"You wish. I told you to leave so you could preserve your chastity while waiting for your hero, your great knight, but you're still a slave of the Tang family. Even after you find your hero, you'll still have to ask whether I approve," Tang Wen said.
"Master... I... I..." Gu Hanyan's lips trembled.
"Go on, hurry. I'm a man, after all. If you stay here looking like that, I'll do something utterly unconscionable," Tang Wen said.
"Thank you for granting my wish, Master. You are my benefactor." Gu Hanyan rose, knelt, and kowtowed three times, then took the cultivation method and Spirit Stones and left.
Malagebi! I really am Liu Xiahui, unmoved even with a woman in my lap...
"Li Quan, open a bottle of red wine and stir-fry a few dishes. Your lord wants a drink," Tang Wen shouted outside.
"All right, I'll have someone start cooking immediately," Li Quan answered from outside.
"Get Luo Yiwu, Dongfang Ming, Li Liao, and the others over here to drink with me," Tang Wen shouted again. Li Quan answered and went to make the arrangements.
Before long, food and wine were laid out in the main hall, and the men sat down together and began drinking.
Watching the main hall erupt into an uproar, Gu Hanyan murmured, "Why are your martial arts so poor? You're too weak. Why don't you work hard at cultivating..."
The next morning, Tang Wen summoned Li Liao and the other Sixth-Rank Realm experts.
"You are all my most trusted subordinates. I intend to devote substantial resources to developing you," Tang Wen said.
"Your kindness to us is as weighty as a mountain, Master. We'll remember it. But what cultivation method are you going to teach us?" Li Liao asked curiously.
"Have you heard of heaven-rank cultivation