Chapter 3349 — Two More Have Appeared

"You—" Yu Dake wanted to press him further, but then he saw Old Master Gu's fist come driving straight at him!

Wei Zhao knitted his brows slightly. He had meant to let Yu Dake draw a few more words out of the old man before finishing him off, but who would have thought the fellow would start swinging after barely two sentences? That left Wei Zhao somewhat exasperated, yet he acted on the instant, sending the eleventh form of the Wild Fire Eight Trigrams Palm sweeping in from the side at Old Master Gu!

Old Master Gu's whole mind was fixed on Yu Dake. He paid no attention to Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke standing off to the side, taking them for Yu Dake's friends. In his view, if these two were friends of Yu Dake, they could not be anything formidable. After all, anyone hired as a hired fist was bound to be haughty and proud—certainly not a pair of youngsters.

Besides, Yu Dake plainly had no idea that he and his master were the man's enemies; he had only learned it here, just now, from Old Master Gu's own mouth. So this could hardly be a premeditated visit for revenge.

Thus Old Master Gu did not give Wei Zhao the slightest thought—which was precisely why Wei Zhao's sudden strike caught him utterly off guard! Before Old Master Gu could even reach Yu Dake, Wei Zhao had struck first and sent him flying!

Old Master Gu had been about to attack; why would he have shrouded himself in true qi for protection? And Wei Zhao's eleventh form of the Wild Fire Eight Trigrams Palm—against a peak late Heaven Rank expert, it had perhaps a fifty-fifty chance of killing outright. But against an ordinary late Heaven Rank expert, it was more than enough.

Even without the jade pendant's attack boost, Wei Zhao still annihilated Old Master Gu in a single blow!

At that very moment, as Wei Zhao sent Old Master Gu flying, the Gu family members happened to come out of the manor. They had come to lend weight to the old man's show of force, but the scene before their eyes left them dumbstruck!

There lay Old Master Gu—the lofty, incomparably mighty figure of their minds—sprawled backward with blood spewing from his mouth. Yet not one of them dared make a move, for they all knew: anyone who could beat Old Master Gu like this was someone they could never afford to provoke.

"You—you people—" The lead guard had come hoping to watch Old Master Gu settle scores on his behalf. Little did he expect that instead of scores being settled, he would see Old Master Gu repeat his own sorry fate—flying out spitting blood, exactly as he had done moments before!

But Old Master Gu fared even more wretchedly than he had. After flying out, the old man twitched twice and then lay still—plainly dead.

"Father!" Two men bearing some resemblance to Old Master Gu came racing over to the corpse, crying out in grief.

"Who is your father's master? Who was it that wiped out the Yu family all those years ago? Did any of you take part?" Wei Zhao looked at the two men and asked.

"I—we don't know..." The two men were clearly cowards—or rather, they had been frightened out of their wits by Wei Zhao and dared not resist him. "How could our family have taken part? My father... he only found himself a great patron from the Central Plains, that's all. We existed merely as their eyes and ears here... As for the master's identity, we have no idea. Don't kill us, great hero, we beg you! This is your land—we'll move out right away, just don't kill us..."

It seemed Old Master Gu's two sons were both spineless. Already frightened silly by Wei Zhao, they poured out everything they knew like beans tumbling from a split bamboo tube, not daring to conceal the slightest thing.

"Oh? Then do you know your master's name?" Wei Zhao asked with a frown.

"That we don't know—our master never told us..." the Gu son said with a bitter face. "The Gu family was only a small clan back then—Young Master Yu probably doesn't even remember us. When the master wiped out the Yu family, our family happened to be moving here, and my father, being a shrewd sort, ingratiated himself with them. That's how we became their eyes and ears, and we receive cultivation resources at regular intervals. As for who they are, we never dared ask..."

"Is that so? Not a single clue?" Wei Zhao frowned. "Then how did you keep in contact?"

"They always contacted us—we never had any way to reach them. And the cultivation resources were sent by post..." the Gu son said.

"What you've said is all useless chatter—not nearly enough to save your lives!" Wei Zhao knew that sometimes, without a show of force, these people felt no pressure and would never say anything worthwhile.

"No—no—there's one more important thing!" At this point the Gu son threw caution to the winds. The other party had told them to keep it secret, but secret it could no longer remain! Besides, once they had said their piece they would leave this place and could never cross paths with those people again. Staying alive mattered more!

"Speak," Wei Zhao said coldly.

"It's like this—a few days ago, the master's side sent two envoys. They rested here for a night, then left..." the Gu son said. "What they were called, we don't know, and my father received them personally—we never even got to exchange a word with them, nor did we catch so much as a glimpse of their faces. But this much we do know: they asked my father about the whereabouts of the Polli clan. Barring the unexpected, they must have gone to the Polli clan... If you can find those two, there may be a lead..."

Back then, those two had threatened the Gu family that they must never breathe a word of their visit or their movements, or the Gu family would be wiped out. But now, if they kept silent, these people would wipe them out anyway. Better to speak first—at the very least, they might die a little later.

So he spat out everything.

"Oh? Two men came? And they went to the Polli clan?" Calm as Wei Zhao was, even he could not keep a flicker of astonishment and disbelief from crossing his face. He had not expected such a coincidence!

But what did those two have to do with the Polli clan? Were they close to it, or...? The thought left Wei Zhao somewhat unsettled. This time he was going to trade with the Polli clan—put plainly, to ask the Polli clan for help. And now, out of nowhere, two of Yu Dake's enemies had appeared...

Yet on closer reflection, Wei Zhao realized it was not so. Those two had gone to Old Master Gu to ask where the Polli clan was—which meant they must be unfamiliar with the clan! Otherwise, why ask at all? They would simply go. At that thought, Wei Zhao breathed a little easier.