After Waking up Beside the Villain

The eighth on the list of shocking gods, half-step immortal Li Feichen sits at Longzhang Waterfall?

This was completely unexpected news for Chu Yunsheng.

When he and Xie Chengyun were investigating the vicinity of Longzhang Waterfall, they did not rush into the stockade and the sword furnace, but the results they observed were the same. They both thought that there should be Dingdan guarding this place, and they never thought of Banbu Youxian at all.

One must know that half-step Youxian is already an extraordinary person who has stepped into the fairyland with one foot. Even if the royal family of the Li family is in charge of the world, the half-step Youxian they have is only a palm, and it is not enough to protect the palace and Shangjing. How can they be dispatched to a small city of Jinling?

But if Mu Yuexin was not a stupid person, she would never lie about this matter as a joke.

If this matter is true, then the dragon veins of Zheng's family or Longzhang Waterfall are not ordinary to Li Wu, and they are of great significance, and when he went to Longzhang Waterfall to investigate, Xie Zixuan and Feng Yu, who were about to face half-step wandering immortals, were already in the same boat. At stake!

Chu Yunsheng felt anxious in his heart.

But not a short time has passed since the three of them decided to split up. Judging from Xie Zixuan's vigorous and resolute style, he should have arrived near the Longzhang Waterfall with the two elders at this time, and then went to tell Xie Chengyun to stop them. It is too late.

If you can't stop it, you can only think about rescue strategies.

Thinking of this, Chu Yunsheng raised his eyes to look at Mu Yuexin who was facing him, his thoughts suddenly changed, his face changed drastically, and there was obvious fear in his eyes, and he blurted out: "Oops, I, Xie Jiadingdan, don't know about this, I've already done it." Go to Longzhang Waterfall to investigate!"

Mu Yuexin had already glimpsed something from Chu Yunsheng's expression, and she was not surprised at all, but rather gloated and said with a gloating smile: "Then, isn't this just a rush to get reincarnated?"

At the moment, we can't care about Mu Yuexin's grievances, Chu Yunsheng played half-truth, with a trace of anger on his face, but he suppressed it as if forced by the situation, and begged slowly: "Senior Mu, I am Xie Jiading Nothing can happen to Dan, please help me in this matter."

"Ask for this seat?"

Mu Yuexin's eyes turned: "Little girl, I'm just a Dingdan. How can I resist half a step of Youxian? It's a difference in realm. Half a step apart, it's like a moat. filled."

If it hadn't been for the scene of Mu Yuexin's attack from Xie Zixuan's eavesdropping, Chu Yunsheng would really have believed her words.

Mu Yuexin may be in a strange state and has not really stepped into the realm of wandering immortals, but she will definitely not be an ordinary Dingdan.

Chu Yunsheng tried his best to remain calm, and said with a wry smile, "Senior Mu was joking. You were a well-known Ding Dan expert 20 years ago. If you say that Senior Mu has made no progress in the past 20 years, this junior will really find it hard to believe. Perhaps the reason why Li Feichen fell to the eighth spot on the list of shocking gods was because Senior Mu didn't bother to fight for the top."

"What's more, if the person in charge of my Xie family in Jinling City is defeated, then the cooperation between us may break down immediately before it is completed."

"This cooperation is not successful. It is not the seniors who benefit, nor my Xie family. Only Li Wu is alone. How can this be reconciled?"

"It's true that you, Senior Mu, are highly skilled and have extraordinary magical skills, but you have been here alone, and you have never dared to act rashly. You also know that the situation here is difficult to achieve alone, and it is difficult to break it with your own strength. The only thing you can rely on is the forces involved in Ji Ling. , if the Xie family is lost, even you may not be able to retreat completely in Jinling City, which is full of Li Wu's chess pieces, if you can retreat completely, then Li Wu's plan to steal chickens will not be a waste of money, I am afraid It won't work either."

Seeing Mu Yue's pensive face, Chu Yunsheng added one last flame: "Senior Mu, you are a smart person, and you should know who is the most reliable ally in Jinling City. What's more, you helped me and saved me." When the Xie family fixed the alchemy in life and death, my Xie family is naturally very grateful, in my Xie family's opinion, there is no treasure that is more important than the lives of the clansmen."

Hearing the word "treasure", Mu Yuexin's emotion became more obvious, but she raised her eyebrows and said with a sneer: "Don't make it sound like I'm coveting your Xie family's treasure."

