Xiao Wu lay limply on the bed with unfocused eyes and her tongue out.
Her skin showed an unusual pink glow, and her body trembled continuously.
Clearly, the lingering effects of previous pleasure were still affecting Xiao Wu's body.
Meng Bei picked up Xiao Wu,
hoisted her onto his shoulder,
and continued.
...
A long time later.
When Tang San saw Xiao Wu again outside, she was walking unsteadily.
"Xiao Wu, what's wrong?"
"I'm fine, Third Brother. I just exhausted myself during training. Let me rest for a bit and I'll be okay."
Xiao Wu said this as she walked past Tang San.
Tang San hesitated, then took out the shoes he had just bought for Xiao Wu and said:
"Um... Xiao Wu, I bought you a few pairs of new shoes. Those old shoes of yours are too plain in style—you shouldn't wear them anymore!"
Xiao Wu pressed down her skirt, took the shoes, and said softly: "Sure, thank you, Third Brother."
Tang San's heart immediately melted.
He stared foolishly at Xiao Wu's face.
Why did he feel Xiao Wu was becoming more and more beautiful?
Her skin was smooth and moist, her figure excellent. Today, for some reason, her skin had a pink glow that was extremely alluring.
Tang San just stared like this until Xiao Wu turned and left, only then did he come back to his senses.
In the following days, Tang San cultivated diligently.
On Meng Bei's side, after breaking through to Soul Emperor cultivation, he had yet to obtain his spirit ring.
With his current physical constitution, he could already obtain a 100,000-year sixth spirit ring. However, with the wedding approaching, he couldn't leave, so it was temporarily delayed.
Of course, he did have a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring in his possession. If it really came down to it, using the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring could also get him a spirit ring of over 100,000 years.
It's just that doing so would be somewhat wasteful.
The God-Bestowed Spirit Ring would definitely be better used later on.
Especially for his second martial soul, which still had a full ten spirit ring slots—he planned to fill all these positions by hunting spirit beasts close to the million-year level.
But relying solely on hunting spirit beasts, there was the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, Di Tian, and the Skydream Iceworm—currently, he only knew of these three.
Excluding these three positions, the remaining seven positions would need to be filled with God-Bestowed Spirit Rings if there were no special circumstances.
With this consideration in mind, Meng Bei didn't waste a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring on his sixth spirit ring position.
He had already set his sights on one of the great overlords of the Extreme North—the Titan Snow Demon King.
After the wedding, he would set out for the Extreme North to personally hunt down the Titan Snow Demon King.
Additionally, during the previous period, with the help of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the introduction of Seventh Elder Blazing Sun Douluo, Tang Hao had successfully returned to the Clear Sky Sect.
Initially, many in the Clear Sky Sect had considerable objections to Tang Hao's return.
But when Blazing Sun Douluo presented Ghost Leopard Douluo's head, the entire Clear Sky Sect fell silent.
That was a Title Douluo!
A Title Douluo from Spirit Hall had been hunted down by Tang Hao just like that!
What glory this was.
For a moment, although nearly half of the Clear Sky Sect members didn't openly forgive Tang Hao, in their hearts, they actually agreed with Tang Hao's return to the Clear Sky Sect.
Ultimately, in the vote on Tang Hao's return, among the five elders, only the Second Elder expressed opposition.
The other three elders neither opposed nor agreed.
The Seventh Elder and Sect Master Tang Xiao both expressed agreement.
This elder brother Tang Xiao still had deep fraternal affection for Tang Hao.
At this time, Tang Xiao never imagined that soon Tang Hao would compete with him for the Sect Master position.
In the following period, after returning to the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Hao didn't urgently seize the position from Tang Xiao.
Instead, there was a period of brotherly harmony.
During this time, Tang Hao also made considerable contributions to the Clear Sky Sect using the manpower and resources of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Tang Hao brought back the four single-attribute clans that had once been under the Clear Sky Sect.
At the same time, leveraging the power of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he secretly recovered many of the Clear Sky Sect's former industries and territories.
With these industries and territories, the Clear Sky Sect's finances rapidly improved. From small matters like clothing and necessities to large matters like cultivation resources, everything saw significant improvement.
At the same time, Tang Hao discovered that the Clear Sky Sect's original simulated cultivation grounds were quite dilapidated, and the capacity was somewhat insufficient. Many newly born disciples of the Clear Sky Sect weren't lacking in talent, but due to quota issues, they couldn't obtain qualifications to enter the simulated cultivation grounds.
So Tang Hao spent a large amount of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's funds to specifically build a new simulated cultivation ground where the Clear Sky Sect was hidden.
Once this move was made, although the simulated cultivation ground hadn't yet been completed due to time constraints, it had already earned a great deal of praise and support within the Clear Sky Sect.
Tang Hao's reputation rapidly grew.
Many young Clear Sky Sect disciples cast aside Tang Hao's past mistakes and instead praised him highly.
Even many elders who previously had opinions about Tang Hao now showed him smiles.
After all, among their descendants, many had benefited from Tang Hao's contributions.
However, Tang Xiao had a different view of all this from others.
He urgently halted Tang Hao's work on establishing the simulated cultivation ground.
At the same time, Tang Xiao also planned to abandon the industries Tang Hao had recovered.
In Tang Xiao's view, the Clear Sky Sect should currently be in a state of hibernation. What they should be doing was recuperating, not making a big show of themselves here.
Regarding this, Tang Hao naturally couldn't agree with Tang Xiao's approach.
So the two brothers came into conflict.
Tang Xiao believed that during the hibernation period, the Clear Sky Sect should minimize contact with the outside world. Everything Tang Hao was doing would expose the Clear Sky Sect to the outside and drag it into the whirlpool of external conflicts.
Tang Hao, on the other hand, believed that as long as the Clear Sky Sect existed in the world, it was impossible to stay out of everything. Only by better improving themselves was the most correct way to solve problems.
The Clear Sky Sect had been closed off long enough. He was determined to lead it back to its former glory.
Tang Xiao naturally disagreed.
Neither brother could convince the other.
Afterward, Tang Xiao used his authority as Sect Master to forcibly place Tang Hao under house arrest, stopping all of Tang Hao's activities.
What surprised Tang Xiao greatly next was that over forty percent of people in the Clear Sky Sect actually expressed support for Tang Hao and were very dissatisfied with his actions. Another thirty-plus percent remained neutral, and ultimately only just over twenty percent supported him.
Under pressure, Tang Xiao could only take Tang Hao's opinions seriously.
Ultimately, everyone decided to use force to determine right and wrong.
This was a long-standing tradition of the Clear Sky Sect.
Whenever matters were undecided, they needed to determine the stronger party, then follow the will of the stronger!
So the two fought under the witness of all Clear Sky Sect members.
The victor would become Sect Master, and the loser would obey the victor's commands.
It was also at this time that Tang Hao made a fatal mistake.
Tang Hao's strength was clearly greater than Tang Xiao's—this was an undeniable fact. Originally, according to how things were developing, Tang Hao's victory was almost inevitable.
The Sect Master position was within reach.
But Tang Hao overlooked one point.
The two were blood brothers.
Because Tang Hao was controlled by Meng Bei, in his mind, his "big brother" had become Meng Bei, so the position Tang Xiao occupied wasn't much anymore.
Therefore, in the battle, Tang Hao used his full strength from the start.
Looking at Tang Xiao, however, because Tang Hao was his younger brother, he had great reservations in his heart and didn't dare to attack with full force.
(End of Chapter)