บท 12: Chapter 12: Ling Yuyan’s ‘No Risks’ Plan!

Ling Yuyan pointed at the location of the Lin Family's manor in the Spring River Town's map and said to An Yue: "This is the Lin Family's manor. I want you to send four of your [2nd Tier Shadow Guards] and divide them to keep an eye on the four different directions."

An Yue nodded her head in understanding and replied in a casual tone: "I get it, Sister Yuyan. You know that there will be many assassins attacking the Lin Family's manor at night in these few days, but you do not know the exact time, how many are they, and how they will do it, so you need my shadow guards to watch over the Lin Family's manor and let you know if they make their moves, right?"

"Exactly~! As I expected from my Shadow Empress, An Yue~!" Ling Yuyan nodded at An Yue with a satisfied smile on her face while raising her thumb up.

She was truly grateful that her System gave an extremely reliable subordinate like An Yue as her first hero.

Without An Yue's help, it would surely be impossible for her to get this [Life Seal Condensing Method] from Lin Ming Tian or Jing Weiyuan.

Ling Yuyan continued to tell her next plan to An Yue.

"I also get information that the Lin Family's manor has a hidden underground passage leading to the south of the Spring River Town near this forest and hill." Ling Yuyan stated while pointing her slender finger at the southern forest and hill in the Spring River Town's map.

"But I also do not know the exact exit of that hidden underground passage, so I want you to send the rest of your shadow guards to look for it."

"This hidden underground passage's exit must be found before those assassins attack the Lin family's manor, or our plan will be completely ruined."

Ling Yuyan muttered with a solemn tone.

In the book, the assassins sent by Jing Weiyuan were too numerous and powerful, so the Lin Family did not stand a chance at all, and they were massacred in less than half an hour.

When the Wang Family realized it and planned to send help, it was already over.

However, the protagonist, Lin Ming Tian, along with his younger sister and his mother ran away through that hidden underground passage.

Unfortunately, the assassins managed to catch up and kill his younger little sister, and his mother, while the protagonist, Lin Ming Tian, fell from the cliff.

The assassins thought Lin Ming Tian would surely die, but he actually fell into the river and managed to survive.

Then the unconscious Lin Ming Tian was accidentally saved by the Elder of the Five Elements Sect.

Under Lin Ming Tian's persistent effort, the Elder finally took Lin Ming Tian as his disciple, thus Lin Ming Tian's journey to avenge his family was officially begun.

It was a bit too cliche in Ling Yuyan's opinion, but that was not the most important point.

The main point was that Ling Yuyan planned to save Lin Ming Tian before he fell from the cliff and copied the [Life Seal Condensing Method] from him as her payment.

Because at that time, there were not many assassins chasing after him anymore since those assassins had spread out in all directions to retreat.

In fact, those assassins did not plan to chase after Lin Ming Tian, his younger little sister and his mother at all, but they only accidentally stumbled upon Lin Ming Tian and his family on their way to retreat.

Since everyone who saw them must be silenced in order not to leave any witnesses, so those assassins decided to kill all of them.

It was truly ironic since Lin Ming Tian and his family would have been safe if they just stayed and hid in the hidden underground passage until morning.

Although Ling Yuyan wanted to tell this important piece of information to Lin Ming Tian before the disaster came to his manor, she really did not have a way to convince Lin Ming Tian to believe in her words at all.

To make it worse, it did not rule out the possibility that Lin Ming Tian might think that she was the main culprit behind the massacre of his family and hunt her down instead later if she tried to tell him about it beforehand.

As a coward and timid girl, Ling Yuyan would always adhere to her usual 'taking no risks' attitude and always take the safest choice.

'I only need to save Lin Ming Tian from those few assassins at the last moment and copy the [Life Seal Condensing Method] from him. Not only Lin Ming Tian will feel grateful to me, but I will also get my hands on the [Life Seal Condensing Method]~! Perfect~! It is indeed the safest choice without any doubt~!' Ling Yuyan smiled while nodding her head in satisfaction.

As for sending An Yue and all of her shadow guards to help the Lin Family and prevent them from getting massacred... She did not dare to think about it at all... Even if she had ten An Yues under her command right now, she still would not be able to save the Lin Family from their demise!

