Chapter 3225 — These People Are All Dead
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"Pff—" Feng Sanmang could not hold back a burst of laughter the moment he heard the names Dongfang Yinxing and the Four Great Vajras. If there was any family that had truly run out of luck, it was the Dongfang clan; every one of those vicious bastards was dead and gone! Call it retribution, perhaps, for the way they had once dealt with the matriarch and Xu Shilan.
"Sanhuang, what are you laughing at?" The old director frowned. Though it had been many years since she stood at Feng Tianqi's side, she had after all been his former lover, and Feng Sanmang addressed her as matriarch—yet he dared to laugh at her? Her tone sharpened with annoyance. "Sanhuang, you simply have no idea how formidable these people are."
"Um... Mama..." Xu Shilan knew Feng Sanmang was not mocking the old director but laughing at the Dongfang clan's misfortune, so she hurried to explain in a small voice. "Brother Sanhuang isn't laughing at you, he's laughing at the Dongfang clan..."
"Laughing at the Dongfang clan?" The old director was taken aback, then her frown deepened. "Sanhuang, what do you mean by that?"
"Mama... the people you just mentioned... they're all dead..." Xu Shilan rushed to explain.
"Dead... what do you mean, dead... Xiaohan, you're saying the Dongfang clan members are dead?" The old director's eyes went wide with disbelief as she stared at Xu Shilan. How could they be dead? She had no immediate source of information, but every so often she still picked up word of the Dongfang clan through the odd rumor or backchannel. The Dongfang clan was at the very height of its power—how could these people be dead?
"Dongfang Yinxing, Dongfang Jian, Dongfang Ying, Dongfang Cha, Dongfang Song—they all seemed to come to kill me, but Wei Zhao... killed them all..." Even now, thinking back on it, Xu Shilan found it a little unbelievable. Take any one of those ruthless men on his own, and he was a nightmare for her and her mother—yet Wei Zhao had cut them down like chickens and cattle, killing one when one came and a pair when two came, until Dongfang Xiaocui had no choice but to plead with Wei Zhao for mercy through Feng Shihua.
The Dongfang clan had vanished without a trace, not a whisper of them left.
"Wei Zhao... you're... a Heaven-rank expert now?" The old director was utterly astonished, for Dongfang Yinxing had been a peak late Heaven-rank expert, among the very finest cultivators in the world. If Wei Zhao had killed him, what did that make Wei Zhao? A Heaven-rank expert as well?
"No, it's not like that..." Wei Zhao smiled wryly. "Brother Feng, you'd better explain."
Feng Sanmang nodded and recounted it all to the old director—how Wei Zhao could fight opponents above his own rank, and how Feng family's Dongfang Xiaocui had sent assassins after Xu Shilan.
The more the old director heard, the more excited she became! She had never imagined that every Dongfang clansman who came died, until in the end they dared not even utter a squeak, and Dongfang Xiaocui had begged Wei Zhao for mercy through her own son!
She felt that at long last she could hold her head high! Truly, there is always a taller mountain beyond the mountain—those ruthless men who had strutted and postured before her meant nothing at all before Wei Zhao!
So then, the danger to her and Xu Shilan was over? She let out a long, slow breath. At last... it was over! The clouds had parted and the sun shone through; at last she could appear under her former identity.
"Wei Zhao! Thank you. You are not only the orphanage's benefactor, but our family's benefactor as well! Thank you!" The old director looked at Wei Zhao and spoke earnestly.
"All right, enough of that. Whether it's for Yu Xiaoke's sake or Xu Shilan's, I could never stand by and do nothing about you." Wei Zhao waved his hand indifferently. "Now, let me restore your strength."
"Good!" The old director nodded quickly. "So what do I need to do now?"