destiny eternal calamity

In the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, atop a tall building.

A thin figure was thrown to the ground.

"Your Holiness, this is the assassin who wanted to harm the Jiang family of Longnan."

The woman with fox ears bowed respectfully and then spoke.

The person she was reporting to—a beautiful young girl—was reading the latest issue of the Da Li Weekly.

Lin Peiyao received a secret message ten days ago that the assassin had been captured, but the assassin has only now been sent to the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons.

This is naturally because there are many checkpoints to overcome along the way.

"Who sent you to the Jiang family's house?"

Lin Peiyao put down her newspaper and looked at the assassin who was being tortured and looked rather miserable, and asked.

This assassin should be at the Spirit Bridge realm, which is not low for an assassin.

Whether hiring Blood Rain Tower or Shadow Assassins, the employer has to pay a considerable price to hire assassins of that caliber.

"..." The assassin had already suffered greatly, but remained silent.

"Yao'er, these assassins are all under a mental restriction; you won't be able to get any information from them by asking them like this."

A woman of exceptionally tall stature walked in, exuding a captivating charm.

The woman waved her hand, and the assassin lying on the ground seemed to have gone mad.

"Who sent you to the Jiang family's house?"

"Sun... also..."

"Sun Yi... isn't that the leader of Shadow Assassins? Did he directly assign this mission?" As the Holy Maiden of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, Lin Peiyao naturally needed to be familiar with some necessary information, so she was somewhat puzzled after hearing the name Sun Yi.

She shouldn't have offended the Shadow Assassins organization, right? She thought it was Prince Longming who sent someone to issue the mission to the Shadow Assassins or the Blood Rain Pavilion.

If that's the case, the assassin should have said that he received the mission from the Shadow Assassin Mission Hall.

"Unfortunately, after this restriction was broken, I became an idiot. It will also be difficult to obtain more useful information."

With another wave of her hand, the tall woman sent a huge blue python into the room, swallowing the assassin whole before leisurely swimming away.

"Yao'er, your fiancé seems quite interesting. He actually got involved with the princess's residence and even composed that poem about the bright moon in front of the palace."

"The backup plan you gave me to stay in the capital of Li Kingdom only came into play when he went to the princess's residence. After that, Long Bilin sent even more powerful guards to protect him, and our people dared not get too close."

"And that Crown Prince has visited your Lin family so many times. I must say, Yao'er is truly charming. Just one meeting has made Long Ming so infatuated..."

"I suspect he did this. Shadow Killer and Dragon Roar are definitely related!" Lin Peiyao said with a dark face.

That dragon's roar truly disgusted her.

He already has a child, yet he still harasses her while she's engaged.

If she weren't afraid of Li Guo retaliating against Wan Yao Guo, she would have begged her master to kill that scumbag.

--split line--

Li Wei and Shang Xueyan walked together on Chang Le Street.

Shang Xueyan's figure and temperament were so outstanding that even with a veil on, passersby frequently turned their heads to look.

The two entered a musical instrument shop called "Cai's Workshop".

There were many musical instruments here. Shang Xueyan went to choose a zither, while Li Wei stood there feeling bored. He looked around and picked out a xiao (vertical bamboo flute).

"May I try this flute?" Li Wei called out.

"Young master, this is just a new one. Some customers might be interested in this. If you want to test the sound, you can use this one."

The workshop worker quickly handed over another flute of the same style.

"No, I'll take this one. I'll buy it." Li Wei didn't want to use the shared public flute.

"One tael of silver, sir."

Li Wei paid the money and started trying out the flute.

After practicing martial arts, his mind became much stronger, and those faint and vague memories from his previous life became clearer under his active mind.

With the musical foundation provided by the system, Li Wei began to try playing it in the shop.

"Flying Snow and Jade Flowers" was one of his favorite pieces in his previous life.

He knew nothing about music back then, but now he finally has the opportunity to play this piece himself.

At first, the tune was harsh and unpleasant to listen to, but after a while, once he became familiar with the playing techniques of the xiao, the melody became smooth and pleasant to listen to.

Shang Xueyan was somewhat surprised, not because Li Wei could play the xiao (vertical bamboo flute), but because of the piece of music.

The melody was simple, yet it conveyed a wealth of emotions; she seemed to have never heard it before.

By then, she had chosen her instrument and stood there listening to the entire piece.

When the music ended, applause rang out in the shop.

Li Wei returned the greeting with clasped hands and handed the flute to Shang Xueyan.

"Senior sister, please come with me. This flute has a nice tone; it's just a small token of my appreciation."

The surrounding customers and staff, seeing this scene, assumed it was a display of affection between the lovers and began to stir up trouble.

Shang Xueyan didn't want to embarrass Li Wei in front of so many people, so she accepted it.

"Let's take this one. The tone is moderate, which is perfect for beginners," she said, pointing to a string-string zither.

"Twenty taels, sir."

Li Wei certainly didn't carry that much silver on him, so he took out two ten-tael silver notes to pay the bill.

Although the world does not have sovereign fiat currencies, it does have silver-based paper money.

These silver notes were issued by various large banks, and you could redeem silver at the corresponding bank by presenting the note.

They are essentially proof of the existence of silver in money shops, and can only be issued if there is a corresponding amount of silver in existence. They cannot change the deflationary tendency of metal currencies.

Of course, the system only recognizes silver, not these silver notes.

Li Wei, carrying the violin case, walked back with Shang Xueyan.

When the two reached the end of Chang Le Street, they were about to leave the street.

"Be careful, there's a demonic aura," Shang Xueyan suddenly said.

magic?

Li Wei felt a chill run down his spine, but he wasn't particularly afraid.

As Shang Xueyan had previously mentioned, a demon could only erode the Qi Sea Realm at most, while Xiao Shuying, a master of the Dharma Aspect Realm, was protecting her right beside her.

However, this was the first time in Li Wei's life that he had encountered a "demon".

He looked in the direction Shang Xueyan had indicated.

It turned out to be someone I knew.

Old Zuo.

The old man was holding a wine jug, staggering and looking drunk.

He would occasionally bump into pedestrians, yell at them, and shove them aside.

"Li Wei, the opponent is at the Meridian Opening Realm, but seems to have lost his mind. Go and try to subdue him."

Xiao Shuying transmitted her voice.

Li Wei never expected that this pedantic scholar who had looked down on martial artists was actually a martial artist with the Meridian Opening Realm.

Seeing that there wasn't even a single soldier from the Five Cities Garrison around, he knew that if this fallen demon old man Zuo were to lose his temper, a bloody incident that would shock the capital would likely occur on this street.

Although he's not a particularly good person, he'll still help out when he can.

Moreover, he does lack practical experience. Last time, he finally managed to fight that Blood Rain Tower assassin, but Zuo Fenghan interrupted him.

It's likely that Xiao Shuying considered this point, which is why she sent him to subdue Old Man Zuo.

Li Wei handed the qin case to Shang Xueyan and got into position.

In less than two hours, the Perfected Realm of Exhaling Turbidity and Inhaling Purity Technique filled his dantian with Primordial True Qi. Even his meridians, which had been opened up sufficiently under the effect of the Meridian Opening Pill, were now full of True Qi.

Li Wei carefully sensed it. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't use the Primordial True Qi to perform the Everlasting Finger, and he had to use the False Qi Method to convert it into pseudo True Qi to perform this technique, the amount of True Qi in his body at this moment would be enough to perform the third-level Everlasting Finger six times.

However, a second-tier technique should be enough to deal with this old man Zuo.