Chapter 2369 — Who Sent You?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Since you won't talk, then stay." Wei Zhao could not be bothered to waste more words. They were small fry; if they would not speak, so be it. In the end, the matter still had to be settled with Leader Zhu!
The next instant, Wei Zhao moved—still the first stance of the Wildfire Eight-Trigram Palm. Zhao Qisi was finished without the slightest power to fight back, without even resisting, without a single struggle; just like that, he was gone. In Wei Zhao's eyes, an expert at the peak of the late Profound Rank was as easy to kill as a chicken.
"You—" Zhao Guangshiliu had barely begun to speak when Wei Zhao's Wildfire Eight-Trigram Palm lashed out again, and Zhao Guangshiliu too died with his eyes wide open.
Even in death, neither could fathom it: the moment Wei Zhao appeared, why had he not gone to Pu Huotai to demand the girl, but killed them first? By their reckoning, Wei Zhao would surely rush to find Chen Xi upon arrival, and they, as the third party who had already lost Chen Xi to Pu Huotai, should have been able to clear themselves with ease!
But reality diverged from the ideal. Wei Zhao struck at them, giving them not the slightest chance to argue their case, and finished them with the force of a thunderbolt. Of course, Wei Zhao's ruthlessness also stemmed from the fact that Leader Zhu had once set a venomous snake on Chen Xi, which had left Wei Zhao with not one shred of goodwill toward Leader Zhu and his men.
Most important of all, though, Wei Zhao was killing the chicken to scare the monkey. Because his golden finger—that bug—let him see the strength of Pu Huotai's bodyguard, and because that same golden finger had failed to penetrate Pu Huotai's strength, Wei Zhao judged Pu Huotai to be a man hard to handle, and so, if he could avoid making an enemy of him, he would do his utmost to avoid it.
So Leader Zhu's men had not died unjustly at all. They had assumed Wei Zhao would clash with the Southeast Asian Gambling King Pu Huotai in complete ignorance—but Wei Zhao had done no such thing! Even Zhao Guangyin, even the old master Zhao, had thought Wei Zhao would go straight for Pu Huotai.
By any normal logic, what strength could a gambling king possibly have? Even with a bodyguard, that bodyguard could not be too powerful—the bodyguard of Poker Brother's daughter was merely a Yellow Rank expert. They had assumed Wei Zhao would have nothing to fear.
It was precisely this that the old master Zhao had meant to exploit, to make Wei Zhao strike at Pu Huotai and so achieve his aim of killing with a borrowed knife. But now—the killing had been done, only it was the Hidden Zhao family who had died by Wei Zhao's borrowed blade.
Having finished off the two cultivators, Wei Zhao looked as though nothing had happened. He turned to Pu Huotai and smiled faintly. "Mr. Pu, where is the girl called Chen Xi? She is my friend, and I hope you will let me take her with me."
Pu Huotai frowned, and in his heart began to surmise Wei Zhao's true strength.