Chapter 3233 — Exposed?
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"Did no one ever tell you that Songshan City and Donghai City are my back garden? You come here to kill, and you don't even pay me a courtesy call?" Wei Zhao asked, still in that same indifferent tone.
"What's that supposed to mean? Your back garden? Who are you?" The Grand Elder knitted his brows slightly, a sense of something wrong creeping into his heart. This early Heaven-Rank expert was a little too calm, wasn't he? Either he had something to fall back on, or he simply had no idea what death looked like!
But how many cultivators who had reached the early Heaven-Rank stage were still greenhorns? Which of them had not paid for it in untold hardship? So the Grand Elder could not quite take his measure.
"Wei Zhao. A loose cultivator." Wei Zhao finished mildly, then said, "Your turn to introduce yourself."
"Lin... Wei Zhao?! You're Wei Zhao?!" The Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society started as if his tail had been trodden on, instinctively shifting his body a step to the side, and said in alarm, "You're that Wei Zhao?"
"How many Wei Zhaos are there in Songshan City and Donghai City?" Wei Zhao said coldly. "You must know that the person I protect is the great star Xu Shilan, don't you? For her sake I killed both Dongfang Yinxing and the Pure Yin Heavenly Venerable, and now you've beaten her until she coughs blood, and you want to kill her mother too?"
The Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society felt his heart clench. Mother of mine, whatever he feared had come to pass. The reason he had come to Songshan City and chosen to strike in the dead of night was precisely to avoid Wei Zhao and keep from drawing his notice! After all, Wei Zhao's name had already been spread through the ancient strata with almost mythical exaggeration—he was practically a monster of a existence!
A man who could kill a peak late Heaven-Rank expert in a single blow—even the Grand Elder himself would not dare claim he could slay a peak late Heaven-Rank expert in one strike. What kind of strength was that? A little too terrifying, wasn't it?
"So it was her..." But by now the grudge was already made, and the Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society could only watch Wei Zhao warily. "Fine. What do you want?"
"I know you were hired by someone. Name the one behind it, and leave two Great Return Pills behind, and I'll let you walk away." Arrogant as Wei Zhao's words sounded, they had been carefully weighed—not too weak, yet not too forceful either!
After all, Wei Zhao feared that the man before him might be driven to desperate measures, and if he simply let the Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society go, that would be hard to justify either.
Still, from the Grand Elder's tone Wei Zhao had already guessed that the man was most likely acting on someone else's behalf—otherwise he could not possibly have failed to know who Xu Shilan was. So Wei Zhao seized on that pretext, preparing to spare the Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society, and it would make sense to others as well.
"Truly? If I tell you, you'll let me go?" The Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society glanced at Wei Zhao, weighing matters in his own heart as well.
"My word has always been my bond," Wei Zhao said with a nod.
"I'm from the Black Horse Society." The Grand Elder hesitated a moment, then gave these few words: "As for who exactly issued the task, I don't know either. I only came to take on the assignment. I am the Grand Elder of the Black Horse Society—I only handle troubles that are hard to handle. I don't take assignments directly."
"And the Great Return Pills?" Wei Zhao nodded. He had no wish to drag things out either; plainly Xu Shilan and Cheng Yiyi both needed urgent treatment.
"I didn't bring them. But you may count it as the Black Horse Society owing you—you can come collect from the Black Horse Society anytime!" the Grand Elder said.