Chapter 2009 — The Mysterious Phone Call, Part One
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"What? You know this Wei Zhao too, Brother Wen?" Li Biaohan blinked, taken aback.
"Hmph. That brat has been working against me all along—he even stole a woman from me!" An Liwen gave a cold sniff, making no effort to hide it. "But there's something uncanny about him. Unless you're absolutely sure of yourselves, don't provoke him. I'm not sure of myself right now either..."
"That's true!" You Panhu nodded. "I'd give anything to see him dead, but the bastard wiped out three Earth Rank fighters in a single move. I wouldn't dare clash with him head-on either! And they say he's an alchemist besides... Wait—no. If he's an alchemist, why would he buy such a worthless cauldron?"
Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi going to an antiques market to buy a medicinal cauldron was utterly baffling to You Panhu. Even the lowest-grade alchemist wouldn't go to a place like that for a cauldron, would he? The people who bought cauldrons in such places were beginners and novices who had never touched alchemy, picking one up to fiddle with out of curiosity; but anyone who truly knew alchemy—who would use such a piece of junk?
So You Panhu had his doubts. What on earth was Wei Zhao up to, buying trash like that?
"Who knows? There's far too much that's strange about Wei Zhao." An Liwen frowned. "Forget it, let's not talk about him. Today's a happy day—bringing up that thing will only ruin the mood!"
"Yes, yes. Since those two are classmates of that Wei Zhao and You Panhu, they probably won't come after our boys—they won't have the time anyway!" Li Biaohan nodded, sent the two underlings a text saying everything was fine, and settled down to eat and drink with An Liwen and the others...
At the Ancient Feng family, Feng Tianhu's face was frighteningly dark just then, while the noblewoman seated across from him wore a look of barely concealed glee.
Feng Tianhu had already received word that Feng Erbing's entire force had been wiped out. He had never imagined that an early-stage Earth Rank expert could kill a mid-stage Earth Rank expert—and that after killing a mid-stage Earth Rank expert, the man could break through and advance a level. What sort of logic was that?
Was his Earth Rank an Earth Rank, and other people's Earth Rank not an Earth Rank? Or was his Earth Rank simply stronger than everyone else's—already the equal of Heaven Rank?
Feng Tianhu could make no sense of it at all.
"Tianhu, I'd say your information was wrong, wasn't it? You sent the peak late-stage Profound Rank expert I had on hand to his death, and in the end your own mid-stage Earth Rank expert went and died too. How does that little bastard have so many experts around him?" the noblewoman said sarcastically, no longer quite so angry over Feng Sanlei's death.
"Second Sister-in-law, that man wasn't sent by Second Brother—he was a friend of Xu Shilan's..." Feng Tianhu's heart was bleeding. The trusted men he had painstakingly cultivated—Feng Erbing, a mid-stage Earth Rank expert, and Feng Sanku, an expert at the peak of late-stage Profound Rank—had just up and croaked like that. Their deaths were far too pointless.
Sure enough, impulse was the devil.
Originally he had only meant to borrow his second sister-in-law's hand to kill Xu Shilan, to give Feng Tianqi a taste of what it was like to lose his own flesh and blood. But then, unexpectedly, his second sister-in-law's man Feng Sanlei had failed and been left behind there; Feng Tianhu panicked and sent out his own mid-stage Earth Rank expert, Feng Erbing. In his view, a mid-stage Earth Rank expert going to the mundane world to kill a single person was simplicity itself. Yet now—well, now the man wasn't dead, the target was perfectly fine, and his own people had all died instead.
The feeling made him want to vomit blood. Feng Tianhu was sick with frustration, and there was nowhere he could go to air his grievance.