Under One Person, your rebellious life has reached the heavens?

When I came out of the last house of the Ten Thousand Thoughts Hand, my hands and feet were numb and cramped. Making deals with these ruthless madmen was mentally exhausting.

"If the Tang Sect refuses, they don't need us. But have you and Old Xia had any conflicts with them?"

Hearing Jin Feng's question, Su Huo picked up the tea brought by the servant, drank it in large gulps to quench his thirst, and then said:

"When this rascal and I sneaked over, we must have been discovered. The old man wanted to kill us, but luckily I had enough men with me, otherwise we would have been stuck there."

"And you, Jin Feng, did you succeed?"

Su Huo was eager to gather information. After losing the Tang Clan's assistance, although he had managed to secure the help of two assassination forces, he was still somewhat uneasy. He hoped to gather as much power as possible and use the numerical advantage to wear down the San Yi Clan.

“I have an old acquaintance among the people in the Sinful Sand. The negotiations went fairly smoothly, but the price was a bit high. They swallowed all the gold I brought with me and wanted to pay double the price.”

“I have agreed to this deal in your name.” Jin Feng recounted all the details of the negotiations.

Su Huo's expression was uncertain, not because he was worried about the money, but because he asked suspiciously, "Jin Feng, are you sure they will take action?"

Chapter 129: Virtual and Submissive

Of the three factions, only the reputation of the Sinful Sand Sect is closest to that of the Tang Sect.

That's precisely why hiring them costs the most. Su Huo isn't stingy with those glittering yellow croakers, but he's worried that Sinful Sand might go back on its word or set some kind of trap.

After all, in his view, Jin Feng was not very experienced in the world and had never been a businessman, so he probably couldn't control those old foxes like Zuiye Sha.

You should know that even a heartless and unscrupulous businessman like him was almost devoured by the Shadow Bamboo Society and the Ten Thousand Thoughts Hands. He only managed to persuade them to take on Sany's order after paying a huge price.

Jin Feng merely sighed softly at Su Huo's questioning, showing no anger, and slowly explained:

"The acquaintance I'm referring to is an elder who is related to me by blood. He was initially hesitant, but he became somewhat interested after I told him that several other companies of similar reputation would be hired by us."

"The commission we offer is astronomical, and many of our competitors are also coming. After a while, in order to maintain their position in the industry and obtain a large amount of gold, they agreed to a fixed price with me and made a deal."

Xia Liuqing listened with great admiration and repeatedly praised, "Wow, Jin Feng, I didn't expect you to be so amazing."

Su Huo's expression softened slightly; he had finally heard some good news.

He privately believed that the Tang Clan suffered heavy losses in the battle against the Japanese supernatural beings. Apart from mastering the unique skill of Dan Shi, even if they sent out their elites, their level was actually only about the same as that of the Sinful Sand Clan and a few others.

"With the Sinful Sand, Shadow Bamboo Society, and Myriad Thoughts Hand combined, their chances of winning are not low. Each faction is sending ten of their strongest assassins, which should be enough to give those guys from the Trinity Sect a run for their money."

Su Huo summoned the steward and asked how the tasks he had been assigned were going.

"Boss, rest assured, the sincerity I'm offering is more than enough."

“Your old friends are very happy to take on this deal. As agreed, I think they will arrive in about an hour.”

While Su Huo and his group split up, the butler secretly contacted the overseas assassination organization hiding on the mainland. The talks went very smoothly, as they were already very familiar with the operation and had conducted numerous transactions.

"Okay... I can finally catch my breath." Su Huo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

After receiving the butler's report, he relaxed completely, as if he had taken a reassurance, and had great faith in the abilities of those foreign assassins.

"Go and prepare some wine and dishes; I'm going to have a meal with my two friends."

"Yes, boss." The butler bowed and withdrew, his tone respectful.

Xia Liuqing, with a skeptical attitude, teased Su Huo: "You old rascal, are your foreign donkeys any good or not?"

"Ha, even you underestimate me? If I didn't like using it, I wouldn't have bothered them to remove all those thorns for me all this time."

Su Huo was sweating profusely. He hastily unbuttoned his shirt, slumped onto the soft sofa, and laughed nonchalantly:

"Let the domestic assassins take the lead. As long as they can hold them off for a while, the decapitation work can be left to those foreigners."

