"This is absolutely true; I have no interest in playing games with you all. I understand the importance of Grandfather to the Clear Sky Sect, so how could I joke about this?" Tang Hao faced the elders' doubts, huffing lightly in dissatisfaction and replying coldly.
"Where is your grandfather now? Tell us quickly!" The Second Elder asked again, his expression stern.
"Grandfather is currently in the City of Slaughter, and his identity there is the Slaughter King! As long as we go to the City of Slaughter, we'll definitely find him." Tang Hao no longer concealed it, announcing to the elders that Tang Chen was the Slaughter King.
For the Clear Sky Sect, the world's number one sect, the existence of the City of Slaughter was no secret. Furthermore, Tang Hao had once braved the City of Slaughter and successfully emerged from it. Therefore, Tang Hao could be said to be the most familiar person with the City of Slaughter within the Clear Sky Sect. When he now revealed the news that the Slaughter King was Tang Chen, the elders found it highly credible.
"Tang Hao, since you suspect that the Slaughter King of the City of Slaughter is your grandfather, why don't you just go and acknowledge him, then persuade him to return to the sect? No matter how good the City of Slaughter is, can it be as comfortable as staying in the family? If you can persuade your grandfather to return to the family, we can consider letting you rejoin." The Second Elder said to Tang Hao with a solemn expression.
"It's not that I don't want to, but rather that Grandfather encountered a mishap during his inheritance of the Asura Godhood. He was ambushed by an evil deity and even parasitized by a spirit beast. The current Grandfather doesn't recognize me at all, and with his current strength, I simply can't handle him. In such a state, I can't purify the evil thoughts of that evil deity, nor can I help Grandfather regain his sanity." Tang Hao sighed heavily, a helpless expression on his face, which made the other elders look at each other.
They never thought that Tang Chen, the dignified Clear Sky Douluo, invincible on land, would be ambushed by an evil deity and even parasitized. Wasn't this too humiliating? Otherwise, with Grandfather's extraordinary talent, their Clear Sky Sect wouldn't have taken long to produce a god. A god, that was a god! Something many Titled Douluo yearned for. But who would have thought that Tang Chen would actually be personally ambushed by a deity? Was this their Clear Sky Sect's fate?
"In that case, what's the meaning of you bringing back this news? Do you want to gather the strength of our entire family to rescue the old sect master? Even if our entire family goes, we might not be able to save him. After all, with the old sect master's strength, even if all of us went together, we might not be able to defeat him, unless…" The Third Elder's brows furrowed tightly at this point, and he hesitated to speak further.
"Unless what? Third Elder, have you thought of a way?" Tang Xiao's eyes lit up. Could it be that the Third Elder had some special method to defeat Grandfather, purify the evil deity's malevolence, and bring Grandfather back?
"Unless we can invite powerful external assistance, such as the great royal protector of the Pope's Hall, or perhaps the Demon Suppressing Douluo, who has become renowned on the Douluo Continent in recent decades."
The Third Elder's words made Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and the other elders all look disappointed. What kind of joke was this? Asking the Pope's Hall's great royal protector or that Demon Suppressing Douluo to be external assistance? Were they out of their minds? These two were both considered part of the Pope's Hall. Given the current tense relationship between the Pope's Hall and the Clear Sky Sect, if they were asked to be external assistance and go to the City of Slaughter together, these two might take the opportunity to strike and kill them all. And they still wanted them to be external assistance to help bring the old sect master back? They really didn't know what the Third Elder was thinking.
However, mentioning this, Tang Hao quickly recalled what Tang San had told him: the great Priestess Bo Saixi of Sea God Island and Grandfather were deeply in love. In her previous life, Bo Saixi even personally told Grandfather and Qian Daoliu that as long as one of them became a god, she would marry that person. At that time, Qian Daoliu had already become the great royal protector of the Pope's Hall, essentially the spokesperson for the Angel God in the human world, meaning he had completely cut off his chance of becoming a god. Therefore, Bo Saixi's words were quite clear: she was willing to marry Grandfather. Unfortunately, Grandfather was a true straight man and didn't understand the hidden meaning of Bo Saixi's words. This led him to hastily seek divine inheritance, and during the eighth trial of the Asura God, he was ambushed by the evil thoughts left behind by the Rakshasa God, resulting in him being parasitized by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
Even after Grandfather regained his sanity with Little San's help using the Sea God Trident, his first thought wasn't to return to the Clear Sky Sect. Instead, he went to Sea God Island and ultimately fell there. This was enough to show that Grandfather and the Sea God Douluo had an uncommonly intimate relationship. It was likely they had already reached a state of perfect understanding and deep affection for each other.
Thinking of this, Tang Hao quickly said to Tang Xiao and the elders, "I heard that the Sea God Douluo on Sea God Island has an extremely close relationship with Grandfather. If we can ask for her help, perhaps this matter can be perfectly resolved."
"Sea God Island? Sea God Douluo?" Tang Xiao's brows furrowed tightly at this point, saying with some disbelief, "Little Hao, back then, didn't we brothers also go to Sea God Island for training? I feel like the people on Sea God Island were somewhat unfriendly towards us brothers, and they almost ambushed us several times. Is your information incorrect?"
"It should be correct. Little San told me this personally. He said that Grandfather and that Sea God Douluo were almost at the point of marriage back then. If Grandfather hadn't been ambushed by that evil deity, perhaps that Sea God Douluo would have already become our ancestress." Tang Hao shook his head, denying the claim that the information was incorrect. After all, this matter was extremely important, and he felt that Little San would definitely not joke about it.
"That child, Little San, said it? Then perhaps it's true." Tang Xiao nodded this time, no longer questioning it.
The way these two brothers kept mentioning "Little San" left the other elders completely bewildered.
"Sect Master, who is this Little San you speak of? Why is what he says true?"
"Sect Master, please don't listen to outsiders' nonsense. What if this information is wrong, a trap? If we're ambushed then, we won't even know it."
"That's right, Sect Master, you must be careful, extremely careful…"
The elders spoke one after another, fearing that Tang Xiao would be deceived by outsiders. If he were inadvertently misled by outsiders, leading to the loss of the Clear Sky Sect's high-end combat power, wouldn't the sect suffer a great loss then?