Chapter 2995 — A Perfect Cauldron
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"Dad, think about it. All these years—how has he treated you? How has he treated me? Even Zhao Qilei, how did he treat him? Is there any family feeling in that man's eyes? He picked you as the young clan head because you were his puppet. You have no mind of your own, so he could keep his grip on the Hidden Zhao family. And he picked me only because I made him level up, because I advanced him to Earth rank—while Zhao Qilei, simply because he himself detested Wei Zhao, he made things impossible for Zhao Qilei at every turn!" Zhao Qibing curled his lip and said dismissively, "If we're going to deal with Wei Zhao, we have to know how to borrow a knife to kill. Right now the opportunity is laid out right in front of us both. If we don't seize it, then we really would be fools!"
"Ah, I know it too. Even if I had told your grandfather back then, he wouldn't have believed me—and he might well have kept me there with him..." Zhao Guangyin knew the old man's temper well. If he had gone to Zhao the Elder and said that Wei Zhao might have recovered and come back for revenge, would the old man have believed a word of it?
If Zhao Qibing had not happened to come home on a visit just then, and heard the moment he arrived that Wei Zhao had come to settle scores, the fear of Wei Zhao in his heart would have sent him fleeing with Zhao Guangyin and Elder Mian without a second thought—and then none of them would have lived.
The reason Elder Mian had run too was that he was cleverer than Elder Bi. He knew exactly how Elder Bi had died—beaten to death by Wei Zhao—and he had no wish to follow in Elder Bi's footsteps.
"See? That's exactly why I wouldn't let you notify the old bastard!" Zhao Qibing said. "Dad, don't grieve too much. There will be plenty of chances for revenge. Once the two of us come back from our training, that will be the day Wei Zhao dies! Heh heh, no matter how formidable Wei Zhao is, how could he stand against an ancient sect? You didn't see it back then—how magnificent the black-robed elder of the Dark Night Palace was before Wei Zhao! He was only an Earth-rank expert, yet Elder Pi, an Earth-rank expert himself, simply did not dare make a move! If the Heavenly Silkworm Transformation hadn't interfered, Wei Zhao's family would already be broken and destroyed."
"That's true enough!" Zhao Guangyin nodded. Relative to the secular world, the hidden level was a formidable existence indeed—but before the ancient level, it counted for nothing! Still, he was a little worried. "By the way, doesn't the Dark Night Palace hold a grudge against the Mysterious Pill Sect? Won't there be trouble if we go calling on the Heavenly Silkworm Transformation so rashly?"
"Haha, haven't you heard the saying? Before profit, there are no permanent enemies. Once we set this fine cauldron before the Heavenly Silkworm Transformation, what grudge could possibly remain?" Zhao Qibing waved his hand. "Besides, I'm a core disciple of the Dark Night Palace now. They'll have to show some consideration for the ancient level's face."
"Let's hope so." Zhao Guangyin nodded. "But I truly never imagined that both Chief Zhu and Zhu the Second were Wei Zhao's people! At the critical moment they actually tried to snatch Chen Xi from our hands! Thank goodness the three of us are all Earth-rank experts and subdued the two brothers—otherwise this plan would have been hard to carry off!"
"Hmph, actually, when I grabbed Yu Ning last time and Wei Zhao came knocking, I felt something was off from the start. I began to suspect Zhu the Second then, but I had no proof. This time I took precautions—and sure enough, it was the two of them!" Zhao Qibing gave another cold snort. "If we hadn't been pressed for time, I'd have killed them both just to vent my anger!"
"This time, everyone here is one of us. Once we reach the Mysterious Pill Sect, there'll be no more spies of Wei Zhao at our side—we'll have shaken off his shadow for good," Elder Mian nodded and said.
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