Chapter 3092 — Wei Zhao Arrives
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Still, the Grand Elder was puzzled: how had Gu Mengyao become the Dark Phoenix bloodline inheritor? When Gu Mengyao was born, the Grand Elder had examined her—the Dark Phoenix blood in her body had been pitifully thin, utterly incapable of receiving the inheritance, and impure besides. Yet what she sensed now was an exceedingly pure Dark Phoenix bloodline, purer by countless times even than Ye Rou'er's!
An inheritor of such a bloodline could, upon returning to the Dark Night Palace, receive the inheritance with absolute certainty. So the Grand Elder was not entirely sure this was Gu Mengyao. Could it be the other girl beside Gu Mengyao?
After all, what the Grand Elder had seen earlier was Dongfang Cha knocking the two girls unconscious and loading them into the car; she had been too far away to make out who was in the car. Now she wasted no more words on Wei Zhao and merely waved her hand. "It was not I who attacked those two—I saved them. If you do not believe me, look for yourself at the trunk of the car!"
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was slightly startled, but then he caught the smell of blood nearby, and he saw the pool of blood not far off! This only deepened his confusion. Did the Dark Night Palace not hold a grudge against him? Why would they help Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu?
Could it be that they did not know, and had merely acted out of a sense of justice? But in Wei Zhao's understanding, the people of the Dark Night Palace were arrogant bullies—how could they ever act as chivalrous heroes?
Had Wei Zhao not seen the corpse in the trunk, he might not have believed the Grand Elder's words at all!
Still, the person in the car had clearly died only recently—something Wei Zhao, as a doctor, could easily determine. This was no corpse the Grand Elder had dragged over at random to fabricate a story.
"Who is this?" Wei Zhao asked, pointing at the corpse in the trunk.
"Dongfang Cha, of the ancient Dongfang family. You need not ask more—it will do you no good!" the Grand Elder said proudly, as though slaying an elder of an ancient faction were some glorious feat.
Someone from the Dongfang family? Wei Zhao's heart skipped a beat, and he was startled. Could the Dongfang family really be this unlucky? First one of them had died in the Xuan Dan Sect trials, then he himself had killed one at the cultivators' trade fair, and now the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace had killed another. Truly, misfortune upon misfortune!
"Then why did you kill him?" Wei Zhao asked, betraying no emotion—though in truth, he was still somewhat worried!