As soon as these words came out, Chu Yunsheng knew that Mu Yuexin had agreed most of the time.

In other words, Mu Yuexin planned to agree to Chu Yunsheng's rescue.

When Chu Yunsheng mentioned Longzhang Waterfall, it was not difficult for her to guess that the Xie family had already investigated and planned to continue to investigate the vicinity of the waterfall, so she deliberately brought up the fact that Li Feichen was sitting at Longzhang Waterfall in order to test Xie's reaction. And with the act of kindness, he killed two birds with one stone, not only won the cooperation of the Xie family, but also achieved his own goal of conspiring for a certain treasure of the Xie family.

Chu Yunsheng even suspected that she had been making such a plan since she first contacted and tested him actively.

This can be said to be a conspiracy.

Because if Longzhang Waterfall really has half-step wandering immortals, then in the entire Jinling City, the only thing they can ask for is Mu Yuexin, otherwise they will face a near-death situation.

In any case, at least the immediate crisis must be overcome before talking about other things.As for the matter of thanking the treasure, it is best to leave it to Xie's elders to discuss.

Chu Yunsheng is by no means a hesitant person who looks forward and backward. After understanding the joints, he immediately put on an eager look that a young man should have, and said in full: "Senior Mu saved me Xie Jia Ding Dan, and I Xie Jia sent me a thank you." Ritual, it should be.”

Seeing this, Mu Yuexin really shook her head, and said with a sense of surprise: "That's right, it's useless for me to say this to you, a junior. You promised to be quick, but it's nothing to say. But compared to what you said back then, Li Youzhen offered a price of a hundred sword bones, but I am much more generous, and I am not afraid that you Xie family will not agree."

"Forget it, since I agreed to save it, it's not easy to dawdle."

As she spoke, Mu Yuexin stroked her skirt and stood up, took out a thin volume from her sleeve and put it on the table, and looked at Chu Yunsheng: "One thing is one thing, one size is one size, this is just a secret exchange with your dragon veins." The puppet secret technique, take it back and have a look by yourself. Zheng Yuchen only has a lot of doubts about you, if there is nothing else, go back to Zheng's house quickly."

"The rescue went well. After an hour, we can meet each other on the boat in the middle of the lake at the back door of Zheng's family."

Chu Yunsheng glanced at the thin volume, and when he raised his eyes again, there was no one on the opposite side, only a gust of breeze drifting in from the window, accompanied by the noise of the surroundings finally recovering.

Chu Yunsheng was naturally concerned about the matter of the hundred sword bones that Mu Yuexin mentioned a little bit. The position and the grievances and hatreds are all glimpsed at the tip of the iceberg.

Even if Xie Chengyun was inconvenient to say anything more to him, he could vaguely detect the context of the past.

But now is not the time to speculate on such things.

Chu Yunsheng quickly got up and left the teahouse, found a secluded place nearby, read through the details of the puppet's secret method in the thin book, and using charcoal as a pen, wrote all the secrets and the danger of the Longzhang Waterfall in one palm on a large note.

After finishing writing, he used his zhenqi to expand into the spice bag Xie Chengyun had given him before, summoned Xie's messenger Skyhawk, divided the message into two, and sent it out.

This kind of specially domesticated sky eagle can distinguish the nuances of each person's smell and true energy, so as to find people or send messages.

Xie Chengyun went out to pass on the news, whether he was at Ning's house or not, compared to Chu Yunsheng looking for it himself, it is obviously faster for Tianying to send the message.As for the other message sent to Xie Zixuan, I don't know if it will arrive.

After doing everything he could do now, Chu Yunsheng didn't dare to ignore Mu Yuexin's warning to return to Zheng's house.

After going around the city a few more times irregularly, I bought some small items at the night market, and pretended to be returning from shopping, Chu Yunsheng returned to Zheng's house in the first night.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of Zheng's house, Chu Yunsheng noticed that the house had changed, it was very different from this morning.There are many servants coming and going in the house, and they are all very busy.

After thinking about it for a while, Chu Yunsheng remembered what Zheng Yuchen said about the handover ceremony of the Patriarch. Tomorrow will be the same day as the old Patriarch's funeral. .

