Chapter 2777 — Xinyan Wakes
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"So they watched Wei Zhao for that long and didn't hear a single thing?" The Yellow Springs Ancestor knew that the Yin森 Ancestor was only stating the facts; among all their past assassination targets, a freak like Wei Zhao had never once appeared.
"We did hear a little, it's true—but it was that fat follower of Wei Zhao's, Lai, who spread the word, and the intelligence team took it for idle boasting, just puffing Wei Zhao up to build his momentum!" The Yin森 Ancestor sighed and spread his hands. "Even you, Yellow Springs Ancestor—when you first heard Wei Zhao could kill Heaven Rank experts in a single blow, didn't you refuse to believe it too?"
"That much is true!" The Yellow Springs Ancestor nodded, then said with some disbelief, "It seems this Wei Zhao is truly formidable, then? To kill even a late-stage Heaven Rank expert in one strike—and three of them at once. That is no small ability."
"Indeed. If our people had not died, I would never have believed it!" said the Yin森 Ancestor. "Seen this way, it stands to reason that back when Wei Zhao was only at the Mystic Rank, he could wipe out three of our bronze-medal elite assassins at the peak of late-stage Mystic Rank in an instant."
"So to take revenge on Wei Zhao, I will have to go myself?" The Yellow Springs Ancestor mused for a moment before speaking.
"Yellow Springs Ancestor, the Heaven Rank Assembly draws nearer by the day. The Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect is already shunned by those ancient sects—they do not even wish to include us in that plan. If you go in person to kill him now, you will hand those ancient sects an excuse. The loss would outweigh the gain..." The Yin森 Ancestor hastily tried to dissuade him. "Do not be rash!"
"I was only speaking aloud." The Yellow Springs Ancestor nodded. "What grudge matters in the face of that great endeavor? Here is what we do: investigate Wei Zhao's family and loved ones, and strike at his family instead! Since he can slay Heaven Rank experts in a single blow, we will avoid his edge for now and go after his family!"
"Brilliant, Yellow Springs Ancestor!" The Yin森 Ancestor hurried off to order his subordinates to begin the investigation...
After Wei Zhao left Snow Valley, the Grand Elder fell ill. For a cultivator like her, illness had long grown rare, yet this time she was truly sick with fury—because it was all so stifling, so infuriating. In all her years as Snow Valley's Grand Elder, she had never once been so stifled. Truly, utterly stifled!
Yet there was nothing she could do. Mother Tang could neither be killed nor scolded. Leaving aside Tang Zhi's connection, there was Mother Tang's other daughter, Bingtang—she too could not be offended, a being of equal strength to herself. That left her no room for any other scheme at all.
And so she fell ill. Yet even ill, the Grand Elder dared not tell anyone, for they would surely laugh at her. She could only tell the people of Snow Valley that she was entering seclusion...
On Wei Zhao's journey back this time, the road was smooth and clear. No one tried to intercept him again, and he made it all the way back to his villa in Donghai City, where he parked the car before the gate.
Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Han Jingyi had not yet returned. Wei Zhao had assumed Wang Xinyan had gone to school as well, but when he pushed open the door to his own room, he found Wang Xinyan lying asleep on his bed!
These past few days, Wang Xinyan had grown ever more drowsy, with no energy day or night, seldom awake at all. So Gu Mengyao had simply stopped sending her to school and let her sleep at home, waiting for Wei Zhao to return with the medicine.
The people at the Bai Ling agency knew of Wang Xinyan's condition too, so no leave of absence was needed, and there was no problem on that front.