Invisible Security Guard
Chapter 1390 - 1389: Crisis is Quietly Approaching

Chapter 1390: Chapter 1389: Crisis is Quietly Approaching

The Eight Great Families usually appear very mild and never interfere with the growth of civilian groups, but once they make a decision, it’s like a thunderstorm.

The council meeting lasted all night, and after that night, each of the Eight Great Families dispatched an assassination squad to Mount Xumi.

The main mission of the eight assassination squads was singular, to assassinate Yusuf Zuck, to kill Li Hu, to kill ’Laura Parham’!

Who is Laura Parham? She is the military advisor of Mount Xumi, although only at the Intermediate God Sovereign level, she has long been in the sights of the Eight Great Families.

Her cultivation level is secondary, it is mainly that she is skilled in politics and strategy, understands heavenly secrets, and knows geography, making such a person often more fearsome than those of a Superior Divine Master.

These three were on the kill list, and upon their death, the eight squads were responsible for completely sweeping through Mount Xumi.

In the past, Mount Xumi remained untouched not because of its insurmountable terrain but because the Eight Great Families had never joined forces, always fighting separately, with natural barriers only partly the reason.

This time, though, the Eight Great Families began to clean up their rear, eliminating all potential threats in their infancy.

It seems they’re preparing for a future great war against the forces of good and evil, so to combat external foes, they must first secure internal stability; if internal affairs are not in order, then the empire of the Eight Great Families could collapse in an instant under collusion from within and without!

As for the leaders of the eight squads, they are the heads of the covert operations of the Eight Great Families, all of whom are at the Superior Divine Master level.

Among Superior Divine Masters, there are strong and weak, with the Eight Great Clan Leaders being the strongest, plus they have Innate Spiritual Treasures, making them almost invincible!

Slightly weaker ones include Thunderbolt Beads, like these heads of covert operations.

And even weaker are those like Li Hu, who, while also being Superior Divine Masters, are worlds apart when compared to the Eight Great Clan Leaders.

The eight squads were led by Superior Divine Masters, and everyone in the teams was also a Divine Master.

As is widely known, the total number of Divine Masters in the Heavenly Realm, including junior, intermediate, and senior levels, is just over three thousand, of which the Eight Great Families make up at least two thousand.

If spread evenly, that means nearly three hundred Divine Masters per family.

Their strength comes from having a numerical advantage in Divine Masters, possessing Innate Spiritual Treasures, and controlling unknown powers, so how could any civilian force rival the Eight Great Families?

Once the Eight Great Families join forces, they become invincible, conquering all opposition!

Moreover, this assassination operation is top secret because the Eight Great Families don’t want to create too much upheaval. So they aim for a low profile and quick action, wiping out Mount Xumi swiftly before moving into the East Sea to continue their eradication of rebels. In short, these eight squads wield supreme authority over life and death, with a total of seventy-two members.

Each family contributes nine members, with the weakest being Junior Divine Masters, and Intermediate Divine Masters making up the majority.

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Meanwhile, in the deep of the night on Mount Xumi, the darkness was so thick that even stretching out one’s hand, one could not see one’s own fingers.

Many lanterns were lit on the mountain at night, and some grand halls were even brightly illuminated due to Luminous Pearls.

In the bedroom of Yusuf Zuck’s residence, four maids lay side by side under a quilt, their heads and little feet sticking out.

But underneath the quilt?

Suffice to say they wore no clothes; they were there to warm the bed, waiting for their new master to pounce on them.

In fact, they had long lost their purity, being passed around among various household heads, and sometimes, several detestable heads would take turns playing different games with them!

Yet they were truly young, having been taken to the mountain at a very tender age and put to the most menial tasks. They truly lacked human rights and everything else, and their ultimate fate was bound to be tragically sad.

Yusuf Zuck was no savior, let alone a living bodhisattva. Girls like that were common in the mountains, so it was beyond his ability to save them, unless he became the top leader and then pardoned and released them. Given the crisis he was currently in, there was simply no way he could save anyone.

