The action teams of the Seven Kill Group don’t actually have fixed personnel assignments. The number of people sent on each mission depends on how difficult the mission is expected to be.
This time, in order to completely wipe out Net, that ruthless assassin organization which wanted to run wild on Chinese soil with such wicked ambitions, they were still just monitoring and hadn’t yet planned to take action. The Seven Kill Group had already sent five members to each of Net’s two main bases. That’s already considered very careful and cautious.
After all, the Seven Kill Group values quality over quantity.
The total number of people in the entire Seven Kill Group has just barely exceeded twenty. Sending out ten people at once just for surveillance is enough to show how seriously the Seven Kill Group takes the Net organization.
But who would have known that this time, the Seven Kill Group would suffer such heavy losses? This can be called an unprecedented failure since the establishment of the Seven Kill Group.
No wonder the Lion King was so furious and left immediately without a moment’s delay.
As Jingzhe explained the whole story, her heart was also churning with the urge to kill. Jiang Fei could feel that this woman, a direct disciple of the Lion King with her neat medium-length hair, was actually quite strong. Her martial arts level had reached the middle-upper level of the Transformation realm.
Even if her strength can’t quite compare to people like Miyamoto Ichishin, Little Drunkard, or Bai Kedi, her skill is definitely not far off. She could fight them and have a good chance of surviving.
Strength like this certainly lives up to the title of the Lion King’s direct disciple.
Letting out a long breath to suppress the anger in her heart, Jingzhe said, “The two teammates who were killed by the Net organization in London actually had some interaction with you, Mr. Jiang. I just don’t know if you still remember.”
“They had interaction with me?” Jiang Fei was startled.
“Yes.” Jingzhe nodded, her expression cold and stern. “The two teammates who died in London were Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang, the ones who arrested Du Ziliang back in the capital city.”
Whoa!
Jiang Fei’s eyebrows furrowed immediately as the scene from that night came back to his mind. That thin, frail woman and that stocky, taciturn man who was like a jar of oil. He said in a deep voice, “It was them?”
Although Jiang Fei had interacted with these two, it wasn’t much of a friendship. After all, he had only met them once. But that night, it was indeed their sudden appearance and help that allowed them to subdue Du Ziliang and resolve the crisis of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association.
Plus, he had a pretty good impression of them, so naturally, he didn’t want them to die.
He never expected that during the London mission, they would be killed by the Net organization.
Thinking back to everything the Net organization had done, and how they had tried to kill him by any means necessary, the anger in Jiang Fei’s heart was also ignited.
“I… will avenge them!” Jiang Fei said with a serious expression, as if making a promise.
Jingzhe nodded and said, “My master has told me about your strength, Mr. Jiang. He said you could defeat the contemporary Japanese sword master, Munenori Yagyu. I certainly believe that. But right now, we don’t know what preparations Net has made this time, or what they’re really up to! If they already knew our Seven Kill Group was planning to wipe them out, logically, they should be running and hiding, not fighting back so fiercely like this.”
“Furthermore, even if the Net organization wanted to fight back, they shouldn’t possibly be a match for our Seven Kill Group! Not to mention my master taking action himself, but even if our members fought them directly, the Seven Kill Group could easily handle most of the SS-rank killers, of which there are only a handful in the assassin world. Those killers shouldn’t be able to stop our Seven Kill Group! Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang were considered newcomers to the Seven Kill Group, so they weren’t a match for SS-rank killers. But any veteran member of the Seven Kill Group wouldn’t be afraid of an SS-rank killer, even in a one-on-one fight!”
Jiang Fei nodded.
That was true.
He had seen Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang in action. If they were the weakest newcomers in the Seven Kill Group, they could still easily crush S-rank killers. If they ran into an SS-rank killer, even a weaker one, they could still survive and get away safely.
And as for the veteran members of the Seven Kill Group, who were all as strong as Jingzhe, they really could sweep through and overwhelm any killer organization. Even if the Lion King didn’t act, the Net organization wouldn’t have much room to resist.
Jingzhe clenched her fists tightly and said coldly, “But now, the Net organization is acting like they want a direct confrontation with our Seven Kill Group. Where are they getting the courage and strength from? The sacrifice of Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang was partly because they were too careless, caught off guard by those two SS-rank killers. But the team in the Middle East, which had both new and veteran members, was almost completely wiped out even though they were fully prepared! That’s definitely not something SS-rank killers could do! It seems someone has hired truly formidable experts to sit in the Middle East, which is why my master rushed off without stopping.”
Jiang Fei blinked, his eyes flickering with thought.
Beyond SS-rank killers?
SS-rank killers are already at the level of the Transformation realm. If someone can directly overwhelm a Seven Kill Group team and almost wipe them out, there’s a good chance they’ve surpassed the Transformation realm and reached the Dan realm…
Those at the Dan realm are each extraordinary, with explosive combat ability.
Although not every Dan realm expert can control everything like Munenori Yagyu or Jiang Fei, able to kill with a blade of grass or a twig, their combat power wouldn’t be too far off.
If the Net organization could find such experts to help them, rooting them out completely might not be so easy.
However, the Net organization has underestimated the Lion King after all.
The Lion King isn’t someone just any expert beyond SS-rank can handle.
Besides, this operation of the Seven Kill Group doesn’t just have the Lion King alone; it also has him.
“No matter who’s helping them, the Net organization is doomed to fall this time!” Jiang Fei thought silently, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth. “I hope those hired experts include quite a few Eastern martial artists. If so, my Northern Dark Divine Art will come in handy again, helping me break through the first level!”
Jiang Fei turned his attention to the character attribute interface in his mind.
