Not long after, Tang Yuehua returned to the courtyard with Tang Xiao.
After a round of spiritual communication, Tang Xiao furrowed his brows tightly, sinking into silence.
After a while, Tang Xiao opened his mouth and said.
"Third Sister, the place Little San went to for his training is the City of Slaughter. From what I know, the City of Slaughter is rather peculiar. Its entrances are scattered across the continent, and its exact location may very well exist within a different dimension.
Moreover, with younger brother Hao guarding Little San, there are absolutely very few people on the continent who could threaten him in Hao's presence. He shouldn't have run into any mishaps."
In Tang Xiao's eyes, his younger brother Tang Hao's strength was still exceedingly formidable.
During the last Continental Soul Master Academy Tournament, the reason why Tang Hao was made to look so battered by Qianjun and the others from Spirit Hall was merely because his younger brother Tang Hao had not revealed his trump cards.
Otherwise, once he detonated his spirit rings, aside from Qian Daoliu and that elder of the Spirit Master world, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Tang Xiao truly couldn't think of anyone on the continent who could stop Tang Hao if he was determined to escape with Tang San.
Well, it could only be said that because he had not mastered the Great Sumeru Hammer, although Tang Xiao had heard that the backlash of Ring Detonation was significant, he did not know the exact severity. He hadn't even realized that ever since that battle back then, Tang Hao had always been living with grievous injuries.
Of course, Tang Xiao's thinking wasn't wrong either. Indeed, there were few on the continent who could capture Tang Hao — even if Tang Hao was grievously injured, this remained true.
But Mu Yang's Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow was not within his scope of knowledge.
"So it turns out you were worrying about Little San! Ah Yin, you're letting your concern cloud your judgment. With Second Brother protecting him, Little San absolutely won't face life-threatening danger.
You probably don't know, but two years ago, two young men returned after training in the City of Slaughter. Not to mention how Little San's strength compares to theirs, just the fact that he has Second Brother protecting him is already something they could never match."
Upon hearing Tang Xiao's words, Tang Yuehua immediately realized that Ah Yin was worrying about their nephew Tang San. She spoke indifferently.
Perhaps Mu Yang and his companion were indeed stronger than their nephew Tang San. But since they could complete the City of Slaughter's trial, then with Second Brother Tang Hao protecting her nephew Tang San, naturally there would be no life-threatening danger.
Besides, back then Second Brother Tang Hao had managed to obtain the Killing God Domain as a mere six-ring Soul Emperor. Now that he had become a renowned powerhouse across the continent, there was no way he would regress and meet his end in the City of Slaughter, right?
Hearing this, Ah Yin fell silent.
Perhaps her sister-in-law Tang Yuehua was right — was she truly letting her concern cloud her judgment?
Yes, that had to be it. With her husband Tang Hao protecting him, her beloved son Tang San was surely safe and sound.
Time gradually passed. The sun set, the moon rose, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the early hours of the morning.
Under the dim radiance of the stars and moon, eleven figures silently streaked across the night sky, landing atop the peak of a small mountain.
"Everyone, the hidden residence of the Clear Sky Sect lies within these mountains. I'll sneak in first and launch a surprise attack. The rest of you follow the plan afterward."
Pointing toward the chain of mountains ahead, Mu Yang spoke to the group.
"Mu Yang, there are quite a few soul masters in the village at the mountain's foot."
At this moment, Shui Bing'er gestured toward a small village not far behind at the base of the mountain, shrouded by the night.
From within that small village, she sensed quite a number of soul power fluctuations. Although most were only low-level soul masters, without surprise, they too should belong to the Clear Sky Sect.
"This is merely the Clear Sky Sect's outpost. The ones living there are just branch affiliates. No need to pay them any attention."
Mu Yang waved his hand dismissively.
As the saying goes, 'When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.' Once the Clear Sky Sect was annihilated, these branch affiliates would surely disperse by dawn.
Furthermore, while there were indeed many affiliated branch soul masters in this outpost village, there were also plenty of ordinary villagers and children with no soul power cultivation at all.
Since they weren't the primary targets and didn't affect the greater picture, sparing them was of no consequence.
Mu the Great Kind-Hearted: My heart is kind, I cannot bear it.
"Alright then, just be careful yourself."
Huo Lie felt quite gratified.
Previously, when Mu Yang killed Tang Hao and aimed to eradicate the Clear Sky Sect, although it was to prevent future retaliation against the Elemental Sacred Academy, Huo Lie inevitably assumed subconsciously that Mu Yang's temperament was overly violent.
As a powerhouse from an academy background, Huo Lie's killing intent was far less than that of leaders of other great powers across the continent.
After all, his main duty was teaching and educating, not fighting and killing or engaging in schemes and power struggles.
If it weren't for the Tang father and son's identities being far too sensitive, and the inevitable retaliation of the Clear Sky Sect once they learned the truth, Huo Lie would never have agreed to their eradication.
But now, seeing that Mu Yang intended to spare these so-called 'irrelevant side-branches' of the Clear Sky Sect, it was clear that Mu Yang's character wasn't violent and without bottom line. He was simply decisive in killing when necessary.
Decisive in killing yet with principles — this left Huo Lie very satisfied.
"Mm."
Mu Yang nodded. With a flap of the wings on his battle armor, his figure disappeared into the mountains ahead.
Suppressing his own soul power aura to the utmost, he crossed several steep peaks in succession. Borrowing the faint light of the moon, Mu Yang saw, on the summit of the great mountain ahead, a castle-like cluster of stone buildings.
He did not take action immediately. Instead, he landed on the mountainside not far from the summit, closed his eyes, and carefully sensed the soul power auras released by the powerhouses within the Clear Sky Sect residence.
Considering Tang Xiao's formidable strength, his spiritual power was likely not inferior to his own. To avoid alerting the enemy, Mu Yang dared not release his spiritual power directly to probe in detail and could only passively sense.
Shifting positions as he explored, after a quarter of an hour, Mu Yang discerned the positions of the six Title Douluo currently within the Clear Sky Sect.
Although compared to the original timeline when Tang San first visited the Clear Sky Sect this was about two years earlier, the five elders of the Clear Sky Sect had already advanced to Nine-Ring Title Douluo by now. Compared to two years later in the original, there wasn't much difference.
'A total of more than two hundred people. Tang Xiao at level 96, the five great elders all below level 94, eight Soul Douluo, over twenty Soul Sages, and around sixty Soul Emperors. The quality here is truly high.'
Sensing clearly the Clear Sky Sect's strength, Mu Yang couldn't help but click his tongue.
Leaving aside Tang Xiao and the other six, judging solely from the number of experts, the Clear Sky Sect couldn't even compare with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
But that wasn't the right way to calculate it. With just over two hundred people, to produce so many high-level soul masters, it was evident how extraordinary the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Spirit was.
What's more, this was already the fallen Clear Sky Sect after Spirit Hall's suppression. Within the sect, over half were young and juvenile disciples. The proportion of experts was definitely worse than during their peak.
Of course, it could not be ruled out that after being forced into seclusion, everyone in the Clear Sky Sect had been holding back their energy, leading to extreme internal competition, which produced these results.
Otherwise, not to mention others, those five elders most likely wouldn't all have advanced to Nine-Ring Title Douluo.
Afterward, concealing his aura, Mu Yang relied on his profound movement techniques, exquisite footwork, and secret art: True Illusion, to infiltrate deep into the Clear Sky Sect's residence.
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