"Wang Yao will be the Heavenly Emperor!" Shi Xian repeated himself, "And I can assure you that those two talked as if it was already written in stone."
After a slight pause, Shi Xian said, "They said, this time a different approach will be used. This time, they will use friendship."
"Friendship?"
Shi Xian nodded his head, "Indeed. They were planning to make Wang Yao friends with the Token Holders. To be honest, I find this quite laughable. That guy, an arrogant prick, who only thinks with what is between his legs instead of what's between his ears, only idiots would be brothers with him."
"Hmm, and did you meet anyone else there?"
Shi Yan frowned and pressed on his memories, and suddenly made a shocked expression.
"Ah, I remember now! I remember!"
"Oh? You remember beauty?"
"Yes, yes!" Shi Xian nodded his head continuously, "Even though I am not into small kids, I was sure that girl was going to be a real beauty after a few years."
"What was her name?"
"I don't really remember, that girl wasn't really the main character in the house, though I do clearly remember she was surnamed Ling."
"Well, she indeed was. Shu Xian, you're very lucky."
"Lucky?" Shu Xian looked at the person in front of him from up to down and then he looked at his missing finger, "You sure you're talking about me?"
"Of course, you're like the luckiest person in the Lower Heavens. Not only you heard such big secrets, you even came out unscathed. Though, I am pretty sure Heavenly King Wang let you off."
Shu Xian frowned, "Yeah, I still don't understand that part, why would he let me off?"
"We may never know. No, you may never know."
"What do you mean?" Shu Xian opened his eyes wide in shock as he understood the subtle meaning under the words/
"You will understand soon what I mean, but before that, you still have two more things to tell me."
"Alright, so, of these two things, I will now ask the first question, tell me if your Sect is planning any surprise during this secret mission?"
Shu Xian couldn't help but ask, "How do you know these things?"
"Hmm?"
"I mean, how do you know about such things but you don't know the details?" Shu Xian simplified his question, "You knew about my real identity and history, you knew about my encounter, you even judged who that hidden cultivator family was, and now you even know about my sect planning something during the secret mission."
"But, you don't know anything in detail about these things… who are you..?" Shu Xian narrowed his eyes, "Are you one of the other two hidden Token Holders of the sect?"
*bang!*
"Ugh-!"
"Just answer my goddamn questions and I will let you off, Shu Xian. We don't have the whole day."
Shu Xian gritted his teeth and looked in front of him with pure hatred.
Seeing his reaction, his abductor just smiled, "You can hate on me all you want, but I should first correct you."
Shu Xian got confused by these words.
"Well, I don't possess any Token. What I do possess is a set of sharp knives which are tempting me to flay your skin and keep you alive for as long as I can."
Shu Xian clenched his teeth but didn't say anything.
"Your expression is quite funny, I feel like I am back in my old self. I do miss torturing allies of the God's Legion." Shu Xian didn't understand anything from this but he did notice his abductor take out a piece of paper.
"This." Shu Xian looked at the paper as his abductor continued, "This is how I got to know a lot about you."
"What is this?" Shu Xian couldn't help but call out in shock.
To think that in this paper were his deepest secret!
Secrets that he had shared with no one!
How was this possible!?
"A gift from a new friend." Shu Xian got the reply.
"Who are you?" Shu Xian asked again.
"Damn, is this beating not enough for you? Don't waste any more time. Tell me what's going to happen during the mission, what's the plan of your sect, and what will be their goal."
Shu Xian suddenly smiled, "They will kill everyone who is going to be part of that mission."
"Well, I had a feeling about that. Now tell me how they are going to know about this."
Shu Xian went silent.
"Tell me."
Shu Xian shook his head, "I don't know. I am not part of their plan. As I said, I only know that everyone will be after my life as soon as I step out of the sect."
"Yuan Shuchun knows that it was me who tried to assassinate her, and my sect had abandoned me. So this will be the perfect chance for both of these parties to get rid of me."
"Sigh, this will be troublesome. Shu Xian, I will now ask you one last thing - the answer will decide your fate."
Shu Xian shook his head, "Do you think I would believe that? You didn't even let me commit suicide."
"Oh? I am glad you really tried yet."
Shu Xian replied, "Of course I would try, that was always the instinctive last resort. I tried it as soon as I knew there was no way to escape. How did you do it? My fellow sect disciples have something like a pouch in their mouth, it's very small and well hidden. It's filled with poison, and can't be removed without bursting it, once set in place. How did you disable it?"
"Well, it's easy once you know how to. Just like how your sects sleeper cells are easy to find, most of the silly tricks of which the whole world is afraid of, have a pretty simple solution."
Shu Xian was shocked, "It was you who stopped the Sleeper Cell attack!?"
"Only because I had to."
"Who are you?" Shu Xian repeated his question.
But before he could think of anything else, he felt his body fell to sideways.
Then he noticed that his body was still in place! It was just his head that was fallen to the side!
He was beheaded!
And before he lost the last of his consciousness, he felt his head rise up and heard the last words, "Tell your maker, it was Crown Prince Ye Tian Yun who sent you."
*pang!*
Ye Tian Yun threw Shu Xian to the side.
And took out an empty spatial ring from within his spatial ring.
Without hesitation, he put his body into the spatial ring.
"Not gonna make silly mistakes once again. I left Fang Chen's body so I could enjoy the thought of wild animals eating him, but that was a mistake."
After everything was done, and Ye Tian Yun even stored some blood of Shu Xian to use when he disguised as him by using the Thousand Faced Death technique.
Once it was all done, Ye Tian Yun leaned back on his chair and stared at the piece of the paper in his hand.
He didn't worry about any boobytraps by Shu Xian even though the latter was actually an assassin.
However, the paper in his hand was the only thing that was shocking for him.
This was the paper that Gao Xuan gave him.
"He already holds such power and knowledge… Now I don't have any doubt why he was the only opponent that God's Legion didn't try to create trouble for. They even went hand in hand with this guy…"
The thoughts of YE tian Yun were because of the contents of the paper.
In this paper, other than the list of the members who would be part of the mission, there was also something else.
Full detail about one of the disciples - Shu Xian.
Even though the details were not too deep, but there were a lot of hints, and these were what led to Ye tian Yun asking the two things - his encounter with the Wang Family in the Crimson Bay City, and something related to the secret mission.
As for the third thing that Ye tian Yun wanted to know?
Well, he didn't need to ask about it from Shu Xian, he had already received the answer of that question midway.
"Even if this Gao Xuan knew so much about Shu Xian, why did he only give information about him? Why only him?"
Ye Tian Yun couldn't help but feel that Gao Xuan was going to be more troublesome than he had first considered him to be.
"If Gao Xuan knows this much… I am afraid there's a slight chance he also knows who I really am…"
"How could he know all this?"
He had an answer to this question and Ye Tian Yun had a bad feeling about this.
It was because, all this information, especially in scenarios like his and Shu Xian's, who didn't tell anyone about anything, could only be found through one thing.
Token Of Reality.
The most mysterious token, and one of the three tokens that Ye Tian Yun didn't encounter in his previous life.
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A/n: Guys, I am quite unwell since last night. I will try to compensate the chapters after a few days. For now, we will only be doing 1ch/d.. If I get well tomorrow, I will definitely get everything back on track.