"Ooh... Ho..." The elder man was breathing hard and his mouth was bubbling white.

"Would you rather die than tell me?" Ning Tao lifted his foot and stepped between the elder man's legs.

Suddenly he felt the wind whistling behind him.

The sense of crisis suddenly swept over him, stronger than ever! Unconsciously, Ning Tao ducked to the side, but the speed of the opponent was too fast. As soon as he started to dodge, he felt a pain in his back before he could make a move, as if he had been hit by an off-road vehicle with a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. His whole body was thrown into the air.

Poof!

In the air, Ning Tao opened his mouth and spat blood. It was this spurt of blood that released the pressure and impact on his internal organs. His spiritual power vibrated and automatically healed the injury. Before he had fallen to the ground, his injury had healed 10 percent!

Bang!

Ning Tao slammed into a tree. In that second, his hands clasped the trunk nimbly, and his body immediately pressed to the trunk without falling to the ground. He turned and saw the man who had attacked him from behind.

The man had silver hair, but there were no wrinkles on his face and his skin was as smooth as jade. The whites of his eyes looked pure, and the pupils were dark and deep, giving a sense of wisdom and incisiveness. He was thin, and maintained a side kick—the foot at 70 degrees, motionless in the air.

It was he who kicked Ning Tao out more than 10 meters, making him stick to the trunk five or six meters high like human noodles.

If it weren't for the tree, Ning Tao would probably still be flying through the air for a while.

The man withdrew his leg, took out a porcelain vase, poured out a pill and put it into the elder man's mouth.

Ning Tao loosened his hands and slid down the tree. The shock of landing made him squirt blood again. The impact and pressure on his internal organs were reduced a bit again. Since he was injured, his special spiritual power and energy had been working on his injury all the time, so his body was better every second.

Within a minute of taking the pill, the elder man had stopped foaming, but he was still in a very bad condition. He choked up. "Grandmaster... I'm... incompetent..."

"Lie down." The man with white hair and a youthful complexion came to Ning Tao.

Ning Tao dabbed at the blood on his mouth and chin, and then wiped it on the tree trunk.

"For hundreds of years, you are the first person who dares to challenge our Tang Sect," said the man.

His voice wasn't loud, but it sounded to Ning Tao like a ringing bell, which was deafening!

This was a spiritual power skill, probably not advanced for him, but it was undoubtedly a very advanced skill for Ning Tao, a novice pract.i.tioner.

"Stop!" Ning Tao cried.

With his roar, his spiritual power vibrated, and the pain the sound waves inflict on the ears was suddenly lessened.

The man was immediately stunned. He obviously did not think of a young man to dare to shout at him!

But he still stopped.

"Are you the real master of Tang Sect?" Ning Tao questioned.

"I'm Tang Tianren. If you think I'm the real owner of Tang Sect, then I am," said Tang Tianren. "Boy, you're the biggest nut I've ever seen in my life. For hundreds of years, no one has stirred the Tang Sect so restless. But I still want to give you a chance. Hand over what you stole from the Tang Sect's forbidden land, and I'll keep your body whole."

Ning Tao said blandly, "Thanks a lot, but I don't need the chance. Apart from whether you can kill me or not, even if you can kill me, you will never see the spiritual soil and grain after you kill me."

Tang Tianren was furious and shouted, "Don't you dare threaten me!"

Ning Tao gave a sneer and said, "Don't take yourself too seriously, no matter who you are. There is always someone bigger than you. You're just a pract.i.tioner who lived hundreds of years. You have been guarding the Tang Sect, but because of you spoil, your younger generation has become domineering. Your ungrateful, great grandson, Huai Kebing, disfigured my friend. What's more, not only does he show no remorse, he wants to continue to harm my friend. What was wrong with me getting him to kneel when he had tried to ruin my friend? I don't think that punishment is enough, and yet you dare to seek revenge on me! How dare you!"

"Ha ha ha..." Tang Tianren laughed angrily. "Interesting! Interesting! I've been unscrupulous all my life. You're an eye-opener for me. You, young man, dare disparage my Tang Sect, and say me bold!"

Ning Tao put his hand on the tree trunk and said, "I just humiliated Huai Kebing, and you sent people to kill me and turned a blind eye to my friend's miserable experience. He ruined my friend's life, and your people dare to try to kill me in broad daylight. Now you can't stand that I said you're bold? Do you think you are an ancient emperor? Or do you think you are the Jade Emperor? What if I call you a fool?"

"You're courting death!" Tang Tianren suddenly started to act. He tapped the ground with his toes, and then shot at Ning Tao like an arrow out of the string.

Ning Tao's hand pressing against the trunk suddenly made a twist. The trunk in front of him suddenly opened, and an inky hole immediately appeared in the trunk and the air of both sides of the trunk. At that moment Ning Tao leaned into the inky black hole.

