Chapter 1719 — A Letter
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"Not really. I handed in my resignation last time. Right now we're just good friends." Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"I see... Then there's no stopping you. Just be careful..." Shen Yushu said, somewhat helplessly. In truth, she was afraid that Wei Zhao might be in danger.
Last time Wei Zhao went to the ancient tomb, he had come within an inch of dying. If that leader, Yu, hadn't been such a coward, Wei Zhao probably wouldn't have made it back so easily. So Shen Yushu really was afraid that something might happen to him!
"I will." Wei Zhao said. "Before I came here, I used to take all sorts of jobs!"
Though Wei Zhao reassured Shen Yushu this way, he knew perfectly well that the jobs he had taken before were never of a very high grade, so the pay had never been especially generous either. A bounty in the hundreds of millions like this one was surely on an entirely different level, and far more dangerous.
The moment the worldly Yu Family was annihilated, the hidden Yu Family received the news. Yu Huoxing was beside himself with fury this time. He had never imagined Wei Zhao would be so bold as to wipe out the worldly Yu Family! Seething with rage, he went before the head of the hidden Yu Family, Yu Xiaochen, and said in the utmost grief, "Patriarch Yu, on this matter, I beg you to stand up for our worldly Yu Family! We of the worldly Yu Family have run ourselves ragged making money for the hidden Yu Family, and in the end this is the fate we meet. You must seek justice for us, for the worldly Yu Family..."
"All right, I understand, Yu Huoxing. For now, restrain your grief. I must first understand the whole sequence of events before I discuss it with my father!" Yu Xiaochen offered Yu Lingtou a word of comfort, then said, "That Wei Zhao is an Earth-Rank expert. Our hidden clan is bound by the Clan Arbitration Association. Earth-Rank experts cannot leave the mountain at will, so dealing with Wei Zhao will be no simple matter!"
"But... if Wei Zhao is an Earth-Rank expert, is he not bound by the Hidden Clan Council Association?" Yu Huoxing felt this was somewhat unfair.
"He is a lone cultivator. In the past, there was no precedent of a lone cultivator reaching Earth-Rank. Generally, Mystic-Rank was already extraordinary, and even then they would pledge themselves to one of the hidden clans while still at Mystic-Rank. Someone like Wei Zhao is a special case!" Yu Xiaochen said. "As for the specifics, I had best discuss it with my father first!"
"Yes!" Yu Huoxing sighed in sorrow. He had never expected that not long after he left the Yu Family, the Yu Family would be destroyed, its people dead and scattered. It struck him like a bolt from the clear blue sky—how could he possibly remain calm? He wished he could go right now and hack Wei Zhao to pieces, but at the thought that Wei Zhao was also an early-stage Earth-Rank expert who knew martial techniques, Yu Lingtou shrank back again!
Revenge was important, but staying alive was more important! Yu Huoxing was a man who clung to life and dreaded death. Knowing he had no assurance of defeating Wei Zhao, he could only pin his hopes on the hidden Yu Family.
Yu Xiaochen was in fact rather furious himself. As the saying goes, even when you beat a dog, you should look at who its master is—yet Wei Zhao had time and again tested the bottom line of the hidden Yu Family. First he had left the worldly Yu Family with one dead and one crippled, and now he had sent both father and son, the very men who spoke for the worldly Yu Family, to the Western Paradise. Yu Xiaochen could scarcely contain his anger any longer!