Chapter 4: Paying Back the Debt of Love Why should parents decide on marriage matters...

Qin Yanheng raised his hand to prepare to make a hand gesture. Seeing that the formation had already taken shape, Luo Qingling's eyes rolled and he deliberately raised his voice to him and said, "Young Prince, this formation of yours will accidentally hurt ordinary people."

"Why did you accidentally hurt me?" Qin Yanheng paused and squinted his eyes at Luo Qingling. What was she planning to do?

"That's good. Then my cousin and I don't need to enter the formation, right?" Luo Qingling said hurriedly.

Qin Yanheng heard the hidden meaning and looked around at everyone with raised eyebrows.

This formation is only effective against monsters. If ordinary people accidentally enter it, it doesn't matter. It won't cause any impact anyway. Besides, he can take this opportunity to find out whether the people in front of him are monsters in disguise.

Thinking of this, Qin Yanheng simply followed Luo Qingling's words and said: "You are not monsters, why do you want to enter the formation? Do you think your life is too long?" Anyway, whether they enter the formation or not, he has a way to deal with it.

"Yes, yes, your highness is absolutely right. Cousin, let's leave quickly." The cousin pulled the woman and walked quickly towards the door.

We can't let him go! There are red marks on his neck, maybe it's a monster.

Luo Qingling's eyelids jumped, and he was about to go forward to grab his cousin, when he suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing from behind. The three of them froze in place and turned around to look.

"Clear the three realms, suppress the evil spirits, the monsters will die, the evil spirits will hurt themselves," Qin Yanheng raised the fingers of his right hand in front of his eyes and pinched the fingers to start the formation. "Tai Chi raises the wind and fire, Liang Yi kills the gods and exterminates the ghosts, the gate of heaven is open, sweep away the monsters, hurry and obey the command——"

The floor suddenly shook, and the yin and yang poles appeared under everyone's feet. The cousin hurriedly left the woman behind and quickened his pace to rush out of the Qin building.

Seeing this, Qin Yanheng smiled. He turned his palm over, knelt on one knee, and slapped the formation with his five fingers.

It’s the Kan hexagram!

Luo Qingling's heart was in her throat. She didn't understand what Qin Yanheng was going to do. She only knew that this hexagram was the most dangerous.

The golden circle under her feet suddenly moved, flew past her and went straight to the door. In the blink of an eye, the cousin and the woman were trapped in the circle, unable to move at all.

"So you're not a monster," Qin Yanheng stood up and clapped his hands. He tilted his head to relax his muscles and looked at Luo Qingling with some surprise. "At dusk, I set up a formation near this Qin Tower. No one except monsters can get close. Not only did you get in, but you can also use my Golden Dragon Sword. It's really amazing!"

Qin Yanheng had guessed early on that Luo Qingling and her group were not normal, but he did not say it out loud just now because he just wanted to find out why the Golden Dragon Sword recognized Luo Qingling as its master. He only thought she was a monster, but now it seems that Luo Qingling had indeed entered the formation by mistake.

The golden ring kept tightening, causing the two monsters to scream in pain.

The monster disguised as the cousin could no longer hold on and turned into a black line and disappeared into the ground, just like the man in the inn just now.

Seeing this, Luo Qingling swung his sword with his backhand, and a golden dragon flew out from the sword and pierced straight into the monster's belly. The woman monster who was also tied up next to her was so frightened that she screamed and her face turned pale.

Seeing that he was recognized, the monster disguised as his cousin lay on the ground, twisting his body to try to break free from the restraints.

Perhaps it was because the monster used magic power to fight against Qin Yanheng's golden circle, and the monster's power was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, so that it could not always maintain its human form. Black lines appeared on the monster's body from time to time, and after a while it returned to human form.

"You are just a little demon from the bottom of the river. Who brought you up here to cause trouble?" Qin Yanheng said sternly.

"I'm not a monster—"

"Don't try to quibble!"

Seeing that the monster refused to admit it, Qin Yanheng lost his patience. He pinched his fingers and added another golden circle on the monster. The monster rolled on the ground in pain, sometimes in human form and sometimes in black shadow. In the blink of an eye, he changed into another appearance, a handsome man.

"You said you weren't a monster, but now you've revealed yourself." Qin Yanheng walked forward with a few yellow talismans in his hand, waving his sleeves. "What on earth is that strong fragrance? Tell me quickly."

