Legend of the Heavenly Swordsman
Ch.15 - The Past of Tang Shu

A large city with typical buildings of the Central continent towered in every corner of the city. The city was named Gaozu, was the residence for the clan of one of the largest in the Central Continent. The Tang Clan had managed to build a City of their own in its heyday.

The wall loomed high as if as the border of that City with the outside world. The Tang Clan with its members who had reached the number of hundreds of thousands of souls, managed to carve its name to align with a kingdom.

With a mountain of his wealth would certainly make anyone drool to imagine the pile of gold that the clan had obtained.

Behind the great power there will be a power that sustains the clan to remain standing. Many swordsmen in the past tried to mess up the Clan, but it all ended in the blink of an eye.

After learning it turned out that the Clan kept hundreds of elders who were equal to the Sacred Swordsman as well as thousands of Swordsman Kings and Combat Generals. Many other Clans were disinclined to deal with them. Rumors circulated also said the Clan had a Patriarch who had broken through the boundary of the Sacred Swordsman.

With all the assets they had made the other clans feel excluded and secretly began to create a new group to overthrow the glory of the Tang clan. But some clans can still think clearly by building relationships so that their clans develop.

Of the several clans that filed for business cooperation only one clan managed to attract the attention of the Tang clan. They were the Ye clan, a clan engaged in the Alchemist field as well as the resource business.

With the help given by the Tang clan, the Ye clan was finally able to expand their business to the Northern Continent and still continue until they became one of the respected clans in the Central continent.

But all that glory could not last long when the Patriarch of the Tang clan heard his Son was killed during a meeting with the higher-ups of the Ye clan. Anger flooded the Patriarch of the clan named Tang Hao back then.

He decisively decided on all cooperation with the Ye clan because he thought that the clan had betrayed him. He gave an edict of avenging this to the Ye clan if they did not have any evidence to defend themselves.

The Ye clan could do nothing but curse the Elder who betrayed them. The elder turned out to have cooperated with the clan group and the swordsman who wanted to overthrow the Tang clan.

Unmitigated, they sent at least five early stage Saintess Swordsmen to be able to kill Tang Hao's son.

Decades of waiting and careful planning finally came to fruition. The group managed to pit the extremely influential clans in the Central continent back then.

They did not think about the impact of the chaos they had made, all that mattered to them was to exterminate the Tang clan and reclaim their position in the Central continent.

The background behind the formation of the group is not just hatred and envy in them. But because of a secret information known to the elders of the Middle continent martial world that should no longer appear.

With a power that could flatten an empire in an instant, the group massacred the entire Tang clan members without sparing a single one, even a brat. Fire raged in every building of the magnificent city, screams and cries seemed to accompany the fight for almost two weeks.

But the group's guess was still a little off, the Tang clan was in fact able to compensate for their strength and was able to provide counter-resistance. However, fate seemed to side with the warrior group.

At the end of the fight, a warrior carrying a cane and wine jar in his hand gave a breath of fresh air to the group of warriors who attacked the Tang clan. The sepulchre Swordsman also brought some late-stage Sacred Swordsmen with him.

"Is this the clan you're proud of Tang Hao?" The sepuh swordsman laughed out loud seeing that the clan that was said to be the strongest was currently already ravaged.

"Sad…!" Tang Hao spat out the blood that was in his mouth after being hit by the tread attack from the old swordsman.

"Bag you Yuan Meng! Is this a reply from a friend who helped you first?" Tang Hao floated in the air, around him there were still many warriors who were fighting.

"Haha! Friends?! If you really think I'm a friend, then why would you refuse my son Xing Fu's matchmaking with your daughter Tang Wei?" The old warrior said while laughing loudly, but behind his laughter contained an indignation that could not be expressed.

Yuan Meng's life was initially ordinary because he was a traveling swordsman. His encounter with Tang Hao was also just a coincidence as he was fighting against some of the master swordsmen that messed up in the City.

At that time, they were only 30 years old. Tang Hao and Yuan Meng teamed up to take over the Snow Cloud City which had been overrun by the Black swordsmen of the time.

Starting from a cooperation to make the relationship both continue to be a partner and friend. In an incident that almost cost Yuan Meng his life, Tang Hao came to her aid by bringing in special forces belonging to the Tang clan.

Yuan Meng was very surprised to realize that his friend was from a famous clan in the Central continent. After that incident their relationship grew tenuous as Yuan Meng chose to leave and stay away from Tang Hao.

