Chapter 3170 — Two Who Died with Their Eyes Open
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
In an instant, four divine weapons were locked in a tangled dance, two against two, the battle raging too close to call! Though Ancestor Blood Garment and Ancestor Yellow Springs were both experts of perfected peak late Heaven Rank strength and thus stronger than Ancestor Pure Yin and Dongfang Yinxing, an instant kill was still impossible. After all, at this level, both sides were deeply seasoned in combat—to imagine anyone could simply snuff out another's life was unrealistic.
Still, if the fight wore on for a time, Ancestor Blood Garment and Ancestor Yellow Springs were confident of an outright victory!
Dongfang Yinxing and Ancestor Pure Yin were both experts with one foot already through the door of Great Perfection. Though the two had not yet advanced to that rank, years upon years of cultivation had already brought them to the threshold, lacking only the right opportunity. Their combat experience, therefore, was by no means inferior.
What daunted them, however, was that the moves of these two before them were utterly bizarre—every strike a killing blow, every strike aimed at life itself. Not a single move was meant merely to wound; all were meant to kill. This gave both men no end of grief, forcing them to carefully unravel each attack lest a bloody hole appear in their bodies!
The result was that the two could only defend, never attack! And it was at this very moment, just as Ancestor Blood Garment launched a strike at Dongfang Yinxing, that Dongfang Yinxing suddenly sensed danger behind him!
Yet he could not turn to look, for Ancestor Blood Garment's dark-iron sword was already thrusting at him. If he did not handle it properly, he would be run through.
This left him caught between a rock and a hard place, hesitating endlessly with no way out. He could only grit his teeth, parry the blow first, and pray that whoever was behind him was merely Wei Zhao come to make trouble!
His hopes were fine, but reality was cruel. Dongfang Yinxing suddenly sensed that the one behind him was an expert of peak late Heaven Rank strength—but by then it was too late. An arrow pierced his heart, and Dongfang Yinxing died with his eyes wide open.
Ancestor Pure Yin was horrified, yet dared not let his attention wander. But the next moment, tragedy came for him as well—another arrow through the heart, and Ancestor Pure Yin too was dead. Only, in the instant before he died, the identity of the three before him struck him like a thunderbolt: "You... you are the Blood Garment Yellow Springs Sect... and Ancestors at that... Why... why kill me..."
Even in death, Ancestor Pure Yin could not understand why these three Ancestors of the Blood Garment Yellow Springs Sect would kill them. This was utterly incongruous. Why would they help Wei Zhao?
In truth, the whole fight had lasted no longer than a spark struck from flint, over in the blink of an eye. Because in the villa district every villa stood well apart, no one else had been disturbed.
Wei Zhao had been all set to flee. Then he watched the three from the Blood Garment Yellow Springs Sect suddenly leap out and cut down Ancestor Pure Yin and Dongfang Yinxing, and he was left utterly dumbstruck! What play were these three putting on? Why had they chosen to strike on his behalf?
"Many thanks to the three Ancestors for your righteous aid... Might I ask, are you repaying a favor to me?" Wei Zhao truly could not fathom their reason. The only thing he could think of was that Ancestor Yellow Springs and the others had earlier asked him to relay to Gu Mengyao a scheme for tormenting Zhao Qibing, in exchange for which they would owe him a favor.
So, turn it over as he might, that was the only possibility Wei Zhao could conceive.
"Naturally not." Ancestor Gloom was a quick-witted man; he refused with a smile, having already prepared his explanation on the way here. "Mr. Lin, these two were targets someone paid us a high price to assassinate!"