Chapter 2979 — Bringing Good News
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Everyone present, including Wei Zhao's other lackeys in the living room, only understood after hearing his account: Zhao Qilei had been forced into it back then. Had he not done so, Wei Zhao might well have been kept in the Hidden Zhao family. What looked like Zhao Qilei's betrayal of Wei Zhao had in truth been his way of helping him!
"Boss, you really are brilliant—I nearly got beaten to death!" Seeing that the way everyone looked at him had softened considerably, Zhao Qilei finally let out a breath of relief.
"A few stones could beat you to death?" Wu Chengtian gave a cold snort. "If you hadn't failed to see through your grandfather's scheme in time, the boss wouldn't have gotten hurt! Your Zhao family—you people are simply no good. Look at our Wu family, the Han family, the Pi family, the Zhuang family—every one of us follows Boss Wei Zhao!"
"Well... there was nothing I could do about it! The old man Zhao is shortsighted—you can't pin that on me," Zhao Qilei said a little helplessly.
"All right, enough about Qitan. I couldn't see through this myself; no one imagined Old Master Zhao would offer two hundred million to bribe me. That's a huge sum—even for a Hidden family, it isn't easy to produce, especially for the Zhao family, who haven't made much money lately. So when the money was offered, right when I needed it most, I never suspected Old Master Zhao had other motives," Wei Zhao said, smoothing things over.
"Thank you, boss..." Zhao Qilei said gratefully. "By the way, boss, your injuries... are they all healed?"
"Healed!" Wei Zhao nodded. "Thanks to Jingyi—she used the Sun family's mental cultivation method to restore both my meridians and my dantian!"
"Wonderful! Boss, you can finally be your old self again and come back to the Zhao family with me to demand justice!" Zhao Qilei stood up excitedly. He was utterly disillusioned with the Zhao family and no longer held any of his former feelings for them, for in Old Master Zhao's eyes he was nothing but a usable tool, a pawn to be discarded once used. That chilled Zhao Qilei to the bone. From the moment he started calling Old Master Zhao "the old man Zhao," he had resolved to cut all ties with the Zhao family for good!
"??" Wei Zhao was stunned, and so was everyone else in the room; they all stared at Zhao Qilei, somewhat speechless.
"Qitan, the boss has only recovered his dantian and meridians—his strength hasn't returned. True, we have an early Heaven-rank expert like Old Master Pi among us, but even so, we're not confident we could take down the Hidden Zhao family in one stroke! Besides, if we go after the Hidden Zhao family and the Hidden You family, the Qianshan Sect, and the Jinzhong Sect all intervene at the same time, won't our chances be even slimmer?" Han Xiaohu raised an objection to Zhao Qilei's proposal.
"Strength is easy!" Zhao Qilei said. "What worried me most was his meridians and dantian. Once those are restored, regaining his strength and breaking through to Heaven rank is a matter of minutes!"
"What? Zhao Qilei, are you running a fever? Aren't you talking nonsense?" Han Xiaohu was somewhat exasperated. "Sure, the Xuandan Sect promised the boss they'd refine a Qi Gathering Pill for him, but they're still dragging their feet and haven't given a firm answer. And even if they do deliver the Qi Gathering Pill, it's only one pill—we're still one short, so it won't help!"
"We don't need a Qi Gathering Pill!" Zhao Qilei wasn't annoyed; he merely shook his head mysteriously and pulled a delicate little wooden box from his pocket. "Guess what fine thing I've brought back?"
"A Qi Gathering Pill?" Han Xiaohu said instinctively, then shook his head. "No, you just said we don't need a Qi Gathering Pill. Then what is it? Could it be the antidote?"