Tang Xiaohao stared at the Drunken Elder, shocked beyond words.
"You... you're the Drunken Elder!? The senior Drunken Elder who swept the world undefeated with the Drunken Intent Divine Fist and inherited the legacy of the Great and Small Drunken Heroes!?"
"Heh. You know me?"
Tang Xiaohao nodded. "Senior, I... I've never offended you. Why have you repeatedly made things difficult for a junior like me?"
"Made things difficult for you? Besides beating you up once, breaking every bone in your body, injuring your meridians, impacting your dantian, and destroying your sea of qi, what else have I done to make things difficult for you?"
Tang Xiaohao thought, What else do you want to do? Grind my bones and scatter my ashes?
Tang Xiaohao knew he absolutely could not afford to offend an important figure like this. "Senior, this junior stumbled here by accident. Could you... let me leave?"
The Drunken Elder said, "I beat you because I cared about you! If I hadn't beaten you, would your muscles and bones have been tempered so well?"
"Then... you could've just explained it clearly back then. Why did you pretend to be a cop?"
"Explained clearly? Publicly revealed my identity and stood on your Tang Sect's side?"
Lu Chengwen said faintly from the side, "It would've looked like Senior came over to curry favor with your Tang Sect just because you'd been promoted to one of the Five Great Families."
Tang Xiaohao said, "This... this junior failed to see the truth. Then you could've secretly told me, at least, so our family could prepare. I almost couldn't be saved!"
The Drunken Elder said, "Told you? The grand Xishu Tang Sect, overlord of the southwest, a sect that has climbed to the peak of power in the martial world—if they couldn't even