Chapter 1088 — The Gu Family in Grave Danger: Though Gu Mengyao Knew She Could Not Interfere in Wei Zhao's Actions, She Still Felt a Small Measure of Disappointment
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"Ah!" Palace Mistress Wan'er cried out, joy and astonishment mingled in her. The worry of so many days was swept clean away at last! They were finally safe, finally unharmed! Palace Mistress Wan'er was beside herself with delight. "Elder Li, was it you who stepped in?"
"No. This time it was I who misjudged matters... Wei Zhao was never wounded at all. Yu Bide, younger brother of the patriarch of the secular Yu family, was struck down and killed by Wei Zhao's own hand. Pi Bo, the Xiao family's guard, was beaten by Wei Zhao into a living death. The Gu family's crisis dissolved the moment he moved," Elder Li said.
"That is wonderful!" Palace Mistress Wan'er breathed out in relief, delight in her voice. "This Wei Zhao is truly no simple man. To think that he really did dissolve the crisis. But was he not wounded?"
"He may have been feigning it, precisely to make his enemies leap out into the open!" Elder Li himself did not know the crux of it. After all, even the Yu and Xiao families, the parties to the affair, were hardly clear on what had really happened behind the scenes. How much less could Elder Li know the key to it all?
"Hmph. A handful of Xuan-rank buffoons, and nothing more." The Grand Elder held no particular opinion of Wei Zhao. She merely knitted her brows and said, somewhat dismissively: "Wan'er, you may go out."
With that, the Grand Elder turned and departed. In truth, there was a dull bitterness in her heart. Why had that adulterer and that bastard not died? Had they died, Wan'er would have had nothing left to hold her back, and could have broken through to the Heaven rank, free of desire and free of feeling.
To be bound by feeling was, for one who cultivated, never a good thing.
She herself was a woman without feeling. She had never been in love, and she did not understand what passed in the hearts of lovers. In her eyes, all such sentiment was a lie; only strength was the true matter.
Only after the Grand Elder had gone did Elder Li let out a bitter, relieved breath. "Miss, that is simply the Grand Elder's temper. You must not hold it against her..."
"I know. How could I hold it against her? Her thinking differs from mine, but her intentions are good. She acts for our Dark Night Palace as well!"
"Yes!" Elder Li nodded, then lowered his voice. "Miss, though this time the son-in-law and the young lady passed their trial safely, it has also earned them an undying hatred with the Yu and Xiao families. The Hidden Yu family behind the Yus, I cannot say whether they will come forward to seek redress for them. And Pi Bo, the Xiao family's guard, his background is not to be made light of either. His clan is a hidden family as well, and behind him there is even the backing of the Xuandan Sect... The Xuandan Sect and our Dark Night Palace have never been on friendly terms. I fear that this time..."
"Ah!" Palace Mistress Wan'er had thought the whole affair resolved, and never imagined that it had only just begun! Behind the Yu family stood the Hidden Yu family, and among all the hidden clans, the Hidden Yu family was the strongest of them all. It might well be said to be no less than an ancient sect.
And Pi Bo, the Xiao family's guard, had turned out to be a man from a hidden clan as well. Most crucially of all, behind him there stood the support of the Xuandan Sect.