Chapter 1373 — Wu Chengtian Stands Guard: Thinking of This, the Two of Them Tried to Slip Away, but Shen Yushu Called Them Back: "Hey, Wait — Weren't You Going to Play Us?"
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"Done!" Wu Chengtian thumped his chest without a heartbeat's hesitation. "Rest easy and heal, Chief — leave this to me. I will protect Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. So long as they are safe, I am here; if anything at all befalls them, I will come and present you my head!"
Wu Chengtian was a braggart, that much was true — but what he said now came straight from the heart.
He had no choice left. As the future heir of the Wu family, this was the first time he had stepped forward to declare publicly that he stood on Wei Zhao's side. And after today's events, Wu Chengtian was now firmly established as one of Wei Zhao's underlings. If anything happened to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, that would spell Wei Zhao's ruin as well — and his Wu family would go down with him.
So Wu Chengtian had no option but to guard Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu with all his heart and all his duty.
Everything that took place here fell into the eyes of Shadow Thirteen. No sooner was Jin Wudi dead than Shadow Thirteen once again dialed Elder Li's number.
"Well? Has the young miss been taken?" Elder Li snatched up the phone and demanded urgently — with none of the composure an elder of an ancient sect ought to possess. Small wonder: the matter concerned the daughter of the young lady he doted on most. How could he keep his mind steady?
"Elder Li. Jin Wudi is dead." Those were Shadow Thirteen's very first words.
"De-dead?" Elder Li started. "How did he die? Did some expert intervene?"
"No. It was one of Wei Zhao's underlings — a man they call Hero Goudan or some such. One punch, and Jin Wudi was dead..." Shadow Thirteen was shaken too. What manner of man was this, to one-shot Jin Wudi, an expert at the very peak of the early Earth Rank?
"One punch, and Jin Wudi dead? What sort of power does he have?" Elder Li's jaw dropped in astonishment. Wei Zhao's underling was far, far too ruthless!
"Yes, one punch! To be precise, both hands, both fists. As for his power — I could not see it..." At this point Shadow Thirteen could not help frowning. "I could see Jin Wudi's level. I could see Pi Zhifeng's level. But this Hero Goudan's — I could not see it at all..."
"What! You couldn't tell? How old is he?" Elder Li was more shocked still. The men of the Shadow Group, though no great hands at attack, were first-rate at gathering intelligence — above all gifted with a special ability to discern a cultivator's strength. And if a man's strength could not be read by the Shadow Group, then either he knew how to conceal his power, or he was already an expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, well on the way back to the plain and the true... But how old was Wei Zhao's underling? How could he possibly be a master at the peak of the late Heaven Rank?
"Not old — twenty, give or take!" said Shadow Thirteen. "I suspect he has no measurable power at all. He may well be a rankless master."
"A rankless master?" Elder Li froze. "Could a rankless master kill Jin Wudi — a man at the peak of the early Earth Rank who had perfected the Golden Bell Shield?"
"That is precisely what puzzles me. But after killing Jin Wudi he seemed to be wounded — he spat blood... then he went inside the villa. What happened after that, I do not know." said Shadow Thirteen.