Hunting Eight Masters in a Single Night

Lin Xiaosu said, "I knew long ago this road led nowhere! I never intended to follow it to the end! Everything before this was just groundwork. I wanted only one thing!"

"What?"

"To provide cover for the Wing Blade's hunt for key targets!" Lin Xiaosu said calmly.

"Key targets?" The Thousand-Spirit Saintess was startled. "You have a list?"

"Do you know why I destroyed your cabin?"

The Thousand-Spirit Saintess's eyes widened...

She had asked him that before.

His answer had been suggestive: he had destroyed her cabin so she would have to settle at Tashan Lake and never leave him.

Those had not been his exact words, but that was the implication.

What?

Had he not meant it?

Lin Xiaosu seemed to see straight through her confusion. He smiled. "Destroying your cabin so you'd settle in Great Xia was certainly a lovely hope. But it wasn't my only reason. I also knew that if I exposed myself in your cabin, the finest assassins would come to surround me."

"Those are your key targets?"

"Yes. The moment those eight appeared around the cabin, they set foot on Naihe Bridge. Tonight, Hydra will suffer a painful blow!"

The Thousand-Spirit Saintess drew a deep breath. "All eight were right under our noses, and you didn't strike. Now that they've scattered, you plan to use the Wing Blade to pick them off one by one?"

"Yes! If they stayed together, killing them wouldn't be easy. But three days have passed. They must have split up by now."

"With the Wing Blade's help, the two of us could kill any one of them without much difficulty. But as you said, three days have passed. Are you sure you can find them?"

Lin Xiaosu smiled. "That's where I excel!"

That night!

The Wing Blade soared into