Chapter 436: Chapter 349: Forced Apprenticeship, My Master is Too Weird! (4K)
"As long as you let me go, I can offer thirty million Immortal Stones, no, fifty million."
Su Xiaoqi, falling into Lu Changsheng's hands, couldn't help but despair.
This was the first time she had accepted a bounty to assassinate a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal, only to run into the even craftier Lu Changsheng.
As a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal herself, assassinating a Heavenly Immortal and falling into the other party's trap, to be captured alive—if word of this got out, she would lose all face in the Immortal Realm's Assassin community.
Because she was a Body of Nothingness, her tracking skills were unique within the Eternal Night Pavilion, yet Lu Changsheng not only detected her presence but also feigned a deviance in his cultivation, pretending to be injured, to lure her into his trap.
Lu Changsheng taught her a valuable lesson—what it meant that life is a play and it all depends on acting skills.
"Immortal Stones are of no use to me."
Lu Changsheng sized up Su Xiaoqi. This assassin was of the Body of Nothingness and Chaos Spiritual Root he had never encountered before, a genius in tracking skills, truly talented to a maddening degree.
No wonder the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator had recognized her physique.
Given her talents, becoming a Heavenly Level Assassin of the Eternal Night Pavilion was only a matter of time.
Unfortunately for her, she fell into his hands when she was still an Earth Level Assassin.
"Then what do you want?"
Su Xiaoqi bit her thin lips, displaying a pitiful look in her eyes.
Having her acupoints struck and her True Qi sealed by Lu Changsheng, she could only hope that he wouldn't make an exorbitant demand.
"Why did you want to assassinate me?"
Although Lu Changsheng had some guesses, he still wanted to confirm.
Coming from the mysterious Assassin Sect "Eternal Night," Su Xiaoqi should know quite a few secrets.
Su Xiaoqi told the truth: "The King of Chaos from Accumulated Thunder Mountain offered two hundred million Immortal Stones, commissioning an Earth Level assassin from our Eternal Night Pavilion to hunt you down. I accepted the bounty."
Two hundred million Immortal Stones?
Lu Changsheng didn't realize he was worth so much.
No wonder a large Assassin Sect like the Eternal Night Pavilion sent out an Earth Level assassin to hunt him down.
Su Xiaoqi's abilities were definitely not weak within the Eternal Night Pavilion; she was one of the top Earth Level assassins, only to encounter the steadfast Lu Changsheng.
"If you fail in your assassination, will the Eternal Night Pavilion send other assassins?"
This was the question that truly concerned Lu Changsheng.
The Assassin Sect known as the Eternal Night Pavilion was incredibly terrifying.
Su Xiaoqi was just an Earth Level assassin from the Eternal Night Pavilion, but there were higher-ranking Heavenly Level Assassins within the sect.
If the Eternal Night Pavilion dispatched a Heavenly Level Assassin, Lu Changsheng would truly struggle to escape.
The King of Chaos had hired the Eternal Night Pavilion at such a high price precisely because he couldn't locate Lu Changsheng himself.
Su Xiaoqi said, "Our Eternal Night Pavilion has a rule: if an assassin fails, that assassin is not allowed to accept the same bounty again, and the amount of the bounty will increase. With my failure, your price might rise to three hundred million, or even five hundred million, eight hundred million. If the King of Chaos can afford it, the Eternal Night Pavilion might dispatch a Heavenly Level Assassin. But a Heavenly Level assassin's fee starts at one billion Immortal Stones at least, and can be tens of billions at most. If the King of Chaos is confident he can kill you himself, he might not be willing to go all in. I have told you what you wanted to know. You can let me go now, right?"
"You can't go."
"What else do you want? I am willing to give up all my wealth just to live."
Su Xiaoqi knew well that Lu Changsheng wouldn't easily let her go.
She could offer all her treasures to save her life.
Lost treasures could be earned back, but once life was gone, it was truly gone.
Lu Changsheng stared at the exceptionally talented assassin: "I want you..."
Su Xiaoqi's heart skipped a beat, and she helplessly closed her eyes, with her True Qi sealed, she was entirely at Lu Changsheng's mercy.
"I want you to become my disciple. As long as you swear to be my disciple, I can let you go."
"What?"
Su Xiaoqi opened her eyes again. She hadn't heard wrong, had she?
Lu Changsheng's condition was actually for her to become his disciple?
This was something Su Xiaoqi had never imagined.
What was he really after with this move?
Was her charm really so lacking that Lu Changsheng had no interest in her, just wanting to take her on as a disciple?
"What do you say?"
Lu Changsheng had never before taken a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal as a disciple.
Su Xiaoqi's strength was no less than the Green Ox King's; only because of Lu Changsheng's unexpected scheme was she injured and captured.
The Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator had not set rules against recruiting disciples of a higher realm than oneself.
"Fine, fine."
Su Xiaoqi reasoned that a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal becoming the disciple of a Heavenly Immortal was somewhat humiliating, but to preserve her life, she would accept discipleship first, planning to find a way to escape once her True Qi was restored.
"This place is simple, so we'll keep it simple—just perform the prostration ceremony and present the tea at an auspicious time."
Lu Changsheng waved his sleeve, and a cup of fragrant tea appeared.
It was still necessary to go through some formalities to become a disciple.
Su Xiaoqi was forced to kneel, kowtow three times, and offer tea to Lu Changsheng in salute.
Su Xiaoqi bit her lip; she was a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal, an Earth Level assassin of Eternal Night!
And yet she was performing discipleship rituals to the Heavenly Immortal Realm's Lu Changsheng!
If the assassins of Eternal Night Pavilion knew about this, she wouldn't be able to stay in the Pavilion anymore!
"Very good, as your master, I will now announce the sect rules. You are the tenth disciple I have taken on, so naturally, you must abide by the sect rules. From now on, they will be your senior brothers and sisters."
Lu Changsheng completely disregarded that Su Xiaoqi was a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal—his process of taking disciples remained the same, providing instruction.
Su Xiaoqi was dumbstruck.
So Lu Changsheng was serious?
She, a mighty Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal, was now the junior sister of a bunch of early-stage Heavenly Immortals, and even Earth Immortals?
This was truly the shame of a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal.