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Outside the moat, a tall silhouette stood shoulder to shoulder with a short silhouette.

The girl who was wrapped up tightly lowered her head and looked at the river below her feet, forcefully swallowing her saliva.

After a long while, she finally squeezed out a sentence from her quivering lips, "Really? Do you want to jump?"

The man with the most beautiful face tilted his head and glanced at her, then retracted his gaze, as he narrowed his eyes to look at the other side of the river that was at a distance of sixty meters away, and said lightly: "This is the widest area of the moat, and also the most relaxed place for defending Tong Huai Manor, swimming from here, will allow you to enter Tong Huai Palace."

Due to the continuous rain and the collapse of the riverbank, the river water of the moat had risen by several degrees.

"But I don't know how to swim."

After she followed this man out of Qi Jing, she rode her horse all the way to Tong Huai Manor day and night. Her inner thighs were almost worn out by the friction, and after she finally got off the horse, she did not expect him to make her jump into the water to swim to the other side 60 zhang away.

She hadn't practiced martial arts yet, so she couldn't compare to his strong body that allowed her to swim in the cold weather. There was no difference between this and taking her life.

Rong Xi smiled at her, "What do you think?"

Then, without waiting for Jin Yi to speak again, he waved his arm and pushed them down.

With a "thump" sound, the splashing water hit the hem of Rong Xi's clothes.

Rong Xi did not dodge. Instead, he calmly looked at the lady floating above the river, shivering from the cold.

Ever since he came into contact with this girl, he had developed a hobby, which was to watch her suffer so much that she would have to endure by force in order to survive.

Most people wanted to live, but only a small number of people wanted to live well after suffering so much.

This girl belonged to a small group of people. The only difference was that no matter how much he tortured her, she wouldn't open her mouth to beg for mercy.

With such backbone, it was not in vain that he fed the poison that should have been used on Qu Ling's body to her.

After sparring with the Prime Minister Jiang for so many years, Qu Ling had mastered the art of climbing walls to perfection.

As long as she had the heart, wanting to drive away Xiao Jingyue's few Dark Guard s was actually not too difficult.

Not to mention, this time, he also had Murong Shan's help.

The moment he successfully slipped out of the house and stood on the street, Qu Ling felt much more comfortable.

Murong Shan who refused to crawl out of the cave by himself found her, and looked her up and down, "Are you alright? "Don't just stand there and turn around."

Qu Ling glanced at her, and pointed out: "As long as you don't anger me, I won't have any problems."

Murong Shan rolled his eyes in annoyance.

He really knows how to shout for a thief, who knows who it is that's pissing him off.

Murong Shan had only come to Tong Huai Palace last year, so he was fairly familiar with this place.

Considering Qu Ling's sickly body, he first brought her to rent a carriage, then headed in the direction of the Huai River.

After about an hour, the two of them finally arrived at the side of Huai River.

Qu Ling thought for a while, then said: "Let's scout out the cave upstream first."

Murong Shan frowned somewhat unhappily, "Didn't they say that we can't enter the hole in the upper middle reaches? If we can't enter, then what are we going there for?"

Qu Ling said meaningfully: "It's precisely because we can't enter that it's safe."

Murong Shan, "..."

Regardless of whether Murong Shan agreed or not, Qu Ling lowered his head and looked in the direction of the current, before turning around and "going against the flow".

As she walked, she spoke slowly, "You're jealous that I won't be in this situation for a day or two. That downstream hole is so dangerous, I don't want to place my life in your hands."

With just that one sentence, Murong Shan was so angry that his teeth itched. He wanted to throw the baldy into the river.

Walking along the road, Qu Ling suddenly thought of something and stopped in his steps. He looked at Murong Shan suspiciously and asked: "Actually you can call Xiao San to come with you, but why do you have to call me such a weak little girl?"

A strange look flashed past Murong Shan's eyes, and he said coldly: "Do you think I don't want to!?"

Since he had already come, Qu Ling was too lazy to pursue the matter any further. Waving his hand, he said: "Let's go, we still have to return before it gets dark."

Murong Shan snorted, he handed over the sword in his hand, and under Qu Ling's puzzled gaze, he said sinisterly: What are you looking at, let's not fall halfway!

Qu Ling blinked his eyes, as he replied with an unknown meaning.

Seeing that, Murong Shan turned from shame to anger and shouted: "What, hold tight!"

She suddenly felt a little regretful. She had brought along such a worrisome and weak baldy.

After about three-quarters of an hour of walking, the two finally found the entrance to the cave in the middle and upper reaches.

The cave entrance was on the other side of the river, about ten meters away. If one wanted to go there, they could either ride a boat, understand Qing Gong, or take a detour around the bridge for a few miles.

Murong Shan's lightness skills were not bad, without waiting for Qu Ling to speak, he had already carried her and jumped to the other side.

The landing place on the other side was very narrow. After they landed, the two of them stood close to each other as they despised each other.

About one zhang into the cave, there was a metal door, which was tightly locked and sealed with an official seal.

Just as Murong Shan was considering whether he should split the lock with a sword, he saw Qu Ling take out a hairpin from his chest and pry open the lock with a few moves.

Murong Shan, "..."

Qu Ling calmly withdrew the hairpin, pushed open the iron door, and said: "Go in."

This time, Murong Shan was too lazy to roll his eyes at her, he carefully used his sword to pull at the weeds on both sides of the cave, and only then did he pull Qu Ling in.

She had traveled in the martial arts world for many years, so naturally, she was not afraid of these weeds due to her rough skin. However, the baldy by her side was different. She was extremely angry.

The two of them went into the cave, and before Murong Shan could take out the Night Pearl, Qu Ling had already lit the fire piston.

The light of the Night Pearl and the fire piston lit up, instantly illuminating the surroundings of the two.

Qu Ling glanced at the Night Pearl in Murong Shan's hand, and said to her earnestly: "Although the light of the Night Pearl is more durable when exploring this kind of place, for the sake of your own life, you'd better bring a fire piston. Because fire can only burn in places where there's air, and because the fire piston has yet to burn out, the smaller the fire, the thinner the air around it will be. At this time, we cannot continue any further in, or else there's a high chance that we'll suffocate to death … "

Murong Shan looked at her with a paralyzed face. After she had finished speaking, he asked her coldly: "Are you done speaking?"

Qu Ling did not reply. He raised the fire piston and looked around him – in fact, there was nothing much to observe either. It was just a cave entrance, other than rocks, there was nothing else.

Thinking about it, Qu Ling crouched down and took out Green Snake from his chest.

Murong Shan, who was standing behind her, saw Green Snake and gasped. He quickly took a few steps back.

Green Snake did not have the mood to bother with her, he fawningly spat out his snake tongue at Qu Ling, then jumped out of her embrace and stuck close to the stone wall, spitting some venom on the stone wall.

"Good girl." Qu Ling picked it up and wrapped it around his arm, his index finger caressing its little head.

After playing with Green Snake for a while, when she remembered Murong Shan, she stood up and turned around. Murong Shan was so scared that he was about to stick to the opposite stone wall.

Seeing that, Qu Ling then raised the Green Snake in her hands and said: "Don't be afraid, it doesn't want to casually bite people."

As if to echo her, Green Snake stuck his tongue out at Murong Shan as if he thought it was friendly.

Murong Shan was so terrified that goosebumps appeared on his arms.

Therefore, the two kept their distance from each other as they walked deeper into the cave.

After walking for half an hour, Qu Ling took big steps, turned around and said to Murong Shan with an expressionless face: "As expected, we've circled back again."