Shadow

  Shi Long hurried to Hu Jingwei's room. At this time, Hu Jingwei had already changed his clothes and was ready to go to the banquet hall with Hu Lin.

  The four Shi family children who were responsible for protecting the two were trying their best to persuade them, trying to prevent them from taking risks.

  As soon as Shi Long rushed into the room, he shouted loudly, "Mr. Hu, you can't go, absolutely not! Moreover, you'd better leave here quickly and change to a more secretive hiding place."

  Hu Jingwei asked faintly, "Is the situation very urgent?"

  Shi Long nodded vigorously. "It's very serious. One of our companions has been killed, and we can't find the killer at all."

  "Can't find the killer at all?"

  The other four Shi Clan disciples' faces changed.

  Just now, they felt that one of their companions' spiritual power fluctuations had suddenly disappeared, and they already had an ominous premonition in their hearts. Now, even Shi Long, who had the strongest cultivation among them, could not find the murderer!

  That killer is too mysterious!

  Hu Jingwei pondered slightly, then said, "Then let's leave quickly. As for the banquet, there's no need to attend."

  Shi Long saw that Hu Jingwei was cooperating, so he immediately told a companion, "Jialiang, go ahead and check the surroundings carefully."

  The son named Shi Jialiang promised, opened the door, walked out, looked around, and then said safe.

  Shi Long and the other three, protecting Hu Jingwei and Hu Lin in the middle, walked towards the door.

  At this moment, a faint shadow suddenly flashed out from the shadow in the corner of the wall and disappeared without any notice.

  "Jialiang, why are you stuck at the door?" Shi Long took a few steps forward to protect Hu Jingwei and Hu Lin, and couldn't help but ask strangely.

  Shi Jialiang turned around slowly with stiff movements. His face was full of pain. A big hole was broken in his dantian qi sea, and blood continuously poured out from the wound.

  "Jialiang! What's wrong with you?" Shi Long was taken aback. He hurriedly hugged Shi Jialiang and asked loudly, "Who on earth did this?"

  "Shadow... Shadow..." Shi Jialiang spat out a word intermittently, then his head tilted and his breath was cut off. The spiritual power fluctuations on his body quickly disappeared.

  Shi Long and the remaining three Shi Clan children looked at their dead companions. Their anger was beyond words.

  In less than ten minutes, two companions had already died at the hands of the mysterious killer.

  Moreover, one of them was actually killed right in front of their eyes, and they actually didn't notice it in advance!

  One must know that they were all self-cultivators with great strength. Compared to ordinary people, they were simply like immortals. They had always been very confident in their own strength.

  But now, two companions had died without anyone noticing!

  They suddenly realized that they had encountered a very terrifying killer, one that was able to easily get rid of a self-cultivator!

  Hu Lin showed a scared look. She approached her father in an attempt to seek his protection.

  Hu Jingwei behaved very calmly. He put his arm around his daughter's shoulder and patted lightly to calm her emotions.

  However, his mood was very heavy.

  He knew better than anyone that the current situation was dangerous.

  Even the experts sent by the Shi family could be killed silently. The mysterious killer lurking in the dark could be seen how terrifying it was!

  "What should we do now?" Hu Jingwei looked at Shi Long and asked.

  Fine beads of sweat appeared on Shi Long's forehead. He knew his answer, which could directly determine the fate of the few of them.

  After a fierce struggle in his heart, he gritted his teeth and said, "Go outside and be careful. You will only wait for death here."

  The others felt that this was indeed the case, so they concentrated all their energy and guarded Hu Jingwei and Hu Lin, carefully walking outside.

  Outside the door was a long corridor with a spiral staircase at the end. The spotlights on the ceiling flashed from time to time, illuminating the long corridor from time to time.

  Shi Long took out the lightning spirit sword from his storage ring and walked at the front. At the same time, he scanned the surroundings and did not let go of any small details.

  Nevertheless, Shi Long did not find any traces of the enemy.

  However, the more so, the more fearful Shi Long was. Killers in the dark were much more terrifying than enemies in the open.

  The six people tensed up and walked forward carefully. When they were about to reach the stairs, the lights above their heads suddenly went out.

  Just as the lights went out, a thick black shadow suddenly shot out from the corner of the wall and pounced on the Shi family's children guarding Hu Jingwei from behind.

  A shrill scream immediately rang out.

  Apart from Shi Long, the three Shi Clan children were all gone in an instant!

  For the first time, Shi Long saw what the killer looked like.

  To be exact, this killer was not a person, but a human-shaped shadow.

  The height was about one person tall, and his body was as thin as a piece of paper. He held a shadow-shaped dagger in his hand. On the dagger, there were several deep red blood stains.

  If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that with such a disembodied dagger, he could kill people, and he had also killed several powerful self-cultivators!

