Chapter 4: Burying the Body on a Snowy Night
In the quiet room, the lonely wind blew in with cold snow, accumulating a thin layer on the ground, just like Su Chen's current state of mind.

The tree wants to be calm and the wind does not stop.

It's time to come.

When he made a big splash at the entrance of the Shangwu Bureau, he had thought of this day.

He shouldn't have stepped out of the library that day.

"Huang Jiu! Why not?"

The man in black may have thought that Su Chen was doubting his identity. He frowned and took out a half-palm-sized brass token from his arms, on which the word "nine" could be vaguely seen.

Black Lotus Token! Here is the token!
"Ugh!"

Seeing this token, Su Chen searched reluctantly and finally found the other half of the dusty brass token in the crack of the bed.

The original owner belonged to a hidden church called Black Abyss, which specifically came out in years of disaster to deceive people and recruit members. The original owner was young and fanatical in his beliefs, so he was quickly valued and after a lot of deception, he gave up his identity as a man and came to the Daliang Palace to be a eunuch.

However, he is just a low-level hidden chess piece.

Heaven one, earth three, mysterious six, yellow nine.

Among the nineteen secret agents under the Black Lotus Saint, he is ranked last.

If it weren't for Zhang Gui's rapid rise and the attention of the imperial concubine, who was about to become the deputy general manager, it would be a pity that he, a hidden player, would never see the day of being appointed until his death.

"Bastard!"

"You treated the token bestowed by the Saint personally so carelessly. Do you still have the Holy Assembly in your eyes, and do you still have the Saint who has been so kind to you?!"

The black-clad man shouted angrily, his eyes spitting fire.

Su Chen stammered in silence.

I don't know what to say.

soon.

The two tokens merged into one, forming the enchanting black lotus on the front of the token.

"The Holy Church of the Black Abyss saves all living beings. The saint has come to the world to save me from suffering!"

The black-robed messenger had a fanatical look in his eyes. He held the token in his hand and kowtowed respectfully. The one he was kneeling to was naturally the Black Lotus Saint represented by the token. Then he saw Su Chen who was still standing, and he became angry again.

"Huang Jiu, do you still think there is a Holy Society?"

Su Chen remained silent.

If it were the original owner, he would have probably performed the sliding kneeling posture long ago.

But he is not the original owner.

What does this bird holy religion have to do with him?

He didn't inherit any emotional legacy from the original owner.

"never mind."

"The Seventh Prince will come to the library tomorrow, and he will question you. He is just a useless person who cannot practice. I will give you a bottle of poison, and you must find a way to poison him to death!"

"No matter if you succeed or fail, you must commit suicide on the spot after poisoning me. I have taken the token away. This matter must not be connected to the Holy Church in any way..."

As he spoke, the black-clad envoy threw a white porcelain bottle to Su Chen.

faintly visible.

The toxic exploding powder inside was sizzling like sulfuric acid.

Bang!
The poison bottle smashed to the ground.

Not only did Su Chen not take it, he also took two steps back to avoid it.

“Huang Jiu!!!”

The man in black became completely furious now.

The terrifying power of qi and blood continued to surge beneath his black clothes.

"Poisoning the Seventh Prince..."

"Can the Holy Church change its candidate? I want to be loyal to the Holy Church for a few more years. Do you think it's okay?"

Su Chen rubbed his hands and spoke nervously.

Who is the seventh prince?
Even though he was hiding in a deserted place like the library, he had heard people talk about it more than once.

The old emperor had seven sons, three of whom were outstanding men.

The eldest prince, the second prince, and the fifth prince, the legitimate son of Concubine Zhang.

On the day the old emperor recovered from his illness, he summoned the eldest prince into the palace and twisted his head off alive.

Afterwards, the court was purged of civil and military officials.

Rumor has it that the eldest prince couldn't wait any longer and led a sudden change in the imperial city, an assassination on a rainy night...

Next.

The only ones who have a chance to succeed the throne are the Second Prince and the Fifth Prince.

Although the Seventh Prince is unable to practice cultivation and can only listen to music in brothels, he and the Second Prince are brothers from the same mother and depend on each other for survival, and their relationship is extremely deep.

Everyone in the palace knew about his relationship with Zhang Gui.

Let him poison the seventh prince.

Obviously, the Holy Church wanted to provoke a fight to the death between the Fifth Prince and the Seventh Prince. After the poisoning, no matter what the result, he and Zhang Gui, a eunuch as insignificant as an ant, would surely die.

Grinding bones and scattering ashes is the lightest step.

The current Su Chen is no longer as silly as the original owner, who can be fooled by just a few words.

An immortal monster like him can become stronger and stronger if he lives honestly, but he has nothing better to do than to seek death by getting involved in such dangerous things.

"Huang Jiu, you have no choice. This is the will of the Black Lotus Saint. Sacrificing your life for our great plan is your honor and ours!"

The black clothes made his eyes completely cold.

Who is he?
The leader of the three black-robed envoys under the saint, a top third-grade master of horizontal training.

Su Chen was just a lowly eunuch, an ant with no cultivation. Whether he wanted to or not, he could not cause any trouble in his hands.

"I don't want to die, is that okay?"

Su Chen picked up the white jade bottle on the ground and looked at this top third-grade master of horizontal refining.

"Ah!"

The black-clad emissary sneered and said nothing.

Su Chen took another white jade porcelain bottle and asked again: "Do I still have a chance?"

