Chapter 3840 — Killing the Master
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"Tch! Someone will avenge you?" It took Yu Jiang considerable effort to pry Nan Tianyong's hand from his ankle. He sneered, "Oh, someone will avenge you, all right—the name of the Three Heroes of the Nan Clan is no empty boast. But the one who killed you is named Lin Er, isn't that so?"
There was no one about; no one had seen that it was Yu Jiang who struck the blow. And the wounds left by his sword qi were not noticeably different from those inflicted by Wei Zhao's true-qi bomb—the whole thing could be pinned on Wei Zhao, and others would be hard-pressed to find any flaw.
Pausing, Yu Jiang saw that Nan Tianyong, though dead, still had both eyes fixed hard upon him. He silently spat in disgust at his bad luck.
"Hmph! Dying with your eyes open, are you?" Yu Jiang curled his lip in mockery. "My dear cheap master, you needn't die with your eyes open. Your disciple will go personally to fetch your two brothers and see you avenged! But before that—these precious treasures on your person, your disciple will reluctantly take charge of for you!"
With that, greed flashed in Yu Jiang's eyes. He bent down and searched Nan Tianyong from head to foot—once was not enough, nor twice, but three times, until every last thing on the man had been stripped clean. Only then did he finally stop.
"No man grows rich without windfall, no horse grows fat without night feed—that saying is true enough!" Looking at the assorted treasures he had scavenged from Nan Tianyong, even a man of Yu Jiang's cunning could not help but swallow hard.
An expert at the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage—how deep must his reserves run? To a mere mid-Foundation Establishment expert like Yu Jiang, this was worth far more than fifty years of bitter cultivation; even a hundred years might not have earned him as much!
Elated, he tucked each treasure securely on his person, then hoisted Nan Tianyong's corpse onto his back once more, deliberately putting on a show of grief, and turned back toward the Chongtian Pavilion.
He would carry the corpse back through the streets in plain view, making as much of a stir as possible; then he would fetch Nan Tianyong's two elder brothers to avenge him. By then, the affair would be sure to alarm the Sandie Pavilion and the Law Enforcement Hall—and that Lin Er would no longer be able to roam free!
Yu Jiang's calculations could not have been shrewder—yet never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined that after he left with Nan Tianyong's corpse on his back, a familiar figure stepped out from the thicket nearby.
That figure was none other than Wei Zhao, who had fled with all his might after flinging out the top-grade true-qi bomb.
"Heh, killing even his own master, and trying to pin the crime on me—the Chongtian Pavilion has truly raised a monster!" Wei Zhao shook his head with a laugh. A man who had fought his way up from the mortal world and made countless enemies in the process—yet never had he seen anyone so vicious!
Even Kang Jingming would not have struck down Patriarch Xuanchen. This Yu Jiang was truly a piece of work—stopping at nothing to get what he wanted! (To be continued..) RT