"How much gold did you spend to hire them?" Jin Feng wanted to use this to gauge the strength of those extraordinary individuals.

"Quite a lot... even some industries have been given away."

Su Huo rubbed the fat on his temples, a wide smile spreading across his face: "Just consider it a case of throwing meat buns to a dog. If they survive, I'll consider it a loss; if they die, they'll eventually come back to me."

"You...you planned all this out? You old scoundrel, you really dare to do that." Xia Liuqing felt increasingly that this unscrupulous businessman was heartless.

"How can that be possible?"

Su Huo laughed loudly, rested for a while, then dragged his heavy body to take a bath. He quickly changed into a loose brown-black outfit and invited Xia Liuqing and Jin Feng to dinner.

"Boss, I've asked around for the information you wanted to investigate."

The steward handed Su Huo the letter he had just received, which recorded the casualties of Quanxing in their recent struggle against Sanyimen.

"Let me see."

Su Huo rudely wiped his greasy mouth with a white napkin, put down his knife and fork, and began to scan the contents line by line.

"Tsk tsk tsk, more than three hundred dead and injured, and Gao Huzi's den of bastards has been overturned, serves him right!"

Just as Su Huo was getting into a good laugh, he gradually saw some familiar names, all of which were the older generation of Quanxing. Before he could even stop smiling, his smile froze on his face.

A chill gradually rose up his spine, making him irritable. He crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it away.

"Luckily, I was prepared. Don't panic. Without the help of other righteous sects, they can't withstand just the San Yi Sect alone..."

Su Huo felt a bad premonition rising in his heart, and could only try to comfort himself with these words.

After meal.

The foreign supernatural beings he had hired arrived together, three men and one woman.

The leader was a man in a suit wearing a crow mask. He was tall and straight, leaning on a black cane. He exuded a strange and twisted aura, which, despite his best efforts to contain it, could not be stopped from leaking out in a few places, as ominous as a plague or disaster.

Upon seeing the assassin, Xia Liuqing, the strongest of the three, felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and her scalp tingled with fear.

The other person gave him an extremely dangerous feeling, and every inch of his skin was covered in goosebumps. This was someone he instinctively wanted to keep his distance from, even more exaggerated than the perverts and madmen he had seen in the sect before.

If abstract terms like death and disease can be made concrete, then the person in front of you is undoubtedly the best substitute.

As the man strolled in with an air of gentlemanly elegance, the hall inside the villa suddenly became cold and gloomy.

To his right was a foreign woman with long, light gray hair, around twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with stunning looks. She held a transparent white cube in her hand and appeared quite indifferent.

On the left are two strange figures: a ronin swordsman dressed in Japanese clothing and wooden clogs, and an elderly dwarf with tattered clothes, scarlet skin, and a distorted face that is particularly ugly and emits a faint stench.

The four top assassins left an indelible impression on Xia Liuqing within moments of their arrival.

His strong subconscious told him that even if he activated the second-stage state of the Godhood Mask, he wouldn't be confident of fighting against these monsters.

Su Huo, who had been waiting anxiously for so long, beamed with joy and immediately stepped forward with a smile, saying:

Hey! My dear old friend, long time no see!!!

However, his obese body and lingering smell of alcohol immediately displeased the man wearing the raven mask, who warned him in broken Chinese:

"Su, I don't want to hurt you, please keep your distance."

"Oh! I'm so ashamed, it was my fault."

Su Huo realized he reeked of alcohol and quickly stopped, flattering him:

"Come in and have a seat? My distinguished guests, I didn't expect you to arrive so soon, it's truly an honor."

Before he could finish speaking, he was met with a mocking remark from the short dwarf:

"Weren't you eager to see us? There's no such thing as honor or honor. Just tell me, who is it this time?"

Faced with their condescending attitude, Su Huo dared not show any dissatisfaction, feigning trepidation, and hurriedly said:

"It is our local supernatural force, the entire Trinity Sect."

"I...I've arranged for other assassins to go ahead and weaken the enemy's strength for you gentlemen..."

"enough."

