The Azure Dragon clan’s Yulan branch simply had too short a history, spanning just a few millennia. A few millennia, in the ancient history of the Four Divine Beasts clan, could be considered a single drop of water in a sea.
A short history resulted in weak power!
In this gorge within the Skyrite Mountains, the other branches of the Azure Dragon tribe looked down on them and mocked them. This was very normal. Fortunately, the clan had very strict rules; members of the same clan were not permitted to kill each other.
This was a very severe rule. Nobody could violate it.
Precisely because of this, although the Yulan branch had lived a life of some embarrassment, they weren’t in any mortal danger. Baruch and the others could thus just endure it. After all, if they fought back, they would just be humiliated even further.
They were weaker. There was nothing they could do!
But this descendant of the clan who they were welcoming back, one who had returned from the Yulan branch, had effortlessly toyed with a Highgod and multiple Gods.
Baruch, Ryan, and the others all stared at Linley in disbelief.
“Linley?” Baruch stuttered.
Linley looked at Baruch, then laughed. “Clan leader, let’s hurry back. I still don’t even know where I’ll live?”
“Right, right.” Baruch recovered from his shock. Although he didn’t understand how Linley could be so powerful, Baruch wouldn’t ask right now. He immediately laughed, “Let’s go, let’s go back.”
The other clansmen of the Yulan branch all stared at Linley in amazement. This descendant was too strong!
“What are you looking at?” Bebe’s voice rang out. “What? Can it be that after the lesson my Boss just taught you, you haven’t had enough? You want to test him again?”
Linley turned to look.
Asru and the others were staring towards Linley with gazes full of shock and fear. They couldn’t believe that this was real.
“Asru.” Linley spoke out. “You and I are both members of the Azure Dragon clan. We are all members of the Redding clan! Since we are all members of the clan, fighting amongst ourselves will just result in ridicule from others.”
Asru was stunned.
“The Yulan branch is also a member of the Redding clan.” Linley laughed calmly. “I’m a member of the Yulan branch, and also a member of the Redding clan. I don’t want to see you causing trouble for us in the future. If something like that happens, then I wouldn’t mind…giving you a good lesson.”
O’Brien, Cesar, Tarosse, and the others were all laughing off to the side.
They knew exactly how powerful Linley was. During the great battle at Miluo Island, Linley’s power had been completely revealed and was unquestionable.
“Let’s go.” Linley held Delia’s hand, then followed Baruch, Ryan, and the other members of the clan towards the abode of the Yulan branch. The only ones left were Asru and the others.
“Lord Asru, this…” A youth behind Asru said, his face filled with disbelief, shock, and anger.
Asru’s face was gloomy.
“Who would have thought that an expert would appear amongst the Yulan branch.” Asru said in a low voice.
“But he’s just a God.” Someone immediately said.
Asru shook his head. “Impossible. That Gravitational Space was powerful to an unheard of level. In such a powerful gravity, he would definitely be able to effortlessly kill us. Only an extremely powerful Highgod could possibly train the Gravitational Space to such a high level.”
“How powerful?” The Gods behind him were all puzzled.
“Six Star Fiend. Perhaps Seven Star Fiend!” Asru said in a low voice.
Immediately, those Gods were completely stupefied. These people, when encountering a Highgod, were normally all very respectful. Generally speaking, Highgods were at the Four Star Fiend level of power. Anyone capable of reaching the Six Star Fiend or Seven Star Fiend level had a high status in the clan.
“But we noticed that he was just a God.” Another blue-haired youth said hurriedly.
Asru turned and glanced at him mockingly, then turned and left, not paying attention to that God at all.
“What’d I say wrong?” The blue-haired man was still lost.
“Can’t you guess that he was hiding his aura and just pretending?” Another God snickered. “Let’s go. I can’t imagine how this short-lived Yulan branch actually produced such a powerful expert.”
While still muttering amongst themselves, those Gods all left.
Linley knew very well that even two brothers of the same mother, much less branches of the same clan, would possibly struggle with each other for status. The weak would be looked down upon and embarrassed.
This was normal.
“The high level members of the Redding family don’t care about this. First, it’s not convenient to interfere. And secondly, they are probably satisfied with the situation.” Linley understood that when the weak were viewed in contempt, this anger at being humiliated would serve as a powerful motivation for the clan to grow stronger.
Perhaps an expert would appear.
In the end, the rules of the clan prohibited clansmen from killing each other. With this rule in place, there would be no fear of the clan losing its power.
“Only when there is competition, when there is a differentiation between the ‘high’ and the ‘low’ levels will there be improvement.” Linley sighed.
Unfortunately, his Yulan branch had become the weakest branch. Its roots were weak and its history was short. There was nothing that could be done.
“Linley, on the other side of the grass is our Yulan branch’s residence.” Baruch pointed towards the front. Linley, looking in that direction, saw that at the end of the short grass, there were multiple two story buildings, as all a palace which took up a very wide amount of space.
When Linley’s group passed through the grass, quite a few men and women came to welcome them, including two children.
“Clan leader!”
The group all hurriedly welcomed them.
“Haha, hurry up and prepare a feast for celebrating Linley’s arrival.” Baruch laughed loudly.
“Clan leader, who is Linley?” Nobody here recognized Linley.
Linley looked carefully at this group of people. All of them had an aura which felt so familiar to his soul. These were people from his clan, people of his blood. “Our Baruch clan has so few people in the Yulan continent, but in the Infernal Realm, we are much more populous.”
All of them in the Infernal Realm possessed unlimited lifespan. Naturally, their numbers would continuously grow.
“Who is Linley?” Baruch immediately laughed. “He is someone from our Yulan branch.”
“He came over from the Yulan continent.” Ryan added. “Look closely. He is Linley. Don’t misrecognize him in the future.” As he spoke, he rested his hand on Linley’s shoulder.
Immediately, everyone looked towards Linley while a commotion broke out.
“He came from the Yulan continent?”
“He actually came from the Yulan continent. Hey, Linley, how’s our Baruch clan doing?”
“Linley, do you know ‘Bozart’ [Bo’sai’te]? He’s my son!”