Chapter 3109 — Three Dead Now
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Watching Dongfang Buruo's retreating figure, the Grand Elder shook her head and sighed softly to herself. She had let Dongfang Buruo go, but she had also made an enemy of the Dongfang family. She only wondered whether the Dongfang family would let the matter rest.
Still, one kill or two made little difference. She had killed one, and the enmity was already made; one more hardly mattered. And slaying Dongfang Song before Gu Mengyao's eyes was also a way to show Gu Mengyao how much she mattered in the Grand Elder's heart—once she came to the Dark Night Palace, she would never be treated shabbily!
Yet the Grand Elder was deeply baffled. The Dongfang family did not seem weak-witted or madly arrogant. She had already issued her declaration, and they knew she had come to find her successor, yet Dongfang Buruo had still brought another man along to seize someone. What kind of thinking was that?
Wei Zhao frowned as well. In his view, the flash of astonishment and helplessness on Dongfang Buruo's face had not been feigned—the boy simply did not have that much cunning. So it seemed that Dongfang Buruo's target this time had been Xu Shilan, not Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
As for the order to seize Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, that had merely been a whim, and then the Grand Elder had misunderstood, thinking the Dongfang family had come again for Gu Mengyao. One misunderstanding led to another, and the Dongfang family had lost yet another man... All in all, the Dongfang family was pitiful enough—they had lost several of their number in this stretch of time!
The key point was that Wei Zhao had not even lifted a finger before someone had struck on his behalf. That saved him no small amount of effort. At least, for the time being, the Dongfang family could not notice a figure like him, which made it easier for him to hide in the shadows and protect Xu Shilan. Otherwise, if he were exposed, what if the Dongfang family sent out an expert at the late Heaven Rank, or even the peak of the late Heaven Rank?
That was not something Wei Zhao wished to see. His current strength was no match for experts above the late Heaven Rank, so for now, with the Grand Elder out front taking the heat, Wei Zhao was content to enjoy the respite.
"Gu Mengyao, you saw it too—to protect you, I did not hesitate to make an enemy of the Dongfang family and slay one of their experts. Now you should know how important you are in my heart?" the Grand Elder said to Gu Mengyao.
"All right, then... let us go..." Gu Mengyao understood perfectly well that today's affair might have been a misunderstanding—she knew about Xu Shilan too. But she said nothing more; after all, between her and the Dark Night Palace, theirs could only be a partnership of mutual convenience for the time being. "But I am the Palace Master now, am I not?"
"Indeed, you are the new Palace Master of our Dark Night Palace!" the Grand Elder said with a nod.
"Then let me be clear: which carries more authority, the Palace Master or the Chief Elder?" Gu Mengyao glanced at the black-robed elder and asked.
"Naturally the Palace Master. Within the Dark Night Palace, the Palace Master is the greatest existence after this old woman!" the Grand Elder said hastily. Of course, that authority was granted by the Grand Elder herself—she said Gu Mengyao had power, and so she did. The former Palace Master, Wan'er, had truly been worth less than an ordinary elder, but Gu Mengyao was about to rewrite that history. Was the young miss someone to be trifled with?
Back when Wei Zhao had first moved into the villa, the young miss had been terribly spoiled and willful—Wei Zhao had nearly been thrown out. RS