Chapter 3155 — Dealing with Lin Dongfang
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"Oh? So he's just some country bumpkin. Then we can just send any Yellow-rank expert and be done with it, can't we?" Ancestor Huangquan said carelessly.
"That won't do," Flying Cat said with a shake of his head. "What if Wei Zhao comes back?"
"True enough. In that case, Ancestor Gloom and I will go ourselves. We'll kill the old man first, then wait for Wei Zhao to come knocking and meet his death!" Originally, Ancestor Huangquan had been quite wary of going into the secular world to move against Wei Zhao. After all, the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect was not like the ancient sects. Among assassins, there was no such thing as vengeance—once you took a contract, it was kill or be killed. If the assassins' guild also joined in vendettas, the whole order would descend into chaos!
However, because Wei Zhao was a lone cultivator and the initial investigation had revealed no faction behind him, the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect had chosen to retaliate—but even this was done covertly. If it were ever brought out into the open, the other ancient sects would not be pleased!
You of the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect come to kill; if I happen to be strong enough to survive, will you then send an endless stream of men to keep coming after me? That plainly violates the original purpose of a contract and throws the rules into disorder!
Moreover, the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect was not permitted to act within the secular world. This was not merely a rule at the ancient level, but also a forced promise the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect had made back in the day—a promise made to the secular world's assassins' guild: never to overstep the boundary, never to encroach upon the secular world's underworld of killers.
It sounded a little absurd—that the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect, an ancient sect standing high above, would actually compromise with a secular assassins' organization? And yet compromise it had!
There was no other reason: the greatest assassins' organization in the secular world was run by Mr. Yang, one of the two ruthless figures who had swept across the ancient level in those years—one half of the Twin Vajras. Facing this Mr. Yang, the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect—Blood-Robe and Huangquan's own master, the King of Assassins of the cultivation world—had no choice but to bow his head and follow Mr. Yang out of the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect.
Though the departure of the cultivation world's King of Assassins was known throughout the ancient level, the fact that Mr. Yang was the King of Assassins of the secular world was known to no one. This was an internal secret of the assassin trade, and without Mr. Yang's permission, the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect dared not rashly make it public.
Besides, it was hardly a glorious matter—the cultivation world's assassins' organization bowing to the secular world's assassins' organization was simply unthinkable, a tale fit for the Arabian Nights!
Granted, those two ruthless figures had vanished for more than ten years, and the other ancient levels and hidden levels had gradually begun to forget the negative fallout those two had brought. Still, if they could kill Wei Zhao without breaking the promise made back then, that would be for the best.
After all, in the hearts of Huangquan and Blood-Robe, those two ruthless halves of the Twin Vajras had already cast a shadow over them! The Western Star Mountain Village was remote and out of the way, scarcely part of the secular world at all. Killing Wei Zhao's kin there and luring Wei Zhao in to kill him would not count as breaking the promise made that year!
"How about... letting Ancestor Blood-Robe join the hunt as well? You and he are both peak late-stage Heaven-rank, great-perfection experts. Even if Wei Zhao is uncanny, with the three of us attacking together, Wei Zhao will have no choice but to die!" Ancestor Gloom suggested, rather cautiously.