"Ants don't have a choice."

"Of course." "You can also try to kill me."

The black-clad messenger gave a sarcastic smile.

"it is good!"

Su Chen nodded.

Just try it.

He threw poison from the secret medicine bottle in his hand.

"The Saint had long anticipated that you might rebel. What can this mere fifth-grade secret poison do to me? Hahaha! I am a peak third-grade. In this palace, no one can hurt me unless a second-grade person takes action..."

The black-clothed man laughed wildly and took a step forward. The blue bricks shattered and a strong wind blew up, ravaging the library. The poisonous powder thrown in the air was also crushed into pieces by him.

"Even if I peel off your skin, I can still arrange for someone to assassinate the Seventh Prince in your identity!"

"Traitor, die!"

He came roaring.

His whole body was filled with surging blood and his muscles and bones were horrifying. His black clothes burst out and he was expanding violently. The breath from his mouth and nose was like a white silk thread, and his entire skin was glowing with a layer of gold, shining like a body forged from gold.

The path to the body, the third level of marrow cleansing.

With the Black-Cloaked Envoy's imposing manner, he is considered a formidable master even among the third rank, and in the eunuch system, he is definitely at least a deputy general manager-level figure.

however.

Facing the attack from this third-grade master, Su Chen remained calm.

"five……"

Su Chen just started counting.

next moment.

The black clothes made his powerful aura weaken.

He was terrified, bleeding from all seven orifices, and his flesh and blood, which had reached its peak strength, rapidly rotted at this moment. All his cultivation was destroyed in an instant.

"poison?!"

"Ah! What kind of poison is this? It's not my secret red snake medicine at all..."

The black-robed envoy screamed like a duck. He looked at Su Chen in horror. He couldn't believe that a lowly chess piece who came from a vagrant and beggar family could have a secret poison of at least the third grade in his hand.

A third-rank master is already able to dominate the world in Daliang and establish his own school.

It can poison and kill a third-rank master.

Such a secret poison was impossible for the eunuch Zhang Gui, who was extremely popular in the palace, or Concubine Zhang, or even the second-rank chief eunuch.

Even in the hands of the old emperor who holds the world, the third-grade secret poison is an absolutely forbidden power that cannot be bestowed on anyone in the imperial city and will only be tightly held in the emperor's hands.

"It's not a third-grade secret poison, but a second-grade one, the rumored Heart-Eating Powder."

Su Chen said lightly.

Before he died, the man in black opened his eyes wide, full of disbelief, and his expression was exceptionally wonderful.

Second-grade Heart-Eating Powder? !

Even the Holy Church didn't have this kind of poison, but this lowly peasant actually had it...

Bang!
next moment.

The black-clothed man's rotten body exploded with a loud bang, and turned into a black skeleton filled with terrible poison. His strong flesh and blood turned into corpse water all over the ground, and everything on his body was corroded by the terrible poison.

"A peak third-grade warrior, I actually killed him?"

Su Chen was amazed.

Heart-Eating Powder is specifically used to hunt down high-level practitioners, but it has little effect on low-level practitioners or even mortals.

Normally, the Heart-Eating Powder made from fifty-year-old poisonous herbs will take five breaths to kill.

And the poison of this Heart-Eating Powder, which had been prepared for a hundred years, was more than three times more toxic? In less than a breath, the poison reached the lungs. Even a third-grade master who had refined his skin, flesh, tendons, and marrow to the extreme could not resist it.

Su Chen had two bottles in total. After killing a peak third-grade master, he had one bottle left.

“It’s really useful.”

"Following the true qi, the blood energy spreads rapidly. The more skilled the person, the more dangerous it is. On the contrary, it will not endanger a weak person like me in the first place. It seems that I need to prepare a few more bottles in the future."

A third-rank master of the Black Abyss died.

The top three grades are no cabbages, each of them is a humanoid monster that can suppress an area and massacre an entire city by itself. They are absolutely high-end combat forces, and the Black Abyss is likely to be in an earthquake.

Looking at the wind and snow outside the library, Su Chen knew that he might be in trouble in the future.

"But if you want me to die, why not let this black-clad messenger die first."

"Don't fight or compete, don't make enemies with others, why do you have to disturb my peaceful life..."

"Ugh."

Su Chen sighed, put on the gloves made of fish intestines, cleaned up the corpse water on the ground, dragged the poisonous corpse of the top third-grade master in black, dug a big hole, and was about to step into the medicinal field in the courtyard of the library.

This poisonous corpse and the corpse water can be used as fertilizer to nourish the poisonous weeds.

Click!

There was an unusual sound.

This poisonous corpse actually dropped two items.

"This is……"

Su Chen rubbed his hands, feeling a little excited.

It stands to reason.

The body of a top third-grade horizontal refining master is harder than gold and iron. The black-clothed messenger was completely corroded, so there should not be anything left on his body.

But anything that can survive must be a treasure.

Two things!

A rough black iron plate! And a broken rib...

Black iron plate, Su Chen couldn’t figure out the trick.

However, Su Chen broke the bone and crushed it. Something like human skin hidden inside quickly stretched out, revealing dark golden words and a diagram of a little man practicing Qigong.

Looking at the words on the human skin secret scroll, Su Chen read them aloud.

"A first-grade technique created by the old demon Gu Jue, the "Six-foot Golden Body Technique"..."

(End of this chapter)