The meeting began in the morning; the killing happened during the meeting (End of volume)

"My lord, do you believe what Lianshan Xin and Zhuo Biyu said?"

After Lianshan Xin and Zhuo Biyu left, someone stepped out of the shadows and walked over to Shui Zhongxing.

Shui Zhongxing sighed quietly. "I don't want to believe a single word, but I dare not disbelieve a single word."

Jiang Jingzhan, the "Demon Shadow" renowned throughout the Jianghu, immediately frowned at this. "My lord, you are the Demon Cult's Left Envoy. Below the Cult Master, above ten thousand others. Even if this Lianshan Xin really is related to the Cult Master by blood, so what? Those who are not Great Grandmasters are all ants." Shui Zhongxing sighed again. "Before yesterday, I would have agreed with you. I thought that, apart from Great Grandmasters like Thousand Faces, Great Grandmasters and martial artists beneath them simply could not be mentioned in the same breath."

"That is how it is," Jiang Jingzhan said gravely.

"After yesterday, turmoil will sweep the world. Now even Great Grandmasters can be killed by martial artists beneath their level."

As Shui Zhongxing's trusted subordinate, "Demon Shadow" knew something of what had happened at the Prince of Donghai's Estate yesterday. He frowned. "My lord, yesterday was merely a case of schemes overcoming strength. Besides, the Prince of Donghai wasn't at his peak. It proves nothing."

"Fool! The victor is necessarily stronger. Who cares what methods he used?"

Shui Zhongxing was exasperated at his failure to improve. "Little Jiang, if you would just correct that flaw of yours, perhaps you could catch up to Yama and become the World's Number One Assassin." These days, "Demon Shadow" Jiang Jingzhan had another nickname in the Jianghu-the World's Second Assassin.

His most distinguished achievement was successfully assassinating an injured Great Grandmaster while at the Domain Realm. That single battle had made