Chapter 3127 — Volunteering for the Task
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"The Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder is formidable, all right—but even she didn't dare kill Dongfang Buruo. Her aim was to leave a line of retreat, to keep the Dongfang family from going berserk!" Seeing Wei Zhao's puzzlement, Feng Sanmang went on: "That's why I say this is a good thing!"
Wei Zhao nodded, though he neither affirmed nor denied it. Feng Sanmang's reasoning had merit, but Wei Zhao and the ancient Feng family had long been locked in a fight to the death—there was no room for reconciliation. Even if Wei Zhao spared Dongfang Buruo, would the Dongfang family ever spare him?
Could the matter simply be dropped like this? Plainly impossible!
Wei Zhao had guessed right. The very first thing Dongfang Buruo did upon returning to the hotel was call Dongfang Jinxing for help!
"Buruo, is the job done? Don't linger—come straight back to the Dongfang family!" Dongfang Jinxing picked up and spoke at once. No one could blame him for not thinking twice: the Dark Night Palace's elder had already departed, and with a fine hand like Dongfang Ying, whose strength stood at the peak of the mid Heaven rank, taking the field, wrapping up Xu Shilan should have been the work of minutes.
"Dad, it's bad—something's gone wrong, Dongfang Ying is dead too!" Dongfang Buruo's face was a mask of misery and fright. "That man is terrifying. One move—just one move—and he killed Dongfang Ying outright. Lucky I ran fast, or I'd be dead too!"
"What!?" Dongfang Jinxing was stunned. Dongfang Ying dead as well? What on earth was going on? Hadn't the Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder already left? How could Dongfang Ying still end up dead? Dongfang Jinxing demanded urgently: "Buruo, what exactly did you run into this time? Did the Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder come back?"
"No! It wasn't the Dark Night Palace's people—it was the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect! That bitch Xu Shilan has seduced a young expert of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect, also at the peak of the mid Heaven rank, and he wiped Dongfang Ying out in a single move! And from the look of it, Dongfang Ying seemed to know that Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect disciple..." Dongfang Buruo dared not hold anything back and recounted everything that had happened to Dongfang Jinxing in detail. But Dongfang Buruo knew nothing of Dongfang Ying's humiliation at the Cultivators' Guild, so he could only guess that Dongfang Ying had known Wei Zhao.
"Oh? The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect is involved?" Hearing this, a surge of fury leapt up in Dongfang Jinxing's chest! We haven't even settled accounts with you for Dongfang Bushu's death, and now your people have not only killed Dongfang Jian but colluded with Xu Shilan to murder Dongfang Ying as well?
This was beyond all endurance! Even if he could not march on the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect to demand satisfaction, he must cut down this disciple at Xu Shilan's side—otherwise, where would the Dongfang family's face be? Consider: so many of the Dongfang family had died at this Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect disciple's hands. If the Dongfang family could still swallow it, then henceforth anyone at all could climb atop the Dongfang family and shit on their heads! Dongfang Jinxing had to take measures!
But the other side was an expert at the peak of the mid Heaven rank? Hadn't Dongfang Ying said before that the man was only at the early Heaven rank? Could he have advanced so quickly? Still, Dongfang Jinxing was no fool. In a flash he worked out the answer: Dongfang Buruo had fled in such haste that he surely had not seen the man's true strength, but judged instead from the move that instantly killed Dongfang Ying—so the man must be an expert at the peak of the mid Heaven rank!