Chapter 14: [Dark Umbra] Talent
Li Hai is a martial artist. He is, however, only an early-stage martial artist. He is already 60 years old. He will remain at that level for the rest of his life. He's the servant Mo ShaoBei's father arranged to assist him.
"Young master, I have already investigated. e Tian comes from a typical family. His parents were martial artists who died a year ago in the wilderness. Only Ye Tian and his younger sister remain." Li Hai reported.
"If I hadn't had to go into seclusion to advance as a martial artist, he wouldn't have lived for another month." Hire someone to kill him!"
Mo ShaoBei gave the order whilst exuding bloodlust.
Li Hai's expression changed: "Young master, if we kill someone and it's found out, even if it's our Mo family, things will get troublesome!"
"If it is found out, I will undoubtedly face consequences. However, what if it isn't found out?"
Mo ShaoBei snickered.
"If it isn't found out?"
Li Hai thought of a person
"Young master, are you thinking of hiring Shadow to do the deed? If you're going to hire Shadow, the price isn't going to be cheap. At the very least, you need 1,000,000 dollars!"
Paying 1 million dollars to kill a martial disciple, Li Hai felt that it wasn't worth it.
On top of that, Mo ShaoBei had just advanced into a martial artist. The amount of family funds that he could use was just slightly over 1 million dollars.
"That brat's talent isn't bad, reaching the martial disciple at such a young age. More so, he isn't an early-stage martial disciple. Thus, his cultivating talent should only be a [Low] grade instead of [Medium] grade. On top of that, he had [Medium] grade vicious beast blood and vicious beast Striped Snake's blood to help him cultivate. Within a year or two, he should be able to advance into martial artist. The price for killing a martial disciple and killing a martial artist is different. I want to kill him before that happens. Do you understand? 1 million dollars may not be a small sum for me now, but after a year or two, 1 million dollars is just nothing." Mo ShaoBei shared his thoughts.
"Young master, I understand now. I shall contact Shadow immediately!"
Li Hai said and then left.
In his room, Mo ShaoBei muttered to himself: "Shadow only has [Inferior] cultivating talent, thus after becoming an early-stage martial artist, he hasn't improved. However, he's a rare person with a second talent, [Dark Umbra] talent, which allows him to hide in dark areas. Even [Elite] martial artists will have a hard time feeling his presence. He's a terrifying existence for martial artists. Even I'm not sure if I'll be able to survive Shadow's assassination. Hiring him to kill Ye Tian guarantees his death!"
Then, he tossed this matter to the back of his head and started cultivating again.
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One day later.
As usual, after Ye Tian had finished cultivating in the Fifth Academy's small forest, he prepared to go home.
His expression changed as he neared the small forest's exit. Surprising emotions buried deep within his eyes.
His gaze was drawn to a 3 meter away tree. This tree was quite large. Nothing was hidden in the shadow of the tree.
However, Ye Tian was aware that there was someone there.
Human: Li Cun
Cultivating Talent: Inferior
Dark Umbra Talent: Low
The [Replication] talent had become an instinctual talent of Ye Tian. With this, he can always detect anything within 3 meters of him. If there's any person or animal that got close to him, he would know.
This was also a way of him protecting himself.
"This Li Cun person must have used the [Dark Umbra] talent to hide himself. Hence, I couldn't see him with my eyes. To be able to awaken his second talent, without a doubt, his strength should be at the level of a martial artist. However, with only an [Inferior] cultivating talent, his strength must be at the early-stage martial artist."
Within a blink of an eye, Ye Tian had already understood the strength of Li Cun.
"Is he here to assassinate me?"
Ye Tian thought
He had never met Li Cun before. Thus, it was obvious that someone hired Li Cun to assassinate him. He didn't need to guess to know who that person was.
"Mo ShaoBei!"
Ye Tian's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Ye Tian knew that Mo ShaoBei would use underhanded methods to create problems for him. But he didn't expect that Mo ShaoBei would actually hire someone to assassinate him.
"If I live through this, Mo ShaoBei, I'll come for your neck!"
Ye Tian swore.
The current situation wasn't favorable for Ye Tian. However, it was also a chance for him.
His [Replication] talent can be used again but he didn't know which talent to use it on. Now, there's a good talent in front of him.
[Dark Umbra] talent is useful for a weak martial artist. Once he obtains this talent, he will be able to do many things that he was previously unable to do.
"If I want that [Dark Umbra] talent, I have to kill Li Cun!"
Ye Tian calmed down.
He slowly walked forward. Suddenly, a killing intent engulfed him. He was sure that Li Cun was going to start attacking. Before Li Cun could attack, Ye Tian took the first initiative.
Swoosh!
The [Speed] talent had been activated.
With a strength of 400kg, Ye Tian's speed was already fast. With the addition of the [Speed] talent, his speed far surpassed that of an average martial artist and on par with a mid-stage martial artist.
Li Cun thought that killing a martial disciple should be easy, and therefore looked down on Ye Tian. In that instant, he was shocked by Ye Tian's speed.
"Die!"
Ye Tian slashed at Li Cun with his steel knife. Something ripped could be heard. The steel knife had cut something. A trail of blood spewed out.
"Little brat, you're courting death!"
Li Cun came out from the shadows. On his right arm, there was a wound. It was quite serious.
If Ye Tian's strength was just a bit much stronger, his arm would have been cut off.
With his right arm injured, Li Cun held his knife in his left hand and attacked Ye Tian. Although his battle power was reduced, he believes that he could kill a mere martial disciple.
However, soon after, he was stunned.
Ye Tian's speed was far superior to his. Ye Tian's knife skills were equally quick and precise. Even with his 20 years of experience, he couldn't compete with Ye Tian's abilities.
Ye Tian relied on his speed and knife arts to suppress Li Cun. Li Cun's right hand had received an injury and was still bleeding. This made the situation worse for him.
Suddenly, Ye Tian found an opportunity and slashed at Li Cun's chest, gravely injuring Li Cun.
"You brat, I'll make you pay for this!"
Li Cun jumped away and disappeared.
However, Ye Tian didn't stop. He slashed towards an empty spot.
Bam!!
With that one strike, a silhouette flew away. It was Li Cun.
"Shit, you actually can see through my [Dark Umbra] talent. This is impossible!"
Li Cun couldn't believe it.
Not only martial artists, but even [Elite] martial artists couldn't see through his [Dark Umbra] talent at Lin Hai base. Only [Great] martial artists with high mental strengths could see through his talent.
He had become a person in Lin Hai base that many martial artists would not dare to offend because of his [Dark Umbra] talent. He couldn't believe he was struggling like this today, against a martial disciple.
Ye Tian remained silent and continued to attack Li Cun.
Soon, Li Cun was unable to withstand Ye Tian's attacks, and his head was slashed off from his neck, killing him instantly.
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