"Boom—"

The wooden wall behind him collapsed, and wood chips immediately spread all over the Qin Building.

Luo Qingling frowned and waved her hands, trying to brush away the wood chips that were flying in her face. She coughed lightly and looked back, only to see a woman tied to the bed, her aqua-green skirt dragging on the ground. She had been lying there for an unknown amount of time.

She looked carefully and found that the woman's face was familiar... it was Deng Yesi who had just disappeared with the man!

Deng Yesi lay on the bed, unable to move an inch. She could only stare at Luo Qingling and the others with her eyes open. Tears welled up in her eyes. She moved her mouth but no sound came out. From her lip movements, she seemed to be saying, "Save me."

With the previous lesson in mind, Qin Yanheng threw a golden ring towards Deng Yesi. The golden ring slid over Deng Yesi's body and directly trapped the terracotta warrior behind him in the circle.

This is the real Deng Yesi!

It seemed they had found the right place; the man who had abducted Deng Yesi was in the Qin Building. Now, thinking about it, that man was probably a demon in disguise. After all, the "cousin" imprisoned in the golden ring had the same red mark on his neck. Thinking so, Luo Qingling hurried forward to untie Deng Yesi.

"Madam Deng, I've been waiting for you all night. Why don't you come to see me?" The monster transformed into a handsome man suddenly spoke, his voice aggrieved and moving.

Hearing this, Deng Yesi suddenly pushed Luo Qingling away with strength from nowhere and rushed towards the monster in one step. Even Qin Yanheng was unable to stop him.

Perhaps it was because Deng Yesi was not a monster and was not affected by Taoist magic, so he was able to easily push the monster out of the golden circle.

She hugged the transformed monster and cried, "The child is gone... Our child is gone!"

broken!

That monster must have transformed into the person Deng Yesi was looking for.

Luo Qingling and the other two were about to step forward to pull Deng Yesi back, but they saw the monster use some kind of magic to push the golden ring back violently, almost causing Qin Yanheng to be attacked.

At this moment, the monster twitched the corner of his mouth, slowly raised his hand, bent his five fingers, and attacked Qin Yanheng. The latter was not expecting this and was hit hard.

Demonic energy permeated the air, and Qin Yanheng stumbled back a few steps in pain, his steps unsteady. After regaining his balance, he clutched his chest, his shoulders trembling slightly. He lowered his head, scoffed, and said, "A skinless little demon dares to go against this king?"

He spread out his palms to summon the Golden Dragon Sword, and suddenly realized that the Golden Dragon Sword had recognized Luo Qingling as its master. The monster, who had been following the two of them for a long time and knew their whole appearance, looked up and laughed.

"Prince Rong An, who has long been renowned for his Taoist skills, will one day die at my hands simply because he has no magical weapon!"

After he finished speaking, seeing that the monster was about to use another move, Luo Qingling, who had been silent all the time, sneered, swung his sword suddenly and summoned a golden dragon. The dragon's shadow flew out and hit the monster. In the blink of an eye, the dragon's body was covered with black lines.

"The Dragon King bows his head, and all ghosts and demons are destroyed—"

Qin Yanheng took the opportunity to make a hand gesture, and saw the dragon scales flash, and the tail wrapped around the monster and clamped it suddenly. The black lines exploded into black ink dots, and disappeared on the ground, leaving Deng Yesi with his arms still hanging in the air.

The monster disappeared.

"Hurry up, this Qin Building is bound to collapse, the formation can't last that long." Qin Yanheng dragged his injured body and jumped into the boat. The three of them reached the river bank before the Qin Building disappeared.

The sky was dark and the woods were silent. From time to time, a black bird flew across the sky. Judging from the sky, it should have been past midnight. The village in the distance was also pitch black.

The sound of horse hooves came from far away and closer, and shouts came from outside the woods.

"Cousin, cousin—"

It’s my cousin’s voice!

Luo Qingling's heart skipped a beat, fearing that it was another monster causing trouble. She suddenly turned her head to look at Qin Yanheng, who was standing under the tree with all his strength. After feeling her gaze, he looked back at her with a smile on his face.

"Don't worry, the formation has been broken now. The monster has already used up all its power to escape. It should be hiding in a corner licking its wounds now." Qin Yanheng's tone was nonchalant, and he didn't look like an injured person at all.

