Chapter 16: Night Exploration of Xujiabao
Yinranyue bravely opened the door, walked out of the room and looked around. There was .
"Oh!" Yin Ranyue looked at the closed door of the east wing, sighed softly, and returned to the room to lie down with her clothes on.
But this time, Yin Ranyue couldn't fall asleep anymore. All that came to her mind was Qin Ziling's gentleness and consideration towards her in the past few days, and his handsome appearance with a sincere smile on his face when he spoke.
As she thought about it, tears quietly rolled down the corners of Yin Ranyue's eyes.
In the past, she served Qin Ziling simply because she thought it was her mission and it was natural. She repeated it day after day and did not develop any strange feelings.
But these days, ever since Qin Ziling's transformation, a strange feeling has quietly arisen in my heart.
Even when Qin Ziling went to the martial arts school in the city to learn martial arts, she would think of him from time to time. Especially today when Qin Ziling appeared, protected her, and said that she was not a commodity but a family member, at that moment, she felt a kind of happiness of being cared for and protected that she had never felt before.
But fate is not something a weak woman like her can resist, nor is it something an ordinary man like Qin Ziling can contend with.
Therefore, in order to protect the mother and son of the Qin family, Yin Ranyue resolutely chose to surrender. Otherwise, if she had a choice, she would rather die than let the lustful demon Xu Yuanbiao defile her body.
"Young Master!" Yin Ranyue muttered softly in the dark night, then suddenly got up and opened the door again.
Standing at the door, she first looked towards the main room like a thief, and seeing no movement there, she cast her gaze on the tightly closed door of the east wing opposite. No one knew what she remembered, but a blush appeared on her pretty cheeks under the moonlight. She raised her foot to step out but then took it back.
This happened several times. Yin Ranyue suddenly took a deep breath, resolutely crossed the yard , came to the door of the east wing, then raised her hand and knocked gently.
"Master, it's me, Ranyue." Yin Ranyue said softly after knocking on the door.
But Qin Ziling seemed to be sleeping very soundly. Yin Ranyue knocked for a long time, but there was no movement from inside.
The blush on Yin Ranyue's face gradually faded, and the expectation in her eyes gradually turned into sadness and desolation.
"Master, I know I can't give you my first time. It will definitely bring disaster to the Qin family. I just want you to be the first man to see my innocent body." Yin Ranyue murmured softly with tears in her eyes, then shook her hair, turned around and went back to her house with a sad face.
When Yin Ranyue returned to the west wing, Qin Ziling, dressed in black, had already quietly left Anhe Village in the dark night, and was walking quickly towards Xujiabao under the cover of night.
In the dark night, Xujiabao looked like a huge monster crouching on the ground.
The entire fortress was built on a large earthen platform two meters high, half of which was naturally formed and half was artificially excavated. Its city wall was ten meters high and three or four miles long on all sides, with a moat surrounding the fortress.
The moat was dug deeply on the basis of a natural river. The river is wide and deep, and the river bank is also high. Even in the dry season, it is difficult to cross the river and enter the fortress without a bridge.
So once the drawbridge is retracted, it becomes a sturdy castle that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
In addition, outside the fortress, there are several arrow towers built in each direction to guard the gate. The arrow towers are very tall and built with bricks and stones, like a ferocious beast standing on the ground, making people feel uneasy before they even get close to the fortress.
Surrounding Xujiabao are continuous fields, all of which have complete and convenient water conservancy canals. They are all fertile fields, and one cannot tell how much land they occupy at a glance.
Qin Ziling found a secluded place on a small hill two miles away from Xujiabao, hid his body, and summoned the bronze corpse of the Tongbi Lingyuan. He gave orders with his spiritual thoughts, asking it to guard his body. Only then did Qin Ziling sit cross-legged and perform the technique of leaving his body.
The bronze corpse has the blood talisman of the flesh on it. Even if the soul leaves the body, it will automatically protect its master without special commands. But without the master's command, it will only protect the master foolishly without any flexibility.
