Chapter 2377 — Where Is Your Boss?
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"The boss should be fine!" Wu Chengtian knew Wei Zhao better than the others and understood that Wei Zhao could recover on his own once injured. So he was not alarmed now; he waved Pi Zhitao and Pi Zhifeng back and said, "No need to panic. We wait patiently and stand guard here—just don't let anyone disturb him."
"Right!" Pi Zhifeng and Pi Zhitao answered at once.
"Young friend Chengtian, this man's corpse... hm, there's another corpse over there..." Old Master Pi paused in surprise, only now noticing that there was a second body in the private room. No wonder Wei Zhao had been so badly hurt!
He had been wondering—killing that man just now had been nothing special; a few of them working together had finished him in a single move. Wei Zhao should not have taken such grave injuries. Now it seemed Wei Zhao must have been wounded while fighting someone else.
"Leave it for now." Wu Chengtian waved a hand, but his eyes were on Chen Xi on the floor. He thought to himself, Don't tell me this is another sister-in-law? She looks a bit young, though—a high schooler, maybe? Still, Wu Chengtian did not dare be careless. He carefully lifted Chen Xi and laid her on the sofa nearby, then untied the ropes around her wrists and ankles.
Old Master Pi and Old Master Wu both nodded. Though the two of them were older, they still deferred to Wu Chengtian's orders—after all, Wu Chengtian had followed Wei Zhao the longest.
"All right, so what should we do now..." Old Master Pi asked.
"Go find the boss of this place and ask him what on earth happened here!" Wu Chengtian knew they could not disturb Wei Zhao, but Wei Zhao had come to harm in this establishment, so the owner could hardly escape blame—and he might well know the inside story. The best course, then, was to ask the owner just what had happened.
"Right, I'll see to it!" Old Master Pi nodded. His veneration of Wei Zhao was beyond measure. At first he had submitted to Wei Zhao because Wei Zhao had healed Pi Zhitao—a matter of profit more than feeling. But now, having witnessed Wei Zhao's formidable powers, and above all having been elevated by Wei Zhao into an expert versed in both inner and external schools, his initial gratitude had turned into heartfelt admiration and worship.
The world of cultivation revered the strong—that was its law. Old Master Pi, seasoned and shrewd with age, understood this rule well. Wei Zhao's potential and strength in particular had shown him that if he held fast to Wei Zhao, the Pi family's future path need not stop at remaining a hidden clan. An ancient clan—it was not impossible!
So long as he, Pi Zhifeng, and Pi Zhitao all became Heaven-rank experts versed in both inner and external schools, he was confident the Divine Fist Hall would be the first to court and support them—and at the councils of the ancient tier, back the Pi family's rise to ancient-clan status!
With that, Old Master Pi rose and went straight out of the private room. There was no one near the room at all, but at the far end of the corridor a waiter was peeking furtively at the goings-on.
"You—come here!" Old Master Pi pointed at the waiter.
"Ah... I... May I ask what you require, sir?" The waiter started in fright and asked, flustered and cautious.
"Where is your boss?" Old Master Pi asked bluntly.
"Our boss... Might I ask what this is about?" the waiter asked, trembling.
"Tell him to appear before me within a minute, or I'll smash up his establishment!" Old Master Pi was, after all, the head of a family and usually a man of great authority—but at present his role was Wei Zhao's underling, so naturally he had to play the swaggering henchman.