Chapter 4346 — Confronting Them at Their Door
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"Three cuts, six holes..." Li Yanji and Guan Zhiyuan turned deathly pale, their legs giving way beneath them as they collapsed to their knees once more. Even the other escorts around them exchanged uneasy glances—the young master was truly in earnest this time!
"Men, carry out the sentence," Qi Wenmo ordered coldly, his hands clasped behind his back.
The agency guards exchanged a glance, then dared not delay an instant. They hurried over, trussed Li and Guan up, and bound them securely to the iron frame standing in the courtyard outside.
Throughout it all, the two could only let themselves be bound hand and foot, their faces ashen, not daring the slightest resistance or even to shield themselves with true essence! The three cuts and six holes were terrifying, but with the constitution of Golden Core cultivators, it would not kill them outright. Yet were they to resist, once blades were drawn in earnest, death would truly be close at hand.
The so-called three cuts and six holes meant three stabs through the body, each one driven clean through to leave a pair of bleeding holes, six in all—a torture second only to taking one's own life. Many sects and powers on Cloud Tier Island still employed this punishment, and in the Wei Arc Seas, it was an acknowledged code of the jianghu.
The first cut... the second cut... the third cut...
Before the eyes of the crowd, amid screams like hogs being slaughtered and the scalp-crawling sound of blades grating on bone, Li Yanji and Guan Zhiyuan passed out on the spot. The thrusts had avoided absolutely fatal spots like the heart, but three cuts and six holes still left them gravely wounded—Golden Core experts though they were, they were no exception.
A dead silence fell over the whole scene. Under the deterrent of such a cruel punishment, no one dared so much as whisper anymore. As every gaze turned toward Qi Wenmo, it was markedly more respectful and fearful than before—such was the effect of killing the chicken to frighten the monkey.
Watching this, Wei Zhao nodded to himself. The incident had certainly caused enormous losses, but for Qi Wenmo it was not necessarily an entirely bad thing. At least from now on, his grip on the Qingtian Escort Agency would be far firmer than before—a blessing in disguise.
"Throw them out," Qi Wenmo said, waving a cold-faced hand. At once the guards dragged the unconscious Li and Guan out like dead pigs and dumped them in the street outside, drawing a crowd of passersby who pointed and stared.
The two wretches had been thrown out, but everyone remaining on the scene still scarcely dared to breathe, waiting for Qi Wenmo to speak again.
"Brother Ling, care to come with me to the Hong Chamber of Commerce? I must settle this score properly with that old bastard Wei Zhaotong!" Qi Wenmo said, grinding his teeth.
This time the old fox Wei Zhaotong had set a trap, and he had blundered right into it. Not only had he been left utterly beset and forced to pay three hundred thousand spirit jade in compensation, but his authority—indeed the reputation of the entire Qingtian Escort Agency—had suffered badly. He could not possibly swallow this score!
"Naturally," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile. Not only was he a party to the affair, he had also captured the pirate chief who served as witness. In reason and in feeling alike, he could not possibly stay away.
All the more since Wei Zhaotong was so black-hearted as to treat the several hundred lives of the Fang Family Manor on Xianpeng Island like so much grass. Even simply as Hong Zhong's friend, Wei Zhao could never stand by and do nothing.
"Good!" Qi Wenmo raised a hand and declared, "All of you, set aside whatever is in your hands. Come with me!"
"Yes!" the crowd answered in unison. Compared with going to the Hong Chamber of Commerce to settle accounts with Wei Zhaotong, everything else on hand was now a trivial matter.