Chapter 239: Beat the Bird Before the Lion—the Reason for Destroying the Cool Breeze Gang (1/2)
Chapter 239: Beat the Bird Before the Lion—the Reason for Destroying the Cool Breeze Gang
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”I can't believe he might have the prescription of the elixir for the Tendon-Changing Pill! Looks like our Junior Leopard of Winnowing Basket has many secrets!” In a small room in the Immortal Palace, Elder Qing looked at the method for the elixir in his hand quietly with a strange look in his eyes. ”The Immortal Palace has been looking for this for all these years. Who would think that it could come so easily!”
”Everyone has their secrets. As a young man, he has great strength. That means that before this, he must have encountered many opportunities and adventures. We should not be too surprised!”
”I am not surprised. It's more than I expected!” Elder Qing put the prescription of the elixir on the table, raised his head and said, ”Old Wretch, you have been with him for a while. What do you think of him?”
”He is a rare talent with a pure mind,” said the thin, scholarly looking middle-aged man. He stood next to Elder Qing in a white washed robe. ”It's just that he seems to have many secrets. It makes him appear way too cautious.”
”There is no need to worry. As the power is getting stronger, his secrets will no longer be secrets. Like now. He is changing the prescription of the elixir of the Tendon-Changing Pill elixir, right?!”
”He has the method of the Tendon-Changing Pill elixir, and some other elixirs...!”
”Perhaps. But what does this have to do with us?” Elder Qing smiled, ”The Bone-Forging Pill doesn't hold much value for us. As for the Pulse Setting Pill, the Blood Exchanging Pill and the Marrow Cleansing Pill, they are too troublesome to make. Do you actually think that there are people still making these pills? We can only make Tendon-Changing Pills in batches.”
”It's true. But even if the Bone-Forging Pill is useless to us, it's not for those in martial arts world...!”
”It's none of our business!” Elder Qing interrupted Old Wretch, ”You have been in the Immortal Palace for hundreds of years. Since when you do you care about Jianghu?”
”I am not interested in what happens in Jianghu. I'm worried that once the information is leaked, it will have a negative effect on the young man!”
”As long as we don't talk about it, no one will leak the information. Junior Leopard is one of us, a member of the Immortal Palace, a place where people help each. We don't betray each other!” Elder Qing said, looking at Old Wretch. He slowly stressed each word. ”You don't need to worry about such a thing happening here!”
”Then I will relax!” Old Wretch looked very satisfied, ”Let the kid do what he wants!”
”Let him go. Even though he is one of the 28 stars of our Immortal Palace, he is still so young. He needs more experience. Jianghu is the best place for him to get experience!”
”Do you think we should lend a hand with the Cool Breeze Gang?” Old Wretch asked hesitantly, ”After all, there are four experts in the Gang. It will be difficult for him to handle on his own!”
”I have already sent Jin Yuquan to guard him!”
”OK, that should be fine. Yuquan has just reached Level Eight. The young man should be safe with him!”
”You're pretty worried about him!”
”Humph. Well, after all these years. Look what kind of people you have brought in. Except for him who has the patience to learn from me, the others were all like monkeys who couldn't even sit for a while.” Old Wretch laughed coldly. ”I am counting on him to pass on my knowledge to later generations. How could I not be worried about him!”
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Things in Jianghu spread quickly, especially rumors about famous people.
Although the Cool Breeze Gang was a killer organization and sounded mysterious, just as the man in grey robe said, for the last three hundred years, everyone in Jianghu knew about them. It had become famous, yet it was too ostentatious for a group of killers.
Every time the Cool Breeze Gang made a big move, observant people noticed. This time, they had sent several killers to kill Junior Leopard's relatives. The operation was extremely classified yet not classified enough to hide from these observant people. The most important thing was that they had failed. All of the killers were dead.
