For anyone else, killing a Shadow Tower master within ten years was practically impossible.
The Shadow Tower had branches throughout the various empires, each essentially equivalent to a faction led by a Dou Ling or even a Dou Wang.
As for the Shadow Tower's headquarters, aside from vague rumors placing it in the Black-Corner Region, outsiders could learn very little about it.
They did not even know how many masters the headquarters had, much less how strong those masters were.
Anyone daring to make such a promise would need strength comparable to a Dou Zong within ten years at the very least. Otherwise, an ordinary Dou Emperor who went there would probably meet the same end as that Dou Emperor who had once been placed on their wanted list.
If the payment was merely a single Emperor-Breaking Pill, the bargain was far too poor.
But Xiao Yan dared to accept it. He was still a few months short of eighteen, yet his combat strength already rivaled a Dou Emperor's.
If he could break through to Dou Emperor, the power of his three Heavenly Flames would make even a low-star Dou Zong an opponent he could fight.
Ten years to grow gave Xiao Yan boundless confidence in himself. As for guilt, a place like the Shadow Tower never cared who its targets were when it killed, only whether the payment matched the difficulty.
If someone killed them instead, that was only natural. They had no one else to blame.
Of course, in accepting this commission, Xiao Yan had prepared himself for assassination attempts by the Shadow Tower. It would not be the first time they had tried to assassinate him anyway.
And with the payment effectively delivered in advance, this was practically a deal with guaranteed profit and no risk of