The ronin swordsman interrupted impatiently: "What use are a few sewer rats? I think you're getting senile. Since you're bothering us, why bother with these pointless actions?"

"Please forgive me... It was indeed my oversight. I humbly ask for your forgiveness."

Su Huo adopted an extremely humble posture, acting not at all like an employer, but rather like a loyal pet dog, going to great lengths to please the assassins before him.

Jin Feng and Xia Liuqing remained silent at this scene. This level of conversation was not something they could interrupt. If they didn't know the old scoundrel's despicable nature, they would have really thought he was going to kneel down to these foreign devils.

“Su, you’re still as ‘humble’ as ever.”

The man wearing the raven mask, unlike his two companions who were aggressive, simply said in a soft voice:

"Where is the target located this time?"

"Here you go, I've labeled it for you."

As soon as Su Huoyi glanced at him, a servant brought over a map with the address of the Trinity Gate circled in red.

"Here?"

The man wearing the raven mask muttered to himself. He extended his pale right hand, took the map, and slowly brought it to his face to examine it.

Strangely, the edges and corners of the blueprints began to corrode severely, turning into wisps of ash at a visible speed.

"Given your disrespectful behavior during this meeting, which offended me, I'll charge you an extra half commission. You don't mind, do you?"

The man wearing the crow mask ruthlessly extorted money from the cowardly and greedy fat pig, who was incapable of refusing him.

"half?"

Su Huo was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter, his voice rising abruptly as he said generously:

"Look at what you're saying! The esteemed gentlemen have gone to such lengths to help me out of my troubles. The more I think about it, the more ashamed I feel. Double the amount, it must be doubled!!"

Seeing how forthright and decisive he was, without any hesitation, I felt like a fish on a chopping board, completely at his mercy.

Thinking of this, not only did those other people laugh, but even the man in the raven mask couldn't help but chuckle at his clumsy acting.

How could these powerful assassins not see through Su Huo's scheme?

However, they enjoy this casual manipulation more than the boring exposure.

To them, making a fool play the role of a wise person and then perform a charade of forbearance is as ridiculous as a circus clown.

Of course, Su Huo was aware of this and granted their request, not caring about his reputation at all. Even though his friends, servants, and butler at the villa saw it, he didn't mind at all.

"Alright... Su."

The man in the raven mask said quietly, "We appreciate your sincerity. We look forward to your next invitation for the rest of the performance."

Upon hearing this, Su Huo immediately bowed and respectfully responded:

"Then I'll have to trouble you gentlemen. I wish you a safe journey."

"Goodbye."

The man in the raven mask turned and left, while the three other strange beings who had come with him were shrouded in a dark mist and vanished in an instant.

Chapter 130 Swarming

The chilling atmosphere receded like the tide, and the hall gradually warmed up. After they left, Su Huo's smile suddenly changed, his expression turning fierce, and his anger almost spiraled out of control.

He strode back to the sofa, picked up a glass of wine, and drank it down to soothe the anger in his heart.

"These foreigners are so arrogant..."

Xia Liuqing withdrew her gaze from the villa's entrance hall; the traces of the four overseas assassins seemed to have been erased from thin air, impossible to trace.

He was quite puzzled by his old friend's willingness to endure such humiliation.

"You old bastard, do you really need to be so obsequious to them? This is our territory, how come we're letting these foreigners ride roughshod over us?"

"Heh...hehe..."

Su Huo didn't take it seriously, smiling sinisterly: "They've all gone to risk their lives for us, but we still need to show them the proper courtesy."

"It would be best if things could be done well; consider it me flattering them, it doesn't matter."

"If they go and never return, then consider it my way of seeing them off."

Jin Feng was still reeling from the shock; the four foreign assassins had left a deep impression on her, causing her to murmur as she asked:

"You old bastard, where did you find such a dangerous person?"

"Even more outrageous than the assassins I encountered in the Sands of Sin."

"It was all thanks to my friends in the business world who gave me face and helped introduce me; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to find them."

When this topic came up, Su Huo said with a hint of apprehension:

"It's quite frustrating, but to prevent these guys and the organizations behind them from taking my jobs, I spent a lot of money as a 'life-saving fee' to prevent other rivals from hiring them to kill me."