Deng Yesi listened to the conversation between the two and immediately realized that he had been deceived by the monster again and had also dragged down the two people who came to rescue him.

She lowered her head secretly and said nothing more, tears welled up in her eyes and she dared not cry out loud.

"Let's go back to the post station first, and discuss other things later." Qin Yanheng was trying to hold on, but he didn't want to be seen, so he had to turn around and leave first.

*

Chou time, post station.

It was now four o'clock in the morning and the lights in the hall were brightly on. The waiter who had been drowsy at the counter had already woken up and was busy preparing hot tea for the distinguished guests.

"So you went to find your aunt by yourself later?" Luo Qingling held the hot tea in both hands and took a sip to warm himself.

After everyone returned to the post station to reunite with the cousin, the cousin claimed that when they stayed at the post station in the evening, "she" told the cousin that she was exhausted and needed to rest for a while in the post station, so she let the cousin go to Xiangshan Temple alone to find her aunt.

Across the table, there was a yellow talisman stuck on the cousin's forehead. Qin Yanheng threw it there just to be on the safe side, fearing that the person in front of him was another monster.

Fortunately, this silly man was indeed my cousin. Seeing him nodding repeatedly and continuing with Luo Qingling's words, the talisman paper shook on his forehead with his cousin's movements, and the scene was funny.

"The rain was so heavy later that I returned to the post station to look for my cousin. But the waiter told me that my cousin had already left with me. That's when I panicked."

At this moment, everyone realized how powerful the monster's hallucination was, as it could deceive two people who came together at the same time.

"Brilliant, truly brilliant," Qin Yanheng couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. He slowly turned the teacup in his hand as he analyzed everything clearly. "In other words, everything changed after Lady Luo entered the post station. From her perspective, the two of them were taking shelter from the rain there, while in the other person's illusion, Lady Luo was the only one there."

How did the monster manage to set up two different illusions for two people at the same time? Qin Yanheng couldn't figure it out, and looked outside the door with a frown in thought.

At this time, the waiter came in from the woodshed outside the door with a teacup in his hand. When he stepped over the threshold, his feet were accidentally entangled by the hem of his clothes and he almost fell to the ground.

It’s the threshold!

Luo Qingling suddenly put down the teacup and his eyes met Qin Yanheng's in mid-air.

"I was the first to enter the post station in the evening, while my cousin, the coachman, and the others were still outside. The demon's illusion might have been based on the threshold, which is why the scenes my cousin and I saw were different."

Everyone nodded slightly.

After a busy night, they finally made some progress and rescued Madam Deng safely, but no one knew where her aunt had gone. Because Deng Yesi had been frightened in the first half of the night, no one deliberately asked her what had happened.

There was a lot of noise outside the door, and judging from the sound, a lot of people must have come.

Luo Qingling turned his head and saw a middle-aged man striding towards the post station not far away, followed by several black-clad guards.

"father?"

Deng Yesi, who had been silent beside her, suddenly stood up, and the crane cloak draped over her shoulders fell to the ground. She didn't bother to pick it up, but just stared at Lord Deng in a daze, who glared at Deng Yesi angrily.

It is obvious that the relationship between Lord Deng and Deng Yesi is not an ordinary father-daughter relationship.

Luo Qingling looked at Deng Yesi's fingers tightly gripping the edge of the table, feeling a little sorry. She reached out and covered the back of Deng Yesi's hand, then raised her head and smiled soothingly at her. Deng Yesi's trembling body slowly calmed down.

"I told you to choose a husband at the Qujiang Banquet, but you refused and insisted on sneaking off to this deep mountain forest. If this gets out, how are you going to get married? Who would want a slut like you?"

Lord Deng quickly stepped forward, pulled Deng Yesi to his side, and started to walk out.

"Dad... I'm not..." Deng Yesi was already crying, "I don't want to marry them..."

"Marriage is something that should be decided by parents. Now, it seems like I'm wrong to let you choose for yourself."

Lord Deng didn't care about Deng Yesi's face at all. He spoke loudly to himself with a stiff tone and hatred, as if Deng Yesi owed him tens of millions of taels of silver.

Seeing that Deng Yesi was about to be dragged out of the door, Qin Yanheng raised his eyes and chuckled.

Soldiers appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the entire post station in the blink of an eye. Lord Deng paused and slowly turned to look at the young man sitting in the main hall, his chin supported by one hand and sneering at him.