San Liu seed to vaguely recall the scene.
As for whether it was seven years ago, he had already forgotten.
But he vaguely rembered that he indeed visited Yang City back then, killed a wealthy but uncharitable rchant, and obtained a substantial bounty.
With the money in hand, and in high spirits, he went to a nearby upscale restaurant to have a feast, ordering whatever was expensive.
After finishing his al, he walked out of the restaurant, picking his teeth with a toothpick, and then saw at the corner of the street a frail girl squatting beside a trash can, filthy all over, with disheveled hair and flies buzzing around her head.
The girl, who looked like a beggar, must have been starving at that ti, her eyes shining with a wolf-like green light, staring at the half-eaten roast chicken in his hand.
Feeling good, having just made a lot of money, and seeing the girl in such a pitiful state, he walked over and gave her the half-eaten roast chicken.
The girl, upon seeing him offer the roast chicken, froze for a mont, then said thank you and wolfed down the entire chicken.
She ate it so cleanly that he, feeling benevolent, took her back to the restaurant and treated her to a al.
As for whether he talked to the girl about being an assassin at that ti, he was a bit fuzzy on the details, but he probably did, right?
After all, during his missions over the years, whenever he encountered pitiful people whose families were destroyed and who were utterly destitute, he would generally give them so advice, suggesting that they could consider becoming assassins.
If you can't afford to hire an assassin for vengeance, then beco an assassin yourself. As long as you survive, revenge is simple.
After all, it takes a long ti to train in martial arts. Ordinary people need about four to five years to reach Mingjin, and so may never reach Dark Energy in their lifeti.
But by becoming an assassin, undergoing training in an assassins guild, learning killing skills and techniques, although it doesn't carry the sa prestige as martial artists, if you can survive the devilish training, you will undergo a complete transformation. At that point, killing an ordinary person could be done with just a strand of hair...
Hearing Naless talk like this, San Liu felt that she might be the lost little lamb he had casually advised during one of his missions.
But...
That's not right!
San Liu clearly rembered that, like him, Naless's parents had also t tragic deaths at the hands of the Lord of the Killing Realm. She was forbidden from betraying him from a young age, then raised to be a killing machine, right?
And her level of brainwashing was even more thorough than his own.
How could it be that suddenly, Naless is saying she was not raised by the Lord of the Killing Realm from childhood, but beca an assassin because of his words seven years ago?
Could it be...
Naless knew what her admission might make San Liu realize.
Without waiting for San Liu to voice his doubts, she explained, "You must have noticed, right? In fact, I am not the Naless of before, but the new Naless who took her place three years ago."
"This..." Upon hearing Naless's words, San Liu was shocked, his mind swirling with all kinds of wild thoughts.
He vaguely sensed sothing amiss over these last three years.
The original Naless didn't get along well with him. Even though both of their parents were killed by the Lord of the Killing Realm, and had restrictions placed on them, being raised as killing machines, he still harbored thoughts of vengeance, constantly looking for opportunities to kill the Lord of the Killing Realm.
While Naless was completely brainwashed, becoming a loyal hound for the Lord of the Killing Realm.
But three years ago, Naless's attitude suddenly changed. She opened up to him, admitting she had not actually been brainwashed by the Lord of the Killing Realm but had concealed her own desire for revenge.
Then she felt that since they were both at the Peak Energy Transformation, they could attempt to kill the Lord of the Killing Realm, but because of the restrictions, they still couldn't act rashly.
So they discussed finding an opportunity to strike again and eradicate the Lord of the Killing Realm once and for all.
That wait lasted three years until they received the task of assassinating the new Dragon King of the Dragon King Hall, and after so probing, they took the opportunity to have Mu Jinyu join forces with Xiang Mantang to help them kill the Lord of the Killing Realm.
At that ti, San Liu felt that Naless was a bit strange, but he didn't think much of it, only to realize she had actually replaced the original Naless...
After the shock, San Liu noticed so issues and asked puzzledly,
"But how did you do it?"
"Four years' ti, to transform from an ordinary person to a Martial Artist at the peak of Energy Transformation?"
"And to also possess Naless's Invisibility Ability? Moreover, what's with the restrictions on your body?"
"If you just killed Naless and impersonated her, the Lord of the Killing Realm might have noticed you don't have any restrictions..."
San Liu asked all of his unanswered questions in one breath.
He felt sothing was very wrong.
Even if Naless actually had excellent Root Bone and showed prominence from the start of her cultivation, reaching the peak of Energy Transformation within a few years, how could she possess the sa Invisibility Ability as Naless, even if she just happened to have it?
What about the problem with the restrictions? How did she deceive the Lord of the Killing Realm right under his nose?
Hearing San Liu's series of questions, Naless explained succinctly,
"Actually, I have no real talent, and wouldn't be able to reach the Grandmaster level of Energy Transformation in this lifeti under normal circumstances. But I was quite lucky, in my second year as an assassin, I received an astonishing fortune that took from a minor assassin who hadn't even achieved Mingjin to a Grandmaster at the peak of Energy Transformation..."
"In this stroke of fortune, I also obtained a rather sinister secret technique, which is, Soul Seizing..."
Naless said in a calm tone.
In that tone, there lay a hint of lancholy and regret.
"Soul Seizing?!"
Hearing Naless's explanation, San Liu was stunned for a mont, then sharply inhaled, feeling that Naless was truly mad and terrifying.
Soul Seizing, as the na suggests, is like a sparrow occupying a dove's nest, abandoning one's own body, taking over soone else's, and usurping their identity.
"But..." San Liu said, still shocked and puzzled, "Wasn't the real Naless already at the peak of Energy Transformation at the ti? How could you seize her body? And why would you even need to seize Naless's body if you had already obtained great fortune and beca a Martial Artist at the peak of Energy Transformation?"
San Liu was thoroughly perplexed.
Naless explained, "Because after I beca a Master of Energy Transformation, and had avenged my grievances, I wanted to repay my debt to you."
"But having been an assassin myself for two years, I vaguely understood that you seed to be shackled by the Lord of the Killing Realm, not free, and that you had to kill the Lord of the Killing Realm to regain your freedom."
"But if I joined forces with you, we definitely wouldn't be able to kill the Lord of the Killing Realm, and we'd be hindered by Naless, with too high a chance of failure."
"So I thought, since Naless was equal in status to you and even more trusted by the Lord of the Killing Realm, if I were to seize her, the Lord of the Killing Realm would lose her support. Using his trust in Naless, if we were to team up, might we succeed?"
"Therefore, I spent over two years gaining the trust of Naless, finally finding the opportunity to ambush her, and carry out Soul Seizing."
"In the end, I succeeded. I seized Naless, obtained so of her mories, her Invisibility Ability, and also the restrictions placed on her by the Lord of the Killing Realm..."
"But after seizing Naless, from fragnts of her mory, I realized the terror of the Lord of the Killing Realm, the dread of the God Realm, and knew that even if we tead up, it wouldn't be possible to kill him. So, I gave up the initial plan, secretly supported you instead, and looked for the opportunity to join others and attack the Lord of the Killing Realm again."
Content orıginally cos from novel-fire
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