Chapter 490 (1/2)

Chapter 490

Chapter 490: Guests from Heavenly Wind

Translator: chuchutrain Editor: Rock, DavidT

The midday sun shone down relentlessly as Ling Chen stood at the hilltop, gazing at the roads below . Her current position was a covert one, able to cover the entire view of the road, yet not allowing anyone below to notice her presence . Unless one ascended the hill and combed the area, no one would be able to discover her surveillance . However, in order to comb this hill, one would minimally require a force of a thousand strong in order to be effective . While the Shui Family entourage was comprised of experts, their population was definitely below 1000 .

In another hour at most, the Shui Family from Heavenly Wind Continent would pa.s.s by here on their way to Sky Bearing . Ling Chen wanted to know just what sort of trash would arrive this time around . Would any of them have the ability to go against the Yu Family experts present in Sky Bearing?

Once they entered the city, their first task would definitely be to hide a certain portion of their forces in preparation to be a trump card . Ling Chen was unwilling to let such a hidden card exist, and thus she had to take the chance to a.n.a.lyze the complete battle strength of their enemy . This was her motive for coming here .

Following by her side was a lady dressed like a servant girl . She looked ordinary in all aspects, as though she was someone who possessed no martial arts background . Compared with the elegant and outstanding peerless talent who was Ling Chen, she paled even more in comparison . However, if one gazed across the entire hilltop, there were only the two of them . Was it too careless of the overseer of the current Ling Family Courtyard to go out without guards?

To those with evil intentions, this might be the best opportunity! So long as they could kill Ling Chen right now, then the entire Ling Family Courtyard would end up in chaos, hitting hard on Ling Tian's forces . This would lead to irreparable damages .

The ground trembled a little, causing Ling Chen's brows to jump up as she indifferently spoke, ”They're coming . ”

But the servant girl smiled instead, ”But they're not here yet!”

This caused Ling Chen to crack into a smile as well as she replied, ”They'll definitely come, and in fact, very soon . Such an opportune chance, even if it was us, we would do the same!”

The servant girl t.i.ttered as well, ”Yep, I believe that they'll arrive soon . After all, they're more anxious than you can ever be . And besides, if they were to miss this chance, they would not know how long they would have to wait until they can catch you working on your own again . The folly of mortals; how could an obvious chance not have any sort of traps hidden within?”

A smirking expression appeared in Ling Chen's eyes, as she praised, ”Sister's scheme is indeed profound . For the next step, are you planning to deploy the troops to the South?”

Ling Chen actually addressed the servant girl as 'sister'!

The servant girl lifted up her head . There was none of the grat.i.tude on her face when faced with a superior, but instead an extraordinary penetrative gaze that shot out from her eyes . If Ling Tian was present he would have gotten a shock, for that was the great miss Li Xue! She only leisurely replied, ”Not announcing before warring will lead one to fall for schemes in the end . Since we are going to attack, we have to do it openly and through the proper channels, or else it will be taken as an offense . The other influences will be able to use this offense as an excuse to attack us instead; hence not only must one have the ambition and ability, one also must have an excuse to go to war . It does not matter if the excuse is acceptable or has a basis .

Ling Chen smiled in response, ”What sister is really worried about isn't the various powers, right? But rather, it is the sentiments of the people from all over the world!”

A gleam of intelligence shone out from Li Xue's eyes, as she took over, ”Since we want to start a war, then we will need to consider the sentiments of the public . Merely focusing on barbarically forcing our way to hegemony will only result in many problems, big or small, even if we unify the lands in the end! What we should do is take the chance while we are conquering the lands to bring the sentiments of the public towards us . That is far more troublesome and complicated . ”

The cras.h.i.+ng sounds grew closer, as a great number of troops slowly closed in towards the path beside the cliff . At the forefront, urging her horse on, was the little princess of the Shui Family, Shui QianRou . One could see that her face was split currently between fear, anxiety, and anger, as well as a tinge of resentment and frustration .

Beside her, seated on three huge horses, were handsome looking youths . All three of them had on expressions of arrogance, and following them were over ten elders, dressed in black and silently following behind, but casting their wary eyes all around their surroundings .

Behind them were actually more horses as well as four chariots! This was a little out of her expectations . One had to know that when the Shui Family wanted to invite their members over, all of the warhorses were provided by Ling Chen from the Ling Family . The report from Shui QianRou mentioned that roughly 500 members were coming over, and so Ling Chen prepared an excess of 600 .

However, the facts in front of Ling Chen showed differently . How were there only five hundred men present? It was closer to a thousand men!