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"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Four sturdy bodies heavily smashed onto the bustling street outside the Moon Pavilion's doors, kicking up a cloud of dust.
This sudden change immediately attracted the gaze of everyone on the street.
The passing nobles, commoners, and peddlers stopped in their tracks and gathered around.
They pointed and gossiped at the four blood-stained, ceaselessly wailing stout men on the ground.
"Ouch, aren't those the arrogant fellows who went in just now? How did they get beaten into such dog-like shapes?"
"They deserve it! Daring to cause trouble at the Moon Pavilion, they really don't know how to spell death. Who doesn't know that the Moon Pavilion has a big figure backing it?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, look at the leader, both of his hands have been trampled into meat paste, how miserable..."
Listening to the undisguised ridicule and pointing of the surrounding crowd, Tang Hu and the others felt their hearts bleeding.
They were people from the number one Sect in the world!
Before the Clear Sky Sect was targeted by the Spirit Hall, where didn't they receive respect wherever they walked on ordinary days?
Yet now they were thrown on the street like a few stray dogs for people to watch, making them wish they were dead.
But they dared not die, nor did they dare to stay here any longer.
Tang Hu forcibly endured the piercing pain coming from his hands, propped up the ground with his elbows, and wriggled on the ground like a maggot.
He didn't know where he had spent a high price to hire a dilapidated cargo flatbed cart.
He had the cart driver move his three leg-broken attendants onto the cart, and he also climbed up with difficulty.
Amidst the disdainful gazes of passersby, this flatbed cart emanating a bloody and foul odor...
hauling four once-haughty Clear Sky Sect members, scuttled away from Heaven Dou City.
Inside the top-floor meeting room.
Tang Yuehua stood by the window, watching the flatbed cart gradually moving away on the street below.
On her exquisitely beautiful Face, there was not the slightest bit of sympathy; what remained was only deep exhaustion and a trace of lingering worry.
She turned around, looked at Luo Nan who was instructing the servants to clean the room, and said softly:
"Luo Nan, you beat them like this and still let them back... Is that really okay?"
Tang Yuehua had indeed given up on the Clear Sky Sect, but after all, she had lived in the Sect for so many years and knew the temperament of those people in the Elders' Council all too well.
They were extremely protective of their own and cared immensely about Face. Luo Nan crippling Tang Hu's hands was tantamount to heavily slapping the Clear Sky Sect across the Face in public.
Therefore, what Tang Yuehua thought was that since they had already offended them, they simply shouldn't give them any Face!
They might as well just kill them directly.
After all, given the current situation of the Clear Sky Sect, it was already very difficult to send out these few people.
Even if they died outside, the news would take at least a year or half to be passed back, or perhaps it might not even reach back.
Therefore, as long as they were killed, the upcoming period would be stable, which was enough to buy a stable development time for Luo Nan and the Moon Pavilion side.
Luo Nan walked forward, gently pulled Tang Yuehua into his embrace, and tenderly smoothed away her slightly furrowed brows.
"Of course we have to let them go back." Luo Nan's mouth hooked into a cold smile.
"If we don't let them go back, who is going to show this ground full of blood and broken bones to the Clear Sky Sect?"
"I want them to see this miserable end with their own eyes, and use these few useless dogs to pass a message to the Clear Sky Sect!"
"I want everyone in the Clear Sky Sect to understand one principle: from now on, the Heaven Dou City Moon Pavilion is a forbidden zone they cannot afford to provoke!"
"Whoever dares to stretch their claws over, I will chop off their claws!"
Luo Nan knew very well in his heart that once these useless people like Tang Hu were dragged back like dead dogs to the Clear Sky Sect's station...
those conceited and hot-tempered old fellows in the Clear Sky Sect's Elders' Council would definitely fly into a rage.
They were accustomed to being high and mighty, and accustomed to everyone's awe of the Clear Sky Hammer.
Suddenly being heavily trampled underfoot by an outsider young man, with their Faces slapped loudly, they would definitely not swallow this humiliation.
However, what about after the fury?
They could only rage impotently!
The Clear Sky Sect's days were getting worse by the day now.
Ever since Tang Hao caused a huge disaster back then and the Spirit Hall army pressed upon the borders, the Clear Sky Sect closed its gates and refused to come out just to protect itself.
Closing the gates and not coming out was one thing, but they even abandoned the four affiliated Sects.
The Strength Clan, Breaking Clan, Speed Clan, and Defense Clan.
These four single-attribute clans used to be the Clear Sky Sect's most solid shield, sharpest spear, fastest scouts, and most abundant money bag.
Yet, at the most critical moment, the Clear Sky Sect unhesitatingly pushed them out to act as scapegoats.
Nowadays, the four affiliated Sects had long since completely broken ties and cut off all relations with the Clear Sky Sect.
Losing the external intelligence network, losing the Breaking Clan's medicinal material supply, losing the Strength Clan's forging income, and even losing the Speed Clan's economic support...
This group of reckless brutes from the Clear Sky Sect who only knew how to swing hammers hid in that God-forsaken barren mountainous water, eating away at their dwindling reserves.
The Sect's foundation and savings were becoming less and less with use, and now they probably struggled even to maintain daily Cultivate resources.
Under such a dead-end predicament, suddenly learning that Tang Yuehua, whom they once regarded as trash...
had established the Moon Pavilion in Heaven Dou City and was making a fortune daily. Although not quite rich enough to rival a nation, it could still be considered rich enough to rival a city.
How could they not be green with envy?
How could they not pounce like sharks smelling blood?
"Once they calm down and weigh the pros and cons, they will definitely send people over again."
Luo Nan gently stroked his chin.
"If hard tactics don't work, they will resort to soft ones and play the emotional card."
"After all, apart from the Moon Pavilion, they can no longer find any place that can provide massive financial support."
"Come again?"
"Even if you kowtow until your heads crack and talk about family affection until it blossoms, I won't give you even a single bronze coin of funding!"
"Even if Yuehua's money were used to feed dogs, it wouldn't be your turn, a pack of bloodsuckers, to carve it up!"
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Half a month's time vanished in a flash.
East of the Heaven Dou Empire, deep within a range of rolling mountains hundreds of miles away from Heaven Dou City.
"Creak—"
Accompanied by a teeth-aching sound of friction, a dilapidated flatbed cart stained with dried dark red blood, under the desperate pushing and pulling of two hired cart drivers...
finally arrived with difficulty in front of the iron cable bridge leading to the Clear Sky Sect's gates.
"Halt! What people dare to trespass into the Clear Sky Sect?!"
The two third-generation Disciples of the Clear Sky Sect responsible for guarding the iron cable bridge immediately summoned their Spirit and shouted sternly.
However, when they saw clearly the four people lying on the flatbed cart, they immediately drew a cold breath, their eyeballs almost popping out.
"Tang... Senior Brother Tang Hu?!"
"Good heavens! Quick! Go report to the Sect Master and Elders!"
Half an hour later, inside the wide yet somewhat gloomy and oppressive meeting grand hall of the Clear Sky Sect.
The atmosphere was heavy to the extreme, as if even the air was about to freeze.
The current Clear Sky Sect Sect Master, ninety-seventh-rank Clear Sky Douluo Tang Xiao, sat upright in the primary seat.
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