Chapter 3441 — Three Traitors Run Fast
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"Ah... right, it's from practicing the Thousand Legs—a bit of an aftereffect... haha, I often can't stand steady, and the sight of Lord Lin scares me to my knees..." Zhao Qibing said with a dry laugh. "It seems that when your strength rises too fast, the aftereffects are quite obvious!"
"Oh, is that so." Wei Zhao nodded. "Then what are you three Zhao family experts doing here? Have you come to attack me and the Song family? Go on, then—I'll finish the three of you in a second and still get back to my meal! I was interrupted halfway through eating. That really puts me in a foul mood!"
"Cough, cough..." Zhao Qibing was terrified beyond measure, and Zhao Guangyin and Mian Huatang beside him also instinctively backed up two steps! This Wei Zhao was simply too powerful! Back then, Wei Zhao had been like a god of slaughter, drenching the Zhao family in blood!
They had thought that once they threw in their lot with the Five Luminaries Sect and endured so much suffering, and one day became top-tier experts at Heaven-rank Great Perfection, they would be able to cut Wei Zhao down and avenge the destruction of the Zhao family!
But today they had discovered, to their sorrow, that the gap between dream and reality was far too great! They realized that killing Wei Zhao for revenge had already become impossible! At least, it would be impossible in this lifetime!
In the past, when Wei Zhao's strength had not been so high, they had always clung to hope; but once Wei Zhao had set foot upon the summit of the secular cultivation world and could wipe out Heaven-rank Great Perfection experts in an instant, their hopes vanished all at once!
Sometimes, expectation and surrender lie within a single thought! Unless they could ascend to the Heavenly Dao—that remote, legendary realm—but as experts who had been artificially remade, they could never advance a single step further in their entire lives!
If they did not sustain themselves with drugs, then once the medicinal properties faded from their bodies, they would not even match their former strength—they would be little different from ordinary people.
And now, all three of them felt a sense of utter dejection. It was impossible—revenge would never be possible! Wei Zhao's power had, in that single instant, extinguished their thoughts of retaliation!
"Um, Lord Wei Zhao, sir, we just came to watch the fun. Actually, we long ago saw through the vanities of the mortal world—the three of us have wanted to leave the Five Luminaries Sect for ages. We're planning to take refuge in Buddhism—yes, yes, to become monks! We'll be off, then! Amitabha, I'm leaving..." Zhao Qibing babbled incoherently, then turned and ran!
Zhao Guangyin and Mian Huatang ran after him as well, the three of them fleeing as fast as their legs could carry them! Their thoughts, however, were all the same: find some place to go into hiding from now on, because revenge was hopeless in this life, so what the hell was the point of playing along with the Five Luminaries Sect? Better to spend the rest of their days in peace!
The Zhao family still had a tidy sum deposited overseas—enough for the three of them to live on.
Seeing the three bodyguards beside him slip away so nimbly, Kang Jingming was at a loss! Was that not a bit too quick a betrayal?
"Zhaoming, you're not being honest. When you ran into me earlier, you didn't say you'd come to visit—if I'd known you were coming, I would have made preparations!" Wei Zhao said, looking at Kang Jingming standing there all alone, with a half-smile that was not quite a smile.
"Haha, Lord Wei Zhao, you jest... I... I was actually forced into this! It was that Miss Lan from the Center! She was the one who told me to investigate the deaths of those four overseas experts, and the three Zhao family bio-engineered experts were remade with the Center's help too. I just led the way—it has nothing to do with me!" Kang Jingming explained cautiously, his face the picture of misery.