Heroine, don't turn back, I'm just a farmer.

Inside the room, the man in black stood there with a sword in hand, his expression strange.

He leaned closer and bent down to carefully examine the swordsman in the room, feeling puzzled and somewhat bewildered.

"Is this really the mission objective?"

Didn't the intelligence report say that this swordsman was the successor of the number one swordsman in the world ten years ago?

"The Heavenly Blade is incredibly talented, so how come his disciples are so weak?"

For a moment, he didn't know how to describe it.

As an assassin of Tianluoxiang, he naturally learned about his target's information beforehand. Knowing that the target was a disciple of the world's number one swordsman, he held nothing back and went all out from the start. However, he did not expect that the opponent's stiff and flowery swordsmanship before his death, although somewhat resembling the "Five Styles of Thunder", was truly appalling in its way of using the sword.

"It looks terrible, but the starting move was indeed the Five Styles of Thunder."

Thinking of this, the man in black looked around the room and began to examine the corpse on the ground with his sword sheath.

"Didn't I already behead him with a single sword stroke?"

The assassin turned to look at the doorway. The body he had previously beheaded was no longer on the ground; instead, there was the body from inside the room that he had stabbed more than a dozen times, covered in blood, which spread out in a large dark red patch on the ground.

"The intelligence says that the successor of the Heavenly Blade possesses the secret of the Buddha's relics. Obtaining the Buddha's relics can grant immortality. It seems that this swordsman has indeed obtained them... not only obtained them, but also fused with the power of the relics."

"If what I'm seeing isn't an illusion."

The assassin's mutterings were utterly incomprehensible.

He confirmed that he had beheaded the swordsman with a single sword strike, and after checking and finding nothing amiss, he left. But as soon as he left the courtyard, he sensed the other man's presence in the room again.

So he slammed the door open with one hand and unleashed his full sword power without holding back. He even deliberately changed his approach to stab the swordsman's vital points. As expected, the opponent died very simply, just like the first time.

He thought he could finally relax, but not long after, the other person reappeared in the room.

He looked the same; he was still himself. When he saw himself, he seemed quite surprised.

It wasn't murderous intent, nor hostility; it was utterly calm, so calm it seemed unnatural, and there was even a smile on its face.

Why is he laughing?

The man in black didn't understand; his hand was already on the hilt of his sword.

"Who are you?"

he asks.

"You come to kill me, don't you know who I am?"

Lu Guo was also puzzled.

Wasn't this man in black here to kill the swordsman to complete the storyline? He just had his heart and lungs ripped out, and now he's resurrected and doesn't even recognize him?

I didn't change my online identity either.

Even so, the man in black's pupils contracted sharply upon hearing his words, and he instinctively looked at the corpse on the ground.

The corpse that had been stabbed more than a dozen times was gone. He subconsciously looked at Lu Guo's chest again—it was intact, without blood or wounds. He clearly remembered that he had just stabbed the other man more than a dozen times, and to be on the safe side, he had sealed all the major acupoints on his body with his sword. Now, looking at the other man's face, his features were exactly the same as the previous two.

Without saying a word, the man in black drew his sword.

Swift, accurate, and ruthless, the sword tip aimed straight for the throat. As Tianluoxiang's top assassin, he never missed.

Lu Guo did not dodge.

He didn't even raise his hand to block.

Before he could react, the sword tip pierced his throat, exited through the back of his neck, and embedded itself in the wall behind him. Blood flowed down the blade, dripping onto the ground.

Lu Guo glanced down at the sword at his neck, then looked up at the man in black.

"Such a fast sword..."

His mouth moved, uttering muffled sounds.

Then he collapsed again.

The man in black drew his sword, wiped the blood off the corpse's clothes, and squatted down to examine it. He opened the collar and examined the sword wound on the corpse's neck—this time, it was a fatal blow, no doubt about it. He then raised his hand and plunged the sword into the heart, twisting it violently.

After doing all this, he glanced at the other person's expression again and found that the other person still had that smile on their face.

Peaceful, content, and even with a hint of anticipation.

