Diligent and conscientious Coroner Wang waited four full days in An Yi city. After repeatedly using the secret signal, he finally confirmed… probably, maybe, possibly, Bian Cheng Wang didn’t remember the secret signal. This couldn’t be blamed on him, Coroner Wang! It wasn’t his mistake, and he immediately relaxed.

As for whether the task was completed, he didn’t care. What prospects could there still be following Bian Cheng Wang? His task this time was only to assist, ensuring Bian Cheng Wang couldn’t find fault now, and Qin Guang Wang couldn’t hold him responsible later. No merit, no fault, just earn a work hour fee, that’s it! As for whether that guy got lost or encountered danger… what did that have to do with him?

He went to the tavern on time to wait, not expecting anyone. He happily enjoyed his alone time, drinking whatever blood he wanted, chewing through two bags of raw chicken bones at once. See who would dare say more?!

“What ghastly things are you eating every day?”

A familiar scolding suddenly reached his ears. Coroner Wang looked up, meeting Bian Cheng Wang’s indifferent eyes directly. Although not wearing that signature Bian Cheng mask, this feeling… was too intimate! Coroner Wang immediately put away the raw chicken bones and raw cow blood, squeezing a smile onto the borrowed face: “I, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time!”

If not for his unpleasant voice and halting speech, he might have even added three points of sincerity.

Bian Cheng Wang didn’t sit down or drink the wine on the table. He only reached out: “Give me the intelligence.”

“It’s all in my head.” Coroner Wang transmitted his voice properly: “I’ll report to you slowly.”

Bian Cheng Wang said nothing else, walking straight out of the tavern. Coroner Wang followed step by step, continuously transmitting his voice. Qin Guang Wang wasn’t wrong; when it came to assassination, Coroner Wang’s ability was very trustworthy. These past few days idling in An Yi city, he had already thoroughly understood Zhang Shou Lian’s security situation, including his State Uncle Manor and Zhang Shou Lian’s four villas, as well as the places Zhang Shou Lian frequented and the routes he often took. Furthermore, he had detailed information about An Yi city’s defense situation, possible strongholds, which direction to choose, and how to escape. He also emphatically explained that Great General Wu Xun was patrolling the borders and wouldn’t return to Wei capital in a short time. Gua Dao True Person, Eastern Master, was currently teaching at Dragon Tiger Altar, and the altar would be sealed for at least two months.

Bian Cheng Wang listened, feeling more and more… this opportunity was really too good! How could it be so coincidental, such a perfect time to kill Zhang Shou Lian? The customer who ordered the assassination of Zhang Shou Lian must hold a high position in Wei country to be able to seize the opportunity so accurately, and even… create it. But then again, what was Zhang Shou Lian’s reliance that he could still remain in a situation with a notorious reputation, making that high-ranking customer unable to defeat him through frontal means? Could it be merely the identity of a State Uncle?

“Zhang Shou Lian’s cultivation is confirmed?” Bian Cheng Wang asked again.

Coroner Wang said: “It is indeed Inner Mansion Realm cultivation. I observed it three times.”

“Alright, you leave the city. Prepare to receive.” Bian Cheng Wang said lightly.

“I have a new receiving method.” Coroner Wang thought, and said deliberately: “You and I won’t go in the same direction. This way, if you have an accident on one side, I’ll create a disturbance on the other side to attract the attention of the Wei Court for you. Although Wei country has many strong individuals, once dispersed, they are merely so. Once we leave the Wei country border, this task is finished. We’ll cooperate again next time!”

“Alright.” Although Bian Cheng Wang was cold and cruel, he was very receptive to colleagues’ suggestions.

“Then which direction are you preparing to withdraw towards?” Coroner Wang asked.

“West.” Bian Cheng Wang casually named a direction.

Coroner Wang said “Good, I’ll go south to receive!”, spread his legs and walked, not turning his head back. Not saying goodbye, truly not wanting to see him again. Bian Cheng Wang also just glanced at him coldly, then disappeared into the crowd.

