CHAPTER 291: CHAPTER 291: STAR-PICKING TOWER

"Fourteenth cousin, cleverness can backfire. I give these words to you!"

Seeing the Fourteenth Prince’s mysterious confidence, Wei Wushang couldn’t be bothered to speak further with him.

As the old saying goes, it’s hard to advise a ghost who’s meant to die.

"You’re really going too far!"

"Am I really that bad?"

The Fourteenth Prince felt even more indignant after being spoken to like that by Wei Wushang.

Wei Wushang stared at him for a while and said, "Good medicine tastes bitter but benefits illness, sincere advice sounds harsh but aids action."

"When you finally curb your overconfidence, you’ll no longer be so pathetic!"

"A son of a thousand wealth does not sit under a hanging roof!"

"Alright, alright, I’ll heed your words and be careful in dealing with this Sheng Xueyi."

Only after Wei Wushang said this did the Fourteenth Prince start to take it seriously.

...

Star-picking Tower.

It’s an assassin organization spread across the Three Kingdoms.

Though the courts of Daxia, Great Yin, and Beili are aware of this assassin organization, Star-picking Tower, all three have chosen to ignore it.

Once, the courts of the Three Kingdoms attempted to eradicate Star-picking Tower.

But the result was a frenzied retaliation from the Tower; in a month, the number of assassinated officials and nobles exceeded four digits, and there were even assassins who stormed the imperial palaces in an attempt to kill the emperors.

Star-picking Tower managed to force the courts of the Three Kingdoms into laying down their banners and silencing their drums by such violent retaliation.

Of course, whether there were other factors at play, such as certain people taking advantage of the chaos, remains unknown.

After this incident, the existence of Star-picking Tower was brought to light.

And the assassins of Star-picking Tower no longer arrogantly left their name after completing their missions.

But those who knew, knew.

After receiving Sheng Xueyi’s instructions, Mrs. Wu changed her identity and approached Star-picking Tower to issue a bounty on the Fourteenth Prince.

Whoever could kill the Fourteenth Prince would receive a cultivation technique provided by Mrs. Wu.

For top-tier assassins of Star-picking Tower, money and treasures were of no lack. What they valued more was the cultivation technique.

Because an advanced cultivation technique meant furthering one’s strength.

With the bounty of exchanging a cultivation technique for the life of the Fourteenth Prince, the assassins of Star-picking Tower went mad.

Top-tier assassins sought to elevate themselves further, while ordinary assassins wanted to enhance their strength through this opportunity—after all, with greater strength, what couldn’t they attain?

As for the prince’s royal status?

To assassins with no reverence for royalty, even emperors were nothing.

"Your Highness, someone has placed a bounty on you in Star-picking Tower!"

Not long after the bounty was issued from Star-picking Tower, Mao Shenggong received the news and hurried to the Fourteenth Prince, "We can’t stay in Yunyang City; we must return to the Capital immediately!"

"What...?!"

The Fourteenth Prince was stunned after listening to Mao Shenggong.

Someone had placed a bounty on him in Star-picking Tower. Who?

"What’s the price on my head?"

"A cultivation technique!"

Mao Shenggong’s face showed bitterness, "The cultivation technique is called Jinghong, which was the signature technique of Rashamon, the supreme assassin of Star-picking Tower. Now, all of the Tower’s assassins are going crazy!"

"Your Highness, we need to leave immediately!"

"It’s too late!"

The Fourteenth Prince took a deep breath, "Once the bounty is issued, the surroundings of the Wei Family’s estate are likely already filled with spies from Star-picking Tower."

"Damn it!"

"Don’t let me find out who issued the bounty, or I’ll skin them alive!"

A dignified prince turned into prey for a pack of assassins—what a humiliation, what a frustration!