Chapter 1186 — The Pi Family's Expert Makes His Move

"Open up? You brat, you're here to make trouble, aren't you? Have you even looked at what kind of place this is? Is this somewhere for you to throw your weight around? Shouting and yelling at my door — I'd say you've got a death wish." Gou Huli naturally did not take Er Gou Dan seriously in the least.

"You shrew really are an unreasonable piece of work. No wonder your lion bit someone — you don't show the slightest sign of contrition!" Seeing Gou Huli's arrogant, domineering manner, Er Gou Dan knew she felt not one shred of guilt over the lion biting Mother Yu.

"The lion bit someone? So you're here to make trouble on behalf of that cleaning woman?" Gou Huli's face fell. From Er Gou Dan's words she understood his purpose at once. Since the lion had come to the villa, it had bitten exactly one person, so naturally she knew immediately who he meant.

"Not to make trouble — I've come to demand an explanation. Your lion bit someone, and you haven't even been to apologize? Have you no conscience left, no sense of decency?" Er Gou Dan jabbed a finger at Gou Huli and demanded.

"Get out! You are not welcome here!" Gou Huli was already in a foul mood over the lion business, and now Er Gou Dan had come to sour it further. Thinking of the lion only enraged her more. She waved him off impatiently, wanting nothing but to drive him away.

"Why aren't you rolling off yet?" Xiao Ji had thought it must be something serious — merely the relative of a cleaning woman, come to his door demanding an explanation! So Xiao Ji waved his hand as well and said, "Didn't we pay you compensation? What, not enough?"

"This isn't about money, it's about attitude. I've come to demand an explanation!" Er Gou Dan had not expected the whole family to be so unreasonable — the woman unreasonable, the man unreasonable, every last one of them arrogant and overbearing.

"Don't refuse the toast and end up drinking the forfeit. Roll away now and we'll call the matter closed. If you don't leave, don't blame me for being rude!" Xiao Ji gave a cold snort. "Look at where you are. You dare to act out here?"

"Seems your whole family is beyond reason!" Er Gou Dan could not be bothered to waste more words on such people. He said straight out, "In that case, every wrong has its source and every debt its debtor. I won't trouble you — just hand over that lion, let me kill it with a single punch, and I'll be on my way!"

"Haha!" Gou Huli sneered at once. "Never mind that the lion isn't here — even if it were, what could you do about it? Kill it, you say? You're all talk. It'll bite you to death."

Xiao Ben did not believe Er Gou Dan's words either. With a cold sneer, he turned and made to head back into the villa with Gou Huli, ignoring Er Gou Dan altogether.

"Fine. Since you won't let me in, I'll go find it myself!" As he spoke, Er Gou Dan reached out and gave a pull, and the iron grille, as though it were made of soft mud, came apart in his hands without the slightest resistance.

Having torn the iron grille apart, Er Gou Dan strode in with all the swagger in the world, as though he had not given Xiao Ji and Gou Huli the least consideration.

Xiao Ji and Gou Huli were struck dumb on the spot. They had assumed Er Gou Dan was merely some relative of that cleaning woman — what would the Xiao family ever bother to notice about a small fry like that? But this Er Gou Dan had suddenly revealed himself to be an expert. An iron railing that thick was like soft mud in his hands, and that frightened Xiao Ji and Gou Huli badly.

Of course, the two of them had seen something of the world, and they knew that martial cultivators possessed great powers. Could this visitor also be a cultivator? Xiao Ji panicked at once and said to Gou Huli, "Quick, go fetch the Pi family's expert!"

Gou Huli did not dare linger either. She followed Xiao Ji scrambling and stumbling up the stairs, and as he ran Xiao Ji shouted, "This is bad — Old Pi, Mr. Pi! Someone has come to wreck the Xiao family's place. Please, the two of you, lend a hand!"

Old Pi and Mr. Pi were in the midst of cultivation when they suddenly heard Xiao Ji's cries, and their brows furrowed. Could the Xiao family have run into some sort of trouble? Ever since Old Pi and Mr. Pi had arrived at the Xiao family, the Xiao family had treated them with the reverence due to ancestors, serving them fine food and good drink every day. The Pi family had made it clear from the start that they were only to act when the Xiao family faced some great trouble beyond their own solving, yet in all this time no great trouble had arisen, which left Old Pi and Mr. Pi somewhat embarrassed.

Now that someone had come to make trouble, it was the perfect chance for Old Pi to show what he could do. Yet Old Pi was also a little worried — was this visitor an ordinary thug, or a true expert? If a true expert, then his stepping in would be perfectly proper. But to deal with a common thug would be somewhat beneath his dignity.

"What's going on, Master Xiao? Has someone come looking for trouble at your door?" Old Pi pushed the door open and stepped out, asking.

"Old Pi, save us! The man who came is an expert too. With one careless pull he tore the iron grille at the gate to pieces, as easily as playing with mud!" Xiao Ji said hurriedly.

"Oh? He tore the iron grille at the gate to pieces?" Old Pi's brows knitted. Old Pi knew well just how thick the iron grille at the villa gate was. If someone could tear those grilles apart, an ordinary person could hardly have done it. This visitor must be a cultivator — and at least of early Yellow Rank strength. Only, was he of the internal school or the external school?

At that thought, Old Pi said to Mr. Pi beside him, "Come, let's go see what this is about."

"Thank you, Old Pi!" Hearing that Old Pi would act, Xiao Ji breathed a sigh of relief. However formidable the visitor might be, with Old Pi stepping in, would it not be his for the taking?

Old Pi led Mr. Pi downstairs, where they ran straight into Er Gou Dan coming up. Er Gou Dan walked on, glancing this way and that, searching for some trace of the lion.

"By the look of it, you're the one who came to make trouble?" Old Pi planted himself in front of Er Gou Dan and asked mildly. For the moment he could not gauge Er Gou Dan's strength. Whether internal or external school, unless one circulated one's heart method or made a move, there was no way to know an opponent's strength — Wei Zhao, of course, with his golden finger, being the exception.

"Who are you? Some help those old men and old biddies hired?" Er Gou Dan eyed the old man before him with some perplexity. "How come they're so hopeless? What did they hire an old man for? All right, hurry up and get out of the way. I still have a lion to find."

"You dare show Old Pi disrespect?" The young man beside Old Pi flew into a rage at once. What standing did Old Pi hold? He possessed a certain position even within the Pi family, and he was Mr. Pi's elder. So Mr. Pi would not tolerate Er Gou Dan's contempt, and made ready to teach this insolent brat a lesson. He swung a slap at Er Gou Dan's face.

In Mr. Pi's eyes, Er Gou Dan was young, and surely no great expert — Yellow Rank at most. So in teaching such a person a lesson, he was nine parts certain of success. After all, he was an expert of early Profound Rank, and dealing with a Yellow Rank was no trouble at all.

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