Level: 6
Experience: 3410/11000
Stamina: 4.2
Spirit: 5.3
Agility: 6.2
Strength: 5.4
Unassigned Points: 0
Martial Skills: Lightness Skill: Three Stacked Clouds, Level 1 (0/100); Incomplete Tai Chi Fist, Level 1 (0/200); Art of Qimen Dunjia, Level 2 (0/450); Solitary Nine Swords Level 3 (Grandmaster); Northern Dark Divine Art (14.2/15); Stairway Cloud Walk Level 1 (0/460); Usable Skill Points: 591
Sub-Professions: Weapon Forging (Level 9), Plant Cultivation (Level 9), Culinary Arts (Level 9), Gardening (Level 9), Musical Arts (Level 9), Winemaking (Level 9), Tamed Summons (Level 9), Medical Skills (Level 9)…
The leveling speed for Jiang Fei’s character had slowed down a lot. If he didn’t expand the Jiang Medical Hall and build more hotels and restaurants to develop more ‘factions’, leveling up would get even slower in the future.
However, the cultivation of the Northern Dark Divine Art’s internal energy was a separate matter. If he didn’t absorb other people’s internal energy, he would just have to practice slowly and steadily. It would take at least half a year for Jiang Fei to reach the second level of the Northern Dark Divine Art, which would allow him to absorb the internal energy of Dan realm experts!
If wiping out the Net organization meant encountering quite a few Transformation realm experts, Jiang Fei definitely wouldn’t hold back.
When it came to these assassins, Jiang Fei felt that his Northern Dark Divine Art was already… itching to get to work!
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After nearly eleven hours of flight time, the private plane finally landed slowly at London Heathrow Airport. Greeting Jiang Fei and Jingzhe was a somewhat chubby Seven Kill Group member named Lie Shou.
“Lie Shou, how’s the situation?” Jingzhe asked impatiently as soon as they got in the car.
Lie Shou’s eyes immediately turned red, and the veins on his hands gripping the steering wheel bulged as he said with hatred, “Jingzhe, I’m sorry. As a veteran, I failed to take care of Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang!”
“Don’t say sorry! If you feel sorry for Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang, then make sure you wipe out every single member of the Net organization in the upcoming operation, not one left alive! That’s how you avenge Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang!” Jingzhe glared and said angrily.
“I swear we’ll wipe out all those damn bastards! If you hadn’t told us not to act rashly, the three of us would have stormed the Brown Hotel long ago and taken out those Net bastards in one fell swoop! Two SS-rank killers, we could have handled them ourselves if we were fully prepared, without needing you and Mr. Jiang to come!” Lie Shou said, slamming the steering wheel heavily.
“I knew you’d want to act recklessly! If there really were only two SS-rank killers here, I wouldn’t object to you taking action. But do you really think there are only two SS-rank killers here? Would the Net organization dare to confront our Seven Kill Group head-on if there were only two SS-rank killers?” Jingzhe scolded.
Lie Shou’s face and neck flushed red as he retorted, “We’ve already thoroughly investigated Net’s background. Although they have an unusually large number of S-rank killers, they don’t have any permanent SS-rank killers they can call upon. It’s already good they could hire two in London at once. What more could they do? Do they have even greater resources?”
Jingzhe didn’t raise her voice anymore. Her eyes were cold and she said softly, “If everything could be completely figured out beforehand, then Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang wouldn’t have died! Do you know that after Qiaoqiao and Shouqiang died, our team in the Middle East suffered an even heavier blow…”
The car quickly went from the airport to the Brown Hotel.
But Jiang Fei and the four Seven Kill Group members didn’t immediately take action against the Net organization.
Although Jingzhe and Jiang Fei had come to reinforce them, especially Jiang Fei, who had already made a name for himself in the domestic martial arts world, being called the ‘Sword God’ and even hailed as the number one martial artist in the country, Lie Shou and the others felt their confidence was restored. With Jiang Fei here, it was essentially no different from having the Seven Kill Group’s founder, the Lion King, present in person.
But even with absolute confidence, they couldn’t just swagger straight into the Brown Hotel and kill all the suspected Net members one by one, right?
This was a society governed by law, and not in China, but in Europe.
Even if the London police knew about this conflict but didn’t want to get involved, if the commotion got too big, they might have no choice but to step in.
However, Jiang Fei and Jingzhe hadn’t bothered to hide their arrival. They also swaggered openly, without any concealment, as they went to the front desk to check in. They didn’t care if Net’s spies were watching them from the shadows.
Since they had decided on a direct confrontation, with neither side willing to back down, there was no point in hiding anymore. They might as well bring everything out into the open.
Sure enough, as soon as they saw Jiang Fei and Jingzhe arrive, some Western-looking people in the lobby started relaying information into their earpieces.
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About three streets away from the Brown Hotel, a man wearing a tattered Taoist robe was walking unsteadily, like an ascetic.
Just as he reached the end of the corner, a sleek, black Bentley pulled up right in front of him.
“Sir, they have arrived,” a gentle, refined man said, opening the car door and looking at the elderly man.
“They arrived that quickly?” The old man nodded thoughtfully. Then he asked, “Was it the Lion King?”
“No!” The refined man shook his head.
“Hmm, not him?” The old man frowned slightly. “Since the Lion King didn’t come in person, the Seven Kill Group shouldn’t have anyone more powerful, right? Then the Net organization should be able to handle this.”
The refined man’s face showed a hint of caution as he shook his head and said, “Although the Lion King didn’t come, someone no less formidable than him did.”
“Someone no less formidable than the Lion King? Who is it? Could it be one of the other Four Kings of China? That’s impossible, the Four Kings of China disbanded many years ago,” the old hermit said in surprise.
