Chapter 3019 — Dying Without Ever Understanding
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Seeing the corpse in Ergoudan's grasp, Wei Zhao was rather startled: "Ergoudan, who is this? How did another corpse turn up?"
"Leader, I killed this one—he was with those two dead men!" Ergoudan said. "Earlier, while I was patrolling over there, I ran into him. He asked me about the two people dressed about like him, and about the mad Heaven-Rank fellow with the battle-ax. I was afraid he'd come make trouble for you, Leader, so I killed him with one punch!"
"You killed him just like that?" Wei Zhao knew Ergoudan's strength well enough, but that the man should die so easily still made Wei Zhao feel some regret on behalf of this Five Luminaries Sect member. The man probably hadn't even understood how he died, had he? And who knew what rank he had been?
But he could not have been weak, surely—there was a sword at his waist, which must have been his Heaven-Rank weapon. This man was at least an early Heaven-Rank master. Yet Wei Zhao suddenly recalled what Old Six and Old Twelve had said before; they had mentioned Old Seven. This man was most likely the later-arriving Old Seven!
Old Six had been a master at the peak of the late Heaven-Rank, so this man could not have been weak either—at the very least late Heaven-Rank, and possibly likewise at the peak of the late Heaven-Rank. His death was pitiful indeed.
Even so, Wei Zhao was filled with lingering dread. Had Ergoudan not come, then while he was restoring his physical strength and true qi with the Heaven-Rank freak absent, how could he have been a match for Old Seven? And even if he had not been restoring his strength and true qi, he still would not have been Old Seven's match!
"When you hit him, he didn't fight back?" At the thought, Wei Zhao asked hastily.
"No, I tricked him..." Ergoudan recounted the situation to Wei Zhao, and Wei Zhao could not help but laugh. Old Seven had certainly been unlucky—in his eyes, a weak country boy had suddenly turned into a tiger-slaying terror...
"Ergoudan, this really was a stroke of luck. If you hadn't tricked him and he had struck you, I doubt anyone could have saved you!" Wei Zhao thought to himself how fortunate they had been.
"Mm, that's why I had to use my wits!" Ergoudan nodded vigorously. "My Yu Yuanyuan said I can't always rely on brute force—I should use my head!"
"Heh heh!" Wei Zhao could not help but laugh at that. "Let's tidy things up and head back. Don't mention today's events to anyone else."
"Rest easy, Leader. Yuanyuan and I won't say a word about any of this," Ergoudan nodded.
Wei Zhao searched the three corpses on the ground, and to his surprise all three were paupers—apart from three Heaven-Rank weapons, there was nothing at all! Old Seven did have a small box on him, antique and elegant, made specially for holding pills, but it was empty inside. Presumably, after Old Seven was wounded by the Heaven-Rank freak earlier, he had taken the third-grade Great Restoration Pills within to heal his injuries.
The box was a fine thing, though, and Wei Zhao unhesitatingly pocketed it. Together with the bamboo slip scroll on the ground, the small wooden box obtained at the Xuanyuan Cave Dwelling, and the three Heaven-Rank weapons, Wei Zhao could well be said to have returned laden with spoils! (To be continued