"I'll leave you with this: if the Cloud-Sea Sect is willing to submit to the Tang family, I'll provide you with a Heaven-Rank High Grade cultivation method. I have other business to attend to. Lan Yun'er, go pack your things. We're leaving," Tang Wen said.
"You have a Heaven-Rank High Grade cultivation method, my lord?" Ximen Taigao asked.
"Of course. All the important members among the Tang family's servants practice that method, myself included. Even our ordinary personal guards practice Middle-Grade Heavenly Rank methods," Luo Yiwu said.
"Submit? Then forget it," Ximen Taigao said.
"Heh, no matter. Sometimes, once you pass this village, you won't find another shop. Once the Tang family truly grows, you'll find it hard to join even if you want to. All right, enough said. Farewell." Tang Wen stood up.
"Father, your daughter is unfilial. I can no longer stay to care for you. I'm leaving..." Lan Yun'er looked pitiful, tears glimmering in her eyes as she lingered reluctantly...
"Go. You belong to the Tang family now. Put the Tang family first in everything." His face stiff, Ximen Taigao waved her away.
"Hahaha! Master, you really are something. You subdued the Cloud-Sea Sect with nothing but your silver tongue," Luo Yiwu laughed on the road.
"Master! Is your martial arts realm really only fourth-rank early stage?" Gu Hanyan asked.
"What, could I be third rank?" Tang Wen asked with a smile.
"Of course that's impossible. But I think you should be about the same as Senior Yan," Gu Hanyan said.
"Yes, Master. Li Liufeng is a fourth-rank mid-stage expert. If you haven't reached mid-stage, could you really hold your own against him, however formidable your water techniques are?" Lan Yun'er said.
"I'm probably close to mid-stage. In my fight with Elder Li, he underestimated me because