Chapter 3127 — Volunteering for the Task

"The Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder is formidable, all right—but even she didn't dare kill Dongfang Buruo. Her aim was to leave a line of retreat, to keep the Dongfang family from going berserk!" Seeing Wei Zhao's puzzlement, Feng Sanmang went on: "That's why I say this is a good thing!"

Wei Zhao nodded, though he neither affirmed nor denied it. Feng Sanmang's reasoning had merit, but Wei Zhao and the ancient Feng family had long been locked in a fight to the death—there was no room for reconciliation. Even if Wei Zhao spared Dongfang Buruo, would the Dongfang family ever spare him?

Could the matter simply be dropped like this? Plainly impossible!

Wei Zhao had guessed right. The very first thing Dongfang Buruo did upon returning to the hotel was call Dongfang Jinxing for help!

"Buruo, is the job done? Don't linger—come straight back to the Dongfang family!" Dongfang Jinxing picked up and spoke at once. No one could blame him for not thinking twice: the Dark Night Palace's elder had already departed, and with a fine hand like Dongfang Ying, whose strength stood at the peak of the mid Heaven rank, taking the field, wrapping up Xu Shilan should have been the work of minutes.

"Dad, it's bad—something's gone wrong, Dongfang Ying is dead too!" Dongfang Buruo's face was a mask of misery and fright. "That man is terrifying. One move—just one move—and he killed Dongfang Ying outright. Lucky I ran fast, or I'd be dead too!"

"What!?" Dongfang Jinxing was stunned. Dongfang Ying dead as well? What on earth was going on? Hadn't the Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder already left? How could Dongfang Ying still end up dead? Dongfang Jinxing demanded urgently: "Buruo, what exactly did you run into this time? Did the Dark Night Palace's Grand Elder come back?"

"No! It wasn't the Dark Night Palace's people—it was the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect! That bitch Xu Shilan has seduced a young expert of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect, also at the peak of the mid Heaven rank, and he wiped Dongfang Ying out in a single move! And from the look of it, Dongfang Ying seemed to know that Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect disciple..." Dongfang Buruo dared not hold anything back and recounted everything that had happened to Dongfang Jinxing in detail. But Dongfang Buruo knew nothing of Dongfang Ying's humiliation at the Cultivators' Guild, so he could only guess that Dongfang Ying had known Wei Zhao.

"Oh? The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect is involved?" Hearing this, a surge of fury leapt up in Dongfang Jinxing's chest! We haven't even settled accounts with you for Dongfang Bushu's death, and now your people have not only killed Dongfang Jian but colluded with Xu Shilan to murder Dongfang Ying as well?

This was beyond all endurance! Even if he could not march on the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect to demand satisfaction, he must cut down this disciple at Xu Shilan's side—otherwise, where would the Dongfang family's face be? Consider: so many of the Dongfang family had died at this Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect disciple's hands. If the Dongfang family could still swallow it, then henceforth anyone at all could climb atop the Dongfang family and shit on their heads! Dongfang Jinxing had to take measures!

But the other side was an expert at the peak of the mid Heaven rank? Hadn't Dongfang Ying said before that the man was only at the early Heaven rank? Could he have advanced so quickly? Still, Dongfang Jinxing was no fool. In a flash he worked out the answer: Dongfang Buruo had fled in such haste that he surely had not seen the man's true strength, but judged instead from the move that instantly killed Dongfang Ying—so the man must be an expert at the peak of the mid Heaven rank!

And that made sense of everything. The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect's disciples were all experts capable of fighting above their level; it was no wonder an early Heaven rank could instantly kill a peak mid Heaven rank. Even a fine hand like Dongfang Bushu, at the peak of the late Heaven rank, had been instantly slain by an early Heaven rank expert—where was the justice in that?

"Yes! Dad, I can't swallow this insult—what do we do?" Dongfang Buruo said.

"It's not just you—I can't swallow it either. But to go after this man, ordinary experts would be useless. If he can instantly kill a peak mid Heaven rank expert, then his own combat index has already reached the late Heaven rank. Unless we send an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank, there's no assurance of holding him!" Dongfang Jinxing had thought it through clearly—except that he had overestimated Wei Zhao's strength.

"Hiss..." Dongfang Buruo was startled and inwardly counted himself lucky. He asked quickly: "Then, Father, even you are no match for him?"

"I wouldn't say I'm no match for him, but at least I have no confidence of holding him. So to deal with them, unless your grandfather or your uncle takes the field in person, no one in our Dongfang family is his match!" Dongfang Jinxing sighed inwardly. The two ancestors had sent no word; these two top experts of the Dongfang family existed in name only!

"Then... can Grandfather and Uncle take the field?" Dongfang Buruo asked.

"That I'll have to ask about. Buruo, for now find somewhere to hide and lie low. At least until your grandfather or uncle takes the field, don't act rashly again!" Dongfang Jinxing warned.

"Yes, I understand the gravity of it, Dad." Dongfang Buruo was no fool. Dongfang Ying was dead; with only himself left, would he dare act rashly? That would be courting death.

"Mm." Hearing Dongfang Buruo's firm reply, Dongfang Jinxing breathed a sigh of relief, hung up, and strode quickly toward the rooms where Dongfang Badao and Dongfang Yinxing were in seclusion.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

Midnight knocking on the door again!

Dongfang Badao recognized Dongfang Jinxing's footsteps and spoke: "Jinxing, if there's something the matter, come in and say it!"

"Father, brother, something terrible has happened!" Dongfang Jinxing felt thoroughly depressed—every time he came knocking, it was because something terrible had happened!

"What terrible thing has happened now?" Dongfang Badao's heart tensed, and he asked.

"Dongfang Ying is dead too!" Dongfang Jinxing then recounted in detail to Dongfang Badao and Dongfang Yinxing how Dongfang Ying had gone to the Cultivators' Guild that day, encountered the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect disciple, and been wounded, and how that night he had met the same disciple again and been killed.

"What? The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect again?" A sharp, venomous glint flashed through Dongfang Badao's eyes. "This is too much!"

"A mere disciple, only at the early Heaven rank, yet with a late Heaven rank combat index—this Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect is truly sinister!" Dongfang Yinxing was furious as well. "If this boy is not removed, he will surely become a mortal threat to our Dongfang family! Father, I volunteer to go and finish the brat, and avenge Bushu, Dongfang Jian, and Dongfang Ying!" (To be continued)