Chapter 3111 — The Shocked Eastern Jinxing
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"Ha, what are you saying? I'm your close guard—take a man's money and spare him his disasters. That's an old saying." Wei Zhao laughed carelessly, but inwardly he was turning matters over. He was a Heaven-rank expert now; one of these days he ought to find Han Jingyi and run a test, to see whether the two of them together could refine a Qi-Gathering Pill. If they could, then Wei Zhao would be able to break through and advance again and again. It was just that Han Jingyi seemed very busy lately. He had asked Han Xiaochao to tell her to contact him, but her call had not yet come. It seemed she was still in secluded cultivation.
That evening, Wei Zhao went to his room to cultivate, while Shen Yushu and Xu Shilan went upstairs to rest.
Dongfang Buruo carried Dongfang Song's corpse back to the hotel, though he did not dare bring it out, leaving it instead in the trunk of the car. The first thing he did after driving back to the hotel was to call his father, Dongfang Jinxing.
"Buruo, how did it go? All settled?" In Dongfang Jinxing's view, with a mid Heaven-rank expert like Dongfang Song on the job, dealing with a Xu Shilan was a simple matter.
"Dad, he's dead... Dongfang Song... he was beaten to death!" Dongfang Buruo said, rather nervously. Even now he had not recovered; clearly he had been badly frightened.
"Dead?" Dongfang Jinxing nearly flung the phone away. Dongfang Song dead too? How had he died? "Buruo, what are you saying? Xu Shilan's close guard is that formidable? He could even kill a mid Heaven-rank expert like Dongfang Song?"
"Dad, no—it wasn't Xu Shilan's close guard. It was the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace..." Dongfang Buruo said hurriedly.
"The Dark Night Palace? The Grand Elder? What? She's come to trouble you again?" This time Dongfang Jinxing was thoroughly enraged. Earlier, because the Dongfang family had been in the wrong, Dongfang Cha's death had been left at that, and he had not gone straightaway to make trouble for the Dark Night Palace. But surely the Dark Night Palace could not push its luck?
Was this a campaign to wipe them out root and branch? We send another mid Heaven-rank expert, and you simply beat him to death?
"Dad, it wasn't us going to trouble her... it's... it's like this..." This time Dongfang Buruo did not dare conceal anything. The Grand Elder would likely issue a statement, after all, and if he lied he would easily be exposed. So he came out with the truth and told Dongfang Jinxing all about how he had not recognized Xu Shilan.
Dongfang Buruo's account left Dongfang Jinxing utterly dumbstruck. You went to seize their inheritance bearer again? Then you really can't blame the Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder! What kind of people are you? Seizing once, and then seizing a second time? It was sheer luck that Dongfang Buruo had been spared at all this time!
So though Dongfang Jinxing was furious beyond measure, he could not utter a single word of protest. There was no way to make trouble over this! Still, he was deeply disgruntled, and given the slightest opportunity he would surely reclaim his justice. (To be continued.)