Chapter 1337 — Preparing to Strike

"It's absolutely reliable! I saw with my own eyes that Wei Zhao left the villa yesterday, and today, just to be safe, I sent Xiao Wangdao and Xiao Wangba over to Wei Zhao's school to make inquiries — and sure enough, he never showed up!" Xiao Ji said.

"Alright, let's confirm it once more. If Wei Zhao really isn't around, then we strike." Xiao Ben murmured after a moment's thought. He had no wish to miss this chance either — after all, he had been itching to move against Gu Pengzhan for a very long time.

"Actually, Second Brother, the two experts of the Pi family have fully recovered. With their strength it won't matter even if Wei Zhao is there — it's the perfect chance to have them cripple him!" Xiao Ji said. "With the strength of those two Pi family experts, so long as that great hero doesn't intervene, breaking Wei Zhao and Li Fu would be an absolute breeze!"

"That's true enough — but it all hinges on whether those two Pi family experts actually make a move. If they don't, everything else is for nothing," Xiao Ben said. "If they're willing to act, we won't even need to go talking to Gu Pengzhan at all. Have them break Wei Zhao and Li Fu, seize Gu Mengyao, then go straight to Gu Pengzhan for the money and see whether he pays up!"

"Second Brother, I think we should go and talk it over with them and put our intentions to them. After all, most of whatever we take in will belong to the Pi family — believe me, where there's profit to be had, they'll certainly act." Xiao Ji's thinking was the simpler of the two: with money to be made, why on earth wouldn't they move?

"Now that you mention it, Big Brother, there's real sense in what you say. Even if we take the Gu family, the lion's share of the profits will still go to the Pi family — if they don't lend a hand, who will?" Xiao Ben slapped his thigh, a sudden clarity dawning over him.

In weighing a question, Xiao Ben naturally tended always toward the complicated end. He had assumed the two Pi family experts would never be driven to serve the Xiao family — yet he had overlooked one crucial point: what the Xiao family was about to do was also a means of lining the Pi family's pockets.

So Xiao Ben and Xiao Ji went straight to the two Pi family experts and laid out their plan against the Gu family. Of course, Xiao Ben did not forget to mention that pulling this off was, in truth, also a way to make money for the Pi family — Gu Pengzhan's enterprises were vast, and even a casual slice of them would be more than enough.

"Naturally, no problem at all!" Upon hearing this, Pi Yangyang nodded without a moment's hesitation. He had been beaten into the hospital not long ago, and the sheer indignity of it still gnawed at him — had he not been a Profound Rank expert with a phenomenal power of recovery, and had he not carried the Pi family's special healing medicine, heaven knew how many months he would have lain in that hospital bed!

He happened to be simmering with rage and nowhere to vent it, and now along came the Gu family in the perfect role of a punching bag — naturally he was not about to let the chance slip.

"It'll serve as a spot of exercise — limbering up the old bones!" Mr. Pi likewise nodded in agreement.

"Excellent! Since neither expert objects, then the sooner the better — we strike this very evening." Xiao Ben went on. "When Gu Mengyao finishes school tonight, Li Fu — an early Yellow Rank external-style expert — will certainly come to collect them, and Wei Zhao may turn up as well, though not necessarily. When the time comes, gentlemen, show no mercy: strike Li Fu and Wei Zhao down, cripple them, better yet kill them outright. Then seize Gu Mengyao and the mission is complete. Leave everything after that to me."

"That's simple enough — no problem!" Pi Yangyang nodded with an arrogant tilt of his head. "What rank is this Wei Zhao, anyway? A mid Profound Rank internal-style expert?"

"Precisely — a mid Profound Rank internal-style expert," Xiao Ben confirmed with a nod, naturally unaware that Wei Zhao had by now reached the very peak of the mid Profound Rank.

"A mere mid Profound Rank pup — one slap from this old man and he's dead." Pi Yangyang nodded coolly. He was the classic bully who preyed on the weak and cowered before the strong.

"Tonight, the two of you go with Xiao Wangba and Xiao Wangdao to intercept Gu Mengyao's car. The two of them know which vehicle it is — let them point it out from a distance. My brother and I would rather not be seen at the scene," Xiao Ben said.

"Fine, no problem!" Pi Yangyang thumped his chest in assurance.

Xiao Wangdao and Xiao Wangba were entrusted with an important duty, and both were overjoyed within. To carry out a mission alongside two Profound Rank experts — that was an honor indeed. So the pair promptly got in touch with Wu Chengtian, with whom they were on particularly good terms.

"Brother Wu, it's Wangba!" Xiao Wangba dialed Wu Chengtian's number. "Got anything planned for tonight, Brother Wu?"

"Nothing — why do you ask?" Aside from studying, day in and day out, how to win over Sun Jingyan, Wu Chengtian truly had little else to occupy him. He had hardly set foot in the company he owned more than a handful of times; it existed purely as a status symbol.

"Here's the thing, Brother Wu — don't you hate that punk Wei Zhao? Today the two Pi family experts of our Xiao family are going to kidnap Gu Mengyao, and when the time comes there may well be a clash with Li Fu and Wei Zhao. My father has already told both Pi experts to kill Wei Zhao outright. So, Brother Wu, would you care to come watch?" Xiao Wangba asked.

"Kill Wei Zhao?" Wu Chengtian was taken aback. He hated Wei Zhao with a passion, true — but he had only ever wanted to make trouble for the fellow and drive him away from Sun Jingyan's side. As for actually killing him... that had never so much as crossed his mind. Arrogant and full of himself though he was, Wu Chengtian was no one of a venomous heart, so the moment he heard the Xiao family meant to do Wei Zhao in, he jumped.

But this was the Xiao family's affair, backed as it was by the hidden Pi family, and there was nothing Wu Chengtian could usefully say. Kill him, then — he only hoped that when Sun Jingyan eventually learned of it, she would not hold it against him. He was a mere Yellow Rank expert; how could he possibly contend with that peak late Profound Rank expert of the hidden Pi family? Even the Wu family was no match for them!

"That's right — Wei Zhao is a Profound Rank expert himself. This will be a bout between top experts, and an external-style expert taking on an internal-style one at that. Aren't you an external-style expert too, Brother Wu? Come observe, and you're bound to pick up a thing or two!" Xiao Wangba said.

Wu Chengtian had not wanted to go join the fun — he feared that once Sun Jingyan learned the truth, she would ignore him all the more. But hearing Xiao Wangba put it this way, he changed his mind in a flash. Yes, a bout between experts — with an external-style expert involved no less! Simply observing it would do him a world of good; a single subtle movement might teach him a great deal. And so Wu Chengtian began to itch again inside...

He could just go and take a look, then? After all, he wasn't the one killing Wei Zhao — that would be the doing of the hidden Pi family and the Xiao family, which had nothing to do with him, did it? At that thought, Wu Chengtian nodded. "Alright then, I'll come along and learn a thing or two..."

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