"If the Yan Family could produce an expert like you, it must be quite famous, right?" Tang Wen asked.
"Your cultivation isn't weak, at least. How have you never even heard of the Floating Cloud City Yan Family?" Yan Beitian was taken aback and spoke with some displeasure.
"I haven't. The Chu Kingdom is so vast. How could I know everyone?" Tang Wen shook his head.
"But the Yan Family's mighty name rings through the Jianghu like thunder in everyone's ears. How many Yan Families are there in Great Chu?
"There's the Feng Family in the Desert North, the Luo Family on Penglai Island in the South Sea, the Zhan Family in the Northwest, the Floating Cloud City Yan Family, the Gongsun Family of World Fortress, and the Long Family in Capital City...
"These great families all have resounding reputations in Great Chu, hardly less famous than the Great Chu Kingdom's Ten Great Sects," Yan Beitian said proudly.
"Heh, in the future, the Tang Family of Su Mei Island will tower above them all," Tang Wen said with a smile.
"You?" Yan Beitian shot Tang Wen a contemptuous glance. "You're only at the fifth rank. You haven't even reached the fourth. Even if you did, so what? Look at me. I'm at the Fourth-Rank Mid-Stage, and what good has it done? I can't even return to the Yan Family."
"Does the Yan Family have first-rank experts?" Tang Wen asked.
"Of course! Otherwise, why would I have kept striving and training so bitterly?
"Back then, my father, Yan Chaozhong, had already reached the third rank, but when I was framed, even he couldn't save me.
"He spent everything he had to preserve my life, and I was driven out of the Yan Family by the Lineage.
"Ever since, I've been a