Chapter 3091 — Dead Again

When Dongfang Cha revealed the strength of an early Heaven-rank expert, the Grand Elder was taken aback for a moment. This opponent was actually a Heaven-rank expert too? An early-stage Heaven-rank, no less? Could this man be Wei Zhao?

Could it be that Wei Zhao had abducted the two girls in the car with sinister designs? From what that phone call suggested, it seemed he had sold them to someone. That person would take the meat, and Wei Zhao wanted the broth.

The Grand Elder could hardly be blamed for her mistake. Cultivators were exceedingly rare in the mundane world. Not to mention Heaven-rank experts, one could not even find Mystic-rank experts, and even Yellow-rank experts were as scarce as unicorn horns. So when a cultivator of the same rank as Wei Zhao appeared in Donghai City, the Grand Elder naturally assumed the man before her was Wei Zhao.

"Die!" The Grand Elder had already harbored murderous intent, and now, taking the man before her for Wei Zhao, she was all the more determined to eradicate him completely.

The Grand Elder directly brought out her Heaven-rank divine weapon. A length of crimson silk flew out, gleaming with golden radiance.

"Don't kill me! I am Dongfang—" Dongfang Cha was truly terrified. His opponent was a top-tier late Heaven-rank expert; how could he possibly be a match? So Dongfang Cha began to invoke his backing. He believed that as long as he revealed his lineage, and since both of them belonged to the ancient circles, the other party would surely spare him. At worst, the Dongfang family would sacrifice some interests by way of apology.

But before he could finish speaking, the Grand Elder's crimson silk slammed into Dongfang Cha's chest with a thunderous boom. His chest caved in on the spot, and he died with his words unfinished and his eyes wide open in death.

"Dongfang? What Dongfang?" Only after killing Dongfang Cha did the Grand Elder realize something was off. Things were not as she had imagined—this man did not seem to be Wei Zhao.

"Heiyi, this man isn't Wei Zhao?" The Grand Elder frowned and turned to ask Elder Heiyi.

"No, he's not Wei Zhao!" Elder Heiyi shook his head.

"Search his body. See if there's any token or proof of identity..." The Grand Elder sensed something was amiss as well. Dongfang—could he be from the ancient Dongfang family?

Elder Heiyi nodded and swiftly searched Dongfang Cha's body, but found no useful clues. So he climbed into Dongfang Cha's car and began searching there.

Before long, Elder Heiyi got out of the car and handed the Grand Elder a listening device, a surveillance camera, a GPS tracker, and a mobile phone all together, saying, "Grand Elder, these are all the suspicious items found in the car."

Both the listening device and the surveillance camera transmitted signals via the 3G network, which made the Grand Elder's expression shift slightly. It seemed that the scene of her striking the fatal blow had already been transmitted out.

At that thought, the Grand Elder angrily crushed the listening device and the camera in her hand. As for the GPS, it no longer mattered—whether or not it was destroyed, Dongfang Cha's family would already know his location.

Opening Dongfang Cha's phone, the Grand Elder saw the contact list with names like "Dongfang Old Family Head," "Dongfang Young Family Head," "Young Master Buruo," and so on. She immediately understood that her guess had been correct. This man was indeed from the ancient Dongfang family.

"Throw this man's corpse into the trunk of the car. Don't let anyone passing by discover it!" the Grand Elder ordered Elder Heiyi. Although no one happened to be passing at the moment, she could not be certain no one would come by shortly.

"Understood!" Elder Heiyi nodded and swiftly lifted Dongfang Cha's corpse from the ground, tossing it straight into the trunk of the off-road vehicle.

After watching Elder Heiyi finish all this, the Grand Elder said, "It seems this man is from the Dongfang family. The scene of me killing him just now must have been transmitted back to his family as well! However, the fault does not lie with us. Heiyi, send word to the Dark Night Palace at once. Spread the news: people from the Dongfang family abducted our Dark Night Palace's Dark Phoenix bloodline inheritor with ill intent, and I killed him for it!"

"Yes, Grand Elder!" Elder Heiyi nodded. He too knew that killing a member of the Dongfang family was no small matter—after all, the Dongfang family was even more powerful than the Dark Night Palace. But if the Dark Night Palace had just cause and held the moral high ground, that would change everything.

The Dark Night Palace's Dark Phoenix bloodline inheritor was a matter of great importance to the entire ancient circles. If someone from the Dongfang family had seized and violated her, it would affect not only the interests of the Dark Night Palace but those of the entire ancient circles and the Five Luminaries Sect.

Once the news was out, the Grand Elder believed that no matter how powerful the Dongfang family was, they could only swallow their pride. After all, they could not afford to make enemies of the entire ancient circles.

Having received her orders, Elder Heiyi went to contact the Dark Night Palace. He understood the gravity of the situation. Although the Grand Elder had slain Dongfang Cha because he meant to harm the Dark Night Palace's inheritor, no one else knew that—outsiders were unaware. Therefore, the Dark Night Palace had to spread this news first. Once the other ancient sects learned of it, the Dark Night Palace would be safe.

After all, the Dark Night Palace's search for an inheritor benefited the entire ancient circles. Among the ancient sects, which top-tier late Heaven-rank expert did not wish to advance to the Heavenly Dao?

Yes, the Dongfang family was formidable and powerful, but you could not simply abduct and violate the Dark Night Palace's inheritor. If you truly did violate her, then killing you would not even be enough—wiping out your entire Dongfang family would not be excessive!

So as long as this news spread, no one would speak ill of the Dark Night Palace. Everyone would say that Dongfang Cha of the Dongfang family had brought it upon himself. This was precisely the goal the Grand Elder wished to achieve.

"Very well, Grand Elder. I expect it won't be long before the entire ancient circles knows that the Dark Night Palace's inheritor was nearly violated by Dongfang Cha of the Dongfang family, and that the Grand Elder killed Dongfang Cha to protect the inheritor." Elder Heiyi had not twisted the facts, because the car had been equipped with video and audio transmission systems. Although the Grand Elder had destroyed them afterward, the earlier audio and video could still have been sent to the Dongfang family.

If the situation proved true when the time came, so be it. But if it did not, would the Dongfang family let the matter rest? And if the news spread by the Dark Night Palace matched what they saw, then they could only accept the loss.

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