Chapter 3204 — A Strike Begets a Death Feud
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Elder Wang, meanwhile, was stunned. Elder Chen was dead? Just like that? He stared at Wei Zhao in disbelief, unable to credit it. Wei Zhao was only an early Heaven-rank expert—how could he possibly have killed Elder Chen, whose strength stood at the peak of the mid Heaven-rank? It was utterly impossible! It overturned everything he thought he knew.
A cultivator of such vastly inferior rank could actually kill across levels and slay one stronger than himself? What sort of logic was that? He felt his mind could scarcely keep pace.
"You... you killed Elder Chen?" Elder Wang finally stammered out in horror.
"He's dead, all right. I told you before—if I strike, it is a death feud. And so he is dead, is he not?" Wei Zhao shrugged indifferently.
"You..." Elder Wang did not know what to say. "An unaffiliated cultivator like you dares to kill our Elder Chen? Are you not afraid of the vengeance of the Overseas Cultivators' Association?"
"Vengeance? Very well. The more lice, the less the itch. Before you take your vengeance, you may ask around—ask how many ancient sects I have wronged, how many Heaven-rank experts I have already slain," Wei Zhao said.
"Ah?" Elder Wang was briefly taken aback, his face shifting with doubt and alarm. He had not expected Wei Zhao to be so formidable. To have made enemies of so many ancient sects and still be alive—who could say whether it was true or false? But that he dared not act rashly was certain. His own strength fell short of Elder Chen's; to stir up trouble now would, in his estimation, mean certain death. So he could only say, quaking, "Very well, then. We shall meet again."
Elder Wang dared not utter any bold, imperious threats; he feared that saying too much would lead Wei Zhao to keep him there as well. Hoisting Elder Chen's corpse onto his back, he leapt swiftly out the window and vanished from sight.
Tang Yuqi let out a breath of relief and said gratefully to Wei Zhao, "Brother Lin, thank you for resolving this—otherwise I truly would not have known what to do... Only, you should not have let Elder Wang go just now. You should have made him leave the Great Restoration Pill behind. As for my second aunt, if she does not take a Great Restoration Pill, I fear she will be a cripple for the rest of her life!"
"Oh, that is no matter. Open a room for me and help Aunt Wang inside—I will treat her myself." In truth, having just unleashed the ninth form of the Raging Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, Wei Zhao's body was greatly weakened; he merely did not show it. His request for a room to himself was also so that, under the pretext of treatment, he might first recover himself.
"Brother Lin can heal her?" Tang Yuqi was astonished.
"Yes. Wei Zhao is a skilled physician as well—an injury like this is nothing to him," Qiu Lingshan explained on Wei Zhao's behalf.
"Ah... very well!" Curious as Tang Yuqi was, he restrained himself from asking. After all, Wei Zhao's ability to treat Tang's mother was likely some sort of secret. So he swiftly opened a room, and together with Qiu Lingshan he helped Tang's mother inside.