Chapter 1368 — The Families Begin to Stir
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"If your son wants to play with those two girls, then say so straight out. All this hemming and hawing — what's this talk of who provoked whom? Every wrong has its author, every debt its debtor. I don't care how it started. I only know that my beloved disciple was wounded by that little bastard Wei Zhao, and it's him I'll go after!" Jin Wudi snorted. "Still, since you've handed me ten million, what are two little girls? I'll snatch them for you along the way!"
"Then many thanks, Ancestor Wudi!" Zhen Dazhou said hurriedly.
Ten million just to let his son play with a pair of girls — Zhen Dazhou's heart still ached at the sum. Yet spend it he must, and the reason was this: Zhen Dazhou's son, Zhen Yingjun, had been turned into a eunuch by Wei Zhao. Zhao the Medicine King had treated him, but the results were far from obvious.
So Zhao the Medicine King had come up with an idea. The one who tied the knot must be the one to untie it. Since Zhen Yingjun's heart lusted so fiercely after Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, why not seize the two of them and use them to stimulate him? Perhaps it would produce an effect beyond all expectation and cure Zhen Yingjun's impotence in a single stroke!
To carry on the Zhen family line, Zhen Dazhou had no choice but to take out ten million and ask Jin Wudi to seize Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu for his son's amusement. Curing his son was the matter of first importance.
That Jin Wudi had come down from the mountain was no secret. So the moment he arrived in Donghai City, the Yu family, the Xiao family, the Hidden Zhao family, and the Hidden Pi family all had word of it, and other great families such as the Wu family learned of Jin Wudi at the very first moment.
After all, Jin Wudi was an external-school cultivator, and so the Wu family naturally kept a close watch on him.
"Zhishan, Jin Wudi has arrived in Donghai City. On the Pi family's behalf, go and pay him a visit. His enemies are our enemies, after all, and where it is needed, I can give him aid in the shadows!" Pi Jiake, head of the Pi family, summoned his son Pi Zhifeng and instructed him.
"Father, Jin Wudi is nothing more than an external-school expert at the peak of the early Earth Rank. Must the Pi family hold him in such esteem? Must we go visit him in person?" Pi Zhifeng asked, puzzled. To his mind, Jin Wudi was indeed an Earth Rank expert, but his sect was no more than the man himself, barely worthy of the name of a sect — the lowest of the low among the hidden families. Were it not for Jin Wudi, that Earth Rank expert, his sect would rank no higher than a common family of the mundane world.
"Zhishan, you must not make light of Jin Wudi. He may be only an external-school expert at the peak of the early Earth Rank, but he is a master of the Golden Bell Shield. His whole body is hard as steel. Even I could do nothing with him. Once the Golden Bell Shield reaches mastery, unless one faces an absolutely overwhelming power a whole rank above him, no expert of the same rank can do a thing to him!" Pi Jiake waved a hand, his tone grave.
"Surely not? You mean only a Heaven Rank expert can deal with Jin Wudi — that even you, Father, an external-school expert at the peak of the late Earth Rank, are no match for him?" Pi Zhifeng's face changed; he asked in alarm.
"That is not to say I am no match for him. He may be unable to defeat me, but I can certainly never defeat him either, because every blow I land on him is all but useless." Pi Jiake smiled bitterly. "Such is the advantage of one who has mastered the Golden Bell Shield. Even a Heaven Rank expert, if what he cultivates is not a technique of the high-attack kind, can do nothing against him. Only an expert whose attack power is exceptionally high can inflict any harm on Jin Wudi..."
"So that is how it is. No wonder you hold him in such regard!" Pi Zhifeng said in sudden understanding.