Decades later passed, until Yuan Meng returned with her son to propose an arranged marriage. Yuan Meng was informed that Tang Hao had a daughter and that he intended to betroth his son to repair the relationship that had been strained in the past.

But Yuan Meng's offer was rejected by Tang Hao. Although Tang Hao had explained that Tang Wei had already been betrothed by Emperor Yin's son, Yuan Meng felt heartbreak from this.

Yuan Meng could guess what the purpose of matchmaking with a Crown Prince was. Moreover, Tang Hao was as if not expecting his return back then.

"Yuan Meng! You yourself know my son has been betrothed by the Crown Prince. You should know the consequences of canceling an arranged marriage with an Emperor in the future!" tang Hao exclaimed furiously as his friend was still bringing up the events that had been so long ago.

It was undeniable that if a clan broke the matchmaking of the Imperial family, then the worst conditions of the clan would be bankrupt and slowly annihilated.

"I don't care about that!" Yuan Meng said cynically. His eyes no longer showed concern for his old friend. "Make your clan heirloom, then I will leave peacefully from here!"

Tang Hao laughed loudly at Yuan Meng's request, "It turns out you're the same as the greedy people of this continent."

"Anyone will be tempted to hear an heirloom that can make its users to the peak of strength." Yuan Meng smiled widely, even though his strength was at the peak level of a Saint Swordsman. But with the help of heirlooms and resources he seized from the Tang clan, it did not rule out the possibility that he could break the limits of the Sacred swordsman.

"You think with your power it can defeat me?!" Tang Hao flew rapidly towards Yuan Meng, his sword ready to be used. Tang Hao's speed was even hard to follow by Yuan Meng's eyes.

Although Tang Hao's current strength had reached the early stage Nirvana warrior, but his battle with dozens of late stage saint warriors the past few days had left his body in a non-maximal state.

Yuan Meng was pushed back quite a distance when she held back Tang Hao's sword slash with her staff. "Hahaha.your strength is indeed amazing! But your opponent is not just me!"

The moment Yuan Meng raised her hand, ten warriors who were at least the level of a Sacred swordsman immediately approached her.

Tang Hao smiled sinisterly looking at her. "So right, you've been planning this a long time." Tang Hao looked at each Sacred Warrior before him before taking a deep breath and closing his eyes.

"Don't blame me brother Hao, if you're willing to give me that heirloom then you can still survive with some of your descendants." Yuan Meng still wanted to negotiate with Tang Hao, she was not sure that she could defeat her old friend despite being assisted by ten Sacred warriors though.

Tang Hao smiled faintly with his eyes still closed. "There's nothing you need to talk about anymore Yuan Meng! I'll end this quickly!"

Seen a slight glint of yellow light from his eyes when Tang Hao opened his eyes, he quickly mounted the horses. From his mouth came a hint of smoke and blood simultaneously.

"You'll be picking up your death soon!" Yuan Meng's shout then flew as fast as lightning towards Tang Hao along with ten other warriors.

The flash of light from the clash of Tang Hao's Sword and his opponent made an enormous burst of energy. Even the warriors below him had to stay away so as not to be exposed to stray attacks and energy waves produced.

Although facing eleven people at once in fact did not make Tang Hao desperate. His swift movements overwhelmed the eleven people who attacked him a little, some of them had even gotten quite deep scratches.

After a few minutes as well as the hundreds of moves Yuan Meng and the other warriors put out, Tang Hao was still able to keep up with their strength. The strength of someone who had broken through the limits of the Sacred swordsman was terrifying for the eleven warriors.

Yuan Meng clucked in annoyance as his staff had not been able to touch Tang Hao's body at all. As well as the other ten warriors, they really did not expect that Tang Hao would still be able to excel after fighting with dozens of Sacred warriors, during the previous few days.

Tang Hao himself was no better, he was forced to use the forbidden moves of his clan to maintain his current strength. Slowly the organs in Tang Hao's body would be destroyed as it was no longer strong enough to withstand the energy load he absorbed.

Tang Shu who was fighting with some of the Combat General level warriors occasionally glanced over to pay attention to his grandfather's fight. Worry was clearly engraved on his face seeing Tang Hao use the God Energy stance.

With his strength that had reached the warrior King, it was actually not difficult to defeat the two Fighter Generals he was fighting. But because his attention was split made himself a little cornered.