Wei country was indeed a strong nation. Regardless of the current Wei Emperor, or Great General Wu Xun, or the host of Dragon Tiger Altar, Eastern Master, all of them could easily crush him to death. And when borrowing the power of the country and mobilizing the army, the number of people who could “frontally crush Bian Cheng Wang” could still increase by two or three. Adding in the hidden strong individuals of the Wei country court, secret imperial family methods, perhaps still two or three more. But that was all. Looking at the entire Wei country, the people who could pose a threat to him would not exceed ten. And Wei country was already one of the world’s countable strong nations! This was his current strength.

He had always contacted too many Cave True, Derive Dao, and even Transcend individuals, and had seen many Half Transcend as well. This made him often feel insignificant in terms of personal martial force. But in fact, given the size of the current world and the vastness of the universe, he was already strong enough to claim kingship and hegemony in too many places. Of course, specifically with the identity of Bian Cheng Wang, he still had to be more low-key.

“Grind scissors! Sharpen knives!”

“Make way, make way, don’t block the path!”

“Customer, what do you want?”

“You stepped on my new boots!”

“Big sir, come play, ya?”

His ear consciousness opened, and ten thousand sounds came calling. Bustling and noisy, chaotic and disordered. Bian Cheng Wang strolled through the crowd, his eye consciousness slightly open, able to see the face of every person approaching. Either old or young, joyful or sorrowful, each face currently experiencing various lives.

Cultivators climbed their way, crossing the heaven-man barrier, and finally descending to the world like gods. After that, they still had to see through reality, clarify that human was human, that human actions in the world were for the true person of the present world.

He had created his own Human Dao sword style. From the illusory and vague concept of the vast human sea, to the referenced Human Dao sword, the old general, the famous scholar, the young and frivolous, the involuntary, the lovesick… to the final divine sword, achieving the human character sword that supported heaven and stood its ground. But he still dared not say that he understood “human.”

He saw that everyone had their own long journey, and he was also walking his difficult path. He was the Outside Building of the Dao Way, the Tree Star Building widely spreading this Dao in the universe. He was the Without Lack of the Dao Way, the Golden Body Without Leak, the Original Heart Without Regret of God Descend. Once entering God Descend, one had strong proof. But that one point of “true” was still not easily sought. Everyone could “be themselves,” but how could one get “I true” from “world true”? How could one know the world before knowing oneself?

Prominent studies in the world all had their anchoring star domains and the law of Great Dao同行. Many people established their Dao Way upon God Descend, a very small number of cultivators achieved it through Outside Building. But in crossing the heaven-man barrier and experiencing the state of God and understanding it, cultivators in the process of understanding this world were also stained by the various aspects of the mundane world. Power and position, fame and fortune, love and hate, cause and effect… the ten thousand threads of the mundane world entwined the body like making a cocoon. Buddhism sought detachment from the sea of suffering, Dao Gate sought freedom and unfettered heart, Confucianism followed the heart’s desires without exceeding the rules… all were against the threads of the mundane world.

In the process of proving the heaven’s heart with one’s own heart, one must break oneself to deeply feel the world, and finally retrieve that broken self, piece by piece in the sea of the mundane world, to see its “true” again. How could this be an easy thing? Human was constantly changing, constantly experiencing. How could the me of this time be the same as the me of that time? How difficult it was to be a True Person!

Carrying Zhang Shou Lian’s luxurious large sedan, it slowly moved through the long street. An eight-bearer sedan could already be considered exceeding the regulations, and this exceeding had only just begun a few years ago. To be able to become the first of An Yi’s four evils in such a short time could also be considered an ability, but it also indicated that An Yi city probably truly had no evil people — not to say there were no bad people, but bad and stupid people, people whose bad reputation was far-reaching, were very hard to survive for long in a positive and enterprising regime. Zhang Shou Lian’s recklessness could also be considered a strange sight in An Yi city. On the one hand, others were punished for crimes, and the Wei country’s legal system was sound; on the other hand, Zhang Shou Lian had forcibly abducted unknown numbers of good families, yet could still roam outside the law. One could only say that Empress Zhang’s pillow talk was fierce, and even the Holy Son of Heaven was deceived.

