Monarch Night

"That was a close call this time."

Fang Che frowned, brows tightly knit.

He let out a soft breath.

Once again he reflected on himself: these days, hasn’t everything gone a bit too smoothly? He kept thinking that since the high-ups of the Wei Wo Zheng Sect knew about him, he could just kick back and relax.

But... things were not like that at all. Crises and accidents could still show up at any random, careless moment.

After all, in this world, the ones who can’t bear to kill him are just those few people up top.

Below them, whether it’s the Guardians or the Wei Wo Zheng Sect, there are millions of experts who could easily send the current him to his grave. And those people have no idea how important he is!

So...

"From now on I’d better tuck my tail between my legs and behave."

Fang Che scrutinized himself; though he himself knew, this assassination attempt—no matter how cautious he was—he probably couldn’t have dodged it.

Because the one who made a move was the Heavenly King Flute, after all!

But for similar things, he still had to be as careful as possible.

Since the Heavenly King Flute already acted once and got driven off by Sun Wutian, he probably wouldn’t come again; but the problem is, people in the Wei Wo Zheng Sect who are much weaker than the Heavenly King Flute are still more than enough to send him to hell!

So from now on, the ones he guards against aren’t the Heavenly King Flute, but those a few levels weaker than him.

"I’m way too weak!"

Fang Che felt a bit dejected, and said to Ye Meng: "Say, with my current situation, I don’t even need my cultivation to get too high—if I could just reach the level of that Qinglong Saber guy, that’d be enough to protect myself... but right now, sigh..."

Ye Meng’s pretty face twitched, and she said blankly: "Young Master, do you know, out of the hundreds of billions of people in this whole world, how many experts there are who can reach the same level as Lord Qinglong Saber?"

"No idea."

"I don’t know either. But I can be sure of one thing: definitely not many!"

Ye Meng scrunched up her little nose and said: "If you really reach that level, lining up the whole world and counting down, you’d probably be standing within the top hundred, easy."

Fang Che’s eyes sparkled: "My demands aren’t high—just getting there for now is fine."

Ye Meng’s little nose wrinkled into folds: "Heh."

"In terms of cultivation, I figure I’m not as good as them. But in other respects... I reckon I could rank in the top ten."

Fang Che showed a lecherous grin.

Ye Meng’s face flushed crimson and she leapt away: "Rascal! Not now, your body..."

"I didn’t say right now..."

Fang Che said in surprise: "What are you so worked up about?"

"Ah ah ah... I’m going to bite you to death!" Ye Meng pounced at him in shy fury.

"Hahaha..."

The situation in the Southeast steadied.

And the strict alert and lockdown on Baixiang Continent was lifted as well.

Fang Che grabbed a moment of downtime and sent a message to Yin Shen Palace to make a report, emphasizing, "I almost died, and it was an expert from our own sect who tried to assassinate me. Master, please help me ask what the hell went wrong here..."

And he also expressed: "They said they were assassinating Yu Zhongge, but I clearly felt it was aimed right at me..."

He conveniently tossed out another piece of intel: Xue Fuxiao, Yu Haoran and other peerless experts are on Baixiang Continent!

Once Yin Shen Palace received the message, they instantly relaxed.

Pity that over these few hours, the people at Yin Shen Palace had been staring at the Communication Jade so hard it was about to start smoking.

After repeatedly telling Fang Che to rest well, and informing him that Mu Lin Yuan was coming over to deliver something, they immediately notified Mu Lin Yuan: "Yemo has already woken up... get the item to him as soon as you can. The Emotion Cutting Saber is currently on Baixiang Continent; you need to be cautious."

Mu Lin Yuan bared his teeth in a grimace.

He didn’t dare move a muscle.

He didn’t even dare go look for Fang Che—what if he ran into the Emotion Cutting Saber?

With that guy, don’t talk to me about being cautious... no matter what I do, he could just blow out one breath and kill me.

So safety comes first; better to patiently wait for Yemo to come to the door himself to pick it up.

Yin Shen Palace, meanwhile, hurriedly contacted Yan Nan.

"Vice Sect Master, something big’s gone wrong—Yemo was assassinated..."

As soon as Yan Nan saw this, his headache flared up again.

The Heavenly King Flute is still recuperating right now... After Duan Xiyang came back, for some unknown reason, he beat the Heavenly King Flute up hard again.

Moreover, the Guardian’s Continent First grade Death Order has already been issued.

It’s said that Dongfang Sansan is extremely furious.

And movements from the Guardian’s side have all been passed over as well.

Dongfang Sansan guessed that it should be because of the old grudge between Yu Haoran and the Heavenly King Flute back in the day... this matter made Yan Nan feel quite pleased.

The demand to secretly search for that "mysterious expert who saved the lives of four Life and Death Patrol officers" made Yan Nan even more pleased.

He understood Dongfang Sansan very well, and even felt he could grasp Dongfang Sansan’s train of thought.

Which made him all the more pleased.

Why would Dongfang Sansan think this way?

Because the Heavenly King Flute had gone over on official business, delivering a peace treaty. That’s the first reason. So after finishing his business, on his way out he discovered his enemy’s descendants and casually swung one sword... it might not be entirely reasonable, but it’s still somewhat justifiable.

The most important thing is... there’s basically no reason to go after anyone else. Go after Fang Tu? Why? There’s no reason!

They were doing internal clean-up—what does that have to do with your Wei Wo Zheng Sect?

And after checking, the attack was launched on the opposite side of Fang Che, behind Yu Zhongge and the others; that makes it even more irrefutable: it was definitely an assassination attempt on Yu Zhongge, Mo Gan Yun and company, not an attempt on Fang Tu...

So this is very easy to understand.

As for Dongfang’s fury, that’s even easier to understand: that was someone Dongfang Sansan was grooming as a key talent; how could he not be angry?

Just for the reaction of the Wind, Rain, and Snow Three Great Families alone, Dongfang Sansan should be angry for a bit, so it’s perfectly reasonable.

As for anything else...

Duan Xiyang beating up the Heavenly King Flute and such... no need to overthink that, right? Who doesn’t Duan Xiyang beat? He even beats up Bi Changhong—so what’s the big deal if he beats the Heavenly King Flute? We’re not scared of this news getting out.

Sun Wutian chasing down the Heavenly King Flute is even easier to explain: does Dongfang Sansan know what kind of relationship Sun Wutian has with Fang Che? He doesn’t!