By dusk that day, the warship sailed out of the river bend and entered the Yangtze River, going upstream toward Baling. The cargo ship also sailed along the river going north.

When Kou Zhong pushed the door and entered into Xu Ziling’s cabin, the latter was regulating his qi and his breathing. Other than the paleness due to slight loss of blood earlier, he did not look like someone who had just been stabbed by a sword.

The two boys sat in the two chairs by the window.

Kou Zhong sighed and said, “Your guts are really not small. At that time I was so afraid that she could not stop her hand and hence take your life for real. Whenever I thought about it I am still having cold sweats.”

Xu Ziling smiled wryly and said, “It was the only way to resolve the enmity; otherwise, how would she be willing to step back? If we fought, no matter who got injured, the result would not be good.”

Kou Zhong seemed to be deep in thought. He said slowly, “Ren Shaoming’s death not only alters the situation in the south, it also changes our fate, making us the target of a multitude of arrows. Although it has been like that for a while, but now the danger increases several folds.”

After pausing for a moment, he continued, “There are two people that we m