Memorials impeaching Zhang Shou Lian could almost stack up several people high, yet he still rested easy. Last month, he even brutally beat an Imperial Censor who had scolded him, claiming “I am a white-clothed prime minister,” and swaggered away. Many onlookers witnessed this, and afterward, no punishment was seen. From then on, he became even more arrogant, often committing evil deeds, hated by both gods and ghosts.

As soon as State Uncle sir’s large sedan arrived, this bustling and noisy crowd instantly dispersed. Everyone avoided it, as if avoiding snakes and scorpions. Bian Cheng Wang, wearing a hooded black robe, was also in the crowd, also like a drop of water. While following the crowd past the State Uncle Manor’s large sedan, he deviated from the crowd’s direction and walked alone towards this sedan. At this moment, there were at least several thousand people on this noisy market street. Zhang Shou Lian’s sedan was paraded through the market, and at least several hundred people stared at it with either hate or loathing. But no one saw or heard Bian Cheng Wang!

Sight had weight. Simultaneously manipulating so many sights and changing so many ear consciousnesses was also a challenge for Bian Cheng Wang. He did it flawlessly. The State Uncle Manor or some secret courtyard room, the cold and quiet night or the deserted early morning… the most likely time and place for an assassination would not be Bian Cheng Wang’s choice. He walked in the blind spots of vision, outside the limits of hearing, transcending the vulgar meaning, unrestrained by rules and regulations. He lifted the sedan curtain, calmly walked to Zhang Shou Lian’s front, and slowly sat down.

Meanwhile, Zhang Shou Lian was completely unaware. This State Uncle sir of Wei country sat alone in the spacious large sedan, solely using a peeping tube to observe outside the window — according to intelligence, this thing could adjust its angle and provide a clear image, helping him select beautiful women from good families in the crowd, so that whenever he felt like it, he could abduct them home. Now, opening the window to look wasn’t an option; those good families would just hide when they saw Zhang Shou Lian.

Bian Cheng Wang lifted his red pupils like electricity, sweeping over all the arrangements inside the sedan, carefully avoiding the array patterns that could cause an alarm. As he sat down, he joined his sword fingers and lightly held them horizontally in front of his body. Zhang Shou Lian still didn’t realize what had happened, suddenly seeing nothing, hearing nothing, and knowing nothing, falling into the extinction process that was originally very short but pulled extremely long by death!

Yi city was a strong Wei capital, and its security was beyond doubt. As the current State Uncle, he didn’t expect anyone to be so unwise — no, it should be said that he had long anticipated the appearance of an unwise person, but didn’t think they would come so late, and in such a degree of unwise way. No power struggle, no accusation, no stripping of position, imprisonment, and questioning for crime, but actually directly employing a killer to assassinate! Such low-level means!

But he immediately realized why. Damn it, he indeed deserved to die. He had long known the impending danger, so he released his evil. He had long known he would die, so he indulged his desires. But the self-rescue of a mediocre person was so powerless. And death… it was truly long!

Bian Cheng Wang sat quietly opposite Zhang Shou Lian, quietly waiting for him to die. At this time, he noticed that on Zhang Shou Lian’s right side there was a secret compartment. He used Yuan force to manipulate Zhang Shou Lian’s right hand and pulled open this secret compartment. Inside lay an account book. Zhang Shou Lian’s hand slowly opened this account book. Inside were all records of various materials being transported. From this, it could be seen that Zhang Shou Lian seemed to control large amounts of military materials, all circulating from outside to inside. The quantity was so vast that it was absolutely impossible to hide from the military. Unless the Wei country’s military was useless. But the one in charge of the Wei country’s military was the world-famous general Wu Xun, so how was this possible?

So this was the reason why this Wei country State Uncle could be so rampant? And simultaneously, the reason why he couldn’t be defeated by official means and was even assassinated by an employed killer? Bian Cheng Wang intuitively felt that this account book was very important, so he controlled Zhang Shou Lian to continue turning the pages and copied it down with the Like Dream Order. The further he turned, the more interesting things appeared — this account book also recorded many building materials for Taixu Corner Towers!

