When I stopped licking, the lady panicked.

Lin Xuan smiled and said, "I'm asking you about someone."

The people inside the cave all looked up and turned to look at Lin Xuan.

"Do you know what we do?" the leader asked.

Lin Xuan nodded and said, "Of course I know, otherwise why would I be here?"

"We are assassins, not spies," the leader said.

Lin Xuan said, "I believe that as long as there is enough money, you can also be spies."

After hearing this, the leader slowly stood up and said with great interest, "Oh? How much money can you offer?"

Lin Xuan calmly replied, "Ten million taels of gold."

Upon hearing this, the leader paused for a moment.

"Ten million taels of gold? May I ask who you want us to investigate?" the leader asked.

Lin Xuan smiled and said, "Previously, someone came here to ask you to assassinate the son of the Prince of Zhenbei, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the cave stood up.

They had already sensed the danger and roughly guessed Lin Xuan's identity.

But the leader waved his hand, gesturing for them to sit down first, and continued to say to Lin Xuan, "Yes, but our rule is that we never reveal the employer's information."

Lin Xuan said, "Twenty million taels of gold."

The leader smiled and said, "This isn't about money."

"Thirty million taels." Lin Xuan continued to raise the price.

The leader smiled and said, "Aren't you making things difficult for us?"

Lin Xuan continued to raise the price: "Forty million taels."

Anyway, he wasn't planning to give any, so he can just add whatever he wants.

The leader chuckled and touched his neck, saying, "You seem to be a straightforward person. In that case, I'll make an exception for you."

"Then you tell me," Lin Xuan said.

"Our rule is that a deposit must be paid first," the leader said.

Lin Xuan threw a money bag on the ground.

Just as the leader was about to take it, Lin Xuan stepped on the money bag.

"Tell me first, then take it," Lin Xuan said.

The leader smiled, thinking that this was his territory and that the kid wouldn't dare to cause trouble, so he didn't suspect anything and answered directly, "Lord of Qingzhou City, Yun Zhenting."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan frowned deeply, and his fists clenched silently.

Unexpectedly, the person who hired the assassin to kill him was Yun Xiyue's father, his own father-in-law.

Lin Xuan moved his foot away.

The leader excitedly picked up the money bag.

Lin Xuan suddenly asked, "Is your information reliable?"

"Hmm?" The leader frowned. "What do you mean? We've been doing business together for so many years, would we lie to you?"

"I'm asking you, is your information reliable?" Lin Xuan asked again.

The leader said, "Are you deliberately trying to cause trouble?"

Lin Xuan smiled and said, "Your information is guaranteed to be true, but my money is not."

"What?"

The chief was taken aback. He opened the money bag and found that it contained a bag of stones.

He flew into a rage, threw the money bag on the ground, and yelled, "You dare to cause trouble for our Shadow Gang? You're asking for it!"

The assassins inside the cave all stood up and surrounded Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan smiled slightly and slowly removed his cloak.

Upon seeing that face, the leader suddenly realized and said, "Lin Xuan, you're still alive. It seems that the people I sent out have all failed."

Lin Xuan said, "What use are they, a bunch of good-for-nothings?"

The leader sneered, saying, "It seems your Lin family still has some resources. It must have been your people secretly protecting you who made the move?"

Lin Xuan said, "Do we really need an expert to deal with those five good-for-nothings?"

"Hahaha, too bad, you're dead tonight!" With the leader's order, all the assassins charged toward Lin Xuan.

The campfire flickered, illuminating the jumbled shadows of people on the wall.

Figures were intertwined, and the sounds of clashing weapons rose and fell.

Within the cramped space, it was as if a wonderful shadow play was being performed, with the entire process of the battle reflected in the shadows on the wall.

Lin Xuan flicked his sleeve, lowered his body, and unleashed countless Soul-Slaying Nails, aiming directly at the assassin.

This happened so suddenly that all the assassins were caught off guard.

"poisonous!"

"Use your internal energy to defend!"

The leader gave the order for the poisoned assassins to retreat, while those who were not poisoned continued to surround and attack Lin Xuan.

However, the poisoned assassins had lost control of their bodies and were already under Lin Xuan's mind control technique.

"Let them kill each other," Lin Xuan said calmly. Immediately, the assassins controlled by the mind-control technique turned and attacked the other assassins.

Chaos erupted inside the cave immediately.

"Are you all insane?" the leader roared.

Inside the cave, the assassins fought each other, and in the blink of an eye, more than half of them were dead or wounded.

"If you don't want to die, squat down!"

The leader was furious. He suddenly drew his broadsword and slashed out, the blade's energy crisscrossing, beheading all those who hadn't crouched down.

In an instant, all the sounds of fighting and slaughter ceased.

Inside the cave stood only a few headless corpses.

Lin Xuan sat on the ground without changing his expression, ready to watch a good show. Unexpectedly, the leader was so oblivious to romance that he beheaded them all with a single stroke.

"Boring." Lin Xuan shook his head and slowly stood up.

The leader was enraged beyond measure. Pointing his knife at Lin Xuan, he roared, "I don't care what kind of sorcery you used, Lin Xuan, you must die here tonight! And the entire Lin family will pay the price for my people!"

Lin Xuan laughed loudly and said, "You are truly arrogant. You are merely at the Earth Profound Realm, yet you dare to spout such nonsense, saying you want to slaughter my Zhenbei Prince's Mansion?"

The leader said, "Even if you're at the Earth Profound Realm, killing a mere Spirit Profound Realm cultivator like you is more than enough!"

He glanced at the other assassins and ordered, "Everyone watch from the sidelines. I'm going to kill this kid myself!"

Lin Xuan shrugged and said, "I'm right here. Come and try if you dare."

The leader roared, shattering the stone slab beneath his feet, and charged towards Lin Xuan with such speed that it tore through the air, creating sonic booms.

Lin Xuan threw out several Soul-Slaying Nails, but the leader blocked them with his knife.

"A trivial skill!"

The leader roared, the blade in his hand still emitting wisps of black smoke.

Yellow-rank advanced martial skill, Shadow Strike!

The leader unleashed a slash, and in an instant, the blade split into three, slashing head-on at Lin Xuan.

This leader was at the early stage of the Earth Profound Realm, while Lin Xuan was only at the late stage of the Spirit Profound Realm. A direct confrontation would obviously be an unwise choice.

But as Lin Xuan said before, the difference in combat experience can make up for the lack of cultivation level. To kill Lin Xuan, one would have to be a whole level higher than him in cultivation level.

Lin Xuan casually dodged the opponent's attack, and then appeared behind the leader in a flash.

"Still trying to hide!"

The leader swung his sword down, kicked the blade, and used the momentum to turn and slash horizontally.

Lin Xuan stood still, neither dodging nor avoiding the blow, letting the blade slash down at his waist.

Just when everyone thought Lin Xuan was doomed, suddenly, Lin Xuan's clothes twitched, and in an instant, four bone claws grew out from under Lin Xuan's ribs. Two claws grabbed the blade and tore it apart, while the other two pierced through the leader's chest and skull.

The leader's expression instantly changed from fury to shock, and his eyes turned to terror in that instant.

"Dragon...Butterfly...Bone...Claw?!"

At the same time, inside the cave in Fenghuolin.

The Dragon Butterfly Demon King, who was resting, seemed to sense something and suddenly opened his eyes.

She reached the cave entrance, gazed out into the forest, and murmured to herself with a melancholy look in her eyes, "Husband, is that you who has returned?"