Yu Xiaogang trembled as he studied Tang Hao's appearance.
He said in disbelief:
"Y-Your Excellency Haotian?"
Tang Hao did not want to waste words.
He simply tossed over a token and a letter:
"You're Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang?"
"Don't reveal my identity."
"Take this and help me teach my son, Tang San."
With that, he glanced at Yu Xiaogang again and said gravely:
"As for my eldest, Tang Tian... let him be."
Tang Hao thought nothing serious could happen to Tang Tian and Tang San in a remote place like Nuoding City.
So he left a letter behind and, with a flicker of his figure, quietly departed.
Yu Xiaogang cradled the weighty token, wild with joy!
He felt as though the winding mountain path had suddenly opened onto a new vista today!
"Clear Sky Douluo entrusted him to me personally!"
"What a golden signboard to have!"
"With this, can Tang San still refuse me?"
"Hahahaha! Heaven is on my side!"
He was astonished that the brothers, Tang San and Tang Tian, were Tang Hao's sons, but he also could not help feeling incredibly lucky.
Didn't this mean he could build a connection with his idol, Clear Sky Douluo?
Whatever the reason!
He had to take Tang San as his disciple.
Early the next morning.
Sunlight streamed through the windows into Dorm Seven.
While that terrifying "grass-eating monster" beside them was still asleep.
Little Blue the Blue Silver Grass seized her chance.
She quietly slipped out of Tang Tian's body.
[Little Blue the Blue Silver Grass (secretly delighted)]
[Master, wake up! While that bad rabbit is still asleep, hurry and pet me!]
[This is my exclusive good-morning time! Nobody can steal it!]
She gently rubbed against Tang Tian's face.
Tang Tian woke helplessly.
Looking at the little grass that had spent the whole night in fear.
He gently soothed her leaves.
Little Blue instantly felt the delight of "sneaking a bite," and even her leaves unfurled.
[Hehe, I won! I touched Master before the rabbit did!]
[I was here first, after all. As long as Master still loves me, I'm not afraid!]
Meanwhile, Little Iron Hammer wore a reserved, disdainful look in the Sea of Consciousness.
[Little Iron Hammer (aloof)]
[Tch, only a weak plant would provide such a low-level wake-up service.]
[If it were me, I'd just wake that idiot Tang Tian with a hammer blow.]
By then, Tang San had long since gotten up.
He sat cross-legged on the bed.
Looking at Xiao Wu beside him, sleeping like a dead pig, with one leg even draped over his big brother's stomach.
He could not help snorting coldly.
"A lazy pig, just as I thought."
"Not a shred of vigilance, and such awful sleeping manners. How does she deserve to sleep beside my brother?"
Tang Tian had just withdrawn his Blue Silver Grass.
The lingering scent of Blue Silver Grass in the air.
Made the sleeping Xiao Wu twitch her nose.
She smacked her lips and mumbled in her sleep:
"Mmm... what a sweet-smelling big radish... don't run..."
She suddenly opened her eyes.
She found herself hugging Tang Tian's arm, nibbling and rubbing against it, with drool spilling from her mouth.
She looked up.
And saw the brothers, Tang Tian and Tang San, looking down at her.
Tang San in particular had disgust written all over his eyes.
Xiao Wu's face flushed bright red.
But she immediately displayed the mental fortitude of a hooligan rabbit.
She wiped away her drool without a trace of shame:
"What are you looking at? Never seen a beauty sleep before?"
"Keep staring and I'll charge you!"
Tang San was a little speechless. This was his first time meeting a girl like her!
Tang Tian was just about to speak when he keenly sensed movement.
Outside.
An uninvited guest had arrived.
Yu Xiaogang straightened his clothes.
He had deliberately changed into a clean robe and even shaved his beard.
Clutching Tang Hao's letter tightly, he brimmed with confidence.
He felt he was taking a disciple by imperial decree today, and nobody could stop him.
He had deliberately risen early to intercept them in the little grove outside Dorm Seven.
Seeing Tang San and Tang Tian come out.
