The Heaven Organization? I remember Lin Chen mentioned he was a ninja from the Land of Clouds.
An Yi pinched his chin as he stared at Big Beard.
"He is indeed from the Ninja Alliance, but why would he join the Heaven Organization?"
Jiang Cheng asked while picking up the freshly cleaned brass knuckles again, clearly intending to give him a third round of "persuasion."
Seeing the cold glint of the knuckles, Big Beard shuddered and quickly explained, "It's because the Ninja Alliance and the Heaven Organization have had ties for over a century! In fact, some of the Heaven Organization's leaders are ninjas from the Land of Clouds!"
"Gabriel, one of the current Twelve Archangels, is already dead. Next, a new leader will be selected from among the top assassins!"
"After discussions among the eleven remaining leaders, the condition for promotion is the heads of everyone in the Asura Sect!"
"Whoever contributes the most points will inherit the title of the Twelfth Archangel, Gabriel, and become the new leader!"
After finishing, Big Beard exhaled in relief, then glanced at Jiang Cheng with disdain. "Tch, you guys at the Law Enforcement Bureau already knew all this, didn’t you? You damn sadist, just looking for an excuse to beat me up again!"
Jiang Cheng grinned and nodded.
Well, he actually didn’t know any of this.
After beating this guy for half the day, he’d finally gotten some valuable intel.
"Points, huh? That’s interesting."
An Yi smirked. "So, how many points do I have?"
Big Beard glanced fearfully at Jiang Cheng, noticing his fists were already twitching, and hastily answered.
"Leader An Yi—5 stars. Lin Chen—4 stars. Chen Bing—4 stars. Bai Xiu—3 stars. Fang Jueming—3 stars. Xiao Ye—2 stars. Shangguan Qianqian—2 stars. Qin Shan—1 star. Liu Dachao—1 star. Xiao Yike—1 star. Long—1 star. Jie Nan—1 star. Hu—1 star. Han Liang—1 star. Mo Jiu—1 star."
After hearing this, An Yi raised an eyebrow.
"Well, damn. Everyone in my Asura Sect has been targeted by the Heaven Organization."
"How many assassins have you sent in total?" Jiang Cheng asked coolly.
Big Beard frowned. "A lot. Who can keep count—"
Suddenly, his eyes widened as he pointed at Jiang Cheng. "Wait, you silver-haired bastard! You tricked me! The Law Enforcement Bureau had no idea about any of this!"
Jiang Cheng smirked. "Then let’s switch questions. What’s the secret behind the Twelve Leaders of Heaven? Why are so many people desperate to join them?"
"It’s a world-class organization! Who wouldn’t want a seat among the Twelve Archangels? Don’t even think about squeezing more info out of me—I won’t say another damn word!"
With that, Big Beard turned his back to them and lay still like a dead pig.
Jiang Cheng raised an eyebrow. Looks like he’d need a different approach.
Still, this guy had a high pain tolerance. That was troublesome.
"The Heaven Organization can provide finished serums. That’s the real reason so many assassins are drawn to them."
Chen Bing’s voice came from the stairs leading down to the prison.
At the mention of "serum," Big Beard’s body twitched slightly, his eyes sharpening.
"Oh, it’s the glasses guy!"
An Yi brightened up.
Though he still couldn’t remember this subordinate’s name.
"It’s Chen Bing!"
Chen Bing adjusted his black-framed glasses with his middle finger and replied coldly.
Jiang Cheng glanced at him. "What’s this about serums?"
"They’re extracted from the bodies of demonic beings. After refinement, they grant the user the abilities contained within. That’s what makes them so desirable." Chen Bing’s expression turned grim.
Hearing this, An Yi pinched his chin in thought.
He still had ten serums in his possession. Were they after those?
"Let’s talk outside. We’re not getting anything else out of Big Beard. He’s useless now. We’ll send him to the morgue later."
Jiang Cheng stood up and pulled the lever, closing the prison gate.
"Nani?!"
The "dead pig" Big Beard suddenly snapped his eyes open.
The three returned to the surface and entered Jiang Cheng’s office.
"Nothing fancy to offer, but make yourselves comfortable."
Jiang Cheng tossed out three sitting cushions casually.
An Yi walked in and glanced around. The office was simple.
"Yep, dirt poor."
Seems the Law Enforcement Bureau’s "young master" wasn’t exactly rolling in cash.
Jiang Cheng leaned back. "The reward for becoming a leader is a serum. But I heard those things have side effects—like turning people feral or driving them insane."
Chen Bing explained, "The serums given to new leaders are highly purified. The side effects are minimal. For example, Gabriel’s was from a four-eyed snapping turtle. It granted water-based abilities along with incredibly tough defense."
"That’s why each serum is priceless. Literally worth a kingdom."
"Seriously? Just one serum has assassins fighting like this?"
An Yi pondered for a moment before realizing just how valuable the ten serums in his storage space really were.
"No wonder Nie Chengwen killed his six-year fling over them."
Chen Bing’s expression darkened. "Right now, only two factions possess this technology—Heaven and Nie Chengwen’s Ghost Carving Organization."
At the name "Nie Chengwen," Jiang Cheng’s eyes snapped open. "Nie Chengwen? He’s the leader of Ghost Carving?"
Chen Bing nodded. "Exactly."
"That’s… unbelievable. This is huge. But I’m really curious—where the hell did you get this intel?" Jiang Cheng studied Chen Bing thoughtfully.
Chen Bing replied flatly, "Hmph. Remember the three rules Han Bing set? No questions."
"That bald bastard again. Fine, I won’t pry." Jiang Cheng shrugged.
"Is the Ghost Carving Organization that scary?" An Yi asked.
After swiping those serums, his relationship with "Boss Nie" wasn’t exactly salvageable.
They were bound to be enemies in the future. He needed to know what he was up against.
"A world-class powerhouse."
Jiang Cheng summarized it simply.
Seeing An Yi still didn’t grasp the scale, Chen Bing added, "Any organization that ranks among the world’s top factions is terrifyingly strong. The Great Xia Empire has three—the Pantheon, the Law Enforcement Bureau, and the Dao Alliance."
"Heavenly Dragon Temple didn’t make the cut?"
An Yi was slightly surprised.
Jiang Cheng nodded. "Other nations have their own forces. Like the Roth Family in the U.S., who control the world’s largest fortune. The Hong Family Gang—the biggest overseas Xia syndicate. The Yakuza and Ninja Alliance from the Land of Clouds. The Black Hand Party in Italia. The Drug King of Mexica. The Brahmin Sect of Indra. The Curse God Cult of Tai. The 16K of Hong Kong. The Mammoth Syndicate of North Ursa. The Med Cartel of Columbia. Then there are factions not tied to any nation—the Hundred Ghosts, Heaven, the Underworld, Ghost Carving…"
Listening to Jiang Cheng’s explanation, An Yi finally understood the scale of what he was facing.
He already had a rough idea of how powerful the Pantheon, Law Enforcement Bureau, and Dao Alliance were in Great Xia.
But now, the Heaven Organization he wanted to destroy was also on that level.
Still, that just made things more interesting.
Chen Bing looked at An Yi seriously. "Right now, our Asura Sect is their target. We need to protect ourselves first."
An Yi grinned. "Sitting around waiting to die is boring. I’ve got a better idea."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
