Chapter 393: Destruction Of Northern Wei (1/2)
”Young n.o.ble is safe!” Before he even saw the contents of the letter, Ling Jian shouted out gleefully when he saw the inscription on it! As compared to the contents of the letter, Ling Jian was more concerned about his young n.o.ble's safety!
Ever since Ling Tian began his cat and mouse chase with Justice, they didn't have a single piece of news of Ling Tian. While not having news was good news, Ling Jian couldn't help but be anxious. He could no longer maintain his usual cool demeanor and was filled with anxiousness and self-blame. He hated the fact that he couldn't replace his young n.o.ble. These few days felt like years to him, and his temper became more and more unstable. Even his brothers from the First Pavilion were all silenced by their fear in the past few days. Now that he had finally received Ling Tian's personal letter that proved Ling Tian's safety, Ling Jian felt a wave of elation and almost cried on the spot.
Hearing Ling Jian's cry of joy, everyone was first stunned. But after hearing what Ling Jian said next and seeing him wave the letter around excitedly, all of them burst out into cheers!
”Destroy Northern Wei, throw the Yu Family into chaos, and create chaos in the world! This is the young n.o.ble's latest orders.” Ling Jian held onto the letter on his hand as he paced about with a frown. Destroying Northern Wei was something that they definitely had to do, but creating chaos in the Yu Family was an extremely vague and difficult to accomplish order. Since Ling Tian didn't specify how he should go about doing it, it meant that Ling Tian was leaving it all up to his decision!
The moment these two tasks were accomplished, it would definitely throw the continent into chaos!
However, just what would be considered messing up the Yu Family? Ling Jian thought to himself bitterly as he thought about Ling Tian's orders over and over again. All of a sudden, Ling Jian gradually began to remember the many missions that Ling Tian had given to him since he was young. Each and every mission was a test of his intelligence, character, and martial arts. It was only after he had taken over the First Pavilion that these tests were reduced.
Facing Ling Tian's extremely vague orders, Ling Jian began to reminiscence about his past training and could feel that this was probably a new test from his young n.o.ble.
All of a sudden, Ling Jian began to burn with battle intent! Ling Jian had always firmly believed that as long as it was a test given by his young n.o.ble, his young n.o.ble would definitely think that it was one which could be accomplished!
Since young n.o.ble has such confidence in me, how can I let young n.o.ble down? Ling Jian gripped onto the letter tightly as his arteries began to bulge and his killing intent grew dense…
On the table, there was another piece of paper with the defense map of the Northern Wei palace and details of their patrol routes.
Ling Jian took it up and began to read, ”Northern Wei imperial palace. The empress has pa.s.sed away, the emperor is sickly, six imperial concubines, four sons, nine daughters, three hundred and thirty-three eunuchs, four hundred and sixty-eight maids, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight guards on duty every night.”
With a flick of his wrist, the piece of paper floated to the oil lamp and was burnt into ashes. Under the glow of the burning flame, Ling Jian's face contorted into a ferocious glare as a dense killing intent was emanated from his body.
By his side, the person in charge of the Northern Wei information net felt his body turn cold with a gust of cold air rising from his feet all the way to his head.
It was in the night and seven black figures infiltrated the Northern Wei palace! As the person in the lead waved his hands, the seven of them spread out in seven different directions and threw segments of burning incense into the outer walls of the palace. After an hour, the seven figures flipped over the wall and stealthily entered.
In the darkness, an extremely soft 'pu pu' sound sounded as though someone was brus.h.i.+ng off the dust from his body…
A b.l.o.o.d.y smell filled the place…
In the chambers of the crown prince, a maid was seated in the alley and as though she heard something, she muttered to herself, ”What's that sound? Strange…” Just when she wanted to turn around to investigate the source of the sound, her mouth was covered by a large palm and she couldn't help but be fl.u.s.tered. A chilly tone then sounded gently in her ears, ”Where is Wei ChengPing?”
That seemingly gentle yet chilly tone seemed to carry with it a mysterious power, and one couldn't help but obey the voice. The maid then pointed her finger in a direction as she said with a trembling voice, ”The… crown prince is… there…”
”Thank you, have a safe journey.” That big palm then twisted and a crisp sound could be heard. Following that, the neck of that maid was snapped, and she lifelessly collapsed.
A ghost-like figure then appeared behind her and muttered, ”I am sorry but you should not have worked in the Northern Wei palace. This is your only mistake! While it may be because you didn't have a choice, I also don't have a choice but to kill you!” After placing the corpse of the maid onto the floor, the black figure continued his journey into the palace. Along the way, dozens of maids and guards had fallen under his hands and into puddles of their own blood.
Alarm drums then sounded from all over as a commotion broke out all over the palace. At the same time, many people were shouting at the top of their lungs, ”a.s.sa.s.sins! a.s.sa.s.sins have infiltrated the palace! Guards…”
”Men, protect the emperor… protect the consort…”