The man in black shivered involuntarily, looked at the corpse on the ground, probed the bloodstains with his finger, and remained silent for a long time.

"The target came back to life and died twice by my sword. I suspect it was an illusion, or someone in disguise impersonating him. But the injuries he showed were real and did not seem fake."

That being said, he was now somewhat unable to distinguish whether the scene before him was an illusion or reality.

Legend has it that Buddha's relics possess strange powers, and it's impossible for someone to be resurrected three times on the spot, and so thoroughly. Such a miraculous ability is rare in the world, and even if it existed, the user would have to pay a considerable price. Therefore, he believed that what he saw was an illusion.

But if it's an illusion, what kind of secret technique from the demonic sects is it?

The fact that the swordsman could use illusions to deceive him meant that the swordsman's strength far surpassed his own, and he was completely being manipulated by the other party.

The man in black moved the corpse into the courtyard, took out the corpse-dissolving liquid, and was about to collapse. He didn't believe that even if the corpse was gone, the other party could still reappear using the power of the relic.

But not long after, footsteps sounded behind them again.

It was still coming from inside the room.

He turned around and saw the swordsman, who should have been dead, walk out of the room again.

The same facial features, the same clothes, the same knife, only his gaze seemed sharper, his aura more concentrated, and his hand holding the knife more steady. And the corpse at his feet had disappeared.

"Who are you?"

The man in black's voice had changed somewhat.

"Didn't you come here to kill me?"

"you……"

The man in black opened his mouth. This time, the resurrected swordsman walked differently from the previous three. The previous three had light steps, which showed that they had not practiced martial arts much. But this time, the swordsman's every step was very solid. His feet made almost no sound when they landed, but the fallen leaves on the ground were crushed cleanly.

His opponent was gradually increasing his strength, as if playing an interesting game, constantly toying with him.

So he put his hand on the hilt of the sword again, but did not draw it immediately, deciding to ask questions first.

As I said before, the scene before him was truly unbelievable. He began to doubt himself, unable to distinguish between illusion and reality, and even wondered if someone within the organization was using him as a pawn in this mission.

"Who... exactly are you?"

Lu Guo was stunned for a moment. Why was this NPC asking him this question? Was it some kind of dialogue option that would trigger a special plot?

[Dialogue appears]

1. "You come to kill me, don't you know who I am?"

2. "I was just passing by, don't be nervous."

3. "Never mind who I am, tell me what's going on with you first."

4. Don't speak, just look at the other person.

It seems to be a game; I almost thought it was the real world.

All four options are a bit strange. Judging from the resurrection node, the game's thread cannot go back to the previous step, so the options are equivalent to determining the route.

Not knowing if the gatekeeper boss had any favorability rating, I paused for a moment before speaking.

"You come to kill me, don't you know who I am?"

"..."

The man in black frowned; he knew, of course, who he was about to kill.

But he had no time to think, because he saw the resurrected target rushing towards him. This time, the opponent drew his sword with some discipline and lunged straight at the sword in his hand.

The man in black's mind raced—whatever their tricks or illusions, he'd kill them first!

He drew his soft sword again, this time with eighty percent of his strength. The sword twirled in the air, creating a sword flower effect, a feint, as he thrust it toward Lu Guo's chest.

Whether it was because his sword was too fast or because the other party did it on purpose, the man in black found that the swordsman had caught his blade on an empty stomach.

The sword blade sliced ​​through the opponent's waist and abdomen, cutting straight in with exceptional smoothness and effortless ease.

Lu Guo looked down at the sword in his chest, then at the man in black. His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but blood gushed from the corner of his mouth, drowning out all his words.

But when he fell, he still had that smile on his face.

The man in black was panting heavily. He knew the swordsman's identity and that the other party was a disciple of the Heavenly Blade Sect. Therefore, he had unleashed his full power several times in order to kill him with one blow. His internal energy was somewhat depleted. He pulled the sword from the other party's chest and stood beside the corpse for a while, stunned. He felt his hands trembling slightly. Before he could recover, he found that the swordsman who had just died had come out of the room again.

The other person looked at him and smiled again!