Ancient Market Town, Life-Reaping Tower.
It was a five-story stone building on the southern outskirts of Ancient Market Town.
The stone building stood in a bamboo grove, its exterior bleak and dilapidated. Yet one needed only to step inside to discover a different world.
Within the crumbling stone building were flower-decked doors and willow-framed windows, vermilion beams and jade pillars. Colored silks and fragrant curtains hung throughout the surrounding corridors, while flocks of beauties in gauze and brocade filled the interior, their incense assailing the senses.
This branch of Great Ning's largest assassin organization looked more like a brothel.
Indeed, it was Ancient Market Town's most renowned den of extravagance, with the town's most beautiful women, finest wines, and most delicious dishes.
It was enough to leave the vast majority of men in the world lingering, forgetting to return home, living in drunken dreams.
But at that moment, a stir swept through the entire first and second floors of the Life-Reaping Tower.
The Life-Reaping Tower had five floors in all: the first for the ninth rank, the second for the eighth rank.
The doors of numerous private rooms on those two floors opened one after another. Gazes filled with curiosity and greed turned toward the courtyard at the very center of the stone building.
A new nameplate had been hung there.
Chu Xisheng-chief inner disciple of Zhengyang Martial Academy, combat strength at the peak of eighth-rank lower. Bounty: one thousand three hundred taels of demon silver. Take his life within one month!
The next instant, a crimson dart shot from a room on the south side and embedded itself in Chu Xisheng's wooden nameplate.
The words "Blood-Eyed Snake" were embroidered on the end of the dart.
This meant an assassin codenamed "Blood-Eyed Snake" had accepted the bounty.
Under the Life-Reaping