Chapter 3242 — Sounding Him Out
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"So that's how it is!" Wei Zhao had been nursing the age-old instinct to keep his riches out of sight—if he wore this thing on his finger, what would he do if someone coveted it? He was not yet a top-tier cultivator, after all. Fierce though his reputation might be, he knew exactly how much he was worth.
Still, this changed things—now he need not worry about anyone scheming for it. Taking the ring meant killing him first, and so he need not fear being threatened into surrendering it under any other pretext.
"Indeed, Mr. Wei Zhao. We will take the Black Horse Association's Grand Elder's corpse with us now. Same terms as before—please keep our secret. This mission was carried out covertly, and the one who hired us is himself a man of the Black Horse Association; naturally he does not wish it exposed, for that would do him no good." The Sinister Ancestor spoke on. "And so, to the outside world, this burden can only fall upon Mr. Wei Zhao's shoulders. The man was killed by you!"
"I understand." Wei Zhao nodded. This was precisely the outcome he had hoped for, and he had no doubt about the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect's Sinister Ancestor's words. A sect's own chairman hiring assassins to murder its Grand Elder—spread abroad, that would be a scandal of the highest order, and secrecy was only natural.
With that, the Sinister Ancestor said no more. He hoisted up the Black Horse Association's Grand Elder's corpse, and together with the Bloody Garment Ancestor and the Yellow Springs Ancestor, vanished into the vast night...
Wei Zhao shook his head with a bitter smile, returned to his room, and went back to his cultivation...
He had just brushed against the barrier of the mid Heaven Rank. Wei Zhao would have to push hard now—if he broke through to mid Heaven Rank in one stroke, then perhaps he truly would possess the power to slay a peak late Heaven Rank expert in a single blow, and there would be no need for rumors!
In another room on a different floor of the dormitory building, the old director and Xu Shilan were lodged together. After such an ordeal, mother and daughter surely had much to say to one another. Cheng Yiyi, meanwhile, had a room to herself.
Though Wei Zhao had healed most of her injuries, some surface wounds remained, and so Cheng Yiyi was in truth still in great pain. Yet she could spare no thought for pain now—her heart was filled with torment.
She did not know how to face Wei Zhao, or Xu Shilan, ever again. She wanted to confess everything to Xu Shilan, but for the moment there was no chance—Xu Shilan had been with the old director all along, never giving Cheng Yiyi a moment alone with her.
Just as Cheng Yiyi wavered, her phone rang.
She picked it up, glanced at the caller display, and could not help but heave a deep sigh. Still, she answered. "Boss..."
The man Cheng Yiyi called "boss" was Feng Tianhu of the ancient Feng family. So it was that Cheng Yiyi had all along been a spy he had planted at Xu Shilan's side—or rather, Cheng Yiyi was one of Feng Tianhu's tools for amassing wealth in the mundane world.
"Yiyi, how did it go? Is that old hag dead yet?" Feng Tianhu had in fact already received the text message Cheng Yiyi had sent earlier that night. That Xu Shilan had decided to stay at the orphanage, and that Wei Zhao had stayed there as well, had left him feeling rather uneasy!
Wei Zhao had actually stayed there? Then how was the Black Horse Association's Grand Elder to make his move? But Cheng Yiyi had warned them, and they would not listen—Feng Tianhu could do nothing. What he feared most was the Black Horse Association's Grand Elder being lost here.
Still, on reflection, the Black Horse Association's Grand Elder was a late Heaven Rank peak expert at the great perfection level. Wei Zhao might be able to slay a peak late Heaven Rank expert in a single blow, but that did not mean he could beat a great perfection expert!