"Miss Ye, according to the owner's instructions, two cooks have been assigned to your small kitchen. They have not started the stove yet, and we are waiting for you to come back for dinner."

After walking a few steps, the old butler greeted him, and offered Zheng Yuchen hospitality with a smile on his face.

Chu Yunsheng's footsteps paused, and he seemed to ask unintentionally, "Where is Patriarch Zheng?"

The old housekeeper smiled and said: "Tomorrow is a big day, and there is no room for any mistakes. The Patriarch is busy checking the inside and outside of the house. Miss Ruoye wants to see the Patriarch, it will be later."

Hearing this, the ominous premonition in Chu Yunsheng's heart became stronger and stronger, but he had done everything he could do, and the rest could only depend on fate and adapt to the situation.

However, in addition to this, Chu Yunsheng also planned to take advantage of the turmoil in the mansion to dig out the person who performed the puppet secret technique.

Mu Yuexin's thin volume described this puppet secret technique born out of thousands of changes in great detail, perfecting the specious information that he and the Xie family knew.

To put it simply, when a person is seriously injured and in a trance, when the mind is lost, using the secret method supplemented with pills, the living person can be bewitched into a puppet, affecting and even controlling the mind and thoughts.

Once someone interrupts the casting process of the secret method, it means failure. The caster suffers a certain backlash and suffers internal injuries. The seriously injured person is confused, mad or comatose, and it is difficult to wake up.

Ning Shou's situation is the latter.

However, the former who performed the puppet secret technique will not suffer from minor internal injuries after being backlashed, and is very weak, unable to use martial arts in a short period of time, and needs to take a large amount of good medicine to replenish qi and blood in order to gradually recover.

In addition, the most important point is that the puppets that have been successfully bewitched cannot leave the control of the caster for a long time. Every three days, the caster has to see the puppets to deepen the secret technique, otherwise the puppets may lose control.

That is to say, if Zheng Yuchen is the puppet chosen by Li Wu, and after the old Patriarch dies violently and puts him on the throne, then Zheng Yuchen will inevitably have a spell caster by his side who will transform him into a puppet. Meeting Zheng Yuchen overtly or secretly, or at Zheng's house, never too far away.

Mu Yuexin told Chu Yunsheng the puppet's secret technique so bluntly, because she wanted him to stir things up and find this person.

It's just that Mu Yuexin had secretly investigated the Zheng family, if this person is really in the Zheng family, how could he hide it from Mu Yuexin's eyes?

But Mu Yuexin still stays at Zheng's house, obviously there are some clues that make her suspect that the man is here, is there something that Mu Yuexin can't find out, or is easy to ignore?

While thinking about it, Chu Yunsheng said to the old steward: "Since Patriarch Zheng is busy, it's inconvenient to bother me. It's just that my sunflower water is coming soon, and I'm short of energy and blood. I don't know if there is something to replenish blood in the house. Let me match it." Some powder for pain relief?"

The old butler obviously didn't expect this frosty fairy to talk about such a private matter so calmly, so he was stunned for a moment.

But the old butler had seen big winds and waves after all, and soon recovered from the informality of the children of the world, coughed twice and said: "This, this is true. I wonder what medicinal materials Miss Ye needs?"

"Maybe choose it yourself?" Chu Yunsheng tentatively asked.

The old butler didn't think about it, and returned to his kind smile, nodded and said: "Of course, there is a small pharmacy in the mansion, except for the treasures in the treasury, there are everything else, Miss Ye just choose."

As he said that, the old butler brought a maid in pink at random, and after a few instructions, he asked the maid to lead the way and lead Chu Yunsheng to the small pharmacy.

The small pharmacy is said to be small, but it occupies two yards.

The maid in pink chatted with the doctor who was guarding the small pharmacy, and the middle-aged doctor got up and led Chu Yunsheng into the pharmacies to select medicinal materials.

Chu Yunsheng picked some herbs seemingly at random, and asked, "Do you want to register them?"

Before the doctor could speak, the pink-clothed maid hurriedly laughed and said, "Miss Ye is an honored guest of the house, and the few herbs are not expensive, just take them and don't need to write them down in the book."

Chu Yunsheng pretended to be embarrassed, frowned and said, "This is not an appropriate move. I am just a guest, and I can't take this for nothing."

