Raising Orphans, Not Assassins

Chen Ye and the little blind boy walked into the room.

Qin Yi keenly felt that the two had no martial arts skills, and a strange feeling rose in her heart. She narrowed her beautiful eyes and suddenly realized something.

How did these two people know that she was from Fengyu Tower?

The identity of the assassins in Fengyu Tower was secret, and no portrait had ever been leaked. Only the characteristics of martial arts and weapons were circulated in the world.

After Chen Ye entered the room, he sat down on the chair naturally. Seeing a pot of tea on the wooden table, he poured a cup of tea.

The little blind boy next to him turned pale as soon as he entered the room, as if he knew the identity of the woman in the black dress.

Qin Yi closed the door and said in a flat voice, "What did Zhao Wu say?"

Chen Ye picked up the teacup, took a sip, and smiled, "I don't know. Wanjin Hall gave me 200 taels of gold and asked me to forget that sentence. I am trustworthy and will not break my promise, so I can't remember it.

But the friend who uses silver spears seemed to say to my little brother before he died, asking him to pass on a message. Ask him."

Chen Ye threw the topic to the little blind boy.

Qin Yi looked at the little blind boy, then moved her eyes to Chen Ye. These two people were very strange.

The little blind boy took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, "He only said four words; ‘Earthly branches have changed’."

Hearing this, Qin Yi's expression changed drastically, and her pupils shrank into a needle.

"Sure enough..." Qin Yi murmured in an inaudible voice.

She quickly regained her composure and clasped her fists together in a gesture of gratitude toward Chen Ye and the little blind boy.

"Thank you both!"

After a moment of thought, Qin Yi added, "This sentence is of great significance. Do you have any enemies? I am willing to kill them for you..."

Chen Ye's mouth twitched twice.

Is this how the assassins of Fengyu Tower work? The way to repay a favor is to kill someone for someone else?

He still preferred the way of Wanjin Hall.

"No need, we are all children of the rivers and lakes (Jianghu), and we should repay our love and hatred with our own hands."

Chen Ye drank the tea in his cup, stood up, and bowed.

"I have delivered the message, goodbye."

After speaking, Chen Ye did not stop. He took the little blind boy out of the room and returned to their own room next door.

As soon as he entered, the little blind boy jumped onto the bed, his teeth chattering. He hugged himself and muttered, "It's her... It's her..."

Chen Ye was puzzled. "Who is she?"

"Yu Luosha, the gold medal killer of Fengyu Tower!"

"Is she famous?"

The little blind boy knew that this mysterious Mr. Donghua seemed to know very little about the world, so he explained,

"Although her strength is in the middle stage of the second rank, her status in Fengyu Tower is different.

She is the direct disciple of the owner of Fengyu Tower! She had a strange encounter when she was young. I don't know what she took, but her internal strength is extreme cold and yin. It is said that even if she is poisoned, she can use her internal strength to suppress it for a short time. In addition, she was personally trained by the owner of Fengyu Tower."

"Her strength is terrifying, and her danger level is even higher than that of the Smiling Cat Xu Xiaolin."

"She never kills people by assassination. She always does it openly and kills the target cleanly and neatly."

“Anyone who tries to stop her will be taken care of. That’s why people in the martial arts world call her Yu Luosha. She has a lot of blood on her hands.”

(Yu Luosha: Jade Rakshasa

The little blind boy wanted to cry but had no tears. He muttered, “What bad luck, what bad luck... How come I meet her when I just stay at an inn?”

Seeing his look, Chen Ye couldn’t help laughing. "By the way, what do you think? Is she a beauty as you said?"

The little blind boy’s face changed drastically. His expression became nervous as he put his finger to his lips and whispered, "Shh! There is only a wall between us and her; she can hear every word we say!"

"So powerful?" Chen Ye said with a smile.

The little blind boy wanted to cry but had no tears. "Please! Mr. Hua, the assassins in Fengyu Tower have eyes and ears far better than ordinary warriors. There's just a wall between us. Our conversation has probably fallen into her ears by now."

After saying that, the little blind boy asked in confusion, "Mr. Hua, why did you wade into this muddy water?"

"If Wanjin Hall knew that you sold them out, they would probably hunt you down."

Chen Ye smiled helplessly. "It's a long story, but it's all for the children."

The little blind boy was stunned for a moment. Thinking about Chen Ye's words and his previous question, his face became strange.

"Mr. Hua, she is not an ordinary person who can..."

The little blind boy stopped halfway and said no more. He was afraid that there were ears on the other side of the wall. If that person stabbed him with the sword, it would be miserable.

The little blind boy was silent for a moment before sighing. "I admire you!"

In the next room...

Qin Yi sat at the wooden table.

The Yangchun noodles in front of her had already lumped together. The snow-white noodles had absorbed the noodle soup and become swollen and loose.

As she exhaled, she heard the conversation between Chen Ye and the little blind boy next door.

A complex thought flashed in Qin Yi's autumn-like eyes.

"Earthly branches have changed."

Those four words verified everything she had been investigating for a month.

A month ago, she assassinated Tang Feng. From the information she learned from Tang Hao, she speculated on a possibility.

Someone in the underworld was planning to lure out the assassins of Fengyu Tower and then kill them. This was to weaken Fengyu Tower.

However, Qin Yi had been investigating for a month and only found out that there was a problem with the intelligence contact person in the Yuhang County Liquor Store.

She did not find out who he reported to.

Fengyu Tower's intelligence system has always been a single-line connection. The assassins and the intelligence personnel belong to two different departments.

Even though she was taught by the owner of the Tower, she didn’t know anything about the intelligence system.

The clues ended here.

The other anomaly was that many assassins in Fengyu Tower had failed their missions in the past month.

These anomalies, combined, faintly revealed that there was a problem within the intelligence agency of Fengyu Tower.

"Earthly branches have changed."

Qin Yi's eyes gradually turned cold.

The intelligence of Fengyu Tower was handled by twelve mysterious "earthly branches." No one had ever seen their true faces, nor did they know where they were.

It was only known that the earthly branches would pass the collected intelligence to the lower levels one at a time for the assassins to review.

Now, Zhao Wu, the Silver Spear, who was also a gold medal assassin, was dead.

Before his death, he passed on the four words, "Earthly branches have changed."

That was enough to explain the problem.

There was a traitor among the twelve earthly branches.

Someone had betrayed Fengyu Tower.

Qin Yi's gaze landed on the bowl of lumped Yangchun noodles.

Then, a flash of inspiration struck her.

"No... it's not the earthly branches that have changed!"

"There is a traitor among the deacons!"

Qin Yi's eyes gradually brightened.

She put down her sword, took off her veil, and picked up her chopsticks again.