Chapter 1186 — The Pi Family's Expert Makes His Move
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Gou Huli did not dare linger either. She followed Xiao Ji scrambling and stumbling up the stairs, and as he ran Xiao Ji shouted, "This is bad — Old Pi, Mr. Pi! Someone has come to wreck the Xiao family's place. Please, the two of you, lend a hand!"
Old Pi and Mr. Pi were in the midst of cultivation when they suddenly heard Xiao Ji's cries, and their brows furrowed. Could the Xiao family have run into some sort of trouble? Ever since Old Pi and Mr. Pi had arrived at the Xiao family, the Xiao family had treated them with the reverence due to ancestors, serving them fine food and good drink every day. The Pi family had made it clear from the start that they were only to act when the Xiao family faced some great trouble beyond their own solving, yet in all this time no great trouble had arisen, which left Old Pi and Mr. Pi somewhat embarrassed.
Now that someone had come to make trouble, it was the perfect chance for Old Pi to show what he could do. Yet Old Pi was also a little worried — was this visitor an ordinary thug, or a true expert? If a true expert, then his stepping in would be perfectly proper. But to deal with a common thug would be somewhat beneath his dignity.
"What's going on, Master Xiao? Has someone come looking for trouble at your door?" Old Pi pushed the door open and stepped out, asking.
"Old Pi, save us! The man who came is an expert too. With one careless pull he tore the iron grille at the gate to pieces, as easily as playing with mud!" Xiao Ji said hurriedly.
"Oh? He tore the iron grille at the gate to pieces?" Old Pi's brows knitted. Old Pi knew well just how thick the iron grille at the villa gate was. If someone could tear those grilles apart, an ordinary person could hardly have done it. This visitor must be a cultivator — and at least of early Yellow Rank strength. Only, was he of the internal school or the external school?
At that thought, Old Pi said to Mr. Pi beside him, "Come, let's go see what this is about."
"Thank you, Old Pi!" Hearing that Old Pi would act, Xiao Ji breathed a sigh of relief. However formidable the visitor might be, with Old Pi stepping in, would it not be his for the taking?
Old Pi led Mr. Pi downstairs, where they ran straight into Er Gou Dan coming up. Er Gou Dan walked on, glancing this way and that, searching for some trace of the lion.
"By the look of it, you're the one who came to make trouble?" Old Pi planted himself in front of Er Gou Dan and asked mildly. For the moment he could not gauge Er Gou Dan's strength. Whether internal or external school, unless one circulated one's heart method or made a move, there was no way to know an opponent's strength — Wei Zhao, of course, with his golden finger, being the exception.
"Who are you? Some help those old men and old biddies hired?" Er Gou Dan eyed the old man before him with some perplexity. "How come they're so hopeless? What did they hire an old man for? All right, hurry up and get out of the way. I still have a lion to find."
"You dare show Old Pi disrespect?" The young man beside Old Pi flew into a rage at once. What standing did Old Pi hold? He possessed a certain position even within the Pi family, and he was Mr. Pi's elder. So Mr. Pi would not tolerate Er Gou Dan's contempt, and made ready to teach this insolent brat a lesson. He swung a slap at Er Gou Dan's face.
In Mr. Pi's eyes, Er Gou Dan was young, and surely no great expert — Yellow Rank at most. So in teaching such a person a lesson, he was nine parts certain of success. After all, he was an expert of early Profound Rank, and dealing with a Yellow Rank was no trouble at all.