Surprise flashed through Tang Tianyou's eyes, and his brows furrowed slightly. Of course he knew why the Wang Family had come knocking.
The Tang Family had produced a clansman with a Heavenly Spirit Root. In less than six hundred years, the Tang Family had grown from a small clan with fewer than fifty cultivators into a great immortal cultivation clan with more than four thousand immortal cultivators. Core Formation Cultivators alone numbered as many as five. Because of this, the Tang Family placed special importance on clansmen with good aptitude. To that end, the Tang Family had widely intermarried with other Immortal Cultivation Families and absorbed Rogue Cultivators.
The Tang Family currently had one Dual Spirit Root cultivator, and Wang Xiu had a Wind Spirit Root. Naturally, the Tang Family hoped to bring Wang Xiu back to the Tang Family and have him change his surname to Tang.
In this matter, the Tang Family was in the wrong—so what? In the cultivation world, the strong were honored, and fists did the talking. If not for their wariness of the Wang Family's Core Formation Cultivators, the Tang Family would have gone even further.
Tang Tianyou had never imagined that the Wang Family actually had two cultivators at Core Formation Layer 9. Beyond his shock, he also felt somewhat fortunate. Thankfully, the Tang Family had not dealt a killing hand.
"Wang Family cultivators? Do you need help?"
Shangguan Qing asked casually, her tone flat. Even cultivators at Core Formation Layer 9 were no match for her.
Tang Tianyou hesitated briefly, then gave a simple account of the whole affair from beginning to end.
Behind the Wang Family stood Taiyi Immortal Sect, so Tang Tianyou had to make things clear.
Shangguan Qing's brows furrowed slightly as she asked, "The Azure Lotus Wang Family?