Chapter 807 — Wei Zhao's Background
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"It's a long story..." Zhao Qibing proceeded to tell Yu Haitian the whole tale of how his feud with Wei Zhao had begun, from the time Wei Zhao toppled his building, to the second time he built it and Wei Zhao blew it up again.
Yu Haitian listened from the side, dumbfounded. This Wei Zhao was something else! If what Zhao Qibing said was true, then the man who had beaten Yu Kun half to death was very likely Wei Zhao! With a temperament as reckless as Wei Zhao's — one who would dare break the legs of even the Zhao family's bastard son — why would he balk at a Yu Kun of the Yu family?
And Yu Haitian finally understood why Zhao Qibing had swallowed his pride and made no further moves against Wei Zhao. He had gone after him, but he had failed to do anything to Wei Zhao — and had landed himself in disaster instead.
"So by the sound of it, this Wei Zhao seems quite formidable?" Yu Haitian had not come this time to make an enemy of Wei Zhao; he was here purely to gather intelligence, so whether Wei Zhao was formidable or not mattered little to him. Owing to his constitution he could not practice martial arts, and so he had been assigned to oversee the Yu family's business and intelligence-gathering.
"You could say that," Zhao Qibing said flatly. "Brother Tian seems to take a great interest in Wei Zhao?"
"Oh, well — this isn't really any secret," Yu Haitian sighed. "My cousin Yu Kun had his martial arts crippled. Right here in Songshan City."
"What? Your cousin? Yu Kun?" Zhao Qibing was taken aback. "I remember that Yu Kun was a late-stage Yellow-rank expert, wasn't he? How was he crippled... it wouldn't have been Wei Zhao's doing, would it?"
It was no wonder Zhao Qibing thought of Wei Zhao at once, for everything he and Yu Haitian had been discussing up to that point had been about Wei Zhao.
"It's still unclear for now, but hearing you say all this, it's probably all but certain." Yu Haitian shook his head. "To be frank with you, Young Master Bing, I came to Songshan City this time to gather information!"
"Indeed! With your cousin Yu Kun's late-stage Yellow-rank strength, it would take no ordinary man to cripple his martial arts. I'd say that in all of Songshan City, only Wei Zhao could do it!" Zhao Qibing said. "None of the other experts are a match for Wei Zhao. Our Zhao family has had two Yellow-rank experts killed by Wei Zhao!"
"Oh? Your Zhao family has had two Yellow-rank experts fall at Wei Zhao's hands?" Now Yu Haitian was rather surprised! Wei Zhao had injured Uncle Zhu and had injured Zhao Qibing as well. Arrogant though he was, when all was said and done he had only wounded people — he had not yet crossed the Zhao family's bottom line.
After all, when a hidden family comes into the world, avenging a bastard son and a Mystic-rank expert is somewhat hard to justify in the name of propriety! But if two Yellow-rank experts had been killed by Wei Zhao, that changed everything!
Though Yellow-rank experts counted for little in the eyes of the hidden families, in the secular world they were the finest of the fine. Even among the hidden families, one more Yellow-rank expert was one more measure of strength — how could they possibly not care?
And yet Zhao Qibing had killed two Yellow-rank experts, and the Zhao family had made no move in response. That struck Yu Haitian as rather baffling.
"Those two were originally Li Cihua's men — one early-stage Yellow-rank, one late-stage Yellow-rank..." Zhao Qibing smiled bitterly. "Li Cihua sent them to finish off Wei Zhao, and then they vanished. Later, at the bottom of a cliff, their car was found wrecked and both men dead..."
"Hmm... that serious?" Yu Haitian was somewhat surprised. "So the Zhao family intends to let the matter rest?"