Chapter 67 (2/2)

He slowly raised his body; his ears still attentive as he carefully paid attention to every movement of Xu Yude and Hong Anzhi.

Soon after, those two parted at an intersection. Xu Yude went towards the inner section, while Hong Anzhi went to a round-shaped courtyard in the outermost section.

Even the inner castle was further divided into sections that had varying importances. An individual like Hong Anzhi obviously didn’t have the qualifications to enter the important sections.

He Yiming strictly followed after this guy. Since the latter had himself made the request to be a.s.signed outside, he ought to have completed the copying of the other scripture. If this had not been the case, he certainly wouldn’t even have dared to mention this topic.

Hong Anzhi walked inside a building. After cleaning himself, he blew the light off. Subsequently, He Yiming could hear the sounds of removing of clothes and Hong Anzhi lying down.

However, from the sounds of his breathing, He Yiming could tell that he had not fallen asleep.

After a few minutes, a faint sound could be heard. Fortunately, He Yiming could form an image in his mind just by the help of incoming sounds.

Although the image was not too precise or beautiful, he could faintly discern what Hong Anzhi was up to.

Apparently, this guy was rummaging under the bed, but was exceedingly careful to not to let a single sound escape outside. Apart from He Yiming, even if someone else could hear the sounds, that person wouldn’t have been able to discern the meaning behind actions of Hong Anzhi.

Eventually, Hong Anzhi returned back to the bed. However, this time, just after a few moments, He Yiming could hear the sounds of his even breathing.

He Yiming rolled his eyes. Not opting to act immediately, he walked back following the same path.

Although Hong Anzhi no longer worked at the inner storehouse and would probably move out of the inner castle, this was not something that could be done in a day. He Yiming felt he still had ample time. He didn’t need to hurry at all.

He left the inner castle and returned back to his residence in the outer castle- completely undiscovered.

Actually, once he concentrated his Internal Energy at his ears, within a perimeter of thirty meters around him, even the sounds of an ant couldn’t escape his ears. Thus, all disguised and undisguised eyes naturally couldn’t discover a trace of him.

Not to mention going by the current reputation of Xu family in the Tai Cang county, which was akin to that of the sun in the sky, no petty thief or small fry would dare to create trouble here. Although the castle had conventional patrol arrangements and secret garrisons, all of the personnel had quite casual att.i.tudes. They never had a chance of discovering He Yiming’s traces.

This time, he’d gained a lot. Although he’d just come here, to obtain the Withered Tree technique, half of his work had already been done.

Calming his mind and body, he fell asleep.

Of course, if somebody entered his room, and unless this person had a cultivation even higher than that of his grandfather or Xu Yinjie, he/she wouldn’t be able to slip past him unnoticed.

The next day, He Yiming opened his eyes, took in a breath of morning air, and went to outer castle’s gigantic public square.

This public square was even bigger than the He estate’s backyard/training ground. It was not late in the morning, but a lot of spongers and castle workers had already arrived here to conduct their morning training.

He Yiming casually exhibited a sequence of the Silk Palm. Whenever he exhibited Silk Palm, he would garner a lot of envious stares from the surroundings.

Even among these spongers, a gang-like system ran. If a new recruit wished to firmly plant his feet, either he needed some backing or formidable strength.

And the best way of exhibiting one’s strength was undoubtedly to show one’s cards here- the region where the majority of spongers conduct their morning training.

Although Silk Palm was not a rare technique, understanding the essence of this technique was not a feat in the reach of an ordinary person.

Therefore, ever since he’d displayed the essence of Silk Palm with fourth-layer Internal Energy, no trouble came to find him.

However, at this point, all the people were still maintaining a certain distance from him. He knew that this was because his ident.i.ty had not yet gained the approval of Xu family. Once the members of Xu family confirmed his ident.i.ty in the Tai Chong county, he would naturally start to blend in the Xu family. At the same time, he would also start to obtain a.s.signments.

Of course, n.o.body knew that there was no Qin Zhao in Tai Chong county, and by the time this information would travel back, he would have slipped away.

After idling his way around in the morning, as the time for lunch approached, He Yiming slipped away from the eyes of others and arrived beside a section of inner castle’s wall that was shrouded by trees. His figure sprang up and crossed the wall- undiscovered.

He inwardly sighed. Xu family’s feet had indeed been planted since way back. Surprisingly, n.o.body cared about the fact that so many big trees were growing by their inner castle’s wall.

After a few turns, he arrived before Hong Anzhi’s residence. He focused his attention on his ears and immediately found out that the latter was not present inside.

Faintly smiling, he barged in. Although the door had a big, s.h.i.+ny lock on it, against his brute force, how could it have preserved?

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