Exterminate the Clan, Issue a Bounty

After crossing the main hall, he found Ye Xilan, whom he had been looking for, busy preparing food at a table in the side hall.

Four Red Blood-Nourishing Porridge, Amomum Kui Golden Fish Soup, Sichuan Peppercorn Fire-Juvenile Bone Chicken...

They were all top-tier health foods. In an ordinary tavern outside, each dish would start at a hundred gold coins.

For ordinary people, it would take ten years of saving to possibly afford such delicacies.

Even Tang Hao found his mouth watering at the sight. Across both his lifetimes, he had never eaten food this good.

What he had eaten in his memories did not count.

That was like dreaming of a Manchu-Han Imperial Feast—without the taste of personally experiencing it.

It was just that...

His stomach would no longer growl.

"Your Excellency."

In the side hall, Ye Xilan saw Tang Hao arrive and happily gave him a bow before asking,

"Your Excellency, would you like to eat first?"

Eat?

Would this mean fish and meat passed through his intestines while Buddha remained in his heart?

Tang Hao's cheek twitched.

Ye Xilan blinked her beautiful eyes and softly said, "Your Excellency, rest assured. I am a physician, and these are all carefully prepared foods that are easy to digest and absorb."

"Furthermore, I have a method that will allow Your Excellency to enjoy fine food without issue while recuperating from your injuries."

"What method?" Tang Hao asked in a low voice, glancing once more at the delicacies on the table.

Ye Xilan smiled gently and took a silk-written manual from her robes.

Heavenly Human Qi Transformation Method.

Tang Hao's breathing halted when he saw the name written on it. But knowing Ye Xilan would not be foolish in such a matter, he continued reading.

"...The path of qi cultivation is nothing more than visualization and guidance. Within the boundless void, heaven and earth separated clarity from turbidity and gave birth to man. In cultivating qi, one need only cultivate the ethereal spirit and cleanse away murky impurities..."

The Sunflower Manual!

But not entirely.

Tang Hao frowned at first, then gradually fell into thought as he read on.

This method indeed originated from the Sunflower Manual, yet it was merely a technique for circulating qi and aiding the digestion of food.

The Sunflower Manual contained methods for consuming pills and refining medicine, mainly to keep the human body clear both within and without, preserving innate purity.

Ye Xilan had extracted that pill-consuming and medicine-refining technique alone.

Then, through her own wisdom, she transformed it into the Heavenly Human Qi Transformation Method, a technique purely meant to assist with eating and digestion.

She had removed the Sunflower Manual's inherent flaw of excessive yang energy.

A genius.

Tang Hao could not help looking again at Ye Xilan in her pale blue gown.

Although this technique had lost the Sunflower Manual's greatest characteristic after its removal, leaving it capable only of aiding digestion and nutrient absorption,

It was exactly what he needed right now.

If this was not genius, then what was?

"Heavenly gifted talent." Tang Hao openly praised Ye Xilan's intelligence.

The corners of Ye Xilan's lips curved slightly as she softly asked, "Your Excellency, shall I teach you?"

"Mm."

His mouth was already watering at the thought of the delicacies he would soon enjoy, so he nodded without hesitation.

If delicacies could be enjoyed, then naturally he should enjoy more of them.

Moreover, with the foundation of the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique, learning this method would not be difficult for him.

Half an hour later, Tang Hao sat before a freshly prepared table of delicacies, contentedly eating the food.

The warmth of the porridge, the tender smoothness of the chicken, and the soft, delicious Amomum Kui Golden Fish Soup as it entered his stomach...

He even felt that none of the food he had eaten before could be called enjoyment. Only now was he truly experiencing the pleasure of fine cuisine.

With money and strength, the life one could enjoy truly was different.

Tang Hao sighed inwardly. By the time he finished eating, the sun outside had risen above the treetops.

Ye Xilan sat upright beside Tang Hao. Once she saw that he was satisfied, she softly brought up an important matter.

With an apologetic expression, she said to Tang Hao,

"Your Excellency, we have found the person responsible for Spirit Hall's attack yesterday. It was Qing Guan Quan, one of the Vice Pavilion Masters of my Begonia Pavilion."

"He has already been imprisoned and awaits Your Excellency's judgment."

"However, because he oversaw the pavilion's primary personnel affairs, by the time we found him, his family and the grandson he valued most had already been relocated."

"Please forgive me, Your Excellency."

Vice Pavilion Master Qing Guan Quan?

That name did not sound like the name of a good man.

Tang Hao laughed inwardly, then coldness filled his eyes. "Kill him."

The pain of last night remained vivid in his mind, and the wound in his abdomen reminded him of exactly what he had endured.

Thus, Tang Hao spoke with a cold expression, ordering the execution without hesitation.

As for his family...

"Does anyone know where he sent them?" Tang Hao asked with his eyes closed.

"Reporting to Your Excellency, it should be the Balak Kingdom, near Spirit Hall."

"Ten days ago, Qing Guan Quan secretly sold information about Your Excellency to Spirit Hall while also covertly relocating his family."

"So barring any unforeseen circumstances, his family should now be in the Balak Kingdom, on their way to Spirit Hall."

The Balak Kingdom, near Spirit Hall.

In other words, even if he set out now and pursued them through the night, they might already have escaped into Spirit Hall territory.

And if he continued the pursuit then, he would not merely be facing Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, but all of Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo.

As well as that old monster at rank ninety-nine, Qian Daoliu.

So even if he wanted to hunt them down now, it was already too late.

But,

Remembering last night's fear of death and the agony of despair, Tang Hao smiled, his smile filled with coldness.

"Xilan." Tang Hao opened his eyes, his voice low.

"Send word to every major faction for me."

"Tell them that I, Clear Sky Douluo, intend to exterminate Qing Guan Quan's entire clan!"

"And issue a bounty to everyone. Whoever exterminates Qing Guan Quan's entire clan will receive a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone from me."

"Even if," Tang Hao said coldly, "it is someone from Spirit Hall who kills them, I do not mind."

A bounty. Clan extermination.

Those were words his former self would never have uttered.

But now,

Everything had changed.

Ye Xilan rose to her feet and gave Tang Hao a deep bow, responding respectfully, "Yes, Your Excellency."

A Douluo could not be insulted.

Neither she nor a mere physician family had the right to insult a Titled Douluo.

This was a consensus that every Titled Douluo had carved out through strength and slaughter.

Only another Titled Douluo could insult a Titled Douluo.

Therefore, Ye Xilan knew that once Clear Sky Your Excellency issued this command, their fate was already sealed.

Unless another Titled Douluo was willing to step forward and protect them.

But Clear Sky Douluo had also placed a bounty on them.

A Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone bounty that even Titled Douluo would be tempted by.

Under such immense profit, the Clear Heart Crown Martial Soul would surely vanish into the river of history, just like its predecessors in the past.

In the side hall, Tang Hao let out a long breath of stale air after issuing the bounty.

After waiting for a while at his side, Ye Xilan brought up the next matter with Tang Hao.

"There is one more matter, Your Excellency."