121 Betrayal
Seeing how ruthless Yin Ling was, Kong Rui was a little puzzled. Didn’t the queen instruct Yin Ling not to be discovered?
It was impossible for the Li family not to notice him after Yin Ling defeated the guards with such fanfare!
Before Kong Rui could react, Yin Ling had already entered the secret chamber.
As expected, the secret guard following closely behind him immediately turned around to report this situation. Before he could move, the powerhouse following closely behind him had already restrained him.
In the next moment, Yin Ling walked out of the secret chamber under Kong Rui’s surprised gaze.
The man in black came to Yin Ling’s side with a disdainful expression.
Yin Ling glanced at the secret guard and raised his eyebrows slightly as he asked, “Done?”
“They can’t hear or see us!” The man in black said with certainty.
In the next moment, Yin Ling and the man in black immediately left the secret room.
Kong Rui froze for a moment, but then she was dragged away by Chao Bai to follow Yin Ling and the others.
Along the way, Kong Rui was thinking about Yin Ling’s motive for doing this. Unknowingly, she arrived at the Li family’s ancestral hall.
At this moment, the Li family’s ancestral hall had already turned into ruins.
Clearly, the Li family’s patriarch could no longer care about the situation in the ancestral hall. He was ordering people to do their best to find Li Ling and the murderer of the Second Elder.
As Kong Rui looked at the mottled and bloodstained wall, she thought of the seven pitiful people who had been sealed in coffins for an unknown period of time. Her heart tightened again.
However, Yin Ling and the others acted quickly, not giving Kong Rui a chance to dwell on the sadness.
The two of them arrived at the forest behind the ancestral hall and walked towards a huge tree that was dozens of meters tall.
Kong Rui watched as Yin Ling stood in front of the tree and circled it, sizing it up. It seemed like he was looking for something.
After a while, Yin Ling took out a dark green jade pestle and inserted it about a foot west of the giant tree.
Then, there was a soft click behind the huge tree.
Kong Rui watched as Yin Ling went to the back of the huge tree and started digging something out from behind it.
Finally, when Yin Ling appeared in front of Kong Rui again, there was a wooden box in his hand.
“This is it?” The man in black looked at the box in Yin Ling’s hand and asked.
“Yes!” Yin Ling nodded and opened his storage space to stuff the wooden box in.
At this moment, a shout came from the ancestral hall. “Who dares to trespass into the forbidden area of the Li family’s residence?!”
Kong Rui recognized the voice. It was the leader of the Li family’s secret guards, the eldest disciple of the First Elder, Zhang Xuan!
Zhang Xuan was dressed in grayish-black clothes with silver cuffs. He held a steel knife in his hand and pointed it at Yin Ling and the other two.
Kong Rui had seen Zhang Xuan once. He was a guard specifically sent by the Li family’s patriarch when she was participating in the spirit beast competition.
At that time, she already knew that Zhang Xuan’s cultivation level was close to the third level of the Spirit Platform Realm. Other than the elders of the Li family, his cultivation level was the highest.
Zhang Xuan’s cultivation level was clearly above Yin Ling’s, but Kong Rui couldn’t tell the level of the black-robed man’s cultivation level.
Yin Ling didn’t seem nervous at all when he saw Zhang Xuan.
As he held the wooden box in his hand, he said to Zhang Xuan, “What do you plan to do?”
From the tense situation, Kong Rui thought that she would definitely see a battle. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xuan put away his steel saber the next moment and bowed to Yin Ling. “Greetings, Mr. Yin Ling!”
Yin Ling sneered. “Commander Zhang, you’re quite sensible.”
Only then did Kong Rui realize that Zhang Xuan had probably already betrayed the Li family and joined the queen’s faction.
As for when the grudge between the Li family and the queen arose, Kong Rui was even more curious about it.
Wasn’t the Li family and the queen in cahoots?
To think that she had tried so hard to sow discord between them, but she didn’t expect them to already have their own schemes!