  The killer stood in front of them like this, but his feet were still connected to the shadow caused by the light, giving people a strong sense of unreality.

  In the blink of an eye, he lost three more companions. Shi Long felt grief and anger in his heart.

  He almost didn't even think about it. With a raise of his hand, he threw out his spirit sword and shot at the killer.

  With lightning, the sword quickly penetrated the killer's chest and shattered the wall behind him.

  However, the strange killer still stood where he was. The Lightning Spirit Sword did not cause any injuries on his body.

  "This... What kind of monster is this?" Hu Jingwei's face couldn't help but change color even though he had been trying his best to maintain his composure.

  "The Shadow Assassin! It's the Shadow Assassin!" Shi Long finally recognized the origin of this killer.

  His heart suddenly "thumped" and sank down.

  Shadow Assassin was a powerful and mysterious killer in Old Shan's assassination group. He was elusive and murderous.

  He always thought that it was just a legend and never took it to heart.

  Unexpectedly, that legend became a reality, and he even met it!

  Not only was this Shadow Assassin as secretive and terrifying as in the legends, it was even more terrifying!

  Shi Long could not help but feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart. He could not defeat such a terrifying assassin!

  Just as Shi Long was in despair, a powerful surge of true qi, like a meteor from the sky, blasted down and struck right in front of the Shadow Assassin.

  With a loud bang, the entire villa shook.

  The huge force blasted the bricks and stones of the villa into powder and rushed into the air, permeating the entire space and blocking the vision of the Shadow Assassin.

  Then, a huge attraction pulled Shi Long, Hu Jingwei and Hu Lin out of the window and flew to the grass outside the villa. Only then did they stop.

  The three of them were out of danger. They were a little frightened and looked at the source of the attractive force. They saw a mysterious man with a silver mask standing on the treetop.

  There was a black ball floating beside the mysterious person, which was emitting a misty light.

  Obviously, it was this person who saved their lives.

  Hu Jingwei only felt that what happened tonight was getting more and more bizarre.

  A mysterious shadow killer wanted to take his life, while another more mysterious silver-faced man wanted to save his life!

  The only thing he was worried about was whether this silver-faced man was a match for that Shadow Assassin.

  Hu Lin also looked up at the silver-faced man. For some reason, she had a strange trust in the silver-faced man. She seemed to have concluded that the silver-faced man could save them from this dangerous situation!

  Zhao Rui stood on the treetop and looked coldly at the Shadow Assassin below. His eyes flickered with coldness.

  Just now, he searched around the Hu Mansion for the Shadow Assassin, but there was no result. It was only when the Shadow Assassin assassinated the Shi family's children that there was a fluctuation in spiritual power that he determined the location of the Shadow Assassin and hurriedly rushed over.

  Still, he was a step too late, and the Shadow Assassin assassinated four more Shi Family disciples.

  The Shadow Assassin of the Mountain Elder Assassination Group, it was indeed very difficult.

  No physique, just a shadow, not to mention ordinary attacks, even his magic attractive force orb, did not have any effect on Shadow Assassin!

  The orb of attractive force does not work against an illusory shadow.

  Zhao Rui was thinking quickly about how he could deal with this mysterious Shadow Assassin.

  However, Shadow Assassin did not give Zhao Rui too much time to think.

  He stared fixedly at Zhao Rui, his eyes flashing fiercely. His entire person attached to the ground and slid towards Zhao Rui.

  Shi Long and Hu Lin, the three of them, only saw a black shadow gliding past the surface and up the tree trunk at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, it was about to touch Zhao Rui's toes.

  The shadow dagger in the shadow assassin's hand was already raised high.

  "Be careful!" Hu Lin could not help but exclaim.

  This silver-faced man was their last hope of survival. If even this silver-faced man was killed by the Shadow Assassin, then they would really be doomed.

  At this time, Zhao Rui exerted a little force on his toes. At the top of the tree, his whole person rose into the air and flew into the air.

  Shadow Dagger grazed the sole of Zhao Rui's shoe and cut it silently. If it were to slow down for another half a second, Shadow Dagger would cut off Zhao Rui's leg!

  "That was close!" Hu Lin wiped away her cold sweat. She only felt that the battle between these two weirdos was extremely dangerous.

  Shi Long was not as worried as Hu Lin. He had already guessed that the identity of the silver-faced man and the strength of the silver-faced man would not be so easily killed.

  The Shadow Assassin missed and stared at Zhao Rui fiercely. Then he quickly slid from the tree to the ground and sank into the darkness.

  Zhao Rui felt a little surprised. He did not know why the Shadow Assassin would suddenly give up on assassination.

  However, after thinking about it, he soon understood that Shadow Assassins needed attachments to exist.

  Without any attachments, flying directly into the air, the Shadow Assassin would fall apart!

  Zhao Rui thought this through and had a faint outline in his heart to deal with the Shadow Assassin.