The young boy looked down from above, expressionless, his cold voice sounding almost like an interrogation.
Jiang Chen frowned, feeling somewhat displeased with this strange boy's attitude.
"I am Jiang Chen. Who are you?"
The killing intent began to emanate from the boy as he stared at Jiang Chen and said:
"I am the one who will send you to hell!"
Before Jiang Chen could even react, the boy leaped forward and jumped straight into the river, rapidly swimming toward him.
"What the hell, you psycho!" Jiang Chen cursed loudly and immediately turned to flee.
The bone-chilling killing intent radiating from the boy made him realize this was definitely not a joke. If he didn't run now, he would be an idiot.
At that moment, his mind was filled with confusion. What was wrong with this boy? Why would he want to kill a six-year-old child like him?
Although he had questions, in this urgent situation, he had no time to think carefully.
Although Jiang Chen swam quickly, the boy's speed was even faster. Propelled by the powerful soul power in his body, in the blink of an eye, he had already caught up to Jiang Chen.
Being chased to be killed for the first time, Jiang Chen inevitably felt some panic, and he could also sense that this boy was extraordinary; beneath that killing intent seemed to hide formidable strength.
Suddenly, the boy caught up to him. Both hands directly locked onto Jiang Chen's body and forcefully pressed him down into the water.
But the boy had clearly underestimated Jiang Chen's strength. Because of this carelessness, he would inevitably pay the price.
While struggling, Jiang Chen immediately choked on several mouthfuls of water, but he also discovered that the boy's strength was actually inferior to his.
One must know that the strength of his physical body alone was close to a thousand jin. If he used soul power, he could increase it by several hundred jin more.
In an instant, a sharp glint burst from Jiang Chen's eyes. Immense power erupted, and in the next moment, he forcefully broke free of the boy's hands, then reversed the situation and pressed the boy down instead.
At this moment, the assassin boy was stunned. His mind was filled with shock and bewilderment. He was being firmly held underwater by Jiang Chen and couldn't break free at all!
The tremendous force coming from above his head filled him with endless horror.
This kid really was born with divine strength!
No! This was far beyond just innate divine strength; he was simply a born monster!
At this point, he already hated that investigator to death. Such crucial information, yet they hadn't investigated deeply. They simply wrote four words: "innate divine strength". Wasn't this just setting him up to die?
In terms of pure strength, even when he channeled all his soul power, he could only approach a thousand jin. But he could clearly feel that this monstrous child's strength had already surpassed a thousand jin. How could he possibly resist?
If he didn't have a powerful offensive martial soul today, he would surely have died in a very frustrating way at the hands of this child.
The boy stopped his useless struggling. Soul power surged within his body, and a sharp, longsword suddenly appeared in his left hand. Without turning around, he stabbed backward.
The movement was as if he had practiced it thousands upon thousands of times; it accurately pierced toward Jiang Chen's heart and drove deep inside.
He no longer cared about any "accidental death" consequences. If he didn't do this, he would be the one to die.
Originally, seeing the boy had apparently given up struggling, Jiang Chen had felt a trace of reluctance.
But in the next instant, an intense stabbing pain assaulted his nerves. He looked down and saw that a longsword had already pierced through his flesh and deeply embedded itself in his heart.
The boy floated up and looked at the stunned Jiang Chen, a hint of ferocity appearing on his face.
"Why?" Jiang Chen stared fixedly at the boy and asked through gritted teeth.
He was just a child. Why did this boy want to kill him?
The boy's gaze was cold and indifferent as he softly said:
"Because someone wants you dead. What a pity… such a powerful genius is going to fall by my hand."
As he spoke, the longsword in his hand withdrew and vanished into thin air. Large amounts of blood immediately gushed out from Jiang Chen's wound.
"The one who should die… is you!"
Jiang Chen's voice suddenly turned icy. Under the boy's horrified gaze, he transformed into a zombie.
Those pitch-black eyes were like two bottomless abysses, as if they wanted to suck the boy's soul inside.
The moment the transformation was complete, the wound on Jiang Chen's body disappeared. His pitch-black, razor-sharp nails directly stabbed into the boy's abdomen.
Intense corpse poison instantly erupted within the boy's body. In the blink of an eye, he lost all ability to resist. Apart from still maintaining consciousness, his body had already been completely ravaged by the corpse poison.
"How… how is this possible?!"
Feeling his life force rapidly draining away, the boy cried out in terror.
In all his life, he had rarely felt fear like he did today. The child before him had overturned his understanding again and again.
He originally thought this would be the simplest mission, just an ordinary child.
But damn it… this was simply a god of death!
Jiang Chen didn't speak. He coldly dragged the boy onto the shore.
Although the boy's body had already been corroded by corpse poison, Jiang Chen had protected his head because he still needed to get some information from the boy's mouth.
He was just a six-year-old child who had never left Holy Soul Village.
Exactly who wanted him dead?
If he didn't figure this out, he would never have peace!
Under the boy's terrified gaze, Jiang Chen calmly put his clothes back on, then coldly turned his eyes toward the boy in scrutiny.
Bitterness filled the boy's heart. Before dying, his resentment toward that investigator had reached an indescribable peak.
Normally, every assassination would have a professional verifier hiding in the distance observing and recording the situation.
But this time, because he thought the mission was too simple, he refused to let the verifier follow him.
Now he was going to die silently like this.
"Who wants to kill me?" Jiang Chen asked in an icy voice.
The boy stiffly shook his head. Even his neck was starting to feel numb.
"I don't know."
Jiang Chen frowned. "Then who are you?"
"An assassin!"
At this moment, Jiang Chen's heart shook. The person who wanted him dead had actually hired an assassin.
"Tell me exactly who wants to kill me, and I can still spare your life."
A spark of hope suddenly lit up in the boy's lifeless eyes, but it quickly dimmed again.
He could feel that his body had already been destroyed beyond repair. Recovery would be extremely difficult. Moreover, he genuinely didn't know any information about the employer.
From the day he became an assassin, he had already prepared himself for death.
But he never expected this day would come so soon, and that he would die at the hands of a child.
He continued shaking his head and said:
"I have no access to information about the employer. Don't waste your effort."
As he spoke, his face suddenly became ferocious:
"After I die, there will definitely be even stronger assassins coming for you. You won't escape. Once we've locked onto you, your fate has only one outcome: you can only wait for death!"
A surge of rage rose in Jiang Chen's heart. He didn't care how powerful the assassins were. At worst, he would just hide in Holy Soul Village and let Tang Hao smash anyone who came.
But the feeling of having his life threatened like this was truly infuriating.
Moreover, just who was so vicious? He had to find them and repay them a hundredfold!
He looked at the boy collapsed on the ground, and his gaze gradually turned colder.
"You won't talk? I have ways to find out."
Under the boy's horrified gaze, he transformed once again. Pitch-black eyes, two sharp fangs fully bared, he slowly leaned toward the boy.
"You… what are you going to do?"
No matter how indifferent he had been toward other people's lives before, now that it was his turn, he still couldn't escape the fear in his heart.
Jiang Chen said nothing more. Under the boy's terrified eyes, he opened his mouth and bit down on the boy's neck…