A hundred years ago, when the platform of 'Kill Every Day' was just born, it was still in the lawless era of barbaric competition. Countless half-baked gamblers, mercenaries, space pirates, and desperate people had joined the industry that barely had any requirements and could trade their lives for money as long as they dared.
The Four Great Heavenly Assassin Groups that were able to carve a bloody path out of an army of thousands of men and horses, and slowly rise up amidst the failure and fall of hundreds of millions of assassins, naturally had their own uniqueness and absolute strength.
The founders and leaders of these four assassin organizations also became the "Four Great Gods of Death" that everyone feared and feared.
They were respectively —
Black Flag King, leader of 'Black Flag'!
Red Lady, leader of 'Bloody Skull'!
Hanged Man, leader of 'Life Claimer'!
Returner of the Dead Sea, leader of 'Lantern of the Dead Sea'!
Because the deals were made through the Spiritual Nexus and the platform in the beginning, nobody knew the real identities hidden under the four online names. They only knew that the four of them were already the most excellent super assassins on the platform of 'Kill Every Day' before they established their respective assassin groups.
Among them, Black Flag King was the first to make a promise of 'twenty-four hours, seven days, and one month'.
If the target was ordered from the same planet, the target would be killed within twenty-four hours. If the target was in the same Sector, no matter which resource planet the target was hiding in, the target would be killed within seven days! Even if the target was expanded to the entire Imperium, as long as the target's hiding place was clear, it was guaranteed that the target would be killed within one month! If the target failed, the target would be willing to return all the money ten times as much as three free killing experiences. Of course, Black Flag King had never failed, and nobody had ever received the ten times refund from him, either!
Red Lady, leader of 'Bloody Skull', was the first to expand her business from the periphery of the Imperium to the territory of the four families. She claimed that even the descendants of the four families would be killed without exception!
Because of her reputation, the assassins of Bloody Skull and herself had been hunted and hunted by the four families countless times. However, after a hundred years, countless people of the four families had been killed by the venomous blades of the assassins for no good reason, but the assassins of Bloody Skull still existed!
'Life Claimer', on the other hand, was a unique team of professional assassins that were all ghosts. Their leader, nicknamed 'Hanged Man', was probably the best expert of ghosts in the Imperium. He made full use of the advantages of ghosts to come and go without leaving a trace. It was the first assassin team that had received a venture investment of more than five hundred million and embarked on a formal construction. When the target was a ghost in the first place, it was definitely the right choice to choose 'Life Claimer'.
'Returner of the Dead Sea', the mysterious assassin who founded 'Lamp of the Dead Sea', was perhaps the strongest and craziest of the four kings. He started his career slightly later than Black Flag King, Red Lady, and Hanged Man, and the market had mostly been divided by the first three kings. In order to make a name for himself and seize the high-end market as quickly as possible, he even declared that he was' specializing in killing Yuanying 'and successfully completed sixty-two orders that targeted Yuanying within one year. On average, he killed one Yuanying every six days.
Even though the targets were not necessarily all battle-type Yuanying, and there were also a lot of admin-type, creation-type, and culture-type Yuanying whose combat ability was not as high, the number was still too appalling. Returner of the Dead Sea rose to fame after the battle and became a strong competitor for the best assassin of the Imperium!
Of course, as the assassin groups under each other's command embarked on a virtuous cycle of formalization and industrialization, especially after a lot of secret training camps were established in the cold and barren lands at the edge of the Imperium and a perfect mechanism to raise talents, the four gods of death had long turned to the behind-the-scenes management and had not killed anyone in person for decades. Usually, it was their disciples and grand-disciples who were running the teams.
However, based on the last case that they took action in person decades ago, Li Yao inferred that the four gods of death were probably in the Divinity Transformation Stage!
Even though they were all battle-type experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, their styles were vastly different.
Some of them were adept at head-on collisions on the battlefield with their Colossi. They deserved to be called the best fighters.
Some of them were adept at stealth, camouflage, poisoning, assassination, and all kinds of weird, unpredictable, and sordid methods.
Without a doubt, the latter were definitely a hundred times more troublesome than the former!
Black Flag King, Red Lady, Hanged Man, and Returner of the Dead Sea, as the four gods of death, were the top experts in the latter field. If they had already reached the Divinity Transformation Stage when they disappeared decades ago, and if they had been nurturing themselves with the best resources or even practicing some new assassination arts in seclusion … Li Yao would not have been willing to fight such tricky people head-on.
