Chapter 782 Ghost viper court

Chapter 782 Ghost viper court

"Now only three spots are left.." Yang Qing muttered with a sigh as he continued with the report.

Next on the list was a cultivator by the name of Han Lei who operated by a different name, Chen Xin.?He was an elder of an assassin organization known as the Ghost Viper Court. In terms of infamy, the Ghost Viper had the same level as the Blue Soul Flame Crow Syndicate. For the right price, you could them to kill anyone. They had no qualms about who their target was. Of course, they were not foolish in the jobs they undertook as they never accepted any jobs that were associated with ancient rank 1 and rank 2 organizations but anything below that was fair game.

They had assassinated prominent figures from sect leaders to clan heads, to prized princes and princesses, heirs to prestigious organizations, talented seedlings, down to the mundane targets. They could target an individual or even an entire organization which was how Han Lei's path crossed with theirs.

When he broke through the core formation realm, he left his clan to spread his wings on the wider continent which had been the term set by his parents to allow him to leave home. His parents had been one of the elders of the Han Clan, which had been a fairly decent clan having two palace realm cultivators with one of them being his grandaunt.

The plan was for him to roam the continent for three years before he had to come back and serve his clan. However, his trip was cut short about one and a half years in when horrible news reached his ear.

Han Lei said from the facial expressions of most of the bodies, it seemed like none of them realized how and when they died, with some even frozen in the middle of doing a particular action.

Eventually, he made his way to his parent's courtyard and found them the same as the rest, his father was in the same posture as he always was, in the same room as he always, doing the same thing he always did. He was seated in a lotus position in his cultivation room with his hand holding a scroll that contained a record of sales and expenditures for the various businesses belonging to the clan. As for his mother, she was in their garden and looked to be tending to it.

Though by the time Han Lei arrived, the garden had been empty, same with the other places. It had taken him six days to reach his clan which was more than enough time for looters to pick his clan clean of all valuables. At least the bodies of his clansmen were not among the things stolen but everything else even the furniture and clothes was looted.

It was only when he made his way to his grandaunt's abode did he find signs of a struggle, but even then, the signs were not signs one would expect from a palace realm expert. What he saw was her alarmed and looked to be swinging a sword which had obviously been looted, as she wore a look that was indignant, and terrified. She had more puncture wounds than the rest, with her entire body filled with them, which was the same thing he observed from the remaining palace realm expert of the clan who had been the clan leader.

He searched for hours, but not a single member of his clan was alive