Death Scripture

Shangguan Fa had been romantically involved with countless women. Even he himself could not tell the approximate number of women he had slept with. Nor did he bother to remember those women of little importance.

The Supreme King felt enticed by pretty women the same as an emperor was tempted by land. Although all the mountains and rivers under the sky looked almost the same, the vast expanse of land always seemed to be stretching to infinity. Faced with such an endless land, an emperor could never cease to conquer.

The Supreme King never stopped conquering, either. In his eyes, every woman he had slept with was like a piece of land he had seized. Driven by an indescribable desire, he pressed ahead, conquering continuously, and seldom cast a glance backward. This desire was not a lust for women, since he had lost interest in this kind of thing a long time ago. Nor was it an urge to gratify his vanity, for he disdained to do so.

When he became more mature and saw most of his sons reach adulthood, he finally understood what the desire was. He realized that deep inside his heart, he believed that he was born to be a king, a real king. He was confident that even if he began as a king of a very small country, he would be able to expand his domain to compete with or even annex Norland and the Central Plain.

To his great disappointment, he was only the Supreme King, and it was just a jianghu title instead of a royal title. Although his Golden Roc Fort was widely-recognized as the most powerful force in Western Regions, his territory had not yet been officially acknowledged as a country. Unable to fulfill his ambition for power, he could only satisfy his desire to possess and conquer by sleeping with more and more women.

In the past, Shangguan Fa had been totally uninterested in Luo Ningcha for a reason. As this women never showed her face to anyone, he deduced that the only reason she had won those praises for her beauty was that the people who lived in dread of the Iron Mountain Gang tried to flatter Bighead Kingpin by bragging about how beautiful his daughter was. Given her father’s looks, the Supreme King did not believe that Luo Ningcha could live up to her reputation.

Therefore, when the whole Jade City was amazed by her beauty, Shangguan Fa felt, for the first time in years, the temptation of a woman. After conquering lots of “places”, he surprisingly discovered that a paradise-like place right behind his base had not yet been merged into his domain.

The elderly killer sent by the Supreme King did not announce his name when he came to visit Luo Ningcha. After chatting with the Eighth Young Mistress for a while, he went out to check the situation in the backyard and then ordered all the maids and killers living in the yard to move into the front yard, by saying “The Eighth Young Mistress need peace and quiet.” Upon hearing his words, all the people in the backyard knew for sure that something was going to happen tonight.

The elderly killer’s words reassured Gu Shenwei that his plan worked and he finally got the chance that he had dreamed of for years. He could not help thinking, “Tonight, everything will come to an end. Zhang Ji is right about the Supreme King’s sons. None of them are competent enough to manage the Golden Roc Fort. Once Shangguan Fa is dead, the fort will soon collapse.” Gu Shenwei felt for the first time that he was so close to his goal of avenging his family’s death. He felt that now the goal was like a ripe fruit hanging from a tree and he only needed to lift his arm to pick it off.

“Luo Ningcha will be killed too. Once the others know that the lord dies inside her bedroom, they’ll immediately kill her to avenge the lord’s death, no matter what she says.”

Gu Shenwei searched his conscience and glad to see that he was not jealous of the Supreme King or sorry for causing Luo Ningcha’s death. He and Luo Ningcha had never fallen in love with each other, even when they were in complete harmony with each other in bed.

Both of them were unable to fall in love with anyone.

A killer only wanted to maintain a strong killing intent and regarded the other desires as hidden danger, which needed to be restrained or even destroyed. Even when a killer occasionally took a risk to satisfy those desires, he or she just did this to appease them, just like a professional animal trainer throwing a piece of meat to an animal to make it quiet.

As for Luo Ningcha, she only loved herself. Countless people were enchanted by her appearance and believed her to be a nice and kind lady like a gracious goddess. Nevertheless, her beautiful face was just another mask she wore under her veil, and only a few people who were close to her were able to discover her selfishness and cruelty. Unfortunately, Gu Shenwei was one of these people.

Before this day, he had spent three days living a seclusive life with her. During those three days, they vented their lustful desires and satisfied each other so much so that they could just get over each other after those days.

Now in the front yard, which was crammed with all the servants of the residence, Gu Shenwei began to prepare for his assassination mission in a small bedroom that was assigned to him.

