Chapter 3349 — Two More Have Appeared
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"You—" Yu Dake wanted to press him further, but then he saw Old Master Gu's fist come driving straight at him!
Wei Zhao knitted his brows slightly. He had meant to let Yu Dake draw a few more words out of the old man before finishing him off, but who would have thought the fellow would start swinging after barely two sentences? That left Wei Zhao somewhat exasperated, yet he acted on the instant, sending the eleventh form of the Wild Fire Eight Trigrams Palm sweeping in from the side at Old Master Gu!
Old Master Gu's whole mind was fixed on Yu Dake. He paid no attention to Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke standing off to the side, taking them for Yu Dake's friends. In his view, if these two were friends of Yu Dake, they could not be anything formidable. After all, anyone hired as a hired fist was bound to be haughty and proud—certainly not a pair of youngsters.
Besides, Yu Dake plainly had no idea that he and his master were the man's enemies; he had only learned it here, just now, from Old Master Gu's own mouth. So this could hardly be a premeditated visit for revenge.
Thus Old Master Gu did not give Wei Zhao the slightest thought—which was precisely why Wei Zhao's sudden strike caught him utterly off guard! Before Old Master Gu could even reach Yu Dake, Wei Zhao had struck first and sent him flying!
Old Master Gu had been about to attack; why would he have shrouded himself in true qi for protection? And Wei Zhao's eleventh form of the Wild Fire Eight Trigrams Palm—against a peak late Heaven Rank expert, it had perhaps a fifty-fifty chance of killing outright. But against an ordinary late Heaven Rank expert, it was more than enough.
Even without the jade pendant's attack boost, Wei Zhao still annihilated Old Master Gu in a single blow!
At that very moment, as Wei Zhao sent Old Master Gu flying, the Gu family members happened to come out of the manor. They had come to lend weight to the old man's show of force, but the scene before their eyes left them dumbstruck!
There lay Old Master Gu—the lofty, incomparably mighty figure of their minds—sprawled backward with blood spewing from his mouth. Yet not one of them dared make a move, for they all knew: anyone who could beat Old Master Gu like this was someone they could never afford to provoke.
"You—you people—" The lead guard had come hoping to watch Old Master Gu settle scores on his behalf. Little did he expect that instead of scores being settled, he would see Old Master Gu repeat his own sorry fate—flying out spitting blood, exactly as he had done moments before!
But Old Master Gu fared even more wretchedly than he had. After flying out, the old man twitched twice and then lay still—plainly dead.
"Father!" Two men bearing some resemblance to Old Master Gu came racing over to the corpse, crying out in grief.
"Who is your father's master? Who was it that wiped out the Yu family all those years ago? Did any of you take part?" Wei Zhao looked at the two men and asked.
"I—we don't know..." The two men were clearly cowards—or rather, they had been frightened out of their wits by Wei Zhao and dared not resist him. "How could our family have taken part? My father... he only found himself a great patron from the Central Plains, that's all. We existed merely as their eyes and ears here... As for the master's identity, we have no idea. Don't kill us, great hero, we beg you! This is your land—we'll move out right away, just don't kill us..."
It seemed Old Master Gu's two sons were both spineless. Already frightened silly by Wei Zhao, they poured out everything they knew like beans tumbling from a split bamboo tube, not daring to conceal the slightest thing.
"Oh? Then do you know your master's name?" Wei Zhao asked with a frown.