#306 - It's a bit troublesome.

Looking at his portrait, Xu Ming felt that he had been targeted, not just ambushed.

It seemed that the other party had ulterior motives.

They didn't randomly choose him; they had been targeting him from the start.

Xu Ming was puzzled.

I haven't done anything, and I don't have any great grudges with them, so why do they want to kill me?

I don't even know them.

Could it be because I'm ranked second on the Azure Cloud List, so the demon race wants to nip me in the bud?

Xu Ming thought about it, and that was the only reason he could come up with.

Xu Ming wasn't unaware of the assassination history of geniuses on the Azure Cloud List.

This time, the geniuses of the Central Plains did dominate the list; among the top ten, the Central Plains countries occupied six spots, with the first and second places both taken by the Central Plains.

However, similar situations had occurred before.

In previous Azure Cloud Lists, the geniuses of the Southern Border Demon Kingdom had even occupied seven spots, sweeping the top three.

That period was known as the darkest hour for the geniuses of the Central Plains.

At that time, the Central Plains also assassinated some of the geniuses from the Southern Border Demon Kingdom.

However, they generally ended in failure.

Because those who were ranked in the top few on the Azure Cloud List would definitely have protectors.

If someone of the same realm or one realm higher went to cause trouble for those geniuses, the protectors wouldn't interfere, as geniuses also needed to be tempered.

If you died facing your peers, even if it was bad luck, you still lost; you shouldn't have occupied a spot on the Azure Cloud List.

Only geniuses who had experienced life and death like that would have greater stamina when they entered the World Ranking in the future.

Otherwise, if they were nurtured like flowers in a greenhouse, such geniuses would definitely be useless, and they would die even more miserably in the future struggle for the Great Dao.

However, this kind of open assassination, especially with the other party even taking out his portrait, was indeed quite rare.

Especially when Xu Ming looked at the attire of the three disciples and they didn't seem to be from the same dynasty, it further illustrated the problem.

This indicated that it wasn't just one force that wanted to assassinate him.

At least the Southern Border Demon Kingdom had unified their thinking and wanted to kill him.

"This is a bit troublesome."

Xu Ming stroked his chin, feeling that if he encountered a demon, they would rush up to attack him.

He had to be two hundred percent vigilant against the demon race!

After looting the three demons, Xu Ming continued to fly towards the Bodhi Blood Fruit.

On the way, Xu Ming also encountered some Golden Horn Fruits.

Xu Ming picked them up casually, about twenty or so; not just for Xu Zheng, but also for the men in the Xu and Qin households.

Even if this gift wasn't very light, especially since he was the one giving it, they would all accept it with a smile.

Although Xu Ming didn't have a good impression of the Xu household and didn't like to engage in these social niceties, his mother was, after all, in the Xu household and might even live there for the rest of her life.

So, he was actually building relationships for his mother.

Meanwhile, as Xu Ming headed towards Bodhi Mountain, three people in the Rootless Secret Realm had gathered.

"Where did our驸马爷 go?" a man asked.

"Who knows? Either Emerald Dragon Lake, Bodhi Mountain, or the Golden Desert; in short, those three places have the most opportunities," the scarred man named Wang Mingshan replied casually, his tone very nonchalant.

"Then should we split up?"

"Alright, alright."

Just then, the man with the nose ring walked over and said to the others.

"Our驸马爷's realm isn't low; if we split up, we'll be defeated one by one by our驸马爷."

"Then what's your idea?" the scarred man said to the nose-ringed man, sounding annoyed.

In fact, the scarred man didn't like the nose-ringed man.

"On the way here, I encountered some demons," the nose-ringed man named Zeng Rong smiled, "Our驸马爷 seems to be targeted; everyone from the Southern Border Demon Kingdom who came here for the trial has one goal: to kill our驸马爷."

Everyone: "."

The man named Bai Zhan frowned: "How did Xu Ming offend the Demon Kingdom?"

"Who knows?" Zeng Rong laughed gleefully, "In any case, this is good for us; maybe we won't even have to take action, and our驸马爷's head will be chopped off?"

Wang Mingshan shook his head: "If that's the case, that's best, saving us the trouble of acting, but the strength of those beasts from the Southern Border Demon Kingdom isn't necessarily better than Xu Ming's."

"Alright, then let's send this驸马爷 on his way," Zeng Rong continued, "When I came here just now, I saw our驸马爷 flying towards Bodhi Mountain; let's just go straight there now."

As he spoke, a sinister look flashed in Zeng Rong's eyes: "When the time comes, we'll cozy up to the Number One Scholar and then stab him in the back; I wonder how he'll feel."

"Since we've found Xu Ming's location, then there's no time to lose; let's go straight there," the scarred man named Wang Mingzheng said.

Everyone agreed and quickly flew towards Bodhi Mountain.

Who would have thought that the people who participated in the Rootless Secret Realm selection together would turn against their friends?

At the same time, Shi Xin, who was heading towards the imperial capital of Wu, had already passed Jiangnan County.

If nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to reach the imperial capital of Wu in another half month.

But just then, a distorted door appeared in front of Shi Xin.

Shi Xin tilted his head, looked at the distorted door, and then reached out to touch it.

But in that instant.

Shi Xin's entire figure disappeared from the spot.

With a burst of dizziness, when Shi Xin opened his eyes, he saw that he was falling down non-stop.

"Damn it!"

Immediately after, Shi Xin heard a man's curse; he seemed to have smashed into that man, falling straight towards the ground.

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I can't get a fever, I have a lot of work to do, and I can't take time off these days.

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