The soul left the body and flew towards Xujiabao, wrapped in the embroidery needle soaked in corpse poison.
Xujiabao, Qin Ziling had only watched it from afar from the roadside and had never observed it up close, let alone entered the castle.
Tonight, when Qin Ziling flew to the foot of Xujiabao in his spirit body without anyone noticing, and looked up at the tall arrow tower, the majestic and solid city walls, and the elite soldiers wearing armor and holding swords and spears on the arrow tower and the city walls, he finally understood why the government was unwilling to easily come into conflict with Xujiabao.
Although he knew that the sentries in the arrow tower and on the city wall could not see him, he could not guarantee that there were no people in the world who were born with "yin-yang eyes", so Qin Ziling still tried his best to avoid those sentries and flew quietly into Xujiabao.
Even though it was late at night, it was not difficult to imagine the hustle and bustle of the day from the tall and short tiled houses and the well-organized streets inside the fort.
The bloody masculine aura on the west side of the castle was particularly strong, and in Qin Ziling's spiritual eyes, he could even faintly seep red flames from that area.
"The bloody masculine aura is so strong, and there is a spacious training ground and a high command platform. It seems that the west should be the location of Xujiabao's military camp." Qin Ziling's mind turned, and his gaze quickly turned from the west to the south of Xujiabao.
The buildings on the south side were obviously different from other places in Xujiabao. There were hundreds of courtyards with many entrances and exits, and the door decorations were exquisite. Among them, several mansions were particularly magnificent, with vermilion doors inlaid with shining copper nails and rings, tall stone unicorns placed in front of the doors, and tall walls. The smallest one covered an area of more than ten acres.
Not only that, although the bloody masculine aura in those mansions was not as dense and strong as the military camp in the west, some of them were particularly strong, as conspicuous as torches in the dark night.
"It seems that the south should be the area where the main clansmen and important figures of Xujiabao live. Although Xu Yuanbiao is only a concubine's son, he is still the son of the owner of the castle. Logically, he should live in that area." Qin Ziling thought to himself, and his soul had already wrapped in the embroidery needle and flew towards the south.
Qin Ziling was not sure which courtyard room Xu Yuanbiao lived in, so he first hid the embroidery needle on a big tree, and then went through walls and alleys to search for him in each courtyard room.
"Huh!" When Qin Ziling passed by a mansion, he saw a tall man walking around a rockery and pond in the middle of the night and heading towards a two-story building with a hip roof and five rooms in the backyard . He couldn't help but feel moved.
The man's body shape was very similar to the tall man riding a clouded leopard horse that Qin Ziling saw from afar when he first went into a trance last night.
Qin Ziling couldn't be sure whether it was the same person.
He was far away from the other person last night and couldn't see clearly.
But tonight he could see the man's appearance clearly. He was about fifty or sixty years old, with a horse face, deep eye sockets, and prominent brow ridges. Combined with his tall stature, he gave people a very majestic and cold feeling.
Of course, appearance is not the most important thing, but the man has a very strong bloody masculine aura. When the man walked by, Qin Ziling, who was floating more than ten meters above, actually felt a wave of heat coming towards him, making him feel quite uncomfortable.
"No wonder even if one's spirit has been cultivated to the realm of possession, it can only possess ordinary people. This man is more than ten meters away from me, but I can still feel the heat waves. If he really possesses someone, wouldn't it be like rushing into a fire? Not to mention that those who have practiced martial arts to a powerful level usually have strong spirits and firm minds. Even if I could possess someone reluctantly, I probably wouldn't be able to disrupt their mind, let alone control them!" Qin Ziling watched the man's back as he walked towards the building, and was secretly surprised at the strength of the other person's masculine blood and soul.
Qin Ziling was staring at his back, secretly frightened. At this moment, the man seemed to have noticed something and turned around suddenly, which scared Qin Ziling so much that he quickly flew behind the rockery next to him.
