Chapter 148: Fan Of Blades

The trio of Lan Ming, Ning Xi and Song Junwan stood outside the closed hole and looked around.

"Would she be fine?"

Ning Xi asked, looking at the hole in worry.

"She will. Don't forget who she is, not to mention Master will keep her safe."

Lan Ming said, looking around the save.

"There are two paths. What to do?"

Song Junwan asked.

"I'll go in one, you two can continue in this one."

Ning Xi said, as she started walking towards the other path leading to some unknown parts of the cave.

"Sure. Be careful, though."

Lan Ming and Song Junwan had no problem with that as they knew Ning Xi was more than capable to roam alone.

The two sisters then entered the other path as they descended on the rocky path. The cave slowly started getting wider which helped them, but they also kept their guard up for a sneak attack.

Just after walking for over a minute, they found themselves in a giant hall similiar to the previous they had visited. It was also dim lit, but contrary to the previous hall, this one had many weapons and others things which were most likely used for the training of Assassins.

Lan Ming narrowed her eyes as she spread her Spirit Sense around the hall, quickly detecting a few presence. She smiled as she thought.

'Well, atleast I'm not complete useless in this aspect. It's just her and that tutor of hers who are abnormal.'

"Come out, there is no need to play hide and seek."

Lan Ming's voice echoed in the hall as they saw many spots shifting slightly. She was going to take out her sword when Song Junwan placed her hand on her shoulders. She stopped and looked back at her sister.

"It's fine. You can go ahead while I play with these kids. I'll catch up to you in a few minutes. Make sure you have defeated your target by then."

Song Junwan smiled at her.

"Very well then. I'll defeat whoever I find but it'll be difficult to keep them alive."

Lan Ming furrowed her brows, as she thought about the problem. They needed the top echelon alive to extract information from them, which was very important for them so they couldn't just kill them.

"It's fine. Master did say he'll find a way no matter what do you can go all out. I'm sure he has a way to get answers from dead."

'Did they train everyone differently or what? How come Sister Yue is so monstrous in endurance and they can't even ensure the pain of bones being crushed into powder? Truly disappointing.'

Song Junwan was actually excited to fight people like Ying Yue, but she was thoroughly disappointed. She had spared with Ying Yue a few times and knew her limits, while the assassins she were fighting were way below her.

She waved her hand as the blade shot towards her, leaving a sonic boom. She smiled and placed the Assassin in the path of blades.

The blades were unstoppable and pierced the Assassins body with the immense force and speed, making a big hole in his torso.

"Tsk!"

Song Junwan clicked her tongue as she jumped backwards, avoiding the gory stuff. She even jerked her blades to get rid of the blood.

"2 done, 10 remaining."

While Song Junwan was fighting the remaining Assassins of the base, Lan Ming proceeded to entered deeper and deeper into the base's layer. She encountered many tunnels and cave, which were small and led to different places. Some of them were closed while some were open to use.

But she ignored them and continued moving forward in the big tunnel. She kept her senses on full alert, especially after what happened with Bian Lu and often tested if there were any traps.

In fact, She encountered many traps which would have killed even Foundation Realm practitioners. However, because of her Nascent Soul, she could detect everything and easily passed through them.

Just then, she felt a bad feeling as if her whole self was in a danger. It was chilling and filled her heart with a strange feeling of dread.

'Ah! So, this is the Nascent Soul Realm.'

However, she didn't panic and simply drew her crimson blood red sword, coating it with her Qi as she slashed forward at empty air, however it wasn't completely empty a second later.

Her surroundings turned vaccum for a moment, before the winds seemingly became solid and punched at her. A fist made of winds, covering all the area of the tunnel punched at her, leaving her no place to dodge. The only way aside from facing it head on was to back away.

"Heh, puny tricks."

Lan Ming snorted and with a perfect vertical slash, cut the fist in half with her blood red sword. It sliced so smoothly as if she was cutting a tofu.

The tunnel around her cracked under the immense pressure and some debris fell from the ceiling which she dodged by jumping forward.

'Phew! I wanted to say that for such a long time.'

Lan Ming smiled confidentially and walked forward in the tunnel, expecting more attacks but none came to obstruct her path.

A few seconds later, she once again reached huge dimly lit room which was mostly empty aside from a small hill of bones.

On top of the hill of bones, a throne was made using the same bones and atop that throne, a beautiful lady sat. Her cold eyes looking down at Lan Ming with utter indifference.

Unlike other assassins, she didn't cover her face with a Mask and lived in open.