Chapter 1372 — Where Did He Go?
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Er Goudan let out a breath of relief. Dead was good enough! He simply hadn't reckoned that his punch carried such force it had hurled Jin Wudi clear across the street - no wonder he had still been looking around for the man, thinking he had up and vanished!
"Huh?" Zhao Qibing froze on the spot. "Beaten to death?"
Pi Zhifeng drew a deep breath and strode toward Er Goudan.
"What do you want? Don't tell me you want to die too?" Er Goudan blustered, fierce of face but hollow within - for asking him to throw another punch like that was beyond him now.
"Hero Goudan, you misunderstand..." Pi Zhifeng checked his steps without thinking and dared not go another pace forward. The creature might look guileless and slow-witted, yet it was ready to beat a man dead at the drop of a hat. Pi Zhifeng was not about to presume upon himself; to be slain by this thing as a "dangerous person" would be a gain far outweighed by the loss!
"Misunderstand what?" Er Goudan asked.
"There seems to have been some misunderstanding between the Pi family and you before. I am Pi Zhifeng, young master of the Pi family. On behalf of our two Pi family men, I offer you our apologies. Our Pi family has no wish to make enemies of you and your leader Wei Zhao. I beg Hero Goudan not to hold it against us!" Pi Zhifeng could bend as well as stretch. For the proud first-in-line heir of the hidden Pi family to utter such words was no easy thing, but a man under another's roof has no choice but to bow his head. Pi Zhifeng had read the situation clearly: this Er Goudan was simply too savage. A practitioner who had brought the Golden Bell Shield to such perfection as Jin Wudi, and he could be killed with a single punch at a word? Then beating Pi Zhifeng would be nothing but child's play!
Even his own father, Pi Jiake, had been helpless against Jin Wudi. So if this man were to strike his father, he would probably find it easy and pleasant enough!
"Oh, those two from before I already beat to death - they've had their lesson. I won't be troubling you. If there's nothing else, be on your way!" For all the easy air Er Goudan put on, he was inwardly in a desperate hurry. He was fighting back a mouthful of blood, and the struggle had already made him wretchedly ill.
"In that case, Pi takes his leave. Consider it a debt the Pi family owes you, Hero. In future, should you ever need anything, you have only to give the word and it shall be done!" Seeing that Er Goudan had no wish to be bothered with him, Pi Zhifeng cupped his fists in salute, gestured to the Xiao brothers, and led them away.
At this moment Xiao Wangba and Xiao Wangdao were bitter with regret. The fault lay in their own big mouths - had they known Wu Chengtian's leader was so formidable, why ever had they run on so? If only there had been a pill of regret to swallow, how gladly the Xiao family would have thrown in with Wei Zhao from the start, how dazzling that would have been! And just look - the Wu family's glory was now only a matter of days.
Zhen Dazhou and Zhen Yingjun, father and son, stood gaping. Just like that, the man was dead? Heavens above, what manner of nightmare were these people? Last time, though Ma Zhu had been gravely hurt, he had at least survived. This time they had barely exchanged a few words before the fellow was beaten to death!
The two exchanged a glance and saw the same fear mirrored in each other's eyes. When Ma Zhu was injured last time, father and son had still nursed thoughts of revenge. But now they knew revenge had become a laughingstock. If an Earth Rank master could be killed with a single punch, then what difference, in those people's eyes, was there between the two of them and a pair of ants?
Had they known this was how it would turn out, they should have listened to Zou Ruoming! It turned out his words had truly been counsel of gold and jade, not one lie in them - this Lord Lin was genuinely not someone to provoke!