The twelve killers who had been sent to Yunzhou and Zhonghe City were all dead. They hadn't even seen the people from Zhou Family. They were not only killed; their corpses were nailed to the city wall along with their Cool Breeze Gang identity tokens.
As a result, it had provoked the entire city of Jianghu, and become a major event.
In just a few days, everyone in martial arts world knew that the Cool Breeze Gang was going after Zhou Bao. 12 members had been sent to hunt him yet all of them had been killed by mysterious experts and their bodies exposed to the public for three days.
At almost the same time, the Wu Family expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Cool Breeze Gang's move. They issued a warning that if another Cool Breeze Gang killer entered Yunzhou, they were the enemy of the Yunzhou Wu Sect. Although the Wu Sect was not one of the prestigious sects or schools or a millennium family, they would still give the strongest counterattack to this provocative behavior.
The Wu Family was serious about the Cool Breeze Gang.
In the martial arts world, where people had not yet figured out the antecedents and consequences of the matter, another piece of information stormed out. The location of the Cool Breeze Gang's hideaway that very few knew about was leaked by Zhou Bao. He claimed he would flatten the nest in 20 days.
The martial arts world was in an uproar!
So was Jianghu!
The troublesome Zhou Bao had become the focus of the world again.
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”Flatten the Cool Breeze Gang. That's some big talk!”
”Is Zhou Bao mad? The Cool Breeze Gang has stood for three hundred years without collapsing. How could he actually go up against them? Does he think that he is like the Three Grandmasters of Northern Yuan?”
”Not necessarily. If he didn't have the confidence, he certainly would not say this. He has identified the secret location of their hideaway. He is taking them out! ”
”Zhou Bao is not simple. Twelve top killers from the Cool Breeze Gang all missed and were even killed. This means that whoever killed them must be at least a Level Seven. The Wu Family doesn't have such strong power. It must be Tian Long Taoism! This guy has Tian Long Taoism standing behind him!”
”Right, right! Without the strength of Level Seven, there would be no possibility of killing twelve from the Cool Breeze Gang. Zhou Bao will have to spend a lot to find two experts who are above Level Seven to help him in such a short time. This time, the Cool Breeze Gang is in seriously big trouble!”
”He is still so young and reckless to have said such words, leaving no space for them to be reconciled and forming a dead situation. If he can't crush them, then his future is doomed. I mean, the two Level Seven experts can't be his bodyguards forever, right?”
”Yes, he is still a young man, doing things too impulsively!”
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In just a few days, there were all kinds of rumors everywhere in Jianghu. Meanwhile Zhou Bao, living in the center of the storm, completely disappeared from the public eye.
On an official road of Zhonghe Prefecture, Junior Leopard stood in a black robe, frowning. He was looking at the Golden Rooster who had suddenly appeared.
”Golden Rooster, I didn't invite you. Why are you here?! ”
”Elder Qing asked me to help you!” Jin Yuquan said, ”You have the courage fight the Cool Breeze Gang to death!”
”Humph, I did not trick them or mess with them, yet they sent people to kill me and my guys. If I don't destroy them completely, how can I be happy?! ” Junior Leopard sneered.
”Do you know how strong the Cool Breeze Gang is?!”
”I know a little. I heard that they have a Level Eight expert!”
”Why are you so sure of yourself?”
”If I didn't have the confidence, I wouldn't do it!” Junior Leopard said. ”What's more, I am not the only one the Cool Breeze Gang has offended over the years. That's why they kept their nest a mystery. I leaked the location to the public. It must have given them a huge headache, right?!”
”Maybe. But it won't be easy!” Golden Rooster shook his head. ”Their strength cannot be ignored. Now that people know where they are located, they will be more cautious. Not to mention that you are standing out to fight against them. They would be stupid to sit and await their deaths! ”
”Right, no one is a fool. I am the fool this time!”
”That's what I don't understand. The Cool Breeze Gang killers couldn't even touch you. You and the Cool Breeze Gang have many things which you could negotiate. Why do you have to do this?”