Wait a minute, where is my master?

At the entrance of the alley.

The little Taoist's mood was quite sour.

He went to use a Transmission Array, and it was fine that the Formation wasn't working, but then he actually encountered two who wanted to use him as bait.

Encountering bait wasn't really an issue, after all, the little Taoist wasn't unused to being... No, rather, he had discovered it after all.

But now he was waiting at the alley entrance for those two to come out, what did it mean for them to suddenly die five steps away from the alley entrance?

That male Cultivator called Brother Li, aren't you all in this together?

Jin Xu was internally powerless to complain, and then he activated the "Concealing Skill"—that seemed to touch upon the laws of magic.

He wanted to conduct an experiment, or rather, an attempt, that he had been considering for a long time in his heart.

Once this magic was unleashed, not only did the assassins from Jingyu Building temporarily lose part of their memories about the little Taoist, but the two women beside Jin Xu experienced the same.

However, Yu Yaoer and Little White had lost their memories.

But they both had a clue.

"Eh, Little Yu sis, how come we're here!? Didn't the young master say he was taking us to use the Transmission Array? And what's this stuck on my forehead?"

Little White's mind was momentarily muddled, and her body tensed, she was the first to speak up.

"Shh, keep your voice down, look at this."

Speaking, Yu Yaoer pulled off a piece of paper from her Husky's forehead, it read "Check Little Yu's sleeve—Left by Jin Xu" in bold characters.

Seeing these characters, the Little Fish Demon quickly lowered her head to look at her sleeve and found a Spiritual Sense jade token there.

"Little Yu, Little White, when you hear this message...

It means I've used the "Concealing Skill" again, and you might temporarily lose some of your memories about me.

But that's not important.

Do you see that male Cultivator in the alley? He is from the assassin organization Jingyu Building. For some reason, they've taken a contract related to my whereabouts.

Right now, his memory should be like yours, also somewhat forgotten, probably remaining in a state before carrying out the task.

So, what you two need to do now, is to capture him and try to get some information out of him."

All of these instructions might sound intricate, but it was merely a matter of sending Spiritual Sense into the jade token.

After receiving the message left by the little Taoist, the two women sharply looked at each other, then swiftly rushed into alley.

Meanwhile, Jin Xu himself was slowly following them while maintaining the "Concealing Skill."

In fact, this experiment regarding the "Concealing Skill" had been on his mind for a very long time, but he had never encountered the right moment, nor the right opponent, until now.

Today, he was lucky enough to have a Cultivator who couldn't even beat his demon pet that touched his annoyed brow, which was perfect to test on.

Now, at a preliminary glance, it seemed that leaving messages truly bypassed the forgetting effect of this skill.

Inside the alley.

The male Cultivator surnamed Li stared blankly at the two Cultivators Little Five and Little Liu, when suddenly he felt a gust of wind laced with a trace of coldness attacking him head-on.

"Could it be the murderer who killed those two brothers? Damn it, why can't I remember at all why I'm here? Could it be that my Spiritual Sense is damaged?

Forget it, whatever the situation, it's more important to leave this trouble spot first!"

Brother Li's mind raced, and a breeze emerged under his feet, his entire being flew backward like a piece of paper along with the wind generated by Little White's punch.

His cultivation was only around the second or third layers of the Nascent Soul Realm, but as an assassin, escape arts and assassination techniques were vital to him.

So, for a moment, Little White actually had a bit of trouble reaching him.

Seeing her attack become the other's aid, Little White's little nose wrinkled, she stopped her pouncing posture and yelled, "Little Yu sis, use that move! Block his escape path!"

"Got it."

Yu Yaoer's voice arose from the other end of the alley; unbeknownst to them, she had already draped herself in the Deception Veil and moved behind Brother Li.

As Little Fish Demon's crisp voice settled, nine plain and unadorned water dragons appeared, striking towards the assassin from Jingyu Building's back as they crossed each other at the end of the alley.

Sensing the fluctuation of Water attribute Spiritual Power behind him, the cultivator surnamed Li was startled for a moment, then a playful smile surfaced on his face.

"Heh, these two girls have decent cultivation, but it seems their worldly experience is rather green. If that young lady with the greyish-white hair hadn't called out, and I retreated deeper into the alley before striking suddenly, without doubt, it would have been an extremely dangerous situation. But now...."

Although Brother Li inwardly scorned the two women, in reality, he was fully alert, channeling his Wind-blown Willow Escape Skill and weaving through the gaps of the nine water dragons with thrilling precision.

"Hehe, it seems to be the first time these two are dealing with the pugilistic world; indeed, their control is lacking; these gaps between the water dragons are actually...."

Before he could finish his derisive thought.

Yu Yaoer, standing at the end of the alley, brought her hands together, and stopped the flow of Spiritual Power to the nine water dragons.

"Splash!"

The simple nine water dragons, without the support of Spiritual Power, instantly reverted to their most basic form, the "Origin of Life".

And drenched thoroughly, was Brother Li, who was weaving through the gaps.

Moreover, because the water carried no attack power, it didn't even trigger his Protective Dharma Treasure.

"What's going on?!"

The cultivator surnamed Li was filled with shock and hesitation. He had thought there would be something tricky about the water, but when it soaked him and his Protective Dharma Treasure did not activate, Brother Li then realized, this was just ordinary water.

"The opponent... darn it!"

He suddenly remembered the chill within the strong gust that had attacked him earlier and tried to activate his Protective Dharma Treasure.

But in a high-level confrontation, it was only a moment.

The instant he got wet and stood dazed instead of activating his treasure was the moment he lost the chance to ever use it again.

The "Origin of Life" on Brother Li's body instantly turned into ice, the bone-chilling cold spreading through his limbs and heading towards his internal organs.

This was not a metaphor, but quite literally spreading throughout.

Little White, using magic, had covered the cultivator surnamed Li in frost. With exquisite control, she extended countless tiny yet hard ice needles inside the frost, piercing directly into his blood vessels and meridians.

They began to transport a continuous stream of cold within.

Brother Li, being an assassin, was inherently frail.

After Little White's machinations, he was thoroughly disabled from resistance.

His current sensation was like that of a kind mother thinking her child studying for senior year exams was burning the midnight oil, only to discover upon closer inspection that he was secretly writing novels!

Angry, yet feeling very cold on the inside!

"Th-the two of you... I, we must have some misunderstanding; I don't remember where I have offended you, have I?"

Brother Li's lips, turning a purplish hue, trembled as he spoke.

Little White remembered the task that Jin Xu had left for them, so she had intentionally not frozen his mouth.

"Ah, no misunderstanding."

Little White flashed in front of him, while Yu Yaoer, holding the Deception Veil, also approached from the end of the alley.

"Little Yu, we should start... eh, how come we are here?

And, who are you, frozen guy!?"

Little White was in the midst of speaking when her mind suddenly became hazy.

Her words shifted, and she looked at the ice sculpture before her with confusion.

Within the alley, the young Taoist silently maintaining the Concealing Skill, frowned slightly upon seeing this scene.

The speed at which his skill caused people to forget memories seemed to be much more potent than he had anticipated....