Damn it, you greedy old bugger! Did you have to do that? I’m coughing up blood here!” Xuanyuan cursed inwardly. He wanted Greed to make him seem injured in front of the assassins, but he didn’t want to actually get injured.
But no matter how unhappy he was, he still clutched the dagger tightly and used the Heavenly Dragon’s Fist. With two small cuts to their necks, two assassins died with their life essence drained. Xuanyuan inhaled with a sense of surprise.
“The old bugger is getting much stronger. You used to only be able to suck out their life essence when the dagger was thrust up to the hilt, now you only need a tiny cut!”
“Of course! Why would I need you to buy the Origin of Memories otherwise?” Greed injected Qi into the armour and bright golden light shone again. Another crossbow bolt shot at him, but before it could even touch the armour, it was completely shattered.
“Alright, now we’ll kill the last one.”
Xuanyuan used the Heavenly Dragon’s Pearl. The dagger was like a dart, shooting out and piercing the assassins’ leader through the head.
“Done.” He moved over to the dead body and striped the dead man of all his valuables. Even though the leader was only a wild fighter, he owned a middle ranked earth instrument.
“Eh, what’s this?” There are three cylinders with crossbow bolts inside. The bolts were giving off a subtle glow.
“The Bolts of Dark Current. They have a strong poison covering them. They probably thought that you were too weak and didn’t use these on you. Now they’re all yours. They’re good for assassinations so keep them.” Greed explained.
“Haha, they were here to send me gifts instead of killing me.” He took every valuable instrument from the bodies. He obtained twenty lower ranked earth instruments and a middle ranked earth instrument. That was quite a lot of money in total.
When he finished packing, two haunting auras descended.
“Someone arrived here before us.” A voice spoke and another group of shadows arrived.