Chapter 2643: Cornered
An old man dressed in a fluttering white robe flew over. He had a smooth complexion. It wouldn’t have been surprising if he had charmed many women in his younger days.
“Brother Yu!” The fighting trio stopped upon seeing him. They dared not continue fighting, as they didn’t know the old man’s stance and were worried that he would stab them in the back.
The man who had just arrived was one of the Eight Dukes, Imperial Preceptor Yu Rui.
Bi Linglong should have been overjoyed by Yu Rui’s arrival, since considering Yu Yanluo and Zu An’s relationship, the latter should have been an ally. But what Yu Rui had just said revealed too much about his stance.
The other three looked at Yu Rui with confused eyes as they asked, “Brother Yu, what did you mean by that?”
“Exactly as you heard,” Yu Rui huffed. “The three of you are comrades, and yet you let her manipulate you into fighting among yourselves. You must have lived all these years in vain.”
Usually, they would have lost their tempers right away if anyone dared reprimand them like that, but at this moment, they were more concerned about what Yu Rui had just said. They exchanged looks as they wondered... Could it be...
Yu Rui was worried that these fools would continue fighting, so he clearly spelled it out for them. “King Guangling told me that you secretly pledged your allegiance to different kings, which means we are in the same faction. If we continue fighting amongst ourselves, we’ll only become a laughingstock.”
“What?!” All of them were astounded. Their first thought was to wonder whether Yu Rui had intentionally said those words to bait them into revealing themselves.
However, they had been the Eight Dukes for many years now, such that they could converse just by exchanging looks.
“I didn’t expect you, thick-brows, to defect to the rebels too.”
Zhuang He scoffed, “Old Du, your earlier pretense of righteousness nearly scared me.”