It was a pity that the four gods of death were highly likely to show up in the Seven Seas Grand Market.
First of all, the four gods of death started with the platform of "Every Day Kill". Then, they invested in the platform of "Every Day Kill" and became shareholders of the platform. They were sort of a semi-official assassin team on the platform.
The biggest shareholder of the platform of "Every Day Kill", on the other hand, was the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
With such a relationship, the four gods of death extended their hands to the fields related to the assassin business through capital operations. For example, the underground weapons trading platforms that sold the magical equipment of mass destruction, the free mercenary platforms that helped people in large-scale head-on battles, and so on. Even the transportation groups under the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors might have shares in the four gods of death.
Just like that, they held shares in each other, and all kinds of interests were exchanged and transferred. Also, the bloody deals of the four assassin organizations were based on the free coin. They were natural partners with the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
That was why Li Yao inferred that the security of the Seven Seas Grand Market was actually the responsibility of the four assassin organizations.
Zuo Tianying even speculated that one of the "four gods of death" was among the five senior managers of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, except that there was no conclusive evidence.
In terms of economic interests, the "four gods of death", namely Black Flag King, Red Lady, Hanged Man, and Returner of the Dead Sea, should be Jin Yuyan's hardcore supporters. After all, their hundred-year enterprise was all on the platform of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and had to be settled with the free coin. They were even shareholders of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors themselves!
However, if the four of them had advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage decades ago, economic interests might not have been their only consideration.
Position, power, and even breakthroughs in their level could've attracted them.
If the four Kurfürst families tempted them with a whole resource planet or even a Sector, plus an authentic, hereditary noble title, or if Blackstar the Great promised to help them advance into the high level or even the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage with the arts that he stole from the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, would they really not be tempted?
If Li Yao were the Kurfürst or Blackstar the Great, he would've tried to recruit the four heads of assassins who boasted lethal combat ability first. As long as they could take down Jin Yuyan, they would've agreed to any conditions.
Therefore, Li Yao was very suspicious that one or two of the four gods of death had betrayed him. They had either betrayed him to the four families or secretly joined Blackstar the Great's side.
Li Yao's mission, on the other hand, was to find the one or two traitors of death!
"Protect me and keep an eye on the noises outside. Don't let anybody in."
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao sat cross-legged and pressed the deep purple helmet on his head softly while he spoke to Li Jialing.
The strengthening drug that he had just swallowed turned into a scorching fire in his internal organs. Li Yao enshrouded the fire with his spiritual energy carefully and sent it to his brain, gradually increasing the activity of his brain cells.
"Pi pi pa pa pa, pi pi pa pa pa!"
Every brain cell unleashed powerful electric arcs, and a thunderstorm seemed to have been raised in his brain. With the enhancement of the "super brainwave magnifier", Li Yao's telepathic thoughts spread out nonstop as if they had grown wings.
For a moment, time seemed to have come to a standstill. The walls around gradually melted, and the whole world gradually became transparent. Li Yao could clearly "see" the complicated tube system embedded in the building, the cockroaches and rats that were breeding in the tubes, the strong bodyguards who breathed deeply in the secret chambers, and even the honorable guests who were testing drugs in the few rooms next door.
He could even sense that in the fifth suite diagonally across from him, three muscular men with high Cultivation were in a rather weird state of heartbeat, breath, sweat, and adrenaline. They were in the state of high anxiety and excitement.
There was no telling whether it was the normal reaction of the drug tests, or …
"Somebody has the same idea as us and considers this place a temporary nest. I wonder if they are the assassins of the four families."
Li Yao mumbled to himself, "It seems that this place is not as safe as I thought. We have to move tonight at the latest."
Li Yao's target was not the building. He slightly adjusted the frequency of the vibration of his soul and disguised his telepathic thoughts as the ubiquitous wireless signals of the Spiritual Nexus. Then, he continued spreading his telepathic thoughts and arrived at the crowded street.
Immediately, a thousand faces, ten thousand laughs, and infinite information congregated into a surging tide that flooded into his brain.
Even though Li Yao's brain was above the Divinity Transformation Stage, it was still too much for him to process so much disordered information at the same time. He felt that his brain was about to explode.
He licked the roof of his mouth that was vaguely sweet and took a deep breath again. Filtering out 99% of the useless information, he tried to filter out all the dangerous people who were not normal merchants within ten kilometers of the Commodity Market.
"If I were an assassin, where would I ambush Jin Yuyan's team?"
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