An Yue immediately sent away all of her seven [2nd Tier Shadow Guards] according to Ling Yuyan's arrangement.

Four [2nd Tier Shadow Guards] will watch over the Lin Family's manor from four different directions, while three [2nd Tier Shadow Guards] will search for the hidden underground passage's exit at the south of the Spring River Town near the forest and hill.

As for An Yue, she was Ling Yuyan's personal bodyguard, and her avatar was also Ling Yuyan's avatar's martial arts instructor, so she could not be far from her.

After An Yue hid in her shadow as usual, Ling Yuyan hastily went back to Wang Qingling to report her task completion.

Just like what Jing Weiyuan told her before, she just told to Wang Qingling that she had already given the sealed letter directly to the Crown Prince.

Anyway, she was just a little maid, so Jing Weiyuan would not bother to tell any lie to her, right?

Wang Qingling was very happy after she heard Ling Yuyan's report, and she even gave some bronze coins reward to Ling Yuyan.

Ling Yuyan: "....."

'At least give me silver coins, you stingy rich young miss~! Sigh... I really expect too much from the stingiest... I mean the most ruthless villainess.' Ling Yuyan secretly complained in her heart.

Ling Yuyan thought she could live peacefully for a while after completing this task, but she clearly underestimated Wang Qingling's role as the most ruthless villainess.

In the afternoon, when Ling Yuyan and several other maids were accompanying Wang Qingling to take a walk, they accidentally bumped into Wang Meng Yuan who was currently practicing her new water attribute martial arts.

Ling Yuyan immediately noticed that Wang Meng Yuan was not practicing Wang Family's fire attribute martial arts, but practicing the new water attribute martial arts instead.

'Sigh... I already stole her chance to get the water attribute martial arts from inside the pool before, but she could actually get another water attribute martial arts from who knows where. As I expected from heroine's lucky halo...' Ling Yuyan could only sigh in admiration.

Wang Qingling arrogantly approached Wang Meng Yuan and said with a mocking tone: "Humph~! My Trashy Sister, it is useless for you to practice any martial arts. No matter how hard you practice, trash will always be trash!"

Ling Yuyan suddenly had a very bad feeling about this!

She really wanted to get away from here so badly, but unfortunately, it was already a bit too late for Ling Yuyan to do that.

Wang Meng Yuan ignored Wang Qingling as she kept training hard, but her expression became a lot colder than before.

Wang Qingling continued to say provocatively: "How about you and my maid have a sparring practice? I want to see if a trash like you can even win against my maid."

Wang Meng Yuan finally stopped practicing and glared at Wang Qingling coldly.

"Pick your maid! I also want to practice my hands for a long time." Wang Meng Yuan replied to Wang Qingling without any fear in her tone.

Wang Qingling sneered at Wang Meng Yuan and pointed at Ling Yuyan while saying: "You go and fight her~!"

Ling Yuyan instantly became dumbfounded when Wang Qingling suddenly pointed at her.

"Young Miss, why me? I... I cannot do it... I have never practiced any martial arts at all! Young Miss is very strong. Why doesn't Young Miss fight her by yourself?" Ling Yuyan timidly tried to reject Wang Qingling's order while kept shaking her head profusely.

Wang Qingling glared at Ling Yuyan unhappily and scolded her: "I have already reached High-Rank Martial Apprentice. How could I beat up trash like her with my own hands?! The other people will look down on me and say I bully trash like her instead!"

'Well... Actually, everyone already knows that you always try to bully her, so you do not need to try to hide it anymore...' Ling Yuyan murmured in her heart, but she did not dare to say it in front of Wang Qingling's face.

Wang Qingling ran out of his patience and pushed Ling Yuyan's back hard until she lost control of her own body and rushed forward toward Wang Meng Yuan!

Wang Meng Yuan had already long prepared, so she immediately threw a punch to Ling Yuyan's face!

Ling Yuyan raised her hands in reflex to block Wang Meng Yuan's punch!

BANG~!

Ling Yuyan's hands felt numb as she took a few steps back.