He folded his night suit neatly and then kept wiping his saber and sword until they could not be more shiny. Although he had a servant now, he still did many of those trivial things by himself.

For a killer, a perfect assassination plan had to include retreat planning. Gu Shenwei hoped that the Golden Roc Fort would hurtle into chaos and unprecedented violence after he killed the Supreme King, so he went to chat with Zhang Ji that afternoon and before his departure, he deliberately said to the teacher, “I find the current situation in the fort very unstable. As the young masters are fighting endlessly against one another, I guess that a commotion is going to break out very soon. Given this, you can make some preparations for Master Hong.”

“Very soon? When? ” Zhang Ji immediately asked.

“Maybe tonight, tomorrow night or the night after that,” replied Gu Shenwei.

He could not talk about this any further, as in this Stone Castle, trusting anyone might turn out to be a fatal mistake.

By talking ambiguously to Zhang Ji, he intended to delude the teacher into believing that it was one of the young masters who would deliberately create chaos in the Golden Roc Fort. Despite that the Supreme King had already resolved the Central Plains crisis, his sons still remained in the fort and competed against one another for their father’s favor. Under such circumstances, Gu Shenwei believed that it would be perfectly natural for Zhang Ji to suspect the young masters’ real motives.

After getting everything ready, he returned to the Eighth Young Mistress’ residence. He felt that it took a particularly long time to get dark after the sunset today and got increasingly nervous as time went by. He had never felt this way since he had become an apprentice in East Castle. This reminded him of the night three years ago, when he and his friends, all equipped with inferior kung fu skills, had been anxiously preparing to assassinate Han Shiqi.

He placed his saber and sword in front of himself and wiped both of them once again. In the end, however, he decided to carry only the saber with himself, as he thought, “The only reason I’m able to kill the Supreme King is that he has lost all of his Internal Strength. Using a sword to kill him may expose my identity and ruin my escape plan.”

When it finally got dark, all the servants in the front yard went to bed earlier than usual, as they knew that the Supreme King would probably come to visit Luo Ningcha tonight. Even the most curious people in here could only secretly think about this thing to themselves for a moment. Although they could not fall asleep at this hour, they still made some loud snoring sounds, lest being accused of peeping at the Supreme King.

Gu Shenwei quietly left his bedroom and sneaked into the backyard, planning to hide himself well before the lord’s black-masked assassins sealed the yard.

The hiding place he chose for himself was Luo Ningcha’s reception room. This room was separated into two parts by a wooden wall and on the hostess’ side, there was a door leading to her bedroom.

He placed himself on the beam that supported the roof structure, for he could easily cross the wooden wall from this place.

As he came into his place earlier than he had expected, he could hear Luo Ningcha anxiously pacing back and forth inside her room now. Suddenly, he began to reminisce about the good time he had inside that room. Just the night before, they had stayed up all night making love tirelessly, obsessed with trying all kinds of tricks on each other. Only a dozen hours later, the killer regarded her as nothing but a sacrificial lamb.

He felt hesitant for a moment and then resolutely banished those thoughts. “If I can’t subdue my lust for a woman, how can I be counted as a professional killer?”thought Gu Shenwei. Although he himself had never been trained in the Carvewood Academy, he had heard that all the apprentices in the academy, both boys and girls, would lose their virginity there and that this was actually a part of their training. Once the apprentices grew accustomed to this kind of thing, they would become someone like Maid Lotus, who would never hesitate to seduce their assassination targets if there was a need.

Gradually, his feelings for Luo Ningcha and even his anxiety for the assassination mission subsided. He now waited patiently and whole-heartedly, while breathing extremely gently and making no sounds.

Suddenly, he felt that someone entered the room, although he did not see it or hear it.

“It must be a black-masked assassin,” thought Gu Shenwei. Like a hunting dog, the assassin immediately began nosing around after it entered the room.

Gu Shenwei held his breath and finally caught a glimpse of the black-masked assassin when he felt a gust of breeze blowing across him. He saw the assassin appear and disappear an inch away, like a phantom in the night.

For the rest of the night, the assassin remained hiding in a corner of the room, and Gu Shenwei kept breathing at the same rate as the invisible enemy, vigilantly guarding against him. As he concentrated all his energies and thoughts on the assassin, he did not notice what was going on in the adjacent bedroom.

As a result, he did not get a chance to assassinate the Supreme King and could only let him leave safely that night.

