Chapter 3165 — An Unfathomable Trio
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Seeing that Wei Zhao remained so composed even after learning their identities, Ancestor Huangquan could not help feeling profound admiration, thinking to himself that this was indeed a descendant of the Vajra Twin Fiends, with a mental fortitude of such caliber! Little did he know that Wei Zhao had merely adopted the attitude that fortune could not be forced and calamity could not be fled.
Ancestor Huangquan, Ancestor Blood-Robe, and Ancestor Gloom entered Wei Zhao's villa. Shen Yushu had not yet returned from school, and Xu Shilan and Cheng Yiyi were upstairs practicing their singing—they seldom came down during the day—so only Wei Zhao and the three from the Blood-Robe Huangquan Sect remained in the living room.
"Mr. Wei Zhao, there were certain misunderstandings between us previously. You took action and killed several of our men—is that not so?" Ancestor Gloom inquired once they were seated.
Ancestor Huangquan and Ancestor Blood-Robe were both rather poor at dissembling, whereas Ancestor Gloom had some skill in the matter, and so of the three it was he who began speaking on behalf of the rest.
"That is so. But it was your men who sought to kill me first, and I was forced to strike back," said Wei Zhao. Unable to gauge the purpose of their visit, he saw no reason to conceal anything and spoke the plain truth—after all, even unspoken, such matters could be investigated readily enough, so he might as well be forthright.
"Oh, we know. There is no enmity between us and Mr. Wei Zhao. The reason we sought to assassinate Mr. Wei Zhao was simply that we had taken on a commission—that is why we came to kill you," said Ancestor Gloom. "As the saying goes, take a man's money and spare him his calamity. That was our purpose from the outset!"
"I understand, and I do not blame you," Wei Zhao said with a nod. He had trained among assassin guilds in the secular world and understood the code of that trade well enough. In such matters there was no right or wrong, and he could hardly lay the blame at the feet of the assassins themselves: "A wrong has its source and a debt its debtor. Whoever wants me dead is the one I will settle accounts with!"
"Exactly!" Ancestor Gloom slapped his thigh. "Mr. Wei Zhao is a man of true understanding—how refreshing and easy it is to speak with him! He grasped our meaning in an instant!"
"You came all this way just to say such things?" Wei Zhao regarded Ancestor Gloom with a rather peculiar look.
"Of course not merely that. We have already sent Heaven Rank masters, and none proved a match for Mr. Wei Zhao. Therefore we have decided to abandon this scheme!" said Ancestor Gloom. "True, the fault for the assassination attempt lies with us first, but afterward Mr. Wei Zhao killed no small number of our people. Shall we let the matter rest here and say no more of it?"
"Let it rest here?" Wei Zhao could scarcely believe his ears. Could such a good thing really be? An assassin guild that could not kill its target had come to make peace? Moreover, if any one of these three lifted a hand, he had no confidence of escaping—so how had it come to letting the matter rest?
"Yes. What does Mr. Wei Zhao think?" Ancestor Gloom nodded and asked.
"I... certainly have no objection. Only—are you in earnest?" However Wei Zhao looked at it, the whole affair seemed rather uncanny.
After all, three masters at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, two of them consummate—for a combination of such strength to come in person to make peace, Wei Zhao could scarcely bring himself to believe it.