Douluo: What? I Became Tang San's Father?
Chapter 46

Tang Yuehua Goes to Clear Sky Sect

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Tang Xiao's expulsion from the Clear Sky Sect had caused a tremendous stir. It was the first time they had ever seen a sect leader stripped of his position by the elders.

The first person to go down in history for it.

When Tang Yuehua, far away in Heaven Dou City, learned of this, she was greatly unsettled. Both of her brothers had actually been driven out of the Clear Sky Sect, filling her with fury.

After a month of jolting travel by carriage, Tang Yuehua finally arrived at the Clear Sky Sect's secluded location.

The Clear Sky Sect now looked completely renewed. After Second Elder became sect leader, the first thing he did was neither consider the distribution of the Clear Sky Sect's cultivation resources nor reorganize the Four Affiliated Clans.

Instead, he announced that the Clear Sky Sect would reopen and return to the world. No one was happier about this than that flea, Ning Fengzhi.

With a wave of his hand, Second Elder directly took out ten million Gold Soul Coins and had the entire Clear Sky Sect renovated.

A thirty-meter-tall statue of ancestor Tang Chen? Done. A ten-meter-tall statue of the Clear Sky Hammer? Done. Artificial hills? Done. Pools? Done. Anything that could display the Clear Sky Sect's grandeur was added.

The greatest expense was Sect Leader Mountain, built at a cost of two million Gold Soul Coins.

One side of Sect Leader Mountain was a cliff, and sect leader Tang Qingqing had the previous generations of sect leaders carved into the rock wall. Naturally, Tang Xiao was absent. Only his name was carved there, followed by the words, "Sect Traitor."

As for Tang Qingqing himself, he was displayed high above, with several insignificant accomplishments engraved beside him to highlight his glorious image.

Tang Qingqing took one look and was very pleased. That very night, he approved another million Gold Soul Coins for the construction crew.

Looking at the completely renovated and imposing sect, Tang Qingqing finally nodded slightly, thoroughly satisfied. In his eyes, as the former Number One Sect under Heaven—

The sect's grandeur absolutely could not be lacking. The sect was not short on money, so how could it be like that coward Tang Xiao? He wanted to revitalize the Clear Sky Sect.

Because the journey had been rough and exhausting, Tang Yuehua had no choice but to find an inn and rest for the night. Early the next morning, she went to the Clear Sky Sect.

The Clear Sky Sect's gates now appeared majestic and domineering. Nine dragons coiled around the stone pillars on both sides, their heads guarding the plaque in the middle, upon which the three words "Clear Sky Sect" were written in a magnificent display.

Two ten-meter-tall statues of the Clear Sky Hammer stood on either side of the gates. They were made of rare metals as well, making them extravagantly luxurious.

Judging from the entrance alone, one might have thought the Clear Sky Sect was even wealthier than the Number One Sect under Heaven, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Yet at the sight before her, Tang Yuehua frowned. She deeply disliked how the Clear Sky Sect was wasting money on such unimportant things.

Most of the money Moonlight Pavilion earned each year in Heaven Dou City went to the Clear Sky Sect, amounting to ten million Gold Soul Coins annually. Seeing it wasted like this chilled her heart.

After presenting her token and entering the sect, she found that most of the Clear Sky Sect Disciples were idling about and enjoying themselves, immersed in the glory of the Number One Tool Martial Soul under Heaven.

"How did it come to this?"

Tang Yuehua's frown deepened. She could not understand how, in merely a few months, the Clear Sky Sect's atmosphere had become like this.

When her eldest brother Tang Xiao had been sect leader, he had strictly demanded that the disciples cultivate and strengthen the sect's overall power.

But after asking around, Tang Yuehua discovered that sect leader Tang Qingqing had spent huge amounts of Gold Soul Coins on construction, creating the appearance of a flourishing Clear Sky Sect.

He had even commissioned a statue of himself, claiming that the Clear Sky Sect now had two Douluo in one generation, showing the disciples that the Clear Sky Sect was the Number One Sect under Heaven.

"No, this can't continue."