He could have killed the black-masked assassin prematurely, but by doing so, he would have alerted the Supreme King and the other black-masked assassins who stayed somewhere around.

He did not want to waste a good opportunity. Nor did he want to spoil it.

He had confidence in Luo Ningcha’s charm and firmly believed that the Supreme King would come to visit her again.

As he had expected, on the second day, the servants were still banned to enter the backyard, except for Maid Cui and a few other maids of Luo Ningcha.

Gu Shenwei spent the entire day considering how to get rid of the black-masked assassin that would follow the Supreme King into Luo Ningcha’s room. The simplest option was to kill that assassin when he was nosing around in the room, and the moment he brushed past the beam was the best chance. However, after thinking about this plan for a long time, Gu Shenwei still decided to give it up, since killing the assassin might alert the Supreme King and the other assassins before he got close to the lord.

Gu Shenwei was left with only one choice: sneaking into Luo Ningcha’s bedroom before the coming of the Supreme King and his assassin. He had planned to accomplish this assassination mission all by himself before, but now he had to ask someone else for help, since he could not let Luo Ningcha know that he was going to hide in her bedroom.

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In the evening, Xu Yanwei went to the backyard and required to meet Miss Luo. Among all the maids, only she dared to do so, since now she was the most trusted maid of Miss Luo. After giving Miss. Luo some tips for the night, she quickly left the backyard.

She did this at Yang Huan’s request without knowing his real intentions. She had made up her mind a long time ago that she would always follow Mr. Huan’s instructions.

With the help of Xu Yanwei, Gu Shenwei successfully sneaked into Luo Ningcha’s bedroom and hid under her bed, planning to repeat his success of using a knife to kill his target from under the bed.

To his intense disappointment, the Supreme King did not come that night, and all his efforts were thus wasted.

Compared to the disappointed killer hiding under the bed, the young lady lying on the bed appeared even more agitated. She felt that she was betrayed by everyone and kept cursing all the traitors, including the Supreme King and Slave Huan, in a low, angry voice until late night. When she finally fell sound asleep, Gu Shenwei stealthily left her room, without being detected by her at all.

He was well aware that he could not play the same trick again, so on the third night, he decided to kill the Supreme King’s black-masked assassin first and thus carried both his sword and his saber with himself.

That night, his patience finally paid off. The Supreme King left all of his black-masked assassins outside and entered Luo Ningcha’s room alone. This was probably because of his increased confidence in the security here and the fact that he did not want anyone to stay nearby and eavesdrop on him when he was making love to a woman.

As Shangguan Fa walked very quietly, Gu Shenwei had not noticed him coming until he heard Luo Ningcha’ joyful voice coming through the wooden wall. “Xu Yanwei taught her well,” Gu Shenwei thought, as he left his sword on the beam. He quietly climbed down the wooden wall to get into the hostess’ side of the reception room. After that, he opened the door a crack and sneaked into Luo Ningcha’s bedroom.

The room was illuminated by a single lamp, which was placed beside Luo Ningcha’s bed. Now, she and the Supreme King were passionately making out.

“The Supreme King has already lost all of his Internal Strength,” With this in mind, Gu Shenwei quickly calmed himself down. In the next moment, he took one step forward to get into a proper stance, readying to leap forward and stab the Supreme King to death.

Suddenly, he felt somewhat anxious, as if there was something standing in his way, hindering him from advancing and warning him that there was danger looming ahead.

Despite that, he still jumped up with his saber in hand.

In the meantime, Luo Ningcha was wheezing in her bed, but suddenly, she discovered that the man on top of her was missing. She felt as if she was having a nice dream which abruptly stopped at the happiest moment.

The next minute, when she turned her head to the side, her sweet dream turned into a nightmare. She saw that a black-clothed, masked assassin appeared under the light, and the naked Supreme King struck on the assassin’s chest with his palm. Shangguan Fa was surprised to find out that this reckless assassin had great kung fu. Instead of being killed on the spot, he made use of the backward momentum and leaped out of the room after smashing the door open.

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Shangguan Fa had lied to everyone including his son, Shanggyan Yun. His Internal Strength had already gone back to normal levels several days ago.

Luo Ningcha finally woke up from her “dreams”. She sensed the danger and screamed at top of her lungs regardless of anything.