Tens of kilometers outside Heaven Dou City lay a small town. This was none other than the location of the Clear Sky School, one of the three Upper Sects. However, originally, this town had a population of five to six thousand. Now, because the people from the four affiliated sects were lured away by Zhao Ling, the town's population was less than four thousand.
Tang Hao appeared outside the Clear Sky School's mountain gate, wearing a bamboo hat. His eyes gradually sharpened. He remembered Tang San telling him that the Clear Sky School would originally suffer fierce suppression from the Spirit Hall because of him and the woman named Ah Yin. This would directly lead to heavy casualties for the entire Clear Sky School, eventually forcing them to relocate to a small village three hundred li outside Heaven Dou City. He had previously used the map Tang San gave him to check out that small village, but he found that there were no Clear Sky School members there at all. Instead, the former Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had relocated there.
Tang Hao couldn't understand. Why were the people of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan living in this small village? So he personally went in to meet Yu Yuanzhen and only then learned that it was the former Clear Sky School Master who suggested the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan move there. The Clear Sky School, not having suffered too severe a threat, therefore did not move to this remote little village. Tang Hao thought for a moment and understood the reason. In this life, what Tang San described hadn't happened: Spirit Hall hadn't launched a large-scale suppression of the Clear Sky School to hunt for the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring of the woman named Ah Yin. Since that was the case, the Clear Sky School indeed had no need to move to this desolate corner. As for why the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan moved to this godforsaken village, that was not something Tang Hao needed to consider.
Afterward, Tang Hao went to the village where he and his big brother had met Ah Xiu and investigated thoroughly. The villagers almost all claimed not to know Ah Xiu, even the elderly said they didn't know a woman named Ah Xiu. This made Tang Hao feel incredulous. Ah Xiu clearly said she was born and grew up in that village. Why did almost no one in this village know her?
Unwilling to give up, Tang Hao brought an old man to Ah Xiu's former "hometown" and said to the elder, "This place is where my wife said she was born and grew up. Think carefully, do you know the girl who grew up here? She was quite beautiful, very elegant, and gentle..."
The old man glanced at Tang Hao as if he were an idiot, then replied, "This house has been uninhabited for a long time. Over a decade ago, a woman did live here for a while, but she paid to rent this house from the village. How could this house be where that woman was born and grew up? Although I'm old, I'm not senile yet."
Tang Hao was immediately stunned. If this village wasn't where Ah Xiu was born and grew up, then why did she lie to him? Why did she 'incidentally' encounter his two brothers near this village? Could it be that she really had some ulterior motive? Tang Hao pondered, but he just couldn't figure out why Ah Xiu would do that, or what benefit it would bring her.
Afterward, Tang Hao left the village and spent two days at the place where Ah Xiu was buried, understanding many things. Finally, he returned to the Clear Sky School. This time, he wanted to personally see his big brother. He felt that perhaps meeting his big brother and telling him these things might resolve their brotherly conflict. Incidentally, he wanted to tell his big brother and the elders some things he considered very important.
So Tang Hao slowly walked to the Clear Sky School's mountain gate. The external personnel guarding the gate immediately tried to stop him. "This is the Clear Sky School. Outsiders are not allowed without our clan leader's special invitation."
Tang Hao slowly removed the bamboo hat from his head, revealing a face somewhat similar to Tang Xiao's. Immediately, those personnel recognized Tang Hao's identity. However, they knew that Tang Hao had fled the Clear Sky School nearly ten years ago. Now that he had suddenly returned, their expressions immediately became serious. "Second Young Master, you've already defected from the Clear Sky School. Why are you coming back?"
"I have my reasons for returning. I need to find my big brother. Please help me pass a message to Second Brother. It's best if my father doesn't know." Tang Hao said to the personnel with a serious expression. He knew he still held some face in the Clear Sky School, and these collateral or external personnel would definitely listen to him.
"Your father... even if the Old School Master knows, you don't need to be afraid..." One of the collateral personnel's voices choked up, making Tang Hao feel uneasy. "You, what do you mean? What happened to my father?"
"What else could happen? After you defected from the Clear Sky School, the Old School Master was so angry that he became paralyzed. Then, not long after seeing the Young Lady, he simply passed away. You angered him to death..." The collateral personnel's expression became even more sorrowful now, almost immediately scoffing at Tang Hao.
"How, how is that possible? My, my father was angered to death???" Tang Hao felt this was absurd. His father was a dignified Titled Douluo. How could he possibly be angered to death by him? No matter how he heard it, it sounded unbelievable, almost impossible.
A family member affiliated with the Clear Sky School, seeing Tang Hao's disbelief, immediately added, "Nothing's impossible, Second Young Master. The Old School Master was indeed angered to death long ago; this is no secret. Where have you been all these years? Why don't you even know about the Old School Master's passing?"
Tang Hao suddenly felt lightheaded and dizzy. In the events his son told him, his father was indeed angered to death by him. But that was also because the Clear Sky School suffered a crazy suppression from Spirit Hall, leading to heavy losses for the sect. Coupled with some of his own reasons, his father was angered to death. But in this life, the Clear Sky School clearly hadn't suffered such heavy losses. Why would his father be angered to death just because he ran away from the Clear Sky School with Xi'er?
Just as Tang Hao felt he was about to faint, one of the collateral personnel had already turned and walked towards the mountain gate. However, this collateral personnel was not trying to pass a message to Tang Xiao, but rather to pass this message to the other elders. These elders had long been terribly dissatisfied with Tang Hao. To fight with his big brother over a woman, Tang Hao, that scoundrel, actually fled the Clear Sky School and even angered the Old School Master to death. These elders wished they could capture Tang Hao and severely punish him several times. Now that Tang Hao had returned to the Clear Sky School himself, it was a heaven-sent opportunity. This collateral personnel believed that if he told this matter to all the elders, after the elders captured Tang Hao and severely punished him, they would definitely be in a good mood. Perhaps they would even increase his monthly stipend. It was even possible that his status within the sect would rise several levels.