Chapter 63 The Xiao Family Assassins
After seeing Shi An off, Shi Lin returned to his room and replaced all the Gu worms he had contracted with high-grade bitter wine Gu.
Now that the Shi family has Yan Jin as their powerful backer, although they are not as secure as Mount Tai in Notting City, no one would be foolish enough to want to harm them.
Therefore, Shi Lin felt that he could start cultivating with all his might.
After returning to his room, Shi Lin sat cross-legged on his bed and began to cultivate.
Before they knew it, it was already past midnight.
"Da da da..."
A series of footsteps on the roof tiles startled Shi Lin, who opened his eyes and looked up at the roof.
"Can I really be this unlucky? I just replaced the Gu worms with wine Gu, and now someone's trying to assassinate me." Shi Lin said, his eyes wide with disbelief. His luck was just too bad.
Although Shi Lin was a little nervous, he was not flustered and immediately took out the formation for changing the contract that he had drawn before entering the Soul Hunter Forest.
He quickly replaced the six Gu worms he had contracted with high-grade Swamp Poison Gu and Silver Moon Gu.
Shi Lin also felt that there would be no battles recently, so he handed over all the top-grade bamboo leaf Gu to Lin Yu to cultivate cloud-brewed bamboo.
As a result, Shi Lin only had two kinds of high-grade Gu worms: Silver Moon Gu and Swamp Poison Gu.
Shi Lin completed the contract conversion of six Gu worms in less than a minute. The whole process was very smooth. After all, Shi Lin often needed to change the contract order of Gu worms when he was in the Soul Hunting Forest, so he was already very skilled at it.
After replacing the Gu worms, Shi Lin breathed a sigh of relief. Now, no matter who came, Shi Lin had the strength to fight.
However, Shi Lin did not act rashly. Instead, he carefully opened a hidden door and walked towards Shi Zhen along the secret passage as quickly as possible.
He himself had the ability to fight, but Shi Zhen did not. His father was just a little Karami who had just stepped into the threshold of Soul Master, and was not worth mentioning in front of other Soul Masters.
Soon Shi Lin arrived at Shi Zhen's bedroom.
At this moment, Shi Zhen was leaning against the wall near the hidden door, nervously looking outside, and had obviously also noticed the people outside.
As the hidden door opened, Shi Zhen immediately placed a dagger against Shi Lin's neck.
Shi Lin raised his hands without resistance.
Shi Zhen recognized his son and put down the dagger in his hand.
Shi Lin didn't speak, but took out an incense stick made of sleeping potion, lit it, and placed it in the room.
Then he pulled Shi Zhen into the secret passage.
Just as they entered the secret passage, Shi Lin deliberately made some noise.
Sure enough, as soon as Shi Zhen and his son entered the secret passage, the masked man in black kicked open the door.
"Damn it, there really is a secret passage here!" the assassin said angrily, kicking the wall.
Then, the assassin began searching for a secret passage in the room, with the sounds of things falling to the ground echoing around him.
The man in black was probably a Soul Master, so he didn't take Shi Lin and Shi Zhen, two ordinary people, seriously at all.
If it weren't for the caution expected of assassins, they would have just broken down the door.
Seeing the empty room, the assassin became enraged. Ignoring the sleeping potion, he frantically searched for mechanisms to find Shi Zhen.
"Boss, there's no one in the kid's room either." A rough voice rang out outside Shi Zhen's bedroom door.
"There's a secret room here. Quickly, come with me and find the hidden passage! We must kill the Shi family father and son today!" the assassin said to the other person.
Shi Zhen and Shi Lin waited silently in the secret passage for the incense to take effect, since the two of them were no match for a Soul Master.
Shi Lin held a few Gu worms in his hand, while Shi Zhen gripped the pig-slaughtering knife tightly.
The two remained silent in the secret passage, waiting for the two assassins to fall into a deep sleep.
"Boss, can you smell something delicious?"
"Huh? There really is one... Oh no, run!"
The voices of the two assassins echoed into the secret passage.
Shi Zhen and Shi Lin made no move, patiently waiting.
Once the incense takes full effect, these two people won't be able to leave.
Another half hour passed.
Shi Lin released the two Silver Moon Gu.
The two assassins were already lying on the ground.
The Silver Moon Gu crawled onto the chests of the two assassins.
Suddenly, a crescent blade was released, slicing through the assassin's chest.
After feeling the Moon Blade sever the hearts of the two men, Shi Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the Swamp Poison Gu jumped out of their stomachs.
Even after both of them had been disemboweled, Shi Zhen still did not allow Shi Lin to come out of the secret passage.
It wasn't until the sun rose that someone discovered the dead body in Shi Zhen's room. After Shi An entered Shi Zhen's room, Shi Zhen finally let out a long sigh and walked out of the secret passage.
"Master! Young Master! Are you alright? I am guilty! I did not go home yesterday!" Shi An knelt down on the ground and kowtowed deeply.
Shi Lin quickly helped Shi An up.
"It's alright, it's alright. I was the one who let you go out yesterday. It's my fault, it's my fault," Shi Lin said, supporting Shi An as he tried to comfort him.
"Alright, Xiao Lin and I are both fine. Xiao An, you can stay. You can all go back," Shi Zhen said, waving his hand at the servants in front of him.
"Yes, sir!" The others immediately left.
Next, Shi Zhen went to the two corpses and tore off the masks of the two men in black.
"Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai? They're actually from the Xiao family?" Shi Zhen frowned slightly. Clearly, the identities of these two people puzzled him.
The Shi family has already submitted to Yan Jin's command, yet the Xiao family still managed to send assassins to kill him.
This is really too bizarre.
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