Chapter 2457 — The Hidden Right Family's Shock: Su Lengzi Roars

Su Lengzi had taken a blow he could not avenge. He had just gone to his uncle, hoping the man would stand up for him, but the moment his uncle heard about the background the Right Family kept hidden behind Right Panhu, he hesitated, then told Su Lengzi to swallow his anger. Su Lengzi was seething with pent-up fury.

This resort and ski slope were his family's own territory! In the past, it had always been others who came out the losers. This time it was his turn to lose, and naturally he was not willing to accept it.

When Captain Sun heard Su Lengzi's words, he was immediately caught in a dilemma. On one side was the general manager, on the other Su Lengzi, and the two of them were pulling him in opposite directions. His head swam with the headache of it. But then he reflected that in this resort, the general manager still counted for the most, so Captain Sun said to Su Lengzi, "Brother Lengzi, this was ordered from the general manager's side... you see how it is?"

"Isn't my uncle just afraid the Fire Wolf Gang will hold him to blame later? That's no problem—my cousin and the current head of the Fire Wolf Gang are sworn brothers, and if anything comes of it, I will talk to him!" Su Lengzi roared hysterically. "Captain Sun, you tell him to get out! Otherwise, I will tell my cousin, and you will be getting out right along with him!"

"This..." Hearing Su Lengzi's words, Captain Sun fell silent at once. He knew that Su Lengzi also had a cousin, a formidable figure in his own right, and a sworn brother to the man who had recently risen to head the Fire Wolf Gang's provincial branch. So he hesitated.

Right Panhu furrowed his brows. He had not expected that a matter already settled could run into this kind of complication, all because Kang Zhaolong had earlier offended this Su Lengzi.

He decided not to wrangle with these people any longer. He could see it plainly now: with Su Lengzi here, there was no chance of getting them to send a helicopter. He would have to turn to his own family for help.

Once out of the security office, Right Panhu found a phone at the resort's service desk and dialed his family's number directly...

At the Hidden Right Family, the squat bandit had by now returned, cradling the body of the tall bandit in his arms, his face full of grief and bitter fury.

When the Right Family's old master heard that the squat bandit had come back, he was just about to ask whether this mission had succeeded, but then his eyes fell on the tall bandit's corpse in the man's arms, and the expression on his face froze. "Squatty, what is this..."

"Old Master Right, that Wei Zhao is truly formidable. He may only be a peak mid-Earth-Rank expert, but he killed Tall Brother with a single palm strike and left me gravely wounded with another. I am going into seclusion to heal. As for this mission, whoever wants it in the future can take it—I am done!" With that, the squat bandit laid the tall bandit's body on the ground and sped off to his own courtyard to enter seclusion and recover.

He was a retained retainer of the Right Family, not one of the old master's subordinates, so his attitude toward the old master was not particularly respectful. Of course, this matter could hardly be blamed on the old master either: the man had laid out Wei Zhao's strength plainly enough for him. He had taken the mission out of greed for the rare cultivation treasures on offer, so if he had been killed or wounded, he had only himself to blame.

So the matter was closed as soon as it passed. The squat bandit could only swallow his humiliation and go back to heal.

As for the old master of the Right Family, when he saw the scene before him, his soul nearly left his body in fright! Did Wei Zhao really have the power to fight a Heaven-Rank? To gravely wound a peak early Heaven-Rank expert with one palm, and to kill a peak late Earth-Rank expert outright with a single strike?

It seemed Wei Zhao had shown mercy to Old Bi back then. Now, facing these two impostor bandits, he had not spared them the slightest face!

Beyond the shock, deep fear took root in the old master's heart. If Wei Zhao was truly this formidable, then sweeping aside the Right Family would be no great difficulty for him. The old master might be a Heaven-Rank expert himself, but he was not even the equal of those retainers and guests—his cultivation rank was that of a Heaven-Rank alchemist, and his combat power was not especially strong.

He must never provoke Wei Zhao again—that was the old master's first thought. He instinctively wanted to call Right Panhu and tell him to keep his distance from Wei Zhao, lest Wei Zhao kill him. But the phone rang first.

"Hello." The old master drew a deep breath and picked up.

"Grandfather, it's Panhu." Right Panhu spoke urgently. "Grandfather, that plan from before has fallen through. Kang Zhaolong offended the local strongman at the resort..."

With that, Right Panhu recounted everything that had happened.

"Never mind that for now. I am asking you—how is Wei Zhao so formidable? He actually killed a peak late Earth-Rank expert and wounded an early Heaven-Rank one?" The old master cut across Right Panhu's account with an urgent question.

"This..." Right Panhu's heart went cold. So it was as he had thought: those two cultivator bandits at the end were the true experts sent by his own family, while the ones before had been actual robbers!

At the thought, the corner of Right Panhu's mouth twitched. What rotten luck—of all things, to run into something like this!

Yet even as Right Panhu was startled by Wei Zhao's strength, he was worried about Kang Zhaolong's situation, so he hurried on. "Grandfather, let us set that aside. Kang Zhaolong is very anxious over there—something serious seems to have happened, and the phone he is using belongs to Wei Zhao..."

"Using Wei Zhao's phone? Could Wei Zhao have deliberately forced him to make this call?" The old master knew of the plan between Right Panhu and Kang Zhaolong, but being a man of deep calculation, what occurred to him was this: what had originally been a romantic trip to the valley had gained Wei Zhao as an addition, and Wei Zhao would naturally be eager to hurry back. In that case, this call might well have been forced on Kang Zhaolong by Wei Zhao.

"That is hard to say. But with Wei Zhao there, the plan has no meaning anymore. And Wei Zhao is dangerous—if we do not send a helicopter to bring them up soon, what if Wei Zhao turns on Kang Zhaolong?" Right Panhu said.

"You have a point!" The old master nodded, then said, "Then I will send a helicopter over as quickly as possible from my side!"

"Good. I will wait here, then!" Right Panhu nodded.

"Never mind... we will discuss the matter of Wei Zhao after you return." The old master felt that the Right Family's strategy toward Wei Zhao ought to be adjusted—at least until the Mystic Pill Sect declared its position, the Right Family should do all it could to avoid a direct confrontation with Wei Zhao. The man was simply too powerful.

More than twenty minutes had passed since Kang Zhaolong made the call, and still Wei Zhao saw no helicopter coming. He frowned at once. By any reasonable measure, given the efficiency on Right Panhu's side, borrowing a helicopter directly from the resort and flying over from the mountaintop should have taken twenty minutes at most—especially since all of this had been arranged in advance.

"Why so slow? Did you not make all the arrangements beforehand and rent the helicopter?" Wei Zhao glanced at Kang Zhaolong and asked coldly.

(ps: Very Pure is nearing completion in April. Because I need to work out the ending plot, the school flower's update pace will slow to one or two chapters a day, but it will not stop updating, and will return to normal once Very Pure is finished. The school flower's physical book goes on sale March 5; readers who like it may purchase a copy to keep as a memento.)

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