Yang Wudi: You're Not Tang Hao's Son! (Request Monthly Ticket)

Yang Wudi's expression immediately darkened at his words. His features were already rather fierce, and now he looked even more menacing.

"Are you threatening me!?"

Lu Duzhou gave a soft laugh, pulled over a chair beside him, and sat down before speaking slowly.

"No, I'm telling you to calm down."

"Clear Sky Sect wronged you, and Tang Hao let you down. None of that has anything to do with me."

"Today, I mainly came to discuss cooperation with you. I brought Xiao San along because my younger brother believes the previous generation was in the wrong and came to apologize."

"Whether you accept it or not, you still have to give me some face."

"Senior Yang, Clan Chief Yang, don't you think so?"

Yang Wudi was solitary and headstrong. Merely yielding and apologizing would never make him submit.

Only overwhelming him with formidable strength and forcing him to lower his head would work.

Only then could they continue their discussion.

Hearing Lu Duzhou emphasize the words "clan chief," Yang Wudi's expression shifted repeatedly. In the end, he sighed and sat back down in his chair.

"What do you want to cooperate with me on?"

Lu Duzhou first had Tang San and Tai Tan stand up before continuing.

"I want to study alchemy, and I need experts proficient in medicine refining to research it with me. Your Yang Family has refined medicine for generations, so I want you to join us."

"Besides finding you during this trip to the Star Luo Empire, I also came to invite Divine Craftsman Lou Gao to join us. He and Senior Tai Tan will forge the Alchemy Cauldrons required for alchemy."

"After that, Ye Yurou of the Nine Hearts Begonia Ye Family, Dugu Mianxia, my Third Brother, and you will form a team to jointly research Alchemy Recipes and alchemy."

"Once we succeed, we will jointly own the Alchemy Recipes, and the pills will be supplied first to the factions participating in this matter."

After a pause, Lu Duzhou looked at the clearly tempted Yang Wudi and took out the Aromatic Silk Beauty.

"Do you recognize this?"

Yang Wudi instantly sprang up from his chair again. In almost the blink of an eye, he appeared before the Immortal Herb and said in a trembling voice,

"This is... the Aromatic Silk Beauty!?"

Lu Duzhou nodded.

"That is correct."

"After you join us, I promise to lend you this Immortal-Grade treasure for thirty years."

"Furthermore, I have other Immortal-Grade treasures in my possession, and they will also be used as raw materials for refining pills."

"I don't think Senior Yang would be willing to miss such an opportunity."

After a moment of silence, Yang Wudi spoke.

"Fifty years. Lend it to me for fifty years, and I guarantee that I will offer all of my family's inherited medicine-refining experience to help you."

Lu Duzhou nodded.

"Fine."

Thirty years, fifty years, even a hundred years—it did not matter.

He simply did not want to give it directly to Yang Wudi, as that would make managing him in the future more difficult.

After a few years, once Yang Wudi truly became one of his own, he could perhaps consider gifting the Immortal Herb directly to him.

In thirty years, Lu Duzhou estimated that he would already have become a god.

Lu Duzhou directly handed the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Yang Wudi and said,

"Store this properly. When we leave, bring it with you and return to the Heaven Dou Empire with us."

"The alchemy research will take place in Pano City, so you need to come to the Heaven Dou Empire with us."

"Tomorrow, return to your family first. Arrange the clan's affairs and bring the necessary herbs and books."

Yang Wudi agreed to everything.

He was utterly obsessed with medicine refining.

Lu Duzhou had entrusted such a precious Immortal-Grade treasure directly to his care, which showed just how sincere he was.

If Tang San had not been present and Lu Duzhou had merely come to discuss this cooperation with him, he would have agreed long ago.

After Yang Wudi put away the Aromatic Silk Beauty, Lu Duzhou said seriously,

"Senior Yang, when that great battle broke out, Xiao San had just been born. He knew nothing, and he was even a victim himself."

"So, you can hate Tang Hao and despise Clear Sky Sect, but there is no need to make things difficult for a child."

"Xiao San is Dugu Mianxia's student. He has quite a solid foundation in poisons and herbology, and he will also be your future partner."

"I hope that, at the very least, you will not reject him. Just treat him as an ordinary child."

At that moment, Tang San stepped forward again and said,

"Senior, I'm sorry."

"What happened back then was all my dad's fault."

"My mother also died because of it."

"I am deeply saddened by that matter, but I cannot undo anything. I'm sorry!"

Yang Wudi's earlier anger had long since been washed away by the joy of obtaining the Immortal Grade Spirit Medicine. Hearing Lu Duzhou and Tang San's words, he could not help but sigh.

"Xiao Zhou is right. I should not have implicated a child like you in the grudges of the older generation. You are a victim too."

"You don't need to apologize. From now on, when you are with me, you are not Tang Hao's son. You are only Dugu Bo Your Excellency's student."

Upon hearing the words "you are not Tang Hao's son," Tai Tan, Tang Hao's most loyal servant, immediately showed displeasure.

But seeing that Tang San himself said nothing, he did not speak either.

Naturally, Tang San would not say anything.

At that moment, he hated Tang Hao even more.

Clearly, all of this was the fault of that unfilial father, yet his own biological big brother had to offer immense benefits, while he himself had to kneel and beg for forgiveness.

After being reborn into this world, Tang San could have lived a happy life.

Instead, from childhood, he had needed to care for his drunken father's daily needs. After entering school, he had needed to earn his own tuition. Now that he had entered society, he still had to pay off the debts of the father who had sired him but never raised him!

Just because he was Tang Hao's son, he had to endure so much hardship.

Had he not met his biological big brother, Lu Duzhou, Tang San felt that he might even have been hoodwinked by that so-called worthless Master as soon as he entered Notting City.

With that theory Master's mere Level Twenty-Nine Soul Power, he might have found Tang San a ten-year Guzhu for his first Soul Ring.

Then his entire life would have been utterly ruined.

And according to Tang Hao, he had been secretly following Tang San all along, yet he had not done a single thing.

Even now, Yu Xiaogang, that Master who had repeatedly humiliated him, was still alive and well.

And he still called himself the Clear Sky Douluo!?

No wonder he had fallen into becoming a drunkard.

How was someone who had lost all fighting spirit qualified to be Tang San's dad?

After everything that happened today, Tang San became even more disappointed in and disgusted by Tang Hao.

The next day, Lu Duzhou, Tai Tan, and Tang San came together to the fifth floor of the Blacksmith Association to visit Lou Gao.

Tai Tan was the vice president. With his token in hand, they encountered no obstacles along the way.

After the three went upstairs, Lou Gao's student, Si Long, went to report their arrival. Before long, the forging room's door opened.

"Tai Tan, you old bastard, are you still alive?"

A booming voice rang out, followed by a short, plump old man only about one meter sixty tall walking out.

His body was covered in muscles, and he was slovenly in appearance. He looked more like a laborer than a lofty President.

Tai Tan laughed heartily.

"If you're still alive and well, how could I possibly be dead?"

"Come, let me introduce you. This is Tang San, Dugu Bo Your Excellency's student, and this is Tang San's big brother, Lu Duzhou."

"Today, I'm the intermediary. They have some business to discuss with you."

Lou Gao looked at the two of them in surprise.

"What business? Are you going to tell me the secret of the Ten-Thousand-Year Third Ring?"