Chapter 148: The Land of Evil
"Mr. Qin also knows the situation of my family. My parents died at the hands of bandits in their early years. Now the world is getting more and more chaotic. If it weren't for God's pity on us and let us meet you, we would have been plotted against by the evil man Zhuang Gaochi last year. Not to mention that if it weren't for you this time, we would have lost our lives.
So I want to join you and work for you, not asking for anything else but to be protected from being bullied in this troubled time, and to have more sense of security, instead of being like now, where seemingly the business is thriving and the family is wealthy, but in fact, it is just a castle in the air and will collapse at the slightest storm.
I know this request is a bit unreasonable. You are such a capable person. As long as you are willing, there will be no shortage of people to serve you. But I still think I have some business ability, and the Yun family has accumulated some financial resources over the years.
I know that people like you, Mr. Qin, will never be content with mediocrity and stay dormant. Sooner or later, you will have to come out and make great achievements.
I can still help Mr. Qin's career to some extent, and the financial resources of the Yun family can also play a role to some extent." Yun Lan said.
Qin Ziling didn't expect Yun Lan to ask for this. He was slightly stunned, then slowly turned his head to look at her and said in a deep voice, "Are you sure you want to join me? You should know that the more powerful a person is, the greater the storms he will face in the future. If something goes wrong, you will all suffer. For example, if today's incident is leaked, I'm afraid your Yun family will be finished."
"That's a thousand times better than living in fear and anxiety every day without seeing any hope. As for what happened today, if it weren't for Mr. Qin, our Yun family would have been finished, and I don't know how much humiliation and torture I would have to go through before I die!" Yun Lan said without hesitation.
"Okay, since you have made up your mind, I agree!" Qin Ziling agreed readily.
Qin Ziling has no reason to refuse a woman like Yun Lan, whose fighting ability is almost negligible but other aspects are far above the online level, if she is determined to join him.
Seeing Qin Ziling's agreement, Yun Lan, who had been calm and logical just now, suddenly became excited and turned to Yun Tai and said, "Yun Tai, come on, let's go to see the Lord together!"
"Don't!" Qin Ziling got goosebumps all over his body and said quickly, "No matter in front of others or behind others, please call me Mr. Qin from now on, so as not to let anything slip and make people suspicious."
"Mr. Qin is right, but today is the first time, so you are allowed to call us Lord." After that, Yun Lan pulled Yun Tai to the carriage and kowtowed to Qin Ziling, saying, "Yun Lan, Yun Tai greets the Lord. From now on, the Yun family will follow the Lord's lead and will never betray. If you break this oath, God will punish you with five thunders!"
"This..." Qin Ziling, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was speechless.
This is clearly bullying him because he is driving the car, and he is forcing himself on him!
After paying their respects, Yunlan sat down again with a beaming smile on his face, while Yuntai was more unable to suppress his excitement.
Yuntai is at an age when he is most likely to develop admiration for heroes and strong people.
The strength that Qin Ziling had just displayed and the calmness when killing people had been deeply imprinted in his mind and could never be erased.
The carriage was much faster than when it went there, and it only took a little more than an incense stick of time to return to the "Hua Yun" powder and rouge shop.
"I have things to deal with now. We can talk in detail when I come back." The car stopped, and Qin Ziling whispered to the Yunlan siblings who came out of the car with their backs bent.
"Okay, we'll wait for you on the second floor of the store." Yun Lan said softly.
Qin Ziling nodded, then strode away.
The Yunlan siblings watched Qin Ziling's tall back as he left, and it took them a long time to come back to their senses.
Everything that happened today was so shocking that even now, they still feel it is unreal.
A mere inner court disciple of Dean Hantie actually killed a martial arts master and five iron-skinned black-armored guards in just a few breaths. Who would believe it if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes and experienced it personally?
Qin Ziling left the county city from the west gate, took out a cloak from the corpse-raising ring and put it on in a deserted place, then took a detour outside the city and rushed all the way to Sanyuan Mountain in the east.
The mountain behind Sanyuan Mountain was indeed as rumored, with steep mountains and many poisonous snakes, insects and wolves.
But these are child's play for Qin Ziling now.
He followed the direction Nangong Yue had given him and came to the place where Lin Zhengqing had left alone.
"It's really like a solitary peak overlooking a bottomless abyss! But this fog is a bit strange. The terrain here is not too high, and it's noon now. Logically, the fog should have dissipated long ago, and it shouldn't be so cold and gloomy. It seems that there must be a place of evil."
Qin Ziling glanced around and deliberately reached his hand into the thick fog, feeling the biting cold. A look of anticipation and joy appeared on his face.
Soon, Qin Ziling continued to move forward.
As he walked, he checked the ground.
No one walks here all year round, and it is shrouded in fog, so the ground is a little damp. Lin Zhengqing had just walked through here in the morning, and footprints were faintly visible on the ground.
