Chapter 3232 — Who Sent You?

"Neither. You needn't guess, and I won't tell you either!" The Grand Elder shook his head with indifference, as though he had no patience left for the old director's questions. "You may die now!"

"Wait!" Xu Shilan was stricken with horror. She had never expected a strange old man to burst in in the middle of the night—and from the look of it, this strange old man was no weakling! He meant to kill the mother she had only just been reunited with. How could Xu Shilan possibly allow that? With a cry of alarm, she instinctively raised her head to look at the Grand Elder and asked, rather nervously, "Senior, have you made a mistake? My mother bears you no grudge at all. She's only the director of an orphanage—how could anyone have paid to have her killed?"

"Yes... surely there's been a mistake..." Cheng Yiyi had not expected the man to choose the very moment when she and Xu Shilan were both in the room to make his move! And the way the Black Horse Society did things—either they never struck, or they struck without mercy!

Which meant everyone in this room was going to die! Herself and Xu Shilan included! That was not something Cheng Yiyi intended to see, so she wanted to retreat: "Xiaohan, let's go get Mr. Lin to come over..."

As she spoke, Cheng Yiyi took Xu Shilan by the arm and started toward the door...

"Oh? Trying to run?" The Grand Elder turned a mocking gaze on Cheng Yiyi as she dragged Xu Shilan toward the door, a cold sneer flickering at the corner of his mouth.

Cheng Yiyi's steps faltered and slowed. Cold sweat broke out at once on her forehead!

"There is no mistake. I do not need you to tell me how to conduct my affairs! And you too must die—everyone in this room must die!" The Grand Elder glanced at Cheng Yiyi and snorted coldly. "Since you're so eager to leave, you may die first! I'll see you on your way!"

With that, the Grand Elder raised his hand, pointed at Cheng Yiyi, and made ready to finish her off!

Cheng Yiyi was filled with regret! She had spoken one superfluous sentence, and the Grand Elder had shifted his target onto her? Was he about to kill her? There was nothing Cheng Yiyi could do about it, and yet she had no way out either. She could only brace herself and plead: "Let's talk this over properly... surely this is a misunderstanding..."

"No! You're looking for my mother, aren't you? I'm her daughter. Debts have their debtors and grudges have their source. This one is my friend, an outsider with nothing to do with my mother. Let her go. My mother and I will stay here!" Xu Shilan was no fool either. The old director was a fine hand at the peak of the late Earth Rank and had not dared to act rashly; this man before her must be formidable indeed. And since he had come for her mother, then Cheng Yiyi was innocent—she would not drag Cheng Yiyi down with her!

So in that instant Xu Shilan stepped directly in front of Cheng Yiyi, shielding her, and spoke with unwavering eyes!

Cheng Yiyi was stunned. She had never imagined that at such a moment Xu Shilan would step forward for her and stand in front of her! In that instant, Cheng Yiyi's nose stung with tears. Xu Shilan truly treated her as a true sister—and yet she herself...

At that thought, Cheng Yiyi's tears slid down at once. She stood rooted to the spot, at a loss for what to do...

At that very moment, the Grand Elder struck. He extended a finger, pointed it at Xu Shilan, and a bolt of azure true qi shot forth from his fingertip, flying straight at Xu Shilan! The true qi was immense and overwhelming; were it to strike Xu Shilan's body, she would certainly die beyond any doubt!

But in that very instant, Cheng Yiyi moved. Her body appeared before Xu Shilan at an incredible speed beyond any ordinary mortal's, and with sheer flesh and blood she blocked the bolt of true qi the Grand Elder had fired!

"BOOM—"

With a tremendous roar, a bloody hole the size of a rice bowl appeared in Cheng Yiyi's chest, and her whole body was sent flying backward, slamming into Xu Shilan—yet its speed was scarcely checked, and the two of them crashed together into the wall with a sound like muffled thunder.

"Pff—" Xu Shilan spat out a mouthful of blood. Though the true qi had not struck her, Cheng Yiyi had intercepted it—but the force with which Cheng Yiyi had been struck by the true qi was added to Xu Shilan's body, so although Xu Shilan did not die, she was gravely wounded all the same. She collapsed to the ground with blood spilling from the corner of her mouth; plainly, even if she might hold on for a moment or two, she certainly could not live.

And Cheng Yiyi was even worse off. Though she clenched her teeth and fought desperately to hold on to that one breath and not die, she certainly could not survive! The faith that kept that one breath in her was, in truth, simply the wish to say sorry to Xu Shilan!

In that moment she was going to die—but before she died, she had to say certain things to her good sister Xu Shilan, or she would die with her eyes open.

In truth, everything in the room had happened in the blink of an eye. Wei Zhao had sensed it after the man in black, the Grand Elder, entered the old director's room, and had reacted—but it had all happened too fast. In the space of a few sentences, a few seconds, the Grand Elder had made his move!

Wei Zhao had not yet finished compressing his true qi bomb, and he stood at the door of the room frantic with anxiety! Yet he did not dare act at once either. After all, compressing a true qi bomb took time. True, the speed of the third layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art was not to be spoken of in the same breath as the first or second layer, but even so, it could not possibly be compressed in the space of an instant!

After all, Wei Zhao was now a fine hand at the early Heaven Rank, able to compress a greater and more immense quantity of true qi! Had he still compressed according to the old quantity of true qi, it could indeed have been done in an instant—but it would have been of little use!

After all, that kind of true qi bomb was effective against low-ranking cultivators, but the opponent Wei Zhao now faced was a fine hand at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, at the Great Perfection—even if Wei Zhao compressed every last shred of true qi in his body into it, it might not inflict much harm on the man before him, let alone a small-scale true qi bomb of the old kind!

One had to understand: a single great move from a Heaven Rank expert could split mountains and shatter the earth, and their bodies were incomparably tough. Wei Zhao had no choice but to be cautious again and again!

"You at the door—you've watched long enough. Come in and die with the rest." Though Wei Zhao had concealed his aura, the Grand Elder could still sense him circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to compress the true qi bomb.

Wei Zhao could not help a bitter smile. It seemed he would have to face this in the end—and besides, Xu Shilan's and Cheng Yiyi's injuries were grave indeed. Though neither would die for the moment, without timely treatment they still would.

Stepping into the old director's room, Wei Zhao looked coldly at the Black Horse Society's Grand Elder and asked in a tone of lofty condescension: "What sect are you from? Why have you come to Songshan City to kill? Who sent you?"