At the same time, outside Bagua Mountain, inside and out, a large number of men in black surrounded the area, roughly estimated to be around 100,000 assassins.
Fengqin and Youhe were exhausted from running around, and in the end, both of them were seriously injured and had no power to resist.
“Young master, you underestimated the number of people. It seems that Yan Shengxiao intends to fight to the death here. I’m afraid the two of us will lose our lives here.”
Feng Qin, who had collapsed to the ground and could no longer get up, gave a miserable smile and made a sarcastic remark to the seriously injured person not far away.
“Someone’s coming. Why don’t we play dead and let the person who’s coming deal with these assassins? We two are powerless. The men we brought probably won’t last long either. This Yan Shengxiao is really something. No wonder he was able to seize the throne a hundred years ago.”
Youhe lay on the ground, panting heavily, but his hearing was sharp. He could hear a man and a woman arguing. It wasn't their young master and mistress, so he decided to take advantage of it.
"Ha! I didn't expect you to be so cunning. Fine, I'll do as you say."
Feng Qin also heard the sound approaching from afar, so she decisively pretended to be dead.
Meanwhile, Lu Duling, who was comforting Tian Ying, also noticed the unusual situation outside and decisively gestured for Tian Ying to stop.
"What do you mean? Lu Duling, we're breaking up. Don't follow me anymore. We'll never see each other again."
Tian Ying shouted angrily.
“We can’t get out. There are people outside, and two groups are fighting each other fiercely. You stay here and don’t move. I’ll go check the situation.”
Lu Duling glanced back at Tian Ying, who was still sulking, and gave her a helpless reminder.
Ah! Oh!
Seeing that Lu Duling wasn't talking about the two of them, he paused for a moment, still with a stern face, but his tone softened a bit.
"Be good and wait for me to come back!"
Lu Duling reached out and gently stroked Tian Ying's cheek, then kissed her forehead before leaping away from Tian Ying's sight.
After Lu Duling appeared, the leader of Yan Shengxiao's group immediately shouted a sharp command upon seeing him:
"Kill! Leave no one alive inside except our lord!"
Then he personally went to intercept Lu Duling.
Lu Duling didn't expect that his trip to investigate would turn him into a target, leaving him no choice but to fight. Fortunately, he had practiced martial arts diligently for a long time in order to take Tian Ying away, so he was not too badly able to handle the situation.
After fighting for an hour, he was no match for the four opponents and was eventually defeated and seriously injured.
By sheer coincidence, he was also thrown into the pit where Fengqin and Youhe were pretending to be dead.
"I thought he was capable, but he only lasted an hour. He's far inferior to us. Sigh, it seems the only way to deal with these people is to wait for the young master and the others to come out."
Feng Qin glanced disdainfully at the newcomer, put her hands behind her head, and lazily scoffed.
Who are you two?
Lu Duling tried to climb a few times, but it was all in vain. He was too badly injured to get up, so he could only resign himself to asking the person who was speaking.
"It doesn't matter who we are, the key is that you're just like us. Here! Kid, here's a medicine to strengthen your body. If our young master can deal with that Yan Shengxiao, we'll still have a chance to live. If not, we'll die in a day or two, so you should be prepared to die too."
Feng Qin thought he seemed to recognize the man, but he didn't want to introduce himself, so he took out a pill from his pocket and threw it in front of the man.
"Your young master? Are you Jun Jianchou's men?"
Lu Duling took the medicine, put it in her mouth, and guessed.
"You're mistaken. The Great General King never likes to bring people along. Only our young master has the ability to plan ahead. We are from Prime Minister Chen's faction. Don't get it wrong, or our young master won't save you when he arrives."
Feng Qin has always been unconventional and her words are always quite provocative.
"Ha! You Central Plains people are really so flamboyant."
Lu Duling remained silent.
"Alright, get some rest. Don't let us collapse and die before our young master arrives. Otherwise, you'll have wasted my brilliant plan."
You glanced sideways at Feng Qin, then closed his eyes to rest. They were both seriously injured and couldn't even get up, so they really had to pretend to be dead.
"Sigh! I need to conserve my energy. From now on, I won't speak."
Feng Qin sighed and said nothing more.
Lu Duling, meanwhile, kept her brows furrowed, worried about Tian Ying. There were so many assassins outside, looking like they were going to kill everyone inside. What would happen to her? Would something bad happen to her?
Tian Ying waited for two or three hours inside Bagua Mountain, but Lu Duling disappeared without a trace, like a meat bun thrown to a dog. Her initial resentment subsided considerably, and she even became somewhat worried about Lu Duling.
Feeling increasingly anxious, Tian Ying decided to go outside to see what had happened.
Unexpectedly, four people appeared from behind.
An old man with white hair, covered in wounds, held a weak-looking Miao Hou in his arms.
A man in black appeared before her, carrying the unconscious Yin Shun.
"Tian girl, why are you here alone? Where is Lu Duling?"
The white-haired old man saw her first and asked a question.
"He said there was a fight outside, so he went out alone to check it out, but he hasn't come back for a long time. Could something have happened to my third uncle?"
Tian Ying had no time to worry about whether Lu Duling had lied to him; she was only concerned about Lu Duling's safety.
“There is indeed fighting outside. You take care of Miao Hou and Yin Shun. Chu Mian, the two of us will go out and take a look.”
Lu Moxiu was highly skilled in martial arts and could clearly sense that a large force was fighting outside, and there were quite a lot of people involved.
Miao Hou and Yin Shun couldn't be taken out by him, so he had to ask Tian Ying to take care of them.
"Okay, Third Uncle, go and check on her quickly. I'm afraid something has happened to Lu Duling."
Tian Ying nodded quickly in agreement. Nothing else mattered now; she only cared about Lu Duling's safety.
"Okay! Good boy, take good care of them. We'll go ahead now."
The white-haired old man placed Miao Hou next to Tian Ying, then disappeared in a flash, and Chu Mian did the same.
Tian Ying could only watch them disappear in the direction they went, feeling anxious and helpless.
Time passed quickly, and night fell in the blink of an eye. Neither of the two people returned until late at night, let alone Lu Duling.
Suddenly, her tears started flowing uncontrollably.
She regretted it. She shouldn't have been so willful and argued with Lu Duling. If he really died, she would never forgive herself.
"Hey! What are you crying for? Did your mother die? Is this your mother lying on the ground?"
As Tian Ying was crying her heart out, she was suddenly patted on the back of her shoulder, and a clear male voice rang out.
Startled, Tian Ying reflexively flinched and screamed in panic:
"Ah! A ghost!"
"What the hell? I'm a human being, okay? What kind of look is that?!"
Wen Qiyu gave the woman, who was still terrified, a disdainful look.
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