The Breaking Clan Joins Nine Stars Hall

The Breaking Clan was located in a small city within the Star Luo Empire. The medicines they produced were quite popular among soul masters. Ordinary soul masters might not know where the Breaking Clan headquarters was, but Dugu Bo, who had been famous for decades, certainly did.

This time, Xiao Yu did not beat around the bush. He directly presented the Breaking Clan with a calling card in Dugu Bo's name. Dugu Bo was neither part of the Clear Sky Sect nor affiliated with Spirit Hall, and there was no enmity between him and the Breaking Clan. When a Titled Douluo sent a calling card, the Breaking Clan would naturally come to meet him obediently.

Sure enough, on the morning of the second day after Xiao Yu presented the calling card, someone from the Breaking Clan arrived. It was their clan leader, Yang Wudi.

"Yang Wudi greets Titled Douluo Dugu Bo. May I ask why Titled Douluo Dugu Bo specifically sent a calling card to my Breaking Clan?"

The lean, tall Yang Wudi spoke to Dugu Bo neither arrogantly nor humbly. For a Soul Douluo to speak to a Titled Douluo in such a manner should have been extremely disrespectful, but Yang Wudi was proud by nature, and the Soul Breaking Spear martial soul emphasized momentum above all else. He would never allow himself to lower his head before anyone. Besides, if they truly fought, he was not afraid of Dugu Bo. Dugu Bo's main ability was poison, while Yang Wudi had spent so many years refining medicines that detoxifying and suppressing poison was practically effortless for him.

Seeing Yang Wudi's rudeness, Dugu Bo's expression darkened. He could not be bothered with pleasantries either. After all, he was only acting as a guide on this trip.

He immediately waved his hand. "The one looking for you isn't me, but my little brother Xiao Yu. Let him discuss whatever it is with you!"

"Junior greets Senior Yang Wudi!"

Xiao Yu stepped forward two paces and clasped his hands in salute toward Yang Wudi.

"What do you want with me?"

Yang Wudi spoke impatiently. With his strength as a Soul Douluo, he could naturally see through Xiao Yu's cultivation. He was merely a level-forty soul master. If not for Dugu Bo's sake, Yang Wudi would have turned around and left long ago.

Xiao Yu smiled faintly and stated his purpose directly. "This junior has come to invite Senior Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan to join my sect!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Yang Wudi froze for a moment before bursting into loud laughter.

Yang Wudi laughed for a long while, only stopping when he was slightly out of breath. He then looked Xiao Yu up and down again. "Kid, it's still broad daylight. What kind of daydream are you having? My Breaking Clan has stood on its own since leaving the Clear Sky Sect all those years ago. Who knows how many sects and powers have wanted to recruit us? Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Star Luo Empire's imperial family tried to win us over, yet I refused them all. What makes you think you—"

Yang Wudi suddenly stopped speaking. His eyes widened, and he could not help raising a hand to rub them several times. In Xiao Yu's hand, he saw a large flower with its stem still attached—the Immortal Herb Aromatic Silk Beauty, something he had dreamed of countless times.

"Th-this is?"

Even Yang Wudi's voice began to tremble.

"Aromatic Silk Beauty!"

The corners of Xiao Yu's lips lifted into a faint, satisfied smile. "Senior Yang Wudi, are you satisfied with this gift from this junior?"

Yang Wudi covered his little heart, which was thumping wildly in his chest, with trembling hands. "Y-you're giving it to me?"

"Of course!"

Xiao Yu nodded. "A treasured sword belongs in the hands of a hero. In my hands, this Aromatic Silk Beauty is merely something that wards off poison. Only in the hands of an alchemy master like Senior Yang Wudi can it truly display its value."

"Oh, right!"

As he spoke, Xiao Yu took out an illustrated booklet he had copied before setting off from his Soul Tool. "Senior Yang should also be interested in this."

"Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum!"

"Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew!"

"Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone!"

Yang Wudi took the booklet and flipped it open, immediately crying out in shock again and again. The way he looked at Xiao Yu became fervent and greedy. "Th-these Immortal Herbs are all...?"

"That's right."

Xiao Yu nodded. "These Immortal Herbs all grow in a treasured place. That place originally belonged to Senior Dugu Bo, but Senior Dugu Bo has now transferred it to this junior. In other words, that treasured place and all the Immortal Herbs within it now belong to this junior's sect, Nine Stars Hall. Senior Yang Wudi, would you like to try refining pills from peerless Immortal Herbs?"

Xiao Yu's words were simply too tempting for Yang Wudi. His expression changed repeatedly, as though he were engaged in a fierce inner struggle.

Unlike in the original story, when Tang San recruited Yang Wudi, his three close friends—Titan, Niu Gao, and Bai He—had already joined the Tang Sect. Yang Wudi had to take their old friendship into consideration. Tang San had also conquered him through strength, and with the Immortal Herb Aromatic Silk Beauty that he had long dreamed of, the Breaking Clan joining the Tang Sect had been only natural.

But Nine Stars Hall had no prior connection with Yang Wudi whatsoever. Xiao Yu was currently only level forty and had yet to obtain his fourth soul ring, so he naturally did not dare spar with a Soul Douluo like Yang Wudi. Thus, Yang Wudi had far more concerns.

In the end, his obsession with Immortal Herbs overcame everything else. Yang Wudi took a deep breath and gritted his teeth. "Fine, I can agree to join your sect. But I also have conditions. Since you possess a treasured place capable of nurturing such a great number of top-grade Immortal Herbs, you must be recruiting the Breaking Clan because you value our clan's arts of medicine-making and pill refinement. I can refine pills for the sect. Whether the profits from selling them are used as the sect sees fit, or the pills are given to the sect's disciples, that can all be arranged by the sect. However, the methods of pill refinement and medicine-making are secret arts passed down within my clan and must never be leaked. You are not allowed to force us to hand them over. Otherwise, even if my Breaking Clan fights until only one person remains, you will never get what you want!"

"Of course. Please rest assured, Senior Yang Wudi. No one from Nine Stars Hall would ever engage in robbery or coercion."

Xiao Yu nodded. He remembered that the secret arts of medicine-making were indeed the Breaking Clan's greatest secret. The Clear Sky Sect had once tried to obtain those secret arts from the Breaking Clan, only to be refused. At the time, the Clear Sky Sect's sect master—Tang Xiao and Tang Hao's father, Tang God King's bargain-bin grandfather—had fallen out badly with the Breaking Clan. Thus, among the four attribute clans, the Breaking Clan's relationship with the Clear Sky Sect was the most distant.

After a brief pause, Xiao Yu looked at Yang Wudi and spoke solemnly. "In addition, I promise Senior Yang this: if the sect ever faces an enemy, I will only die before you. I will never run before you!"

Yang Wudi's lean body trembled. Having been abandoned by the Clear Sky Sect and then attacked by Spirit Hall, resulting in the tragic deaths of hundreds of clan members, had always been the thorn in his heart. At this moment, looking at the impassioned Xiao Yu before him, his eyes suddenly grew moist. He nodded heavily at Xiao Yu.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully recruiting the Breaking Clan. The task of recruiting the four great clans is one-quarter complete. Reward: one Black Grade Summoning Card and 500 Diamonds."