As a former Taixu Messenger, an existence who led a Taixu Corner Tower, Bian Cheng Wang, although he hadn’t personally done it, could completely see from the quantity of these building materials coming and going that they could build not just one or two Taixu Corner Towers. Could Wei country and Taixu Sect actually have some unknown cooperation? This Zhang Shou Lian was absolutely not simple. Or rather, the position Zhang Shou Lian held in Wei country was absolutely not simple. Of course, he had already been simply killed. At this moment, his consciousness was completely extinct, not leaving the slightest trace.

Bian Cheng Wang controlled Zhang Shou Lian’s hand, the account book, and the secret compartment, restoring them one by one. Then he silently rose, exited the sedan, stepped out, and like a drop of water, re-merged into the crowd. No ripples arose, no waves were startled. From beginning to end, the sedan bearers of the sedan did not feel the slightest change in the weight inside the sedan, of course, they also heard no sounds, and there was certainly no bloody smell. The pedestrians on the roadside each hurried along, even more unaware. This was an ordinary day in the Wei country capital. No one thought that an assassination would happen in broad daylight. Even more so, no one thought that an assassination happening in broad daylight would be silent and noiseless, with no one aware!

The perfect cooperation of Ear Immortal and Eye Immortal, plus that sword that escaped the senses, allowed Bian Cheng Wang’s assassination ability to leap to the forefront of the industry. Compared to operating, he was more skilled at killing people. Compared to opening a tavern, he was indeed more suitable as a killer.

Now he followed the direction of the crowd, flowing through this prosperous Wei country capital. After turning several streets, he sat in a carriage prepared long ago, poured half a cup of tea, leisurely closed his eyes to rest, and let the carriage gallop out of the city. The thoughts in his heart couldn’t stop. Did Zhang Shou Lian’s account book reflect the deep cooperation between Wei country and Taixu Sect? Could this cooperation not see the light?

In the current era, Taixu Sect created the Taixu Illusion Realm, promoted the torrent of Human Dao, and the world’s pillar countries had supervision rights and duties. Besides this, as Bian Cheng Wang, who was once a State Marquis of a country, knew, various countries and Taixu Sect had no other cooperations. Supervision itself required a super detached position. Wei country was also one of the supervisors, and Wei country also checked each other with other supervisors.

But if Wei country also deeply participated in the Taixu Illusion Realm, secretly participated in the torrent of the era, and borrowed the development of the Human Dao torrent, was it possible to emerge unexpectedly in this era of six hegemonic countries with an established world pattern, and establish hegemony on the south bank of the Yangtze River, a land of four wars!? No, no, merely this, it might not be enough to become the seventh hegemonic country.

The Taixu Illusion Realm had developed to now, and its structure was stable. The six big hegemonic countries couldn’t be unvigilant towards the Taixu Illusion Realm, and it was impossible for them to leave such a large so-called “progress space” for other countries. The problem was more in… if it was such an important matter, such a shocking grand plan, how could the Wei country side hand it over to Zhang Shou Lian to do, and how could Zhang Shou Lian be so wanton and attract attention like this?

Unless Wei country was unwilling to admit this matter, so they used a seemingly important but actually irrelevant person. And Zhang Shou Lian himself was also unwilling to be pushed into this position, committing evil more for self-defilement. Only in this situation could the Wei Court’s indulgence towards Zhang Shou Lian have an explainable possibility. Perhaps not only so.

Bian Cheng Wang again lifted the carriage curtain, silently and without a trace got off midway, and walked east by himself. Not to suspect anyone, as Qin Guang Wang said, just professional quality. On the way, he also began to carefully flip through that account book in his mind. Before, he had only hastily copied it with the Like Dream Order, but at this time, he was interpreting it character by character. He intuitively felt that the information he had dug out was not enough. The more he looked, the more surprised he became, and he couldn’t help but want to immediately discuss it with Chong Xuan Fat, but then he realized that this matter was not convenient to exchange through the Taixu Illusion Realm. Just at this moment, he suddenly felt a shocking sword intent!

He used Eye Immortal to disrupt the sights that might fall on him, then rose to a high place, seeking intent and gazing far — he only saw a huge red lotus blooming in the mountain forest. And the Qian Yang Red Pupils, driven by Eye Immortal, infinitely pulled the vision closer, seeing below the flaming red lotus, the stunned and wooden… Coroner Wang!