When he was still in the tree as the "noodle man" just now, he took the key of the Sky Clinic in hand. Then he raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and while pretending to wipe the blood from his hand, he drew a blood lock on the tree trunk.

He didn't just show off and run away, but he also set a trap for Tang Tianren when he showed off.

He deliberately provoked Tang Tianren in order to make the latter attack him. When Tang Tianren attacked him, he could open the convenient door to the Sky Clinic to escape. Once Tang Tianren chased him to the Sky Clinic, he would see would Tang Tianren still be arrogant!

The Taoist Heavenly Hound, Chen Pingdao, who had lived for more than 2,000 years, was driven almost crazy by the Sky Clinic, let alone him, a mere guardian of the Tang Sect.

The plan was perfect, but...

When Tang Tianren was about to plunge into the inky black hole, he suddenly stretched out his hand toward the void, twisted his waist, and forced a change in the course of his flight. As a result, he flew past the convenient door.

The convenient door was gone, and the blood lock on the trunk was still visible and scarlet.

Tang Tianren landed on his feet, tapped the ground gently, and jumped back. He stared at the blood lock on the tree trunk, his eyes full of surprise. He held out his hand in anger, but it was only two or three seconds before his anger subsided, and his face was so calm that there was not a ripple of emotion.

"Grandmaster..." The elder man came up to him shakily and dropped to his knees behind Tang Tianren.

The younger man, who had just come to himself, followed the elder man to his knees behind Tang Tianren. He lowered his head and dared not look up at Tang Tianren.

Tang Tianren stared at the blood lock pattern Ning Tao had left on the tree trunk for a full minute before he turned around and looked at the two disciples kneeling on the ground. After a moment's silence, he said, "Tang Wen, Tang Wu, get up. It is not surprising that he got you. He is a crafty man."

"Yes, thank you, grandmaster." Tang Wen and Tang Wu stopped kneeling, and got up.

Tang Wen was the elder and Tang Wu was the younger. Their surnames were not Tang, but after joining the Tang Sect, they were given the surname of Tang. Many disciples of the Tang Sect were in the same situation. Their first names were not Tang, but they were given the surname of Tang when they joined the Tang Sect and were recognized by the sect. It was not a shameful thing in the closed and mysterious world of the Tang Sect, but a very glorious thing.

"That's how the boy got away in our forbidden land. This time he ran away in the same way in front of me. He seemed to want more than that. He even wanted me to go after him. Tang Wen, you go to Beidu to meet your Senior Sister, and tell her to go home with her worthless son. It's her worthless son who caused the theft of spiritual soil and grain from our forbidden land. That is the spiritual material I have been guarding for 200 years, which is of great use. She has to come back and help clean up this mess."

"Yes, Grandmaster." Tang Wen respectfully agreed.

"Tang Wu, I want you to trace that boy's ancestry to eight generations in three days," Tang Tianren went on. "I want to know everything about him!"

"Yes, Grandmaster." Tang Wu hung his head.

Tang Tianren waved his hand and said, "Now go."

"Yes!" Tang Wen and Tang Wu answered, turned away, and disappeared into the thick woods.

Tang Tianren turned around and looked at the blood lock on the tree trunk again. After a long time of meditation, he was still confused. Suddenly, he reached out and blasted the tree trunk with the b.l.o.o.d.y lock. With a dull noise, the trunk burst and splinters and bark shot in his direction. The great crown of the tree fell from above and crashed to the ground.

Tang Tianren whispered to himself, "Who on earth are you? Is this a magic art or something? No way. No one can use magic art now. You must have used a magic tool."

In the Sky Clinic, Ning Tao watched a blood lock on the stone wall as it disappeared.

Ning Tao sighed, disappointed. "Looks like I underestimated the endurance of that 'old tortoise'. He was afraid to follow. I escaped this time, but the next time the 'old tortoise' will be on guard. He won't give me a chance to draw lock and unlock it. He'll probably attack me as soon as he sees me. I still have to depend on my own. The same trick cannot do more than three times. I can't get away from him this way next time."

Then his eyes fell on the good-evil tripod. He said to it, "Why are you so stingy? Without me, the go-between of good and evil, who will pay the rent to you, or punish the evil and uphold the good? Can't you give me a cultivation method and combat skills of higher level? Do you have the heart for me to fight like I did when I was a kid against guys like Yin Molan and Tang Tianren?"

The good-evil tripod closed its eyes, still remaining the look of indifference and ignorance.

"No work without money, right? Okay, I'll give you the rent, and can you upgrade the clinic ahead of time?" Ning Tao asked gloomily.

There was still no response from the good-evil tripod.

It had its laws, and it was bound by them, which would not change.

Ning Tao shrugged, not wanting to talk to it. Then he left the clinic and went to Qing Zhui's house.