Chapter 1372 — Where Did He Go?
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But if he told the young lady, she would surely be heartbroken, and might do something desperate; yet if he kept his silence, once she learned the truth she would harbor a grudge against him in her heart... For a time Elder Li stood caught between two evils, at a loss for what to do.
"Wei Zhao, you are far too unfitting a bodyguard, to desert your post at a time like this! Should anything happen to the little miss, I will never let you off!" Elder Li ground his teeth and thought to himself: "The day of the Heaven Rank Tournament draws ever nearer. Once it arrives and the Supreme Elder is away from the Dark Night Palace, I will go down that mountain and slaughter every last one of you, leaving no chicken and no dog alive! The Yu family, the Xiao family, the Golden Bell Sect, the hidden Pi family, the hidden Zhao family - I will lead men and wipe out your entire clans!"
Meanwhile, at the gate of the Gu family villa, the tension was still running high.
"Then I'll hit you, alright?" Er Goudan looked up at Jin Wudi standing before him, head thrown back and chest thrust out, and asked.
"Go ahead and hit me!" Jin Wudi stood proudly in the courtyard, his eyes brimming with contempt. "Forget some ignorant pup like you - even those renowned masters of the hidden families would not dare claim they could kill this old man with a single punch. Never mind killing; ask them whether one punch could even wound this old man! Snapping a single one of this old man's bones would be utterly impossible!"
Er Goudan nodded, set his teeth, gathered his breath, leveled both fists, took aim - and threw his punch with all his might!
With a thunderous crack, Jin Wudi vanished.
"Huh? Where'd he go?" Er Goudan blinked in blank surprise.
Zhen Yingjun let out an explosive guffaw: "Ha ha ha ha! Ancestor Wudi simply dodged, that's all - and here you are asking where he went. Look at that stupid face of yours!"
But had Jin Wudi really dodged? Er Goudan felt certain he had landed the blow, and with every ounce of strength he possessed! Though Er Goudan had no idea just how formidable an Earth Rank master truly was, one look at those smug faces told him they must be terribly strong.
To kill this man, Er Goudan had been forced to pour all his strength into that single punch, meaning to finish Jin Wudi off in one blow and be rid of him for good! As it happened, there had been no need for a sneak attack - Jin Wudi had handed him the chance to strike at full power all on his own!
The instant the punch left his fist, Er Goudan felt a surge of blood and qi rush upward through his body. The gu poison inside him could no longer be held down, and began to stir restlessly! The strength Er Goudan could draw upon was finite - each use left him with less than before - and having spent it all on this one blow, he had pitched himself to the very edge of his limits.
Still, for all his simple honesty, Er Goudan was no fool. At a moment like this he must not betray a single sign of weakness, or Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu would be in mortal danger, and the task his leader had entrusted to him would be lost!
A pang of regret struck Er Goudan. The first time he had laid eyes on Pi Yangyang and Mr. Pi, he ought to have killed them with one punch, instead of wasting so much strength - and now, in the end, having to throw a second one after all!
Only a simpleton like Zhen Yingjun still believed Jin Wudi had dodged. Pi Zhifeng's face, by now, had gone thoroughly ghastly...
"Jin Wudi is dead!" Wu Chengtian suddenly cried out in excitement, pointing at the wall across the street outside the villa!
Everyone followed Wu Chengtian's gaze. There was Jin Wudi, his entire body driven deep into the wall opposite the villa, both sides of his chest caved in, his eyes bulging from their sockets, his lips running with fresh blood - plainly beyond any hope of life.