Chapter 3272 — Figuring It Out
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"That's right. This conclusion can be drawn from the movements of several Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect patriarchs," Xiao Yi said with a nod. After all, when several patriarchs of the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect went to the same place at the same time, so long as that place was not too secret, it could be investigated.
"So then it must be that Wei Zhao hired the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect to kill the people from the Dongfang Clan, the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect, and the Black Horse Society?" Having said this much, Patriarch Xuanchen grew doubtful himself.
The deduction was reasonable enough: wherever the rumors had sprung up, several patriarchs of the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect had been present, and the sect's trade was killing for hire. So long as Wei Zhao paid a sufficient price, it was not impossible that its patriarchs would take the field.
But the one thing Patriarch Xuanchen could not fathom was this: the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect was an oddity among the ancient sects, but it was still one of them. There was nothing wrong with their method of taking a man's money to spare him calamity—only, to kill off, one after another, the top experts of multiple ancient sects at a stroke—would that not stir up public outrage?
In the past, the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect had taken commissions, but when it came to figures at the level of a sect's leader, they would essentially never accept such a task. After all, if you killed some ordinary disciple, the sect might let it go—every debt has its debtor, and they would simply go after the one who hired the killer.
But if you killed their elders, was that not a blood feud? Patriarch Xuanchen did not believe the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect could be so foolish—that would be far too brazen, would it not? That was wanting to become the common enemy of the ancient circles, wasn't it? Even if the Five Luminaries Sect had the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect's back, they would not dare act this way.
Even Patriarch Xuanchen himself would not dare claim he could lightly put the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect's Pure Yin Heavenly Worthy to death—that would be forging a mortal enmity outright!
Still, Patriarch Xuanchen thought, even if one patriarch of the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect had gone mad, surely three of them could not go mad together? Did the three mean to make enemies of the entire ancient circles, or what?
Or was there someone even more formidable backing them? Patriarch Xuanchen was utterly baffled.
"It's possible. Otherwise, Wei Zhao had a grudge against the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect in the past," Kang Jingming said with a nod. "In the past, Zhao Qibing hired people from the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect to kill Wei Zhao."
Patriarch Xuanchen nodded. If someone said Wei Zhao and the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect were in league, he would not believe it—there had plainly been great conflict between the two. But just what kind of benefit had Wei Zhao used to persuade the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect to take action?
If the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect was dead set on backing Wei Zhao, then even knowing this and spreading word to move against him, they would still have to get past the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect first! To deal with Wei Zhao, they had to make the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect let go of him—but how could they make the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect let go? RS