The maid and Lang Zhong looked at each other, and Lang Zhong thought about what the maid said about the owner's favorite and the future mistress, and said, "Then let's record the medicinal materials that Miss Ye took in the account of the master. There are many such medicinal materials in the master's yard. , I don’t care about Ms. Ye, and when I see the Patriarch later, Ms. Ye just needs to mention a little bit.”

Before he started cliche, Chu Yunsheng heard what he wanted to hear, so he quietly plagiarized Mu Yuexin's address to Zheng Yuchen, pretending to be friendly: "Yuchen... the elder brother's hospital receives such medicinal materials, but Brother Yuchen is unwell?"

After all, he couldn't call out the word "brother", so Chu Yunsheng had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and had a brief friendship with Zheng Yuchen in Taoyuan.

The doctor didn't hear the big brother's weirdness, thought it was Chu Yunsheng who was concerned about Zheng Yuchen, so he shook his head and smiled, "The Patriarch is in good health, but due to changes in the family recently, he can't sleep day and night, and often has headaches, so he takes some supplements as a routine, Miss Ye needn't worry."

Chu Yunsheng showed reassurance, nodded, took the medicinal materials, left the small pharmacy with the maidservant in pink, and walked back.

On the way, Chu Yunsheng pretended to inquire about Zheng Yuchen's preferences, and took the initiative to chat with the maid in pink, asking, "Brother Yuchen, when he came back to Jinling, who did he bring with him? After that, did he bring anyone to the Zheng family again?" ?”

The maid in pink pursed her lips and said with a smile: "No matter before or after, there is only the head of the house, and there has never been a change of servant in the yard. Miss Ye, don't worry, although the head of the house loves beauties, he is by no means such a romantic and lustful person." .”

Chu Yunsheng's eyes narrowed slightly.

Mu Yuexin didn't even find out what happened, so he naturally didn't expect to find out anything with just a few words, but judging from the movement of medicinal materials that nourish qi and blood, the possibility of the caster hiding in Zheng Yuchen's courtyard is indeed the greatest.

But this is too simple, too superficial.

Moreover, he has also been to that courtyard, and there seems to be no abnormal person, if it is said that there are people hiding in the secret room, it will not be able to stop Mu Yuexin.

Could it be that the movement of the medicinal materials is just a cover-up to confuse the view, in fact, the caster is not in Zheng Yuchen's courtyard, nor is he in Zheng's house?

No, no—

Besides, there is another possibility.

Chu Yunsheng's footsteps subconsciously stopped: "Xiaodie, the old Patriarch's funeral was originally not the same day as the day when Brother Yuchen took over as Patriarch, right? I have rarely seen such an arrangement by the family."

"It wasn't originally."

The servant girl had nothing to hide, and said casually: "It's just that you know, Miss Ye, that heroes in the world are more or less entangled with grievances. The old Patriarch has been kind all his life, and he doesn't easily make enemies with others, but people are not gold ingots. How can I meet someone who likes it? So the old Patriarch also has enemies, the old Patriarch left in a hurry, and he couldn't make a decision before his death, and after he left, the hatred fell on the Patriarch."

"The rules of the rivers and lakes, if the grievances in life are not over, and those who don't want to go with them disappear, on the day of the funeral, on the way from the mourning hall to the grave, the martial arts people who have enmity with the old patriarch can come to challenge the patriarch. But they are not allowed to attack the patriarch. Ambush, do not suppress people in the realm, only allow open and aboveboard, suppress the strength to fight in the same realm."

"Even so, it's still an evil thing. The Patriarch has not yet decided on the alchemy. If he takes on this kind of wheel battle, it will be extremely dangerous. Therefore, we must make full preparations. In this way, the funeral of the old Patriarch will be delayed again and again. Postponed until tomorrow."

"Brother Yuchen's current strength may be enough to deal with it?" Chu Yunsheng symbolically cared about the first half of the sentence, and then inadvertently brought out the second half of the sentence that he really wanted to ask, "Recently, have you ever seen Brother Yuchen make a move?"

The servant girl shook her head and said: "The strength of the Patriarch, we servants don't know. But since Patriarch came back, except for one sparring with the old Patriarch, he has never fought again. He must be polishing his own martial arts to seek certainty. Let's take a chance."

Chu Yunsheng's heart sank slightly, and he had a faint guess.

