“We barely managed to kill the Gold Horned Kirin Leopard, and you suddenly attacked us from behind. Are you trying to make enemies of us all?” Beau’s face turned extremely grim as he loudly questioned.
At this moment, Beau felt a lingering fear. He had been standing right next to Brooks. If that bone spike had silently targeted him, he would have at least been severely injured, if not killed.
“Leo…” Violet looked at Leo nervously, the sudden assassination attempt had given her quite a scare.
“Violet, this is the world of spiritual cultivation, especially in such temporary teams, anything can happen,” Leo sighed slightly and transmitted his thoughts to Violet.
“Why waste words with him? Let’s take him down together!” Brody’s golden battle knife shone brightly as he spoke angrily.
With that, he stomped the ground, his figure turning into a stream of light as he charged at the man in the gray robe. As he closed the distance, the golden battle knife in his hand erupted with a massive golden blade light, slashing down at the gray-robed man.
“You think you can kill me?” The gray-robed man let out a strange laugh and dodged just as the blade light was about to hit him.
The long golden blade light struck the hard rocky ground, leaving a deep crack. The gray-robed man reappeared on top of a huge rock, twenty to thirty meters high.
“What are you all waiting for?!” Brody’s face darkened after missing his strike.
Beau and the others had already mobilized their spiritual power, their cold gazes fixed on the gray-robed man.
“You think you can take my life?” The gray-robed man sneered as he sensed their rising momentum.
Then, he shouted loudly, “My siblings, come forth.”
As his shout echoed, four figures shot out from the snow-covered pine forest on the mountain peak under the night sky.
“Hahaha… Who dares to challenge my brother?”
With a loud laugh, four figures appeared beside the gray-robed man, each standing atop a tall rock.
Brody and the others were shocked and quickly looked up at the four newcomers.
On the rock to the right of the gray-robed man stood a short, fat man. He wore a bright red robe, had a large mouth and a face full of fat with a light smile. However, upon closer inspection, one could see a cruel gleam in his eyes.
The loud laugh just now had come from this short, fat man.
Next to him stood a slim woman with an average appearance, wearing a green long whip around her waist.
On the left side of the gray-robed man were two men. One was short and hunched with an extremely ugly appearance and yellow teeth, holding a white bone cane. The other was strong with a muscled face and a large gray-white axe on his back.
“It’s you! Assassin Group!” Beau’s face turned horrified as he recognized them.
The twin sisters and the severely injured Brooks and Brody also changed their expressions.
“Assassin Group?” Leo and Violet exchanged glances before Leo transmitted his thoughts to Beau, “Mr. Morris, what is Assassin Group?”
“You don’t know?” Beau looked surprised at Leo’s question before explaining.
“Assassin Group is a notorious hunting team in the Azure Dragon Mountains area.”
“This team specializes in hunting cultivators who enter the mountains. Because these five people are all quite ugly, they were originally called Shadow Syndicate.”
“But over the past year, Assassin Group teamed up to kill two Spirit Saint-level experts, gaining great fame and changing their name to ‘Assassin Group’.”
“Both cultivators training in Azure Dragon Mountains and those exploring it are wary of Assassin Group.”
“I see,” Leo nodded slightly.
Beau continued, “Mr. Bloomer, that short fat man in red is the leader. The ugly woman in green is Haleigh, the third.”
“The short ugly man like an old man is Yair, the fourth. The strong man is Cash, the fifth. And the gray-robed man is Balon, the second.”
“Leader Emery and Balon are both half-step Spirit Saint-level experts. The other three are Spirit King-level. Assassin Group members are mentally twisted and act cruelly. They rarely fail. We’re in trouble this time.”
“It’s really you!” Brooks’s face showed anger and pain as he spoke despite his severe injuries.
He had been careless and hurt by Balon. If not for activating his Vajra Body in time, he would have been dead.
“Old monk, you have some knowledge. Your reacted more quickly than I expected,” Balon laughed arrogantly as he raised his right hand and let his gray robe fall off.
Underneath was a lean man with centipede-like scars on his face and gray-white eyes, looking extremely ugly.
“Haha, Balon, well done. Thanks to them, the Gold Horned Kirin Leopard gets killed and we can enjoy the fruits,” Emery said greedily as he looked at the leopard’s corpse.
Beau felt extremely frustrated as he knew well their fruits were very likely to be stolen.
Balon must have secretly marked their path to lead the rest of Assassin Group here.
“The Gold Horned Kirin Leopard has such white fur. Its meat must be delicious,” Haleigh laughed coquettishly with an unpleasant voice. “But human meat is even tastier.”
Haleigh licked her red lips and turned her gaze to Brody and Brooks. “Hehe, I’ve never had a taste of monks before. I wonder how dual cultivation with monks feels?”
Her words made Brooks’s fair face turn extremely ugly.
Brooks had heard about Haleigh. When she hunted cultivators, she would forcefully copulate with them. If they resisted even slightly, they would be dismembered cruelly. If they complied, they would be drained of their essence and die.
Either way, it was a tragic death.
“Um? This one-eyed guy looks good too…” Haleigh soon fixed her gaze on Leo.
Seeing her look at him made Leo feel nauseous.
“Haha, sis, these three men are yours. These three beauties are ours,” Yair said with a wicked smile as he held his white bone cane and showed his yellow teeth while staring at the twin sisters and Violet.