Yu Xiaogang immediately blocked the three of them, head high, chest out, projecting his full presence:
"Tang San, your father came to see me last night."
He pulled the letter from inside his robe.
"He has already agreed to let me be your teacher. This is his handwritten letter."
Tang San frowned, deeply suspicious.
Dad actually came to the academy yesterday?
Why didn't he tell me and my brother?
After taking the letter.
He discovered that it really did bear his father's familiar handwriting, as firm and forceful as his hammering at the forge.
Tang San was utterly stunned.
Father came last night?
Then left without a word, without telling us beforehand, without even coming to see us?
He just dumped me on this useless uncle who's only rank 29?
Is he really my father?
Tang Tian, however, had long since grown used to the antics of this bargain-bin father of his.
He thought to himself:
This old man never thinks anything through.
You gave Yu Xiaogang a letter like this to pass along. Aren't you afraid he'll wave a chicken feather like an imperial command and ruin your son's education?
In the Sea of Consciousness, the two little ones were united against a common enemy too.
[Little Blue the Blue Silver Grass (disgusted)]
[It's this Yu Xiaogang again. So annoying!]
[And that dad called Tang Hao is so hateful too. He's never given Master a pleasant look!]
[Little Iron Hammer (irritable)]
[Hmph! You useless grass, you're right for once.]
[This Yu Xiaogang is like a fly you can't shoo away.]
[And that Tang Hao is an even bigger bastard!]
[I clearly have the potential for the Great Sumeru Hammer, but he gave up on me just because my congenital deficiencies made me degenerate into an iron hammer? It's all his fault for making people live on porridge every day!]
Only Xiao Wu watched the drama from the sidelines, impressed despite not understanding it.
She craned her neck:
"Who's this? He looks really annoying."
Facing Yu Xiaogang, who brimmed with confidence and thought victory was in his grasp.
Although Tang San respected his father.
He was even more of an absolute brother fanatic.
He ignored Yu Xiaogang's expectant gaze and instinctively turned toward Tang Tian instead:
"Brother, what do you think?"
Tang Tian looked at the letter and cut straight to the heart of the matter with a sneer:
"San, a letter is dead, but people are alive."
"Dad wants you to take a teacher because he hopes you'll become stronger."
"But..."
Tang Tian pointed at Yu Xiaogang:
"If his theories really are invincible, why is he still stuck at rank 29 at his age?"
"If his theories can't guide his practice and make him stronger, they're not worth learning."
Then Tang Tian delivered another stab, striking straight at the heart:
"Besides, it's not as though you don't know what Dad is like."
"He's good at smithing, but his judgment of people... heh."
"If he weren't muddleheaded, would he have dumped two kids as young as us here and run off himself?"
His brother's words were like a pouring of wisdom over his head.
Tang San instantly came to his senses.
That's right. Father may be powerful, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's right about this.
And my brother has never lied to me.
Tang San folded the letter and carefully tucked it inside his robe.
He bowed slightly to Yu Xiaogang, but his tone was distant and firm:
"Thank you for delivering my father's letter."
"But my brother is right. We have to walk our paths ourselves."
"I still want to follow my own path."
"I'm sorry, Grandmaster."
His attitude toward Yu Xiaogang was slightly better this time.
After all, he was the postman who had delivered the letter, but that was all.
With that, he took Tang Tian's hand, turned, and left.
Leaving Yu Xiaogang alone, disheveled in the wind.
Utterly dumbfounded.
Three times!
He had been rejected three times!
Even Clear Sky Douluo's golden signboard did not work?
Were these brothers poisonous or something?!
"How exactly did my idol, Clear Sky Douluo, raise his sons? How did he raise two little brats who won't take either oil or salt?!"
Looking at Yu Xiaogang's constipated face, Tang Tian secretly savored his satisfaction.
However, compared with infuriating Yu Xiaogang to death.
Tang Tian keenly picked out the most important piece of information in this incident.
My bargain-bin dad has left.
And he left in such a hurry that he didn't even show his face.
That means I can explore the cave behind the waterfall outside Holy Soul Village!
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