He glanced at the medicine bag in his hand, and said softly: "Xiaodie, do you know where Big Brother Yuchen is now? I won't bother him, but I'm just worried about what will happen tomorrow, and I want to take a look at him from afar."

The servant girl looked perplexed, but seeing Chu Yunsheng's worried frown, she finally gritted her teeth and nodded.

"Miss Ye, follow me."

at the same time.

In the study of the Ning family, Ning Tiancheng was writing a letter with a pen, and when he was about to finish writing, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside.

"Patriarch, a guard from Xie's family is asking to see him, and there seems to be something urgent."

A low voice came through the door.

"Urgent?"

Ning Tiancheng looked up at the night outside the window, while drying the letter he just wrote, and putting it in an unnamed envelope, he said: "Bring people in."

The servant outside the door responded and left, and led a young man in blue to the study after a while, and then left immediately.

Ning Tiancheng obviously did not treat a guard with the same courtesy and enthusiasm as he did to the real Xie family. He just sat behind the table with tea, looked at the person casually, and asked, "Are you the guard next to Mr. Xie? Come on, what's the matter?"

The young man in blue took a look at Ning Tiancheng, and without making a sound, he just took off the seemingly ordinary saber from his waist, flicked it with his fingers, and it came out of the sheath with a cold light.

Seeing the actions of the young man in blue, Ning Tiancheng looked calm and composed, but his vigilance was raised to the highest level, and the palm of the hand that was not holding the tea was slightly slanted downward to ensure that he could draw the knife as quickly as possible.

However, the sword only came out a short section, without murderous intent, only the two characters carved in ice protruding from the blade.

Fuxue.

Ning Tiancheng's pupils shrank suddenly.

"This is... Fuxue Sword?"

As if realizing something, Ning Tiancheng suddenly raised his eyes and looked at the blue-clothed youth holding a sword. His ordinary face changed slightly under his astonished gaze.

Like the crystal clear jade carved out of a simple stone, the simple and honest guard quickly became a handsome and relaxed son.

There are too many versions of Bone Shrinking Kung Fu, but most of them have a lot of flaws, either causing the practitioners unbearable pain, suffering from bone shattering, or changing indefinitely, which is very easy to be seen through.There are very few of them that are truly perfect, so there are very few users, and the Xie family is one of these few.

But even if it is not painful, and it is not easy to be seen through, this kind of bone shrinkage is not comparable to the almost lost disguise technique. It can only change the appearance, but it cannot be exactly the same as someone's appearance.

Before Xie Chengyun perfected Chu Yunsheng's bone shrinking skill during these days, it also belonged to the type with a lot of flaws, but he and Ji Lingben are somewhat similar in appearance, so even if there are flaws in shrinking bone, they are almost the same , is not easily seen.

"Patriarch Ning is silent."

Although Xie Chengyun was anxious like a fire in his heart, his face was still calm and calm: "My visit to Jinling this time is a secret visit, so it is not appropriate to make it public."

Ning Tiancheng's expression eased, he put down his tea bowl, stood up hastily, and said with a wry smile: "Young Master Xie really gave me a fright."

When the two greeted each other, Xie Chengyun sighed helplessly: "If the situation hadn't changed, this junior wouldn't want to reveal his identity to scare Patriarch Ning."

Ning Tiancheng knew Xiange and heard elegant ideas, and immediately asked after seeing this: "Young Master Xie, what do you mean..."

Xie Chengyun glanced in the direction of the doors and windows, and did not speak. Instead, he turned to the method of sound transmission to tell Ning Tiancheng his purpose of coming to Jinling and some of the things that Chu Yunsheng and Xie's family investigated.

Ning Tiancheng's expression changed after hearing this, and finally he became angry and cold: "Young Master Xie said that the murderer who killed my son is most likely related to the Zheng family and the current emperor, and the Zheng family and the royal family are plotting to dry up the dragon's veins. Casting the Son of Heaven Sword to stir up chaos in the world?"

Xie Chengyun nodded: "No accident, it is true."

Ning Tiancheng said without hesitation: "Young Master Xie, if there is anything that needs my Ning family's help, you don't have to be polite, just speak up."

Such a dangerous matter may even delay the entire Ning family's escape, destroying many years of foundation, but Ning Tiancheng agreed so resolutely and righteously, which made Xie Chengyun feel a sense of admiration in his heart.Perhaps only with this appearance can he be called a hero.

