Chapter 949 — The Yu Family in Shock: "Yes, Second Uncle — the kind that goes woof woof!" Yu Haitian explained hastily, drenched in sweat.

"Is that for real? Beaten to death by a dog?" Yu Shuixing could not help feeling that Yu Haitian's words were somewhat absurd. An inner-school expert with the strength of the early Mystic Rank, actually killed by a dog?

"Second Uncle, a matter this big — how would I dare joke about it!" Yu Haitian said, drenched in sweat. "He was killed by the dog at Wei Zhao's side, the one called General Mighty!"

"Wasn't that dog killed by Yu Kun?" Yu Shuixing said, startled.

"It didn't die. That dog seems quite clever. Wei Zhao told it the son's debt is paid by the father, and the dog killed Third Uncle!" Yu Haitian said.

"Your Third Uncle was an inner-school expert at the early Mystic Rank. Never mind a dog — even an ordinary man would find it no easy thing to beat him to death." Yu Shuixing could not make sense of it. "Even if that dog is clever enough to know it should take revenge on Yu Bide, it still had to have the ability!"

"It did, Second Uncle. I think that dog is no ordinary dog. I'm not a cultivator myself, but the powerful aura that came off it in that instant — that alone tells you it is absolutely no ordinary dog!" Yu Haitian said, still shaken.

"So then, today you went to make trouble for Gu Pengzhan, and then this General Mighty or whatever came out and killed Yu Bide?" Yu Shuixing had finally pieced some of it together, though he still found it hard to believe a dog could be that formidable.

"No, Second Uncle. Wei Zhao was never hurt at all, and his strength never dropped!" Yu Haitian said, a note of terror in his voice. "He was playing the pig to eat the tiger. All those days he made no move, and he waited until Third Uncle and I came to his door, ready to take Gu Pengzhan's daughter away by force — that was when Wei Zhao suddenly showed his hand. One palm strike sent Third Uncle flying, and then General Mighty charged over and added a kick, and just like that Third Uncle was gone..."

"Wei Zhao was uninjured? His strength never dropped? And the dog is a cultivator too?" The string of news struck Yu Shuixing's ears like thunderclaps, leaving him at a loss. What on earth was going on?

Hadn't it all been investigated and made clear before? Wei Zhao had been gravely wounded, with no strength left in him at all. How had he suddenly recovered, and with his strength not diminished in the least? Was he playing the pig to eat the tiger — deliberately putting on a show of injury to lure his enemies in?

No, that wasn't it! Yu Shuixing suddenly knitted his brows. Wei Zhao playing the pig to eat the tiger — that was possible enough. But that dog could not be playing the pig to eat the tiger! Yu Kun had said he had beaten the dog to death and smashed its internal organs; even if it were nursed back to life it would be a cripple. How could it possibly have turned into a cultivating dog?

A dreadful possibility came to Yu Shuixing: Wei Zhao really had been injured, but he had now recovered — and not merely recovered, but grown stronger. And the dog was the same: it had been wounded past all wounding, and now it too had become a cultivating dog...

What a monstrous power must stand behind Wei Zhao! Even the hidden families could not command such resources — to keep alive a man gravely wounded and a dog at death's door, and not only save them but grant them even greater strength!

How many heaven-and-earth treasures, how many masters serving as their guardians, would it take to achieve such a thing?

Yu Shuixing realized he had made a grave mistake: he should never have come to Songshan City to join in this excitement. If the Xiao family wanted to court death, let them; he could have sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. Why wade into these muddy waters?

But there is no medicine for regret in this world. Hearing that his third brother had been beaten to death, Yu Shuixing truly felt like weeping, with no tears to come.

Wei Zhao knew perfectly well how powerful the Yu family was, and yet he dared to strike Yu Bide dead. There were only two possibilities: either he had lost his head in a moment of impulse, or he had something to fall back on — he did not fear the Yu family, or rather, the power behind him did not fear the Yu family.

Of course, Yu Shuixing leaned toward the latter. According to Yu Kun, Wei Zhao had meant to kill him, and it was only Li Fu speaking up that made Wei Zhao stay his hand. One impulse might be explained away, but impulse after impulse?

Moreover, Wei Zhao had held himself in for so many days without acting, waiting for the Yu family's people to come make trouble, and only at the final moment struck the killing blow. What was that? A warning — kill the chicken to frighten the monkey?

"Haitian, tell me the whole thing from beginning to end, exactly as it happened. Do not leave out a single detail!" Yu Shuixing drew a deep breath and asked.

"Yes, Second Uncle. What happened was this..." Yu Haitian described everything in detail — what he and Third Uncle had said, how Gu Pengzhan had reacted, and so on — and at the end he did not forget to pass on the two insolent terms Wei Zhao had set...

"This Wei Zhao... what a mouth he has! He dares to extort demands out of the Yu family!" Hearing the words Wei Zhao had asked Yu Haitian to relay, Yu Shuixing was so furious that smoke all but poured from his seven orifices; yet inwardly he grew even more suspicious. On what grounds did Wei Zhao dare to say such things?

Considering Gu Pengzhan's reaction, it seemed Gu Pengzhan did not know either that Wei Zhao's strength had recovered... Which meant Gu Pengzhan too had perhaps been fooled by Wei Zhao. To play the pig and eat the tiger, the boy had told no one that his strength was restored — all for this final eruption!

Frightening! What a frightening mind!

Yu Shuixing sighed inwardly. If Wei Zhao was truly as he suspected, then what was his real aim? Was it aimed at the Yu family, the Xiao family, or Zhao Qibing? Or were all these people merely pieces on his board, and he had some deeper purpose besides?

"Yes, Second Uncle. What should we do now?" Yu Haitian asked cautiously.

"Take your Third Uncle's body back to Yanjing at once, immediately. Leave everything over there alone!" Yu Shuixing was afraid — genuinely afraid.

For years the Yu family had run roughshod over all; no one had dared deny them face, much less strike them down outright. Yet Wei Zhao was utterly without scruple, leaving two core members of the Yu family one dead and one wounded, and wanting shares in the Yu family's businesses — and worse, demanding two of the Yu family's girls as his concubines!

Was it wild fancy on his part, or did he truly have the strength to back it up?

Whatever the case, Yu Shuixing truly regretted it now — for the sake of a few map fragments, they had made a fearsome enemy. This boded no good for the Yu family.

Of course, Yu Shuixing could not swallow this insult either; the grudge was noted. Once he had traced Wei Zhao's origins, he would repay it tenfold, a hundredfold!

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