Jingrong said to Bai Yin, “If you can’t make up your mind, I can help you.”

Hmm?

Bai Yin asked, “What do you mean?”

“Does Huhe Hao treat you as a brother? And do you really want to choose to help him? We’ll know with one test, but… there might be some danger involved. What do you say?”

It was like making a deal.

Bai Yin deliberated and hesitated.

Half-believing, half-doubting.

Knowing the concerns in his heart.

Jingrong continued, “Right now, at this moment, you can choose to trust me.”

You’re my brother-in-law!

Would I deceive you?

After a long while—

“Alright!”

Bai Yin agreed.

The next day.

Third Master and Sai He led the assembled troops to rendezvous with Mu Zha’er.

Meanwhile, Jingrong and Muruo brought Bai Yin along and secretly went with Wuli Han and the others to the Yue Dan military camp.

After arriving, Bai Yin went alone to the outside of the Yue Dan military camp!

The Yue Dan people outside saw him from afar and were all very shocked. While going up to receive him, they also went to notify Huhe Hao.

Bai Yin entered the military camp, went into the tent, and had someone apply medicine to his back.

At this time, Huhe Hao hurriedly rushed over.

“Bai Yin.”

His voice came before his person.

Huhe Hao lifted the curtain in one motion and rushed in.

His tone was tense and worried.

The person applying medicine to Bai Yin retreated to the side, gathered his things, and went out.

He put on his clothes and looked at Huhe Hao who had come in.

He saw that Huhe Hao had a worried expression on his face.

“Bai Yin, are you alright?” He gripped his arms tightly.

Bai Yin said, “I’m fine, not dead yet.”

“Who were those people who captured you?”

“Hou Liao people.”

“Damn it! I’ll kill them.” Angry, he asked again, “But how did you get back?”

Puzzled!

Bai Yin said directly, “They released me.”

Hmm?

Huhe Hao’s hands slowly loosened from his arms, asking, “Why would they release you?”

Questioning with wariness.

A pair of sharp eyes scrutinized the Bai Yin before him.

Bai Yin didn’t care about his gaze though. While putting on his clothes properly to cover the wound on his back, he said, “Probably because they thought I had no use value, so they released me.”

“Is that really so?”

“You don’t trust me?” Bai Yin’s eyes deepened.

Huhe Hao smiled, “How could that be? Bai Yin, I treat you as a brother. I’m happier than anyone that you could come back.”

Bai Yin’s lips curved slightly, “Since you treat me as a brother, then why didn’t you come rescue me when I was captured?”

This…

Huhe Hao’s eyes suddenly froze, then returned to normal as he said, “Of course I sent people to look for you, but you also know, our people came from the western grasslands and aren’t familiar with this area yet. Moreover, being close to Hou Liao, before reinforcements arrive, we can’t act rashly.”

A reasonable explanation.

Bai Yin showed no expression, neither believing nor disbelieving.

But ultimately said nothing.

Huhe Hao patted his arm, “In any case, it’s good that you’re back. You’re my good brother. When we go to war with Hou Liao, I’ll still need your help.”

“I’ll definitely help you.”

“That’s exactly what I wanted to hear from you. So rest well, recover your health. I’ll avenge you.”

How righteous!

After speaking, Huhe Hao went out.

Bai Yin’s face was cold. He wanted to take a gamble—to bet on whether Huhe Hao still had any conscience left.

After coming out from inside, Huhe Hao gathered his trusted confidant A’mu Lang and several other people who had followed him for many years.

“What do you think… why would those Hou Liao people release Bai Yin?” He was uneasy.

Felt there was treachery involved.

Ba Tu said, “There must be something very wrong with this. I think Bai Yin has already been bought by them, otherwise they couldn’t possibly have released him.”

A’mu Lang: “I also feel something’s not right about this.”

“So what do you mean?”

A’mu Lang said with a murderous air, “Although Bai Yin saved you back then, just to be safe, he… cannot be kept.”

Cannot be kept!

Huhe Hao seemed to have already made up his mind.

He clenched his fist and slammed it heavily on the table.

Not far from the Yue Dan military camp, by the stone mountain, a fire burned. Jingrong, Muruo, and the others sat around the fire.

“Do you think Huhe Hao will really be heartless enough to kill Bai Yin?” Wuli Han asked.

Jingrong looked at the distant Yue Dan military camp, narrowing his eyes. Holding a wooden stick in his hand, he poked at the fire intermittently.

Sparks flew.

He didn’t respond to Wuli Han’s words.

After a while—

He said, “It seems the time is about right. We should go.”

Muruo: “So soon? Should we wait a bit more?”

“We can’t wait. Better too early than too late.”

He threw the stick into the fire!

Got up to prepare to leave.

Everyone extinguished the fire, shouldered their bows and arrows, and approached the Yue Dan military camp.

At this time, in Bai Yin’s tent.

A’mu Lang brought in a bowl of medicine.

Inquiring, “Bai Yin, is your wound feeling better?”

He looked at the bowl of medicine in A’mu Lang’s hand and had probably already guessed.

“Much better.”

“The leader asked me to bring you a bowl of medicine. We haven’t seen each other these past days, and I also want to know about your time in Hou Liao. Tell me about it.”

A’mu Lang placed the bowl in front of him and sat down opposite him.

Bai Yin asked, “This bowl… is from Huhe Hao?”

“Yes! It’s good for your wound.”

Saying this, he pushed the medicine bowl in front of him.

“Drink it.”

Bai Yin picked it up and, under A’mu Lang’s watchful gaze, slowly brought the bowl to his lips.

Drink!

Drink!

Just drink it already!

Just as the bowl was about to reach his lips—

A sudden commotion came from outside.

Then fire flashed.

A’mu Lang immediately turned to look, but through the curtain, he couldn’t see anything at all.

When he turned his head back, Bai Yin had stood up and suddenly pinched his jaws, pouring that bowl of medicine into his mouth.

“Mmm mmm mmm…”

A’mu Lang resisted, but at the same time, the bowl had already been poured down his throat.

The potent poison gave him almost no buffer time.

His whole body fell to the ground, convulsing all over. His hands clutched desperately at his own neck, his eyes bulging, foam coming from his mouth.

“Ugh…”

Bai Yin threw the bowl in his hand to the ground.

It shattered into pieces.

He looked down from above at the helpless A’mu Lang, his eyes deepening.

“I didn’t expect that he really wanted me dead.”

Utterly disappointed!

The poison took A’mu Lang’s life in almost half a minute. His body stiffened, lying motionless on the ground with staring eyes.

Bai Yin took down from a nearby screen rack the short knife that had accompanied him for many years, stepped over A’mu Lang’s corpse, and left the tent.

Outside, it had already become chaotic!

The firelight came from the direction where the Yue Dan military camp stored grain and fodder.

Sure enough, Jingrong and the others had come very timely.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he also quickly escaped.

By the time Huhe Hao’s people reacted, half of the grain and fodder had already been burned. When he immediately went to look inside Bai Yin’s tent, all he saw was A’mu Lang already dead on the ground.