Listening Garden.
"Benefactor Xu, the Water-Element Great Medicine is in hand. Tomorrow, you can go to the Academy and challenge Wei Sheng-
"When the time comes, I will drum up support for you and ensure Wei Sheng has no choice but to accept-
"All you need to do is 'accidentally' kill him during the match!"
Monk Shanting said with a faint smile.
"Brother Shan Ting, I don't understand."
Xu Junyu frowned. "Zhou Jue wasn't willing to lend us the great medicine during the day. Why did he agree tonight?!"
Shan Ting glanced at him, inwardly disdainful. As expected of a crude martial brute, he could not even work out something so simple.
But he kept smiling and explained patiently, "It wasn't that he was unwilling to lend it. The timing was simply wrong."
"Hm?"
"He hosted the banquet during the day, and it was held at his estate. If he allowed you and Wei Sheng to fight privately, then whichever of you two
"Came to harm, he would find it difficult to escape blame as the host-"
"Was that all?"
Xu Junyu murmured.
How could he fail to see such simple reasoning?
What he wanted to ask was whether Zhou Jue's desire to use him against Wei Sheng reflected the Zhou Family's wishes or Zhou Jue's own!
"Benefactor Xu-hm? What was that sound?!"
Monk Shanting was about to offer a few more reassuring words when his fleshy earlobes suddenly twitched, and he whipped his head around!
Beneath the distant night sky, a streak of silver light tore toward them like a racing meteor!
A mocking smile rose unbidden to Shan Ting's lips. "The arrow is so loud, and you still expect to catch me by surprise?!"
But a second later.
His expression changed drastically. "How is that possible?!"
The arrow