Chapter 2774 — The Gale-Chasing Lightning Boots
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Otherwise, with his late Heaven Rank strength, he could never have teamed up with two experts whose strength differed so greatly from his own to hunt down and kill Wei Zhao.
Once the Supreme Elder made her move, the other Snow Valley disciples naturally could not remain bystanders any longer, and they all hurried over...
"What is that noise? Why is it so rowdy?" Tang's mother was somewhat angry. She had finally managed to have a quiet word with her daughter, yet from outside the room came one clamorous sound after another, which made her furious! Snow Valley was usually quite peaceful—what on earth was going on today?
"Mother, something has probably come up. Never mind it..." Tang Zhi did not much care.
"No, I must go out and see!" Tang's mother stood up and strode out of Tang Zhi's separate courtyard with a frown, meaning to see who was making such a racket—and then to extort a little something out of them to save for Wei Zhao...
Only when the disciples crowded around did Wei Zhao snap out of it. He stared at the Supreme Elder in some disbelief, utterly puzzled and bewildered by what had just happened. Why had the Supreme Elder suddenly struck, silently and without warning? Why had she not struck before?
Wei Zhao could not fathom it, no matter how he tried!
"Many thanks to the Supreme Elder for saving my life!" Whatever the case, the Supreme Elder had saved Wei Zhao's life, so Wei Zhao cupped his fists and thanked her gratefully.
"Mm..." The Supreme Elder gave a faint grunt. She had not wanted to save Wei Zhao at all—striking had been forced upon her—so she said perfunctorily, "Think nothing of it. The man is dead. You may leave with an easy mind!"
"I truly am most grateful!" Wei Zhao said. "But might I ask the Supreme Elder to tell me just what sort of sect this Blood Robe Yellow Springs Sect is? Why do they want to kill me?"
"What? Why do they want to kill you? You ask me that—who am I supposed to ask?" The Supreme Elder was startled and looked at Wei Zhao rather strangely. "The Blood Robe Yellow Springs Sect is an assassin organization. Of course, it differs from the assassin organizations of the secular world. They too are the sort of organization that takes a man's money to spare him calamity, except that they only accept contracts to assassinate cultivators. If the target is not a cultivator but an ordinary person, they will not take the job. This is a rule laid down at the ancient summit council."
"An assassin organization?" Wei Zhao was astonished. "So someone paid to hire an assassin to kill me?"
"Perhaps. Or perhaps you killed some of their people by mistake, and they have come to take revenge," the Supreme Elder explained.
"Killed their people by mistake?" Wei Zhao could not for the life of him recall whom he might have killed by mistake, to offend such an inexplicable organization. He was familiar enough with assassin organizations in the secular world, but this was at the level of cultivators. From what the Supreme Elder meant, the assassin organizations of the two levels had nothing to do with each other at all—so Wei Zhao had even less connection to them. How could he have provoked them?
"Mm, that is enough. Hurry back now. Since you have provoked them, you must be on your guard. They failed to kill you this time and lost a Heaven Rank expert—they may let the matter drop, but they may also redouble their efforts to take revenge on you. You had best go back and make preparations at once," the Supreme Elder said flatly.