Chapter 2444 — A Miscalculation
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"What... what do you mean? What do you mean, the experts of our hidden Right family?" Right Panhu stared at Wei Zhao's half-smiling gaze as though his tail had been trodden on, and shot back.
"Nothing. You know exactly what I mean." Wei Zhao said this flatly, then walked toward the last row.
"Brother Right, what riddles are you and Wei Zhao trading? What's this about?" Kang Jinglong was no cultivator, so naturally he had no way of knowing the true strength of the two robbers Wei Zhao had fought, much less guess at their connection to the hidden Right family. So at this moment he asked, thoroughly baffled.
"Brother Kang, we got it all wrong!" Right Panhu said with a bitter face. "Those two just now—they were the ones our hidden Right family sent. Those robbers from before... they were real robbers..."
"Ga!" Hearing Right Panhu's words, Kang Jinglong's eyes went wide. What? The earlier robbers had been genuine robbers, and the ones they had just encountered were the hidden Right family's men? Kang Jinglong felt the world spin around him and nearly fainted dead away; wave after wave of belated terror set him trembling all over.
In other words, he had just taken a spin through the gates of hell? Those men were not from the hidden Right family at all—why would they play along with him? Thank heavens he had not kept pressing the matter with force at the end; otherwise he might well have been beaten to death by now!
"Brother Kang, I'm truly sorry. Who could have known things would line up so unluckily?" Right Panhu looked at the still-shaken Kang Jinglong and said with a bitter smile.
"It's not your fault..." Hearing Right Panhu's explanation, Kang Jinglong's resentment toward him dissolved like mist. This really was not Right Panhu's fault—who could have foreseen such rotten luck as running into a band of genuine robbers?
Yet amid his lingering fright, Kang Jinglong suddenly thought of something even more terrifying. He asked hastily: "Brother Right, didn't you say the men your hidden Right family sent were Heavenly Rank experts? How did Wei Zhao take care of them just like that..."
"They were Heavenly Rank experts, all right!" Right Panhu sighed. Somewhat helplessly, he said: "One early-stage Heavenly Rank expert, and one at the peak of late-stage Earthly Rank!"
These two were not direct-line members of the Right family, only retained retainers and disciples—much like Yu Dake, who had attended the hidden-family summit—but they were still part of the Right family's strength. For Wei Zhao to have battered them into a state of unknown injury or death left Right Panhu deeply displeased.
In the future, even if he did not become the head of the hidden Right family, he would be one of its elders. When the hidden Right family was strong, he was naturally glad; when the hidden Right family had its vitality gravely sapped by Wei Zhao, he could hardly be glad.
"What? An early-stage Heavenly Rank and a peak late-stage Earthly Rank expert, and neither was a match for Wei Zhao?" Kang Jinglong's eyes went wide. Heavens—what realm of expert must this Wei Zhao be?
"By my own estimate, Wei Zhao's strength is only at the peak of mid-stage Earthly Rank. That he could win was nothing more than taking advantage of surprise and the refinement of his martial techniques..." Right Panhu had evidently observed carefully. "Still, there's no need to worry. In Instructor White's class, Wei Zhao would never dare strike us a killing blow. His cultivation strength is nothing to fear."
Kang Jinglong nodded and set his heart at ease. Right Panhu had a point—judging by the way Wei Zhao had killed without batting an eye earlier, those two hidden Right family experts were dead or crippled, and Wei Zhao had shown them not a shred of mercy.