“It wasn’t our fault that he wasinjured!” said Ning Xunzong, displeased. “It was the Cheng’s who injured him.He should be mad at them. Let me put it this way, if we don’t inform him of thethree geezers’ plan, wouldn’t he be more upset at once he finds out?”
“We can just pretend that we don’t knowabout it either. You want to report to him you can go by yourself!” replied shi xiong Zhou impatiently.
Ning Xunzong, who was just about to saysomething else, kept his mouth shut. He had always listened to shi xiong Zhou’s words and never thoughtabout disagreeing with him.
Shixiong Gu could tell that Ning Xunzonghadn’t quite figured it out yet so he explained to him explicitly, “Shi di Ning, you are aware that oura.s.sociate dean will be rushing over to Willow soon, right?”
“Yeah, I have heard about that,” noddedNing Xunzong, and still baffled, “What does that have to do with anything?”
“Nonsense, it has everything to do witheverything!” Even shi xiong Gu almostlost his temper, grudgingly he explained, “Don’t you know how much the Cheng’shate School of Divine Condor. Not even instructor Mu was able to accomplishmentanything. What do you think he could do if you report that to him now? Youthink he could forbid the three elders from going to Willow?
“And if instructor Mu don’t have thepower to stop the three from going. Then our informing him of it would just belike adding fuel to fire. And he’d displace his anger to us. Now we are justasking for it. Do you get it now?”
His simple yet straightforward wordsfinally let Ning Xunzong knew to not be an idiot about this. But he wasn’tready to give up just yet, “What happens if they were really able to get insideWillow tomorrow?”
“What can we do? It’s not like we can stop them. Not to mentioned thatthose from Lai Yue Inn had already had dealings with the Cheng’s and purchasedtheir mystical animals. What’s the point of being anxious now?”
Naturally they have all heard of theheated discussion out on the streets. The more Ning Xunzong thought about, themore he couldn’t just let it go to rest. Gritted his teeth, he said, “Shi xiong Zhou, shi xiong Gu, how about this? Why don’t we follow behind the threegeezers tomorrow and see if they are able to get into Willow? What do youthink?”
“Follow them secretly?”
“And you don’t think they’d notice withtheir level of cultivation?”
Both of them rolled their eyes at NingXunzong’s suggestion.
“We know the way to go there too. We canfollow from afar. I am not suggesting for us to go with them. We just want tosee whether they will be able to get inside of Willow!”
Ning Xunzong’s eyes sparked and he leton an odd smile and said, “And if they were able to get through, we cansecretly follow them in also. We an see if any of the Willow villagers can beof use to us. And if they can….”
His words have finally piqued theinterest of the other two. They exchanged the look and saw the excitement ineach others’ eyes. Shi xiong Zhoucouldn’t help but nodded, “Yeah, all we need to do is to follow from a distanceand not alert them. As for going inside Willow…”
“Shixiong Zhou, the Willow villagers are probably quite close with the Cheng’s.Nothing wrong for us to get close to them!” smiled shi xiong Gu brightly.
“You are exactly right!” smiled shi xiong Zhou, his eyes sparkling, “Isay we go prepared. Shi di Ning, youtoo. Remember to bring plenty of cash!”
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