If this went on, the Clear Sky Sect would be finished. Tang Qingqing and Third Elder now monopolized power between them. In order to hoard more resources for themselves—

They constantly brainwashed the ordinary sect disciples, making them worship the two of them and calling Tang Qingqing the one who would restore the sect to greatness.

Tang Yuehua wanted to see Tang Qingqing, but she was turned away and told to return in the afternoon.

At that moment, an unprecedented struggle was erupting in the Clear Sky Sect's main hall. Sect leader Tang Qingqing and the former Third Elder, now the Great Elder, were fighting each other for power.

Ever since Tang Xiao had been driven out of the Clear Sky Sect, the sect leader and Great Elder had split into two factions, constantly dividing up the Clear Sky Sect's resources while draining the Four Affiliated Clans dry.

"Sect Leader, Tang Yuehua is lingering outside the main hall and refuses to leave. She insists on seeing you."

They had only just finalized the new resource distribution policy when a Clear Sky Sect Disciple hurried in to report.

"She still hasn't left? Let her in."

To them, Tang Yuehua was still quite useful. After all, she had brought them tens of millions of Gold Soul Coins. She was a very fine cash machine.

Moreover, they could now freely wield their authority and pocket all those Gold Soul Coins to cultivate their own family's younger generation.

Their vision was not as far-reaching as Tang Xiao's. Tang Xiao was essentially living off the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's money, yet he did not provoke Spirit Hall, because he understood that they could not defeat Spirit Hall.

But the wise Clear Sky Sect elders did not see things that way. Because of ancestor Tang Chen's glorious battle record, they did not think much of Spirit Hall.

They were now faintly showing signs of opposing Spirit Hall, which displeased Qian Xunfeng. The consequences would be severe.

Thus, Qian Xunfeng had already sent people to gather justifications, ready at any time to reap the Clear Sky Sect.

Compared to slaughtering the Clear Sky Sect entirely, Qian Xunfeng preferred to take away all of the Clear Sky Sect's female disciples. After taking them to bed and taming them, they could become Spirit Hall's sharpest swords.

Not only could they reward the enthusiasm of Spirit Hall's soul masters, they would also gain a stable source of powerful tool martial souls, continuously producing Clear Sky Sect martial souls.

"Yuehua, why have you returned to the Clear Sky Sect instead of staying at Moonlight Pavilion? You still haven't handed over this month's Gold Soul Coins."

The new Civil War Phantom God, Tang Lie, spoke irritably. Because Tang Hao had beaten his father to death, he had no goodwill toward Tang Xiao or Tang Yuehua and was faintly targeting them.

"Elder Tang Lie, shouldn't your council of elders explain why you drove my eldest brother out of the Clear Sky Sect?"

Tang Yuehua ignored Tang Lie's question and looked instead at the six people seated loftily at the table.

The Clear Sky Sect now had only six elders left. Tang Qingqing had become sect leader, leaving five elders and the sect leader as the six spiritual pillars of the Clear Sky Sect.

"The sister of a traitor—what does a little girl like you know? Tang Xiao indulged Tang Hao in betraying the Clear Sky Sect and wasted an eighty-thousand-year inherited Soul Bone. For that alone, if not for the fact that he was sect leader, he should have been crippled."

Tang Lie glared and blew out his beard, clearly having no patience for Tang Yuehua. A useless person who could not cultivate should just obediently send money to the Clear Sky Sect. Why did she have so many questions?

"Fifth Elder, how can you say that? Back then, it was my eldest brother alone who broke through to become a Title Douluo and held up the entire Clear Sky Sect. Otherwise, would you have had the chance to develop in peace?"

Seeing Tang Lie insult her eldest brother so viciously, the emotions in Tang Yuehua's fragile heart gradually collapsed, and she shouted in distress.

In this life, Tang Hao had done too many foolish things, angered their father to death, and never cared for Tang Yuehua. Thus, Tang Yuehua had taken her eldest brother Tang Xiao as her role model.

They could curse Tang Hao, because she too detested that disloyal and unfilial brother. But they could not curse her eldest brother, because he was her only remaining family.

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