Chapter 3092 — Wei Zhao Arrives

The Grand Elder did not recognize the man before her, but when Elder Heiyi saw him, his expression shifted dramatically—because this man was Wei Zhao!

Shen Yushu's phone was equipped with an alert app. Whenever she encountered danger, she would trigger it with a shortcut key, and the app would automatically send a warning signal, transmitting both the phone's current GPS coordinates and the alert to a designated number.

This was a safety measure Shen Yushu had devised herself. So when Wei Zhao received the message, he headed straight for the school—he did not even bother with a car! It was not far, after all, and running would get him there faster.

Watching Wei Zhao hurtle toward them, the Grand Elder was puzzled. One killed, and now another appeared? This man clearly had not come with good intentions—the very air around him said as much. The Grand Elder could even sense that his target was the vehicle before her!

"Who goes there!" the Grand Elder shouted, unleashing the full might of her peak late Heaven-rank cultivation. After her earlier rashness, she dared not kill at random this time—too much killing was, in the end, a troublesome business. Moreover, this man had not abducted Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu; he had merely come charging over. So she revealed her strength only in the hope that he would retreat before the odds.

The Grand Elder's power made Wei Zhao's expression flicker. He had not expected a peak late Heaven-rank expert here—and beside her stood none other than Elder Heiyi. Wei Zhao knew this man: he belonged to the Dark Night Palace, and he was Zhao Qibing's master!

This discovery instantly put Wei Zhao on guard. A peak late Heaven-rank expert had come to the mundane world—what on earth for? Had they actually set their sights on Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu?

Because Wei Zhao did not see Dongfang Cha, he assumed instinctively that the Grand Elder and Elder Heiyi had come for Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu!

So even though his opponents were formidable, Wei Zhao could only grit his teeth and face them. "What have you done with Yaoyao and Xiaoshu? Since when has the Dark Night Palace sunk so low as to snatch people from the mundane world at will?"

"Yaoyao? Xiaoshu?" The Grand Elder was taken aback. "What Yaoyao and Xiaoshu? Who snatched Yaoyao and Xiaoshu? You know me? You know of the Dark Night Palace?"

"Grand Elder, this man is Wei Zhao!" Elder Heiyi said hurriedly. As for Yaoyao and Xiaoshu—could they be Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu? Were the two on the car Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu? How could that be?

One of those two girls was the inheritor of the Dark Phoenix bloodline?

"Wei Zhao?" The Grand Elder's brows knitted. She had not expected to run into Wei Zhao here—truly, one searches everywhere in vain only to find it without any effort at all! She had been preparing to destroy Wei Zhao, and here he was, delivering himself to her door, saving her some exertion...

But something was off! It suddenly occurred to the Grand Elder that Wei Zhao had come for the two girls in the car? Did Wei Zhao know them? Yaoyao? Xiaoshu? Could it be... Yaoyao was Gu Mengyao?

What Elder Heiyi had guessed, the Grand Elder guessed as well. She was no fool—who else could be called Yaoyao and be close to Wei Zhao?

So the Grand Elder, who had meant to slay Wei Zhao, thought it over and stayed her hand. If Yaoyao really was Gu Mengyao, then was she not the Dark Phoenix bloodline inheritor the Grand Elder had been seeking?

In that case, it would not do to simply kill Wei Zhao. Gu Mengyao and Wei Zhao shared a special bond, after all. If she killed Wei Zhao now, might that not provoke Gu Mengyao's backlash? Yet even as she thought this, the Grand Elder did not take Wei Zhao seriously. Ye Rou'er's timid nature had convinced her that inheritors must obey her, and that even if she killed Wei Zhao, Gu Mengyao would not dare utter a word of protest!

Still, the Grand Elder was puzzled: how had Gu Mengyao become the Dark Phoenix bloodline inheritor? When Gu Mengyao was born, the Grand Elder had examined her—the Dark Phoenix blood in her body had been pitifully thin, utterly incapable of receiving the inheritance, and impure besides. Yet what she sensed now was an exceedingly pure Dark Phoenix bloodline, purer by countless times even than Ye Rou'er's!

An inheritor of such a bloodline could, upon returning to the Dark Night Palace, receive the inheritance with absolute certainty. So the Grand Elder was not entirely sure this was Gu Mengyao. Could it be the other girl beside Gu Mengyao?

After all, what the Grand Elder had seen earlier was Dongfang Cha knocking the two girls unconscious and loading them into the car; she had been too far away to make out who was in the car. Now she wasted no more words on Wei Zhao and merely waved her hand. "It was not I who attacked those two—I saved them. If you do not believe me, look for yourself at the trunk of the car!"

"Oh?" Wei Zhao was slightly startled, but then he caught the smell of blood nearby, and he saw the pool of blood not far off! This only deepened his confusion. Did the Dark Night Palace not hold a grudge against him? Why would they help Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu?

Could it be that they did not know, and had merely acted out of a sense of justice? But in Wei Zhao's understanding, the people of the Dark Night Palace were arrogant bullies—how could they ever act as chivalrous heroes?

Had Wei Zhao not seen the corpse in the trunk, he might not have believed the Grand Elder's words at all!

Still, the person in the car had clearly died only recently—something Wei Zhao, as a doctor, could easily determine. This was no corpse the Grand Elder had dragged over at random to fabricate a story.

"Who is this?" Wei Zhao asked, pointing at the corpse in the trunk.

"Dongfang Cha, of the ancient Dongfang family. You need not ask more—it will do you no good!" the Grand Elder said proudly, as though slaying an elder of an ancient faction were some glorious feat.

Someone from the Dongfang family? Wei Zhao's heart skipped a beat, and he was startled. Could the Dongfang family really be this unlucky? First one of them had died in the Xuan Dan Sect trials, then he himself had killed one at the cultivators' trade fair, and now the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace had killed another. Truly, misfortune upon misfortune!

"Then why did you kill him?" Wei Zhao asked, betraying no emotion—though in truth, he was still somewhat worried!