He didn't make any more detours, and according to the plan he made after receiving the letter from Chu Yunsheng, he said to Ning Tiancheng: "Master Ning is high-minded. Although the situation is urgent now, it is not yet at the time when the fish is dead and the net is broken. The junior only asks the Ning family Two things."

"First, ask Patriarch Ning to send out Ning's warriors. Those with outstanding lightness skills will immediately leave Jinling City and pass the news of Longzhang Waterfall to all the great families in the south of the Yangtze River. The sooner the better, the skills are flexible and smooth. Those who are good at hiding, go Disturb the major stores of the Zheng family and cause trouble, the more headaches the Zheng family has, the better."

Xie Chengyun paused for a moment, and said: "As for the second thing, I beg Ning Patriarch to borrow the treasured sword of the clan from the younger generation. The younger generation has a secret method, and holding the Lingbao soldier may be able to use the peak of Dingdan. Can't compete with the half-step Youxian of Longzhang Waterfall, but as long as it can hold back a point, it must hold up a point."

The previous words made Ning Tiancheng nod his head again and again, but when he got the treasure knife, his eyes paused, showing a bit of hesitation.

"The treasured sword of the clan? This... Mr. Xie, it's not that I don't want to agree, it's just that I haven't even used this sword a few times. There are treasured weapons that are extremely precious, and such treasured weapons are inherently evil..."

Most of the treasure soldiers of the town clan are spirit treasure soldiers, and there are very few in the entire Jianghu. They are the foundation of many families without wandering immortals and half-step wandering immortals. As expected by Chengyun.

Although Chu Yunsheng said that Mu Yuexin was moved, Xie Chengyun did not dare to put all his hopes on Mu Yuexin.

He didn't say anything more, just waiting for Ning Tiancheng to weigh and think.

half an hour.

Ning Tianchang sighed, and looked at Xie Chengyun solemnly: "Young Master Xie, come with me."

Two quarters of an hour later, Xie Chengyun quietly left Ning's house through a secret passage under Ning Tiancheng's personal escort with a dusty package on his back.

Ning Tiancheng stood at the exit of the dark passage, watching Xie Chengyun's figure disappear into the endless darkness of the night until it disappeared.Looking up at the starless and moonless sky, the anxious and dignified expression on his face gradually sank to a cold and flat one.

"At the end of summer, the sky is about to change."

Shaking his head as if sighing, he turned around with his hands behind his back, and walked into the secret passage again, but the direction he was heading was not the Ning family, but another secret passage that was farther away and was covered by the mechanism.

There is a fire at the end of the dark passage, and someone is guarding it.

A young man's voice came from the fire: "It's not time to 'take medicine' yet, Patriarch Ning came here in a hurry, what's the matter?"

Ning Tiancheng's eyes showed a somewhat imperceptible blankness, and he bowed his head respectfully and said: "The matter of Longzhang Waterfall has been exposed. Xie Chengyun came to Jinling with his snow sword, and he came to borrow some Lingbao soldiers to stop him half a step away." You Xian."

"You borrowed it?"

the man asked.

"I borrowed it." Ning Tiancheng raised his head and smiled slightly, "I borrowed a handful of soulless scrap iron."

The man was silent for a moment, then scolded coldly: "You are smart! If Xie Chengyun can't even tell the real from the fake soldiers, it's a waste of reputation. Come, stop all the boats at the dock immediately, and make sure not even a fly can fly in." The territory of the Baili Water Gang!"

Ning Tiancheng was taken aback: "You mean, Xie Chengyun has seen through my scheme and is going to the Bailishui Gang for help?"

"I'm afraid that when you handed him the fake sword, he would have seen through it. In Jinling City, apart from the Ning family and the Zheng family, only the Baili Shui Gang can help him. The rest are just ants." The man said lightly. .

At this time, at the Fisherman's Wharf in the east of Jinling City, an unremarkable boat was sailing away from the shore in the dark, going upstream against the current, and headed straight for the water village of the Bailishui Gang.

On the boat, the sleeping boatman was knocked out and lay down in the cabin. Xie Chengyun put on his coir raincoat, lowered his bamboo hat, took off the package on his back, and threw it into the water.

There was a splash, and the water splashed in all directions.

Looking at the fading lights of Jinling, Xie Chengyun held a paddle in one hand and a sword in the other, with cold eyes.