Chapter 3051 — Little Shu's Secret, Part Three
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"They've got the Hidden Yu family behind them. The reason I poisoned you was actually on the orders of the Hidden Yu family as well." Since Shen Yushu had started talking, she simply came clean and laid out the whole truth.
"The Hidden Yu family?" Wei Zhao frowned. "That family—if it weren't for the fact that... a friend of mine is among them, I'd wipe them out as easily as I'd kill a dog. They're nothing but hidden now; there's nothing left to fear from them. Why didn't you tell me this sooner?"
Wei Zhao was speaking the truth. Back then, the Hidden Yu family had been a colossus to him, but now he could bring the Hidden Zhao family to ruin with a flick of his fingers—and the Hidden Yu family was no different.
Yu Tianxing, Yu Yi, neither of them was any match for Wei Zhao. If Wei Zhao wanted the Yu family destroyed, it would take no more than the blink of an eye.
"My parents... are being controlled by the Hidden Yu family. Or rather, it isn't they who are controlling them. Behind them stands an extremely formidable ancient sect. Which one exactly, I don't know, but my feeling is, it's probably not Fire Burn Mountain!" Shen Yushu said. "Because Fire Burn Mountain and the Hidden Yu family don't seem to have much of a connection."
"The Hidden Yu family is holding your parents?" Wei Zhao felt the affair was growing stranger by the minute. "So have you ever seen your parents? Or do you simply believe whatever they tell you?"
"No..." Shen Yushu shook her head. "They won't show me pictures of my parents. Maybe they're afraid something would go wrong. But they did bring me a vial of blood and had me secretly run a DNA test. I took my brother's blood and had it tested too. The results showed that the blood they gave me matched my own kin—but it didn't match my brother's..."
"So you're saying this is real?" Wei Zhao was suddenly taken aback. Blood can't lie; either it is or it isn't. Even a cultivator like Wei Zhao couldn't change something like that.
"Yes, so I had no choice. At first they only forced me to do one thing—they didn't make me kill you. Killing you was a later assignment, but that was probably the Hidden Yu family's own idea, nothing to do with the sect behind them." Little Shu was no fool. "Later, when you grew strong, Arrow-Brand Bro, they gave up on that plan."
"The Hidden Yu family... what role do they really play in all this?" A sudden realization struck Wei Zhao. Yu Tianxing seemed a shrewd man—otherwise he couldn't have raised the Yu family to the height of the foremost hidden clan. He wasn't stubbornly blind like that old Zhao fellow; the way he'd canceled the order to assassinate Wei Zhao showed as much. When a thing was no longer feasible, he abandoned it—a wise man yields to the times.
But now that he himself had such a good relationship with Yu Bing, and shared an old romance with Yu Ning, any head of a hidden clan would have made winning him over their first thought. Yet the Hidden Yu family had done no such thing.
That indirectly confirmed it: behind the Hidden Yu family stood another patron, an exceedingly powerful one—perhaps even more powerful than Wei Zhao. So the Hidden Yu family could not choose him.
That being so, Little Shu's story made sense. But who exactly was the ancient sect behind the Hidden Yu family? Wei Zhao thought it over for a long while but could find no lead. Fire Burn Mountain and the Loess Plateau Sect were out of the question—their young masters were his junior brothers now. Dark Night Palace was naturally impossible too; they had once moved against him, whereas Yu Yi had offered him help. Ice Palace and Snow Valley were unlikely as well. As for the Profound Elixir Sect, they backed the Hidden You family, so they couldn't also be the Hidden Yu family's patron.