"Top leader..." Yusuf Zuck licked his lips. In fact, becoming the top leader was quite an appealing thought. Shang Xuemi Mountain was a den of great bandits, with more than just a hundred thousand of them—he had only seen the hundred thousand leaders!

Indeed, what had gathered in the square previously were the hundred thousand leaders, the chiefs of small hills and tribes, collectively coming together for a drink.

Thus, according to legend, there were billions of bandits on Xuemi Mountain!

That meant at least a billion, by any count.

The Heavenly Realm was filled with countless divine beings, and below were three thousand great worlds. How many people ascend from the three thousand great worlds daily? Countless, hence what the Heavenly Realm was never short of was people—more than demons, more than beasts!

In just one corner of the south end of Guard City in the northwest, billions of civilians lived, so one could imagine just how large the population figures must be in cities across the Heavenly Realm, beyond any measure by the Dao!

To daAboutre to call oneself a great bandit, one must have a Superior Divine Master and a vast bandit base. Both conditions were indispensable.

However, Xuemi Mountain ranked sixth amongst the great bandits, which was quite reasonable, considering the sheer number of bandits they had; surprisingly, there were only two Divine Masters there, pitifully few indeed.

Of course, this also showed that in the Heavenly Realm, becoming a Divine Master was not so easy. Among the countless billions and trillions, there were only a few thousand Divine Masters, thus the proportion was extremely unbalanced.

"Hm, time to make a run for it!" Noting the deep night and quiet surroundings, Yusuf Zuck prepared to escape.

His escape simply meant sneaking out, and then instantly parasitizing someone’s body, after which, no one would be able to find him.

So if he wanted to flee, Xuemi Mountain could not stop him, and the timing now was just right. There were only two Divine Masters on the mountain, and with the top leader in seclusion, only the Think Tank remained.

"Okay, just do it!" Yusuf Zuck made a swift decision, stood up straight away, and prepared to leap over from the side wall!

However, just as he stood up, a Divine Consciousness instantly enveloped him!

"Damn it!" Yusuf Zuck’s eyebrows shot up. That Think Tank wasn’t sleeping or resting, but was watching him all the time. It wasn’t just the Divine Emperors’ guards outside. The Think Tank was also secretly observing him!

"What do you mean by this, Think Tank?" Since the Divine Consciousness had already brazenly enveloped him, Yusuf Zuck could no longer pretend to be unaware, so he looked up into the night sky, his voice cold!

"Whoosh~"

"Swoosh~"

Two figures quickly flew in. Aside from the Think Tank, there was unexpectedly a giant with an axe—the Axe-wielding Giant who was the ninth in command!

This ninth in command was at the level of a Divine King, having just entered the realm of the Mid-level God King, and he was the weakest in cultivation level among the nine leaders. The other eight were all Divine Emperors, and they were all Superior Divine Emperors at that. Even some of the chiefs below them were Divine Emperors, but those people hadn’t become leaders, while this Axe-wielding Giant had become one of them!

This was very atypical and puzzling.

Such a huge den of bandits, with a God King as leader? This seemed somewhat illogical, but he didn’t ask!

"Hehehe, Old Ten, you’re not asleep either!" The Axe-wielding Giant laughed heartily and landed beside Yusuf Zuck.

With the Giant standing beside him, Yusuf Zuck looked like a child by comparison. This person was nearly twice his height.

The Think Tank also descended and said with a smile and a wave of his hand, "Old Ten, you’re overthinking it. Old Nine and I came to find you for a reason. We’ve just received a report on the whereabouts of your wife and the Black Tiger, so we came to find you in order not to delay you. We were worried about your wife possibly encountering further mishaps, so that’s why we’ve come, not to surveil you!"

"What? News already?" Yusuf Zuck was both shocked and delighted!