Chapter 2271 — Going to the Rescue
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Rest assured, Brother Wu—my grandfather and I will do everything in our power to bring the leader's woman back!" Pi Zhifeng declared, cupping his fists.
"Good, then I leave it in your hands!" Wu Chengtian said. "Let the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast take you there—it knows where Wang Xinyan is being held. Only the guards there are formidable. That will be up to you, Old Master Pi!"
"Very well!" Old Master Pi agreed without hesitation. That the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast was with Wei Zhao did not surprise them—the creature had gone with Wei Zhao in the first place.
"By the way, that opponent—formidable as he is, I always feel his wits are lacking and his reactions slow. If you cross blades with him, Old Master Pi, it would be best not to meet him head-on. Evade his moves, then strike at him—I think that should yield some results..." Wu Chengtian had spent the night turning the previous day's battle over in his mind and distilled this lesson from it, which he passed on to Old Master Pi to spare him any misstep.
Only, this kidnapper gave Wu Chengtian a strange sense of familiarity, as though he had seen him somewhere before—yet when he thought harder, nothing came.
"Oh? Is that so? I will bear it in mind!" Old Master Pi nodded and said.
But when Pi Zhifeng and Old Master Pi saw the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast, they were stunned. Was this creature not a Yellow-Rank spirit beast? When had it become Mystic Rank—and at the peak of late Mystic Rank, no less?
Could it be that Wei Zhao could not only upgrade people, but spirit beasts as well? What a terrifying notion was that?
Old Master Pi and Pi Zhifeng exchanged another glance, and each read deep shock in the other's eyes.
"The Hidden Han family's standing out at the Hidden World Families Summit was no stroke of luck!" Old Master Pi shook his head with a bitter smile. "This time we've been strung along—all of us strung along together. This Wei Zhao, I suspect, is playing us for fools!"
"Indeed, and we have Zhihai to thank—otherwise how would we ever have found such an extraordinary leader?" Pi Zhifeng nodded. "But it is not too late even now. Our Hidden Pi family has its chance too..."
The Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast bore Pi Zhifeng and Old Master Pi without complaint. Though it was a remarkable ancient spirit beast, this was no ordinary moment—it was going to rescue the woman of its contract master, its mistress—so how could it not be eager?
"Awoo—roar, roar!" The Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast came to a halt near the abandoned farmstead and gave two soft howls to signal that they had arrived.
Pi Zhifeng and Old Master Pi climbed down from the beast's back. For the first time they understood what the speed of wind truly meant—from the villa to this place had taken but the blink of an eye!
"Zhishan, in a moment you follow behind me, riding the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast. I will deal with that expert, while you and the beast go free Miss Wang. If ever that expert turns on you, flee on the beast—whatever you do, do not meet him head-on!" Old Master Pi pondered a moment, then laid out the battle plan.
"Understood!" Pi Zhifeng did not boast. Even Wu Chengtian had been badly wounded—what was he, to think himself a match for the enemy in a straight fight?
The Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast raised no objection to this arrangement either, and the two men and the beast slipped quietly into the abandoned farmstead.