Chapter 1886 — Safe and Sound
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After all, every Heaven-rank expert had, in the secular world, more or less a circle of friends and distant kin. If every Heaven-rank expert came and went through the secular world freely on account of such people, the rules would descend into chaos!
This was precisely why the ancient sects had agreed that Heaven-rank experts must not come and go through the secular world at will!
The exception was someone whom an ancient sect had openly proclaimed it would shelter and protect. Touch such a person, and it was a fight to the death with that ancient sect. But generally, the ancient sects would not lightly issue such a writ of protection!
What truly made You Panhu wary, however, was not the Ice Palace's influence but Wei Zhao's own strength! As for the Ice Palace—the You family had the even more formidable Xuandan Sect watching over it. But Wei Zhao's own strength could be called the foremost beneath the heavens: three Earth-rank experts killed in an instant. The very thought made one's blood run cold!
"One move, and three Earth-rank experts are dead—surely that's not just rumor?" Zhuang Niaodao frowned. He simply could not fathom how Wei Zhao could possess such power.
"It's no rumor..." You Panhu sighed. "Our family's You Shisan was a mid-stage Earth-rank expert. Before, Wei Zhao was no match for him. But now, he doesn't even have room to fight back! And from what I know, Yu Liu of the hidden Yu family is also a mid-stage Earth-rank expert, while Zhao Guang'er of the hidden Zhao family is a late-stage Heaven-rank—and to be left with no power to resist before him says enough about this man's strength!"
Zhuang Niaodao and Li Biaohan exchanged a silent glance, each seeing in the other's eyes a trace of dread and of narrow escape! Earlier, they had not pressed the matter of dealing with Wei Zhao—and so they had kept their lives. One at the peak of late-stage Yellow-rank, the other at early-stage Mystic-rank—neither was enough to give the man a warm-up.
"That much I can vouch for. Our Fire Wolf Gang... received word as well..." Li Biaohan smiled bitterly. That the ** of the Fire Wolf Gang had gone to rescue An Liwen and come away thwarted by Wei Zhao was no secret within the gang.
"Wei Zhao... hm. Sooner or later, I'll cripple you!" A flash of indignation crossed You Panhu's eyes.
Zhuang Niaodao and Li Biaohan did not dare respond. Only You Panhu could speak with such swagger—the foremost beneath the heavens. What manner of expert would it take to match him?
Wei Zhao got back in the car and drove Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu toward the Xueshang residential compound.
"Arrow-Brand Bro, that man was You Panhu?" Shen Yushu asked suddenly.
"That's right. You even hit him with a bowling ball once," Wei Zhao said. "What, don't remember?"
"I remember..." Shen Yushu was a little puzzled. Wei Zhao seemed to remember everything—only his memories of Tang Zhi were gone. So her plan of pointing at a deer and calling it a horse, claiming Gu Mengyao was his girlfriend, could never come to anything. "But I didn't expect him to recover so quickly..."
"An alchemical clan of physicians—it's only natural they'd have miracle pills on hand." Wei Zhao saw nothing amiss in Shen Yushu's words.
The three returned to the villa in the Xueshang compound, where Grandma Sun had long since finished cooking and was waiting for them. The Grandma Sun of this moment was nothing like the despondent old scavenger of before; dressed in new clothes from head to toe, she carried about her a natural, effortless dignity.