It truly lives up to the name “All-Under-Heaven Tower”!
It seems that killers like Su Xiuhang are not unique individuals, but rather organized, structured, and operate in groups!

“We do have a difficult task, but I don’t know if you can handle it.”

“Just name it, guest!” A’Ce once again puffed out his chest, as if he wasn’t the one who was just facing the dire situation with Hell Without Doors: “We at All-Under-Heaven Tower can do anything!”

“Dare you go to the royal palace?” Jiang Wang asked.

In the Yang State, the royal palace without any prefix naturally refers to the court of the Yang State’s ruler.

The self-proclaimed “Eastern Region’s Number One Killer,” A’Ce, was shocked: “Don’t tell me you want to hire us to assassinate His Majesty the King?”

Seeing Jiang Wang giving him a dumbfounded look, he awkwardly said, “What does the guest want to do?”

Firstly, if it were such a major event as assassinating the king, it wouldn’t be brought up so openly.

Secondly… he knew in his heart whether All-Under-Heaven Tower had the ability to assassinate the king or not.

“Help me deliver a letter. It must not be revealed that it was sent by me.”

“To whom?”

“Ideally, deliver it to the king. If not, deliver it to the closest person to the king that you can reach.”

“What’s written in the letter?”

Jiang Wang looked at him without saying anything.

A’Ce shrank his head: “Protecting the secrets of our guests, I understand.”

“Thirty Dao Yuan Stones to deliver this letter. My only request is that no one can know this letter is related to me.”

Jiang Wang directly took out thirty Dao Yuan Stones and placed them in front of A’Ce.

“Rest assured, guest.” A’Ce from All-Under-Heaven Tower happily started counting the Dao Yuan Stones: “I don’t even know who you are.”

It was just delivering a letter. Even if it had to be delivered into the royal palace, it wouldn’t be too difficult.

Jiang Wang didn’t expect the letter to be delivered directly to the Yang State’s ruler, but as long as it reached the royal palace, he believed that the Yang State’s ruler would definitely pay attention to it.

No small country’s ruler should be qualified to remain indifferent to the Bone Dao Sacred Lord’s secret coveting.

The reason for using All-Under-Heaven Tower to convey the reminder was because his current strength was not enough to directly confront Bone Dao.

Jiang Wang only came to All-Under-Heaven Tower on the afternoon of the second day after entering Cangfeng City. He left Chiwei County that day and rushed back to Rizhao County to oversee his base.

The special trip to Cangfeng City was, firstly, to rest and recuperate to restore his spirit, and secondly, to find a way to remind the Yang State’s court.

As for finding All-Under-Heaven Tower, it was entirely a whim, done on the spur of the moment.

He originally wanted to ask about Hu Shaomeng hiring someone to assassinate him, but seeing that this A’Ce didn’t seem to recognize him at all, he gave up.

After all, Hu Shaomeng was dead, and with death, the lamp goes out. There wasn’t much point in investigating.

The situation in Qingyang Town was improving. The number of newly infected people was decreasing, and many of the infected in the isolated areas had been cured by the two medical cultivators. Of course, some deaths were unavoidable.

Through the full investigation by the Yang court, they had a relatively clear understanding of this plague.

Generally speaking, there are three ways to transmit the plague. The main way is through flea and mosquito bites. Rats are, of course, the main culprits, and these little things carrying the plague are also greatly to blame.

The second way is through human-to-human transmission, with breathing potentially causing infection. Finally, there’s contact infection.

However, the plague occurring within the Yang State was different. Eliminating rats and fleas had little effect, because the plague was initially transmitted among people, and the rate of transmission was far greater than a common plague.

(They still didn’t know about the existence of the Plague Bells.)

Therefore, every infected person was a source of infection.

From a cold perspective, death was also a way to reduce the source of plague infection.

In fact, if this plague hadn’t already spread through three counties and the entire country, there might have been calls for the extermination of Jiacheng…

Returning to Qingyang Town itself, under Jiang Wang’s decisive and forceful actions, the entire Qingyang Town area was the most successful town area in Jiacheng’s town domain in fighting the plague.

The number of new infections and deaths was far lower than in other town areas, and the number of people cured was far higher. This was assuming that the other town areas were not concealing anything.

Du Gu Xiao, Xiang Qian, and the others thought Jiang Wang would relax a lot, but he was even more diligent than before.

Every day, besides necessary official duties, he was cultivating.

Dao techniques and sword techniques went through their cycles again and again.

Through this period of fighting the plague, a small team centered around Jiang Wang had been initially forged, which could be considered one of the few good things.

However, the fear in Jiang Wang’s heart could not be shared with anyone!

In the Ling Mountain Blessed Land of the Illusionary Heavenly Realm, Jiang Wang sat cross-legged.

The real discovery of the problem actually came after chasing down the Snake Bone Masked One.

He killed the Snake Bone Masked One, but he neglected the Plague Bell when he later inventoried the spoils of war—which was a good thing from the later results. That Plague Bell was extremely dangerous and could likely be used as a carrier for the Bone Dao Sacred Lord to strike remotely.

But for Jiang Wang, the horror of this matter lay in his “neglect.”

How could he have neglected the Plague Bell?

Although he couldn’t be considered meticulous or far-sighted, this Plague Bell caused him great trouble in the battle. He shouldn’t, and couldn’t, have neglected it.

Yet he still “neglected” it.

This was terrifying.

It was as if there was another consciousness within his own, interfering with his thoughts. Or rather, there was something that could interfere with his will.

Because this possibility existed, he couldn’t discuss this matter with anyone.

Even now, “hiding” in the Illusionary Heavenly Realm, he wasn’t sure if he could really have a safe and clean environment for thinking—but this was his only hope.

Without teachers, elders, or powerful relatives, he could only rely on this mysterious and unpredictable Illusionary Heavenly Realm.

He repeatedly thought about this matter in the Illusionary Heavenly Realm. To avoid being affected by his own consciousness, he could only think here.

First, he confirmed that he was definitely not worrying unnecessarily.

Then, he conducted a detailed and lengthy examination of himself.

Where exactly was the problem? Where could there be a problem? What kind of problem would it be?

This was a painful process.

Finally, he placed the direction of his suspicion on the Towering Heaven Palace.

To be precise, it was on the Nether Candle.

After all, this was something from Bone Dao, and he had never let his guard down.

Earlier, in the battle to destroy Maple Forest City, the Nether Candle had given him an extremely strong warning.

He had once suspected that the Nether Candle had its own intelligence.

Before the destruction of Maple Forest City, he was extremely uneasy and nervous. Thinking about it now, could that also have been an “influence” exerted by the Nether Candle?

It could make him nervous then, and it could make him neglect now. It wasn’t impossible.

Although both of these influences seemed to be aimed at helping him avoid danger, and the results were indeed like that.

But Jiang Wang absolutely did not want his actions to be interfered with by some strange existence. Even when he was very weak, he resented Miao Yu’s so-called “guidance.”

Whatever he did, whatever consequences he faced, he wanted it to be his own choice.

He would accept his mistakes!

But he would never want anyone to choose for him.

If, if the problem really lay with the Nether Candle.

Then he had to face one thing—from the time the Nether Candle appeared in his body due to the attraction of the Bone Seed until now, it had “resided” in Jiang Wang’s Towering Heaven Palace for so long. What exactly had it been doing?

At least, from “creating tension” to “making him neglect.”

This seemed to indicate that the influence the Nether Candle could exert was expanding.