Impossible to Escape Even with Wings!

In the dead of night, the moon shone bright and the stars were sparse.

Yunze City lay shrouded in darkness, with only scattered lights faintly visible.

Inside a magnificent palace.

Li Rui, who had been asleep, suddenly opened his eyes.

In the room that had originally been empty, there was unexpectedly another person.

Li Rui swept the room with his divine sense.

He immediately recognized the man.

It was the short, burly man from Hidden Kill Tower who had tried to assassinate him that day, only to hand him an enormous reputation instead.

He did not panic.

"Here to kill me again?"

Li Rui sat up unhurriedly.

He had to admit that this burly man was exceptionally skilled at hiding himself. Even Li Rui could only sense him when he was practically within arm's reach.

The plundering cultivators of Hidden Kill Tower truly had some skill.

But not enough to make him panic.

Back when he had yet to condense his Primordial Spirit, this man from Hidden Kill Tower had failed to kill him. Now, it was even more impossible.

If he could not kill him, what was there to fear?

The corners of Li Rui's lips curled upward slightly as he looked at the uninvited guest before him.

The burly man from Hidden Kill Tower spoke calmly. "I am an assassin. I merely take money to do a job. There is, in truth, no grudge between us."

Li Rui laughed.

So he had come to seek peace.

But why should he make peace?

Having power was precisely for throwing one's weight around.

Li Rui had never possessed the saintly virtue of repaying grievances with kindness. What he believed in were eight words: "Repay virtue with virtue, repay grievance with justice."

Killing him had come easily enough before, but now