Chapter 3093 — A Slap in the Face
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Yet though this seemed plausible enough, it made no sense at all. If the Dongfang clan meant to strike, why not come straight for him? Why go after Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu? Would that not be a pointless detour?
"Nothing much. They seemed to be trying to capture them and hand them over to someone!" The Grand Elder gave a cold snort. "If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I reckon both of them would have been defiled!"
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. If that was so, then the Dongfang clan likely had not come for him. This day's affair was probably a chance encounter.
"The person in the car—is that Gu Mengyao?" Seeing Wei Zhao ask so many questions, the Grand Elder had guessed part of it. She asked coldly.
"What are you planning to do?" Wei Zhao did not answer, but asked in return.
The Grand Elder glanced at Wei Zhao, then turned and pulled open the car door. She saw Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu in the back seat, and at once recognized the bearer of the Dark Phoenix bloodline. Swiftly she lifted Gu Mengyao out of the car, then said to Wei Zhao, "This one, I am taking with me! Back to the Dark Night Palace, to cultivate!"
"You want to take her away?" Wei Zhao's brows knit at once. "By what right?"
"She is the bearer of the Dark Phoenix bloodline that I have sought all along in the Dark Night Palace. Taking her away is naturally so she may receive the inheritance and become a peerless master!" The Grand Elder finished, then asked Wei Zhao, "Is she Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu?"
"Grand Elder, she is Gu Mengyao!" Before Wei Zhao could speak, Elder Heiyi had already spoken up, his face ashen with dread. Thank heavens that last time, when he had come to trouble Wei Zhao, he had not harmed Gu Mengyao—otherwise, this was the bearer of the Dark Phoenix bloodline! Had she been injured, ten of Elder Heiyi's heads would not have been enough to satisfy the Grand Elder's blade!
At that thought, he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Gu Mengyao? So it is indeed her..." The Grand Elder was astonished as well, though her face betrayed nothing; inwardly, however, a towering storm was raging! Thank goodness she had come in person and had not let Zhao Qibing bring men to kill Gu Mengyao—had she been killed, the regret would have been eternal!
"Grand Elder? You are the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace?" Wei Zhao glanced at this peak late Heaven-rank expert before him, his thoughts racing. It seemed she had come on behalf of the Dark Night Palace to find the bloodline heir, but upon seeing him, she had first meant to teach him a lesson or kill him outright—only the name Gu Mengyao had stayed her hand!
"Indeed, young Wei Zhao. Since I have found the heir, and the heir is Gu Mengyao, I shall spare you this once. Next time, if I lay eyes on you again, I will not be so courteous!" The Grand Elder had already killed one early Heaven-rank expert today and had little stomach for more killing, so she let Wei Zhao off for the time being.
Wei Zhao was slightly stunned, staring at the Grand Elder in some astonishment. It seemed this Grand Elder had not quite grasped the situation, had she? Ancient sects generally begged for heirs to come and cultivate with them—yet here she was, wanting to take Gu Mengyao back to the Dark Night Palace and kill him into the bargain!
Even someone as domineering as that little冰糖 girl would not dare say she wanted to kill Wei Zhao. Was this Grand Elder simply unable to see reality?
At that thought, Wei Zhao could not help saying, "I say, Grand Elder, are you so certain Gu Mengyao will go with you?"
"She will not go with me? Why would she not go with me? I can make her a peerless master—how many have dreamed of joining our Dark Night Palace as disciples, and she, the moment she arrives, will be its Palace Master!" The Grand Elder spoke as though it were the most natural thing in the world. "And look at Zhao Qibing—how happy and excited he was after joining our Dark Night Palace!"