Chapter 949 — The Dreaded Yu Family

"Are you serious? Killed by a dog?" Yu Shuixing could not help but feel that Yu Haitian's words were somewhat absurd. An inner-school expert of the early Mystic Rank, actually killed by a dog?

"Second Uncle, with something this huge, how would I dare joke about it!" Yu Haitian, drenched in sweat, explained hastily. "It was killed by that dog of Wei Zhao's, the one called General Mighty!"

"Wasn't that dog already beaten to death by Yu Kun?" Yu Shuixing was taken aback.

"It didn't die. That dog seems quite clever. Wei Zhao told it, 'the son's debt is paid by the father,' and the dog went and killed Third Uncle!" Yu Haitian said.

"Your Third Uncle was an inner-school expert of the early Mystic Rank. Not to mention a dog, even an ordinary person would find it no easy task to kill him!" Yu Shuixing was somewhat baffled. "Even if that dog is rather intelligent and knew to seek revenge on Yu Bide, it would still need the ability to do so!"

"It had it, Second Uncle. I think that dog is no ordinary dog. Although I'm not a cultivator, the powerful aura that radiated from that dog in that instant was a clear sign that it is absolutely no ordinary dog!" Yu Haitian said, still shaken with lingering fear.

"So what you're saying is, you went to make trouble for Gu Pengzhan today, and then this General Mighty or whatever came out and killed Yu Bide?" Yu Shuixing had finally pieced some of it together, yet he still found it hard to believe a dog could be that formidable.

"No, Second Uncle, Wei Zhao wasn't injured at all, and his strength hasn't dropped!" Yu Haitian said, somewhat terrified. "He was playing the pig to eat the tiger! For all these days he made no move, and only when Third Uncle and I went to his door, ready to forcibly take Gu Pengzhan's daughter away, did Wei Zhao suddenly come out and unleash his might. One palm strike sent Third Uncle flying, and then that General Mighty charged over and added a kick, and just like that, Third Uncle was gone..."

"Wei Zhao wasn't injured? His strength hasn't dropped? And the dog is a cultivator too?" This barrage of news struck Yu Shuixing's ears like thunderclaps, leaving him at a loss. What on earth was going on here?

Hadn't it all been investigated clearly before? Wei Zhao was gravely wounded, with no strength left to speak of. How had he suddenly recovered, with his strength not affected in the slightest? Was he playing the pig to eat the tiger? Deliberately putting on this false appearance of injury to lure his enemies in?

No! Yu Shuixing suddenly frowned. Wei Zhao playing the pig to eat the tiger was possible enough, but that dog could not possibly have been playing the pig to eat the tiger! Yu Kun had already said he had beaten that dog to death, smashed its internal organs to bits. Even if it had been saved, it would be a cripple. How could it possibly have turned into a cultivating dog?

Yu Shuixing thought of a dreadfully terrifying possibility: Wei Zhao really had been injured before, but now he had recovered, and not only recovered, his strength seemed even greater than before! And the dog was the same, wounded beyond any possibility of being more wounded, and now it had actually become a cultivating dog...

What a colossal power must stand behind Wei Zhao! Even the hidden families surely did not possess such capacity, to let a gravely wounded man and a dying dog not only survive but gain even more formidable strength!

How many heavenly treasures, how many masters guarding them in their cultivation, would it take to achieve such a result?

Yu Shuixing realized he had made a grave mistake. He should never have come to Songshan City to join in this commotion. If the Xiao family wanted to court death, let them; he could simply sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. Why wade into these muddy waters?

But there was no cure for regret in this world. Hearing the news of his Third Brother's death, Yu Shuixing truly felt like weeping, yet had no tears.

Knowing full well the power of the Yu family, Wei Zhao had still dared to strike and kill Yu Bide. There were only two possibilities: either he had acted on impulse and lost his senses, or Wei Zhao must have something to rely on! He was not afraid of the Yu family, or rather, the power behind him was not afraid of the Yu family!

Of course, Yu Shuixing leaned toward the latter, because according to Yu Kun, Wei Zhao had intended to kill him, and it was only Li Fu's intercession that made Wei Zhao hold back! One impulsive act was one thing, but repeated impulsiveness? Was that possible?

Moreover, Wei Zhao had endured in silence for so many days, waiting for the Yu family to come and stir up trouble, and only at the final moment had he struck the killing blow. What was that? Killing the chicken to warn the monkey?

"Haitian, tell me the whole course of events in detail! Make absolutely sure not to omit a single detail!" Yu Shuixing drew a deep breath and asked.

"Yes, Second Uncle. What happened was this..." Yu Haitian described in detail everything that had occurred, including the words he and Third Uncle had spoken, Gu Pengzhan's reactions, and so on. Finally, he made sure to relay Wei Zhao's two arrogant conditions as well...

"This Wei Zhao... what audacity! He actually dares to threaten the Yu family!" Hearing the words Wei Zhao had asked Yu Haitian to pass on, Yu Shuixing was instantly furious, smoke all but pouring from his seven orifices, yet deep in his heart he grew all the more suspicious. On what grounds did Wei Zhao dare to say such things?

Considering Gu Pengzhan's reaction, it seemed Gu Pengzhan did not know that Wei Zhao's strength had recovered either... Which meant Gu Pengzhan had perhaps also been deceived by Wei Zhao. To achieve his goal of playing the pig to eat the tiger, this brat had told no one that he had recovered his strength, all for this final eruption!

Terrifying! What a terrifying mind!

Yu Shuixing sighed inwardly. If Wei Zhao truly was as he suspected, then what was his real aim? Was it directed at the Yu family, or the Xiao family, or perhaps Zhao Qibing? Or were all these people merely chess pieces in his eyes, and he had some deeper purpose?

"Yes, Second Uncle—what are we to do now?" Yu Haitian asked cautiously.

"Bring your Third Uncle's body back to Yanjing at once, and pay no mind to anything over there!" Yu Shuixing was afraid now—truly afraid.

For years the Yu family had done as they pleased, and no one had dared refuse them face, let alone strike them dead outright. But Wei Zhao was utterly without scruple: he had left two of the Yu family's core figures one dead and one wounded, and he still wanted shares in the Yu family's holdings—and crueler yet, he wanted two of the Yu family's girls to serve as his concubines!

Was it sheer delusion on his part, or did he truly have the strength to back it up?

However that might be, Yu Shuixing had genuinely begun to regret it. For the sake of a few fragments of a map, they had made an enemy of so terrifying a man—this was no blessing for the Yu family!

Of course, Yu Shuixing could not swallow this insult either; he had marked the grudge well. Once he had sounded out Wei Zhao's background, he would repay it tenfold, a hundredfold!RO