Chapter 1158: Chapter 1157: How Did the Ghost Killing Alliance Become Connected with Young Master Lu?

Lu Yang noticed Fang Zhige clutching Liu Yu’s wrist with a playful look in his eyes and kindly reminded them,

"Having your first romantic feelings is good, but I should remind you that you are still young. Whether you are learning martial arts or cultivating, you need to maintain ample kidney essence to ensure your cultivation speed."

"I have a friend who, in order to cultivate, abstained from the company of women, and his cultivation progress was so rapid that anyone who saw him had to praise him as a genius of the Great Era. I’ve heard his worth has even increased by a billion recently."

Fang Zhige, upon hearing Lu Yang’s reminder, realized he had been impolite and quickly let go of Liu Yu’s wrist.

That’s not right, things aren’t over yet!

"Mr. Lu, be careful, there are assassins nearby!"

Although Mr. Lu is also at the Foundation Establishment Stage, facing an assassin at the same level he would be hard-pressed to escape death.

"Assassin? Where?" Lu Yang was startled. Where did this assassin come from? He was only at the Unification realm, and if he encountered an assassin above the Pass Tribulation, his chances were slim.

The three of them stood in the courtyard for a while, but still saw no sign of Master Luo.

Fang Zhige was puzzled. This wasn’t right. Why hadn’t Master Luo made a move? Did Master Luo see that Mr. Lu was also at the Foundation Establishment Stage and didn’t dare to act?

This was not Master Luo’s style. Master Luo had always completed his tasks perfectly, having killed more than a handful of cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage; he wouldn’t likely retreat just because it was difficult.

"All right, all right, go back to class. It’s not easy for your parents to earn money; you can’t use this as a way to skip class." Lu Yang pretended to be angry and pushed the two toward the martial arts school.

When the three of them returned to the martial arts school, the segment about the Qiongqi Clan had just finished, and the first half of the class had ended.

Recently, Lu Yang’s classes consisted of watching Dream Mirage for the first half and teaching Fist techniques for the second half.

Fang Zhige muddled through the class, then muddled out of class, still not understanding where Master Luo had gone or why he hadn’t taken action.

Back at Liu Yu’s home, in accordance with the agreement, he honestly confessed his past: "Actually, I was raised by the Ghost Killing Alliance from infancy. We’ve been training in assassination techniques since we were young..."

"I always thought our Ghost Killing Alliance was righteous, that those we killed deserved to die. But in the ultimate test, I came into contact with the true nature of the Ghost Killing Alliance and made up my mind to escape from them..."

While telling his own past, Fang Zhige was still thinking about Master Luo.

At this moment, Master Luo, whom Fang Zhige had been thinking about, was hanging from a tree. In the Extreme Northern Lands, where it was snowy year-round, a thick layer of snow had accumulated on top of Master Luo’s head.

"Ready to make a clean breast of it?" Lu Yang took down Master Luo and dragged him into the cabin.

Master Luo’s eyes were filled with fear as he looked at Lu Yang. As a seasoned assassin, he had thoroughly investigated Fang Zhige’s social relationships before the assassination, including the change of his fist teaching teacher.

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Lu Doudou, at the Foundation Establishment Stage, with unknown origins, knowledgeable and well-read.

"Kid, if you let me go now, I can pretend nothing happened. Since you’re so well-informed, you must have heard of our Ghost Killing Alliance’s reputation..."

"Wait, what is the Ghost Killing Alliance?" Lu Yang thought through all the forces he knew of, but there was none called the Ghost Killing Alliance.

"Not knowing the Ghost Killing Alliance, such an ignorant guy. Others say you’re knowledgeable and well-read, but it seems to be nothing more than that. Our Ghost Killing Alliance is backed by the Jiuyou Sect. Everyone who dares to oppose our Ghost Killing Alliance is bound to end up with no bones left."

"You are from the Jiuyou Sect?" Lu Yang was surprised. They had already found proper jobs for the Jiuyou Sect; why were they still doing things like this?

With that in mind, Lu Yang didn’t bother wasting more words with Master Luo and directly used the Soul Search to understand the origin of the Ghost Killing Alliance.

It really wasn’t just an empty threat; it indeed belonged to the Jiuyou Sect.

