Chapter 33 - Trap for Shura Palace

"The Heavenly Sword Technique has reached the stage of perfection," Song Yang exclaimed after receiving all the insights from the avatar.

Although it seemed to have taken forever, in reality, for Song Yang, who was just watching the avatar practice, it was only a few moments.

'What's more, after completely mastering the Heavenly Sword Technique, my sword intent that was only at the first layer has directly reached the fifth layer,' thought Song Yang with a smile on his face.

Fifth layer of sword intent. You should know that even Chu Yufei, the Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, only managed to reach the third layer of sword intent.

With this in mind, Song Yang is looking forward to the moment when Shi Hu breaks through to the Saint King realm. Previously, he was confident that he could defeat Shi Hu, but only his sword intent was inferior to Shi Hu's fifth-layer fist intent.

Now that they have both reached an intent at the fifth stage, although they are separated by several small realms, Song Yang is relying on the Supreme Devouring Sutra and the Sacred Domain of the Five Elements. He is confident that he can completely crush Shi Hu.

In Song Yang's opinion, unless Shi Hu breaks through to the Sacred King realm, he can easily defeat him.

At the same time as Song Yang was opening the mysterious boxes...

Tianjian City, Ying Family Mansion

As one of the three main families in Tianjian City, the Ying Family can be considered one of the most prominent, especially after the destruction of the Mu Family a few days ago.

Originally, there were four main families in Tianjian City, but recently the Mu Family was destroyed. With that, the Ying Family took advantage of the support of the Heavenly Sword Sect and took over almost half of the businesses that belonged to the Mu Family, consolidating itself as the main family among the three remaining families.

As for why the Heavenly Sword Sect supported the Ying Family, rumor has it that the young master of the Ying family, who is also a core disciple of the sect, has made great contributions to the sect.

In his room, Ying Yan, recognized for his great contributions to the sect, is nervous, pacing back and forth with a panicked expression on his face.

The reason for his anxiety is that he is about to be murdered!

Although he knew that the Sect Master was protecting him in the shadows, he couldn't help but get a little anxious thinking about it, after all, they say that Shura Palace has never failed an assassination mission!

Yes, the reason why the Heavenly Sword Sect supported the Ying Family to acquire the Mu Family's resources to the detriment of the others was because Ying Yan was used as bait so that the Sect Master could capture the Shura Palace assassins.

For this plan, Chu Yifan secretly hired Shura Palace to assassinate Ying Yan, with the aim of capturing the assassin who comes along and exploring his soul in search of information about Shura Palace.

'What the hell,' thought Ying Yan. He really regretted having made that deal in the first place. For five hours now, he had been thinking that at any moment an assassin could appear and take his life.

Suddenly, a shadow began to appear behind Ying Yan and he attacked his neck directly, trying to kill him with a single blow. A small Ying Yan in the early stages didn't even have time to react and was cut down instantly.

That shadow was one of Shura Palace's shadow demons!

In the next second, the shadow demon felt a terrifying pressure coming at him and, without hesitation, used his innate ability: Shadow Transformation.

Treck, Treck, Treck

After the shadow demon disappeared, Chu Yufei distorted the void and appeared with a terrifyingly gloomy face. 

Looking at Ying Yan's corpse, Chu Yufei couldn't help but curse: "Why the hell did Shura Palace send an assassin from the Sacred Realm to kill a small soul formation?"

Chu Yufei had already planned this whole trap perfectly, but who would have thought that the assassin would be from the Sacred Realm? His concealment was so good that even he didn't notice until the final moment.

You know that Ying Yan is only an initial realm of soul formation. At most, Shura Palace should send someone from the Divine Transformation realm. Why would they send a Holy Realm powerhouse to assassinate him?

Even Chu Yufei was taken by surprise, but he reacted quickly and tried to trap him with his aura, but the assassin managed to escape through some secret technique.

Of course, if he had tried to kill him instead of capturing him, Chu Yufei would probably have succeeded, because the difference in strength is so great.

To give you an idea, each star in the sacred realm is equivalent to the same difference between the Divine Transformation realm and the Royal realm. The assassin was only at the one-star Holy Realm, while Chu Yufei was a powerful nine-star Saint.

"It seems that to capture someone from Shura Palace, I'll have to use another method," Chu Yufei sighed lightly.

Chu Yufei was no fool; after today, it would probably be difficult to set another trap of this style for Shura Palace.

Zhenfang Dynasty, Blue Lotus Sect

At the majestic entrance to the Blue Lotus Sect, considered one of the four main sects of the Zhenfang Dynasty, looking up at the huge mountain towering above her, a girl wore a happy smile on her face.

"I've finally come home," Sun Yunling said with a smile, observing the family sect in front of her.

After serving Song Yang that day, Song Yang had been so pleased with her initiative that he had allowed her to return to the sect to tell her family that she was fine.

"Dad, I'm finally back," Sun Yunling sighed lightly, before finally mustering up the courage to go through the gate at the entrance to the sect.