them several dou qi secret manuals. Though these manuals were not as good as those Hillman and the others cultivated, they were still comparable to the secret manuals cultivated by many great clans. Given a hundred years, it was not impossible for them to reach the Saint Domain.

Everything proceeded in an orderly fashion. Wharton and the others did not remain at the estate to interfere with Hogg and the rest, instead returning to O'Brien Warrior Academy to continue their studies.