Chapter 3153 — Hindsight
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Whatever Kang Jingming tells you to do, agree to it, then report back to me. I will tell you how to proceed," Tian Chan said.
"Yes, Young Sect Master!" Xiao Taohong answered.
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The Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect.
"Ancestor Gloom, your subordinate has finished the investigation. Some time ago, Wei Zhao was reduced to a cripple, hovering on the verge of death. He had been poisoned by one of the Hidden Zhao family's toxins, leaving him unable to use his physical strength or true qi. His meridians were all severed—he was a useless wreck. Killing him would have been as easy as turning over one's hand!" Ancestor Gloom, the chief steward of the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect, reported to Ancestor Yellow Springs.
"Oh? Then you mean we should send someone now to kill Wei Zhao?" Ancestor Yellow Springs asked.
"That... as I said, that was some time ago. Wei Zhao has recovered now—full of vigor and life..." Ancestor Gloom said with a bitter smile.
"Damn it!" Ancestor Yellow Springs could hold back no longer and cursed outright. "What the hell were you doing before? Why didn't you say so earlier? You only tell me now that he has recovered—is this not hindsight? What is the point?"
"This... the intelligence team only reported it to me just now, and I came to report to you at the first opportunity..." Ancestor Gloom felt somewhat aggrieved himself.
"Those good-for-nothings in the intelligence team—I have long found them an eyesore. Have you not straightened them out? Gloom, do you not know that in the assassin's trade, intelligence is paramount?" Ancestor Yellow Springs said in exasperation at his subordinate's failings.
"Ancestor Yellow Springs, you know as well as I do that we are an ancient sect; our intelligence-gathering habits have been handed down from ancient times. These people rely on their legs and their mouths, and scarcely use modern technological devices at all," Ancestor Gloom explained. "If it were only matters and people of the cultivation world, there would be no problem. But once it involves people of the secular world, we are hard-pressed, for our Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect is an assassin organization of the cultivation realm and never touches contracts from the secular world. Who could have foreseen that we would run into an anomaly like Wei Zhao?"
"There is some truth in what you say." Ancestor Yellow Springs nodded, agreeing with Ancestor Gloom, and his anger had abated somewhat. "But this efficiency will not do. Always hindsight—how are we ever to take our revenge?"
"This time it is not all hindsight! I have obtained some other information as well, concerning Wei Zhao. Ancestor Yellow Springs, let me explain it to you in detail," Ancestor Gloom said hurriedly.
"Concerning Wei Zhao? Good, then speak. I hope it is good news," Ancestor Yellow Springs said with a nod.
"It is like this: the intelligence team has learned that the Eastern Family has lost a top expert of peak mid-Heaven rank, slain by Wei Zhao!" Ancestor Gloom said.
(To be continued,