Night fell like ink, slowly staining the daytime bustle and splendor of Primordial Immortal City.
Beneath the moonlight and lantern glow, towering halls and pavilions cast vast, deep shadows.
A cold, murderous chill quietly settled over the air.
A light breeze blew, its chill piercing to the bone.
At the headquarters of the Primordial Palace Branch Hall.
Li Chen stood before a window with his hands behind his back, gazing toward the courtyards where the contestants were staying. His eyes were darker than the night outside.
"Two Six-Ring Immortal Venerables against a junior in the True Immortal Realm and an obscure little sect... They'll turn to ash at the flick of a finger."
He spoke softly, with neither joy nor anger in his voice, only the indifference of one who held life and death in his hands.
"But the boy is strange, and that sect is peculiar too... To leave nothing to chance, I'm giving you the Void Shadow-Evasion Talisman and the Breath-Concealing Divine Crystal. Kill in one strike. Leave no trace and no evidence!"
"Bring me his head."
The final four words fell lightly from his lips.
The Void Shadow-Evasion Talisman could bypass the barriers and defenses of any Immortal Venerable-tier formation, coming and going without a shadow or a trace!
The Breath-Concealing Divine Crystal, so long as its bearer did not reveal himself, left even a Half-Step King able to sense no more than a vague trace!
Even a Supreme Immortal Venerable at the Grand Perfection of Nine-Ring Fusion could not detect an assassin carrying the Breath-Concealing Divine Crystal!
Both were single-use treasures of extraordinary power, worth enough to buy the life or death of an Immortal Venerable faction.
But now, to kill Qin Buhui, Li Chen could not afford to worry about the cost!
With these two