Afterward, Luo Tian used a communication talisman to tell the Six Sword Slaves, Han Tang, Lü Baichuan, Yan Nantian, and the others to gather for a meeting!
Inside the Shadow Pavilion's main hall, Luo Tian sat upright in the center. "Everyone, please take a seat. Next, we will discuss the Shadow Pavilion's plans going forward!"
"Yes, Master!" everyone answered in unison.
"I have now established a firm foothold here, but this is only the beginning.
Our opponents will also grow increasingly powerful. My ambition is to stand at the pinnacle of this continent.
Or perhaps, beyond this continent, there is an even more dazzling world!"
Everyone's eyes lit up at his words, their hearts surging with excitement.
Who did not want their name to spread far and wide, and to see a more spectacular world?
"Yan Nantian, from today onward, you will be the pavilion master of the Shadow Pavilion in the Heavenly Star Dynasty!
All major affairs within the pavilion will be yours to decide.
As for the many businesses the Shadow Pavilion is involved in, appoint agents to oversee them.
The Wang and Huang families would make suitable agents.
Our internal personnel should focus primarily on intelligence and assassination work.
Han Tang has accepted a mission to assassinate the Ghost King Sect's grand elder.
The payment is one upper-grade Profound-tier cultivation technique or martial skill, and eighty million low-grade spirit stones.
The mission deadline is within two months.
That gives us enough time to prepare!
Aside from Yan Nantian, does anyone here have confidence in carrying out the assassination successfully?"
Jing Wuming stepped forward. "Young Master, if he is alone outside the Ghost King Sect,
I might have a chance of assassinating him successfully.
If we strike inside the Ghost King Sect, it will be extremely difficult!
If we fail to kill the Ghost King Sect's grand elder in one blow, we might beat the grass and startle the snake!" They could end up surrounded by the Ghost King Sect.
"Let's see whether we can stir up conflict between the Ghost King Sect and the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect!
Make the dynasty's major powers all suspect and fight one another.
There is no rush with this mission. We can also have Yan Nantian assassinate Gui Ming when the time comes.
From now on, all of you will address me as 'Young Master.'
Ding Chunqiu, Han Tang, and Lü Baichuan.
You will serve as Earth-grade assassins and branch elders.
I hope you will each put your talents to use and contribute to the Shadow Pavilion's prosperity!"
"As you command, Young Master!" everyone answered in unison.
"The Shadow Pavilion will not remain confined to this dynasty. In time, we will establish our headquarters somewhere beyond it.
And your positions will be assigned according to your strength!
The strong will rise, and the capable will hold the positions!
We are preparing to find a base in the capital soon.
Our focus will shift there for now!
The capital's major powers will be our stepping stones.
Ding Chunqiu, you will be responsible for gathering intelligence in the capital when the time comes-any information at all.
Maintain close contact with Fengluo City.
Here are one million low-grade spirit stones. Take them to get things running."
Luo Tian flicked a storage ring from his hand, and it landed in Ding Chunqiu's hand!
Ding Chunqiu answered respectfully, "Yes, Master!"
"I leave matters here to you!
If anything important arises, contact me through a communication talisman!
Ding Chunqiu, you will accompany me to Heavenly Star City."
"As you command, Master!"
The Six Sword Slaves, Yan Nantian, Lü Baichuan, Han Tang, and the others answered in unison!
The capital, within the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
Bustling and magnificent, with shops standing in dense rows, it was far beyond what Fengluo City had been.
Its towering city walls were built from hard azurelight stone.
When night fell, they would emit a faint azure glow.
The larger powers in Heavenly Star City mainly included the imperial family, the Vajra Sect, the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect, and the Ghost King Sect!
The remaining aristocratic families included the Li family and the Chen family.
These aristocratic families were vassals of the major powers!
The Treasure Gathering Pavilion was said to have branches throughout the Southern Region's major cities!
"It never intervenes in conflicts between powers!"
"It is very powerful!"
Even the capital's major powers did not dare provoke the Treasure Gathering Pavilion!
Its pavilion master was extremely mysterious; few people had ever seen them!
Beneath the capital's gates, silver-armored guards stood as straight as pines and cypresses, their gazes blazing like torches.
They guarded the peace and mystery of this capital.
Travel-worn after journeying from Fengluo City for several days, Luo Tian and Ding Chunqiu finally arrived before Heavenly Star City.
Along the way, he had used the cultivation technique rewarded by check-in: the Disguise Technique!
At this moment, he looked like an ordinary, unremarkable martial artist, around eighteen or nineteen years old.
"His cultivation was concealed at around the middle stage of the Sea Transformation Realm."
In Heavenly Star City, such cultivation was like a single grain in the vast ocean, utterly inconspicuous!