Lu Yang took out the Jiuyou Order and sent a message to the Jiuyou Sect: The assassin from the Ghost Killing Alliance just tried to kill me and claimed that the Ghost Killing Alliance is under your Jiuyou Sect. You should investigate this, I hope there’s no misunderstanding between us.

Then, Lu Yang looked at Master Luo’s corpse, pondering what to do with it.

"Forget it, use it as fertilizer."

Lu Yang dug a hole in the yard. Previously, he had dug up the tree there to make wooden swords, and now it was just right to bury Master Luo underneath and plant a tree sapling on top.

His Tree Planting Spell couldn’t make trees grow rapidly, but with a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator as nourishment, the sapling should thrive.

...

"Is the Ghost Killing Alliance part of our Jiuyou Sect’s power?" Sect Leader Mu Baiyi, upon seeing the words on the Jiuyou Order, broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

Although he had recently broken through to the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, he was still terrified by the lightly phrased sentence on the Jiuyou Order.

Young Sect Master Lu was calling him out.

The problem was that he had no recollection of this Ghost Killing Alliance.

Soon Vice Sect Hierarch Shi was summoned by Mu Baiyi, who also had never heard of this Ghost Killing Alliance appearing out of nowhere.

Seeing the situation, Mu Baiyi simply called over all three Vice Sect Hierarchs to investigate the origin of the Ghost Killing Alliance.

"We’ve found it, we’ve found it," another Vice Sect Hierarch exclaimed.

"What exactly is the origin of this Ghost Killing Alliance?" everyone asked eagerly.

"It originated from a rudder master of our sect from three hundred years ago, whose son-in-law had some cultivation talent. Feeling restrained in Great Xia, he went to the Extreme Northern Lands and established an organization called the Nine Ghosts Alliance there."

"Under the Nine Ghosts Alliance, there are nine smaller factions including Ghost, Fierce Ghosts, Ghost Killing, and Ghost Death, with the Ghost Killing Alliance being one of them."

"The leader of the Nine Ghosts Alliance’s cultivation level is probably at Mid-stage Nascent Soul, maybe even at Nascent Soul Great Perfection."

"Every year, the Nine Ghosts Alliance offers tribute to us, so there’s some incense relationship."

Mu Baiyi’s expression was bizarre: "Are you saying that an unknown assassin from an assassination organization, which is a subordinate of an organization with cultivation highest at Nascent Soul, wants to assassinate Young Master Lu who has the support of two Immortals and four Semi-Immortals?!"

What kind of connection was this?

"Master, what should we do?"

Mu Baiyi glared: "What to do? We need to obliterate this Nine Ghosts Alliance immediately, what nonsense incense relationship. What does this minor power have to do with us!"

"Vice Sect Hierarch Shi, you go."

"Yes."

Vice Sect Hierarch Shi immediately arranged the task.

"Huo Huashen, you pick two more clever Nascent Souls to take a trip to the Extreme Northern Lands, and yes, don’t kill indiscriminately, Young Sect Master Lu probably doesn’t like senseless killing of the innocent."

"Yes."

"Little Liu, take twenty Nascent Souls with me to the Extreme Northern Lands."

"Yes."

...

"Yo, Master Huo, what wind has blown you here?" Upon hearing that Huo Huashen was visiting, the Nine Ghosts Alliance Leader, so frightened that he couldn’t even dress properly, scrambled out of bed and rushed to greet him.

Facing Huo Huashen, the Nine Ghosts Alliance Leader was trembling with fear, not daring to show the slightest negligence, anxiously and fearfully unaware of why this esteemed individual had come to the Extreme Northern Lands.

This Master Huo Huashen was none other than the favored figure of Vice Sect Hierarch Shi, the general manager of a chain barbecue restaurant, which demonstrated how much Vice Sect Hierarch Shi valued him.

Huo Huashen did not reply, simply looking at the Nine Ghosts Alliance Leader with a cold gaze, frightening him so much that he immediately knelt down, and the nine small Alliance Leaders of the Nine Ghosts Alliance followed suit, prostrating themselves on the ground.

"Master Huo, what... what exactly is this..."

"In your next life, be more discerning of the eyes, and don’t provoke those you cannot afford to provoke."

...

As Lu Yang lay in bed, pondering over the future lesson plans, a response from Mu Baiyi came through the Jiuyou Order: The Ghost Killing Alliance is under the power of the Ruthless Sect, falsely framing our sect with deliberate malice. Our sect has already eradicated it thoroughly.