Qin Ziling followed the trail and passed several forks. The mountain path went up and became more and more dangerous. White clouds were flying on the edge, and below was a deep abyss. It was so vast that he could not see the scenery below the mountain at all.
The cold is getting stronger.
Qin Ziling walked forward for about a mile, and there was no road in front of him, but a solitary cliff.
A mountain breeze blew in from the cracks in the steep cliffs of the solitary peak, bringing with it an indescribable chill.
"This should be the place!" Qin Ziling had a hint of joy on his face, and without using any climbing hooks or ropes, he jumped up to a height of eight or nine meters. He was in mid-air and was about to fall, his body twisting and swinging in the air like a dragon swinging its tail.
A gust of wind suddenly and the plane soared up another six or seven meters. Just as it was about to fall again, Qin Ziling used the same trick again and flew up another four or five meters before he landed on a protruding rock on the cliff.
Qin Ziling touched the rock with his toes and jumped up again.
After doing this several times, Qin Ziling landed steadily on the top of the solitary peak.
What Qin Ziling just displayed was the third picture in the "Dragon Swimming Picture", a dragon swimming in space.
This picture is the most profound and mysterious one among the three pictures. When Qin Ziling had not yet reached the realm of true strength in his Qi training, he only had qi and blood and brute force. At most he could do some dodging and evading movements in the air. There was no way for him to stir up a gust of wind and soar up six or seven meters.
But true power is completely different from the brute force of qi and blood. It can attract the spiritual energy of the five elements of heaven and earth around it.
Qin Ziling's wood element has reached the initial stage of true power. He circulated his wood element true power in the air, causing wisps of wood element spiritual energy to flow around him. Then, he used the dragon body technique and borrowed the power of the air flow twice to soar another ten meters in the air. In total, he leaped more than twenty meters high in one leap. Although it was far from being considered flying, it was already extremely amazing.
Standing on the top of the solitary peak, Qin Ziling discovered that there were several smaller peaks on the other side of the mountain.
There is a pool of water between several peaks.
The water in the pool was pitch black and bubbling with bubbles.
There is a black stone platform in the middle of the pool, with many runes carved on it.
Those runes were dark red in color, probably written in some kind of blood.
The rune glowed dimly, as if carrying an invisible attraction. Most of the black evil energy escaping from the pool floated towards the stone platform, and then gathered together in the middle of the platform to form a ball of black mist, which kept rolling, as if it was brewing some monster.
"It is indeed a place of evil spirits. This stone platform should be a formation that gathers evil spirits. It is similar to the coffin in the corpse-raising ring that is engraved with runes."
Qin Ziling thought with surprise, his sharp eyes fell on the stone platform through the thin black mist, and found that the few runes on the stone platform were exactly the same as the runes engraved on the coffin in the corpse-raising ring.
"The stone platform formation continuously gathers Yin Sha Qi, and finally condenses it into Yin Sha Pearl. This formation must be a magic method, and warriors generally cannot write runes that can stir up the energy of heaven and earth. The Lin family is a martial arts family, and it is reasonable to say that they absolutely cannot set up this Yin gathering formation.
Moreover, the Yin Sha Pearl contained Yin Sha death energy, which was useless to the Lin family. Obviously, the Lin family was only the ones who guarded and collected the Yin Sha Pearl. The Lin family practiced the Ice Power, and this place was extremely cold, so the Lin family was indeed the right person to guard and collect the Yin Sha Pearl.
But who set up this Yin Gathering Formation? What kind of power could instruct the Lin family to guard and collect the Yin Sha Pearl? It seems that although Fangqiao City is poor and remote, it has already had a big force extending its tentacles.
Forget it, why should I think so much? Anyway, I am just a small person now, I won't be stupid enough to show up and go against those big forces! I'd better collect the evil energy here first, and quickly improve the strength of the three-headed zombie. The other things are empty. "
Qin Ziling quickly stopped his scattered thoughts and summoned the four heads to lie on the top of the mountain to guard the surroundings. Then, Qin Ziling took the corpse-raising ring from the little finger of his left hand, raised it with his left thumb and index finger, pointed it at the pool, and after silently reciting a formula in his mind, he shouted in a low voice: "Collect!"
Before he finished speaking, the corpse-raising ring, which looked like an ordinary ring, began to emit a black halo. This black halo continued to expand and distort, and finally a huge mouth appeared.
This huge mouth is like the mouth of a peerless demon, hideous and terrifying, with black whirlpools inside, bottomless.
The whirlpool in the giant mouth was spinning, and the water in the entire pool seemed to boil in an instant. Countless bubbles emerged from the surface of the pool, and wisps of evil black air escaped , gathering into a tumbling airflow that poured into the giant mouth like a flood.
