Unlike the grand spectacle put on by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Yu Yuanzhen simply led the two of them toward the mountainside in a very ordinary manner, introducing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to Chen Ming and Dugu Bo as they walked.
Although with the speed and physical ability of Titled Douluo-level experts like Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo, they could have reached the mountainside in no ti at all, the two intentionally slowed their pace considerably to accommodate Chen Ming's weaker strength.
For certain stretches, Dugu Bo simply used his Spirit Power to carry Chen Ming as they soared across.
By the ti they reached the hall halfway up the mountain, Yu Luomian—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's chief steward—had already arranged a banquet and invited the two into a side hall.
Because the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul strictly required the absorption of Spirit Rings from dragon-type Spirit Beasts, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan possessed an abundance of dragon-related materials. To show proper hospitality, nearly all the dishes served at this banquet were made from sub-dragon Spirit Beast ingredients and materials beneficial to dragon-type Spirit Masters.
Though the preparation techniques appeared crude in Chen Ming's eyes, it truly demonstrated the sincerity of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan.
...
Following a simple banquet, Chen Ming directly cut to the chase. Yu Luomian summoned five or six Spirit Masters of various ages with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, and each of them unleashed their own Martial Souls. In an instant, more than twenty Spirit Rings flashed inside the room.
"Yellow yellow purple purple, yellow yellow purple, yellow yellow purple purple purple... Hmm? Wait, why is there a white ring here?"
Chen Ming pointed at the first Spirit Ring of one rather miserable-looking Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit Master and asked.
"He... he's a bloodline descendant who was left outside the clan. By the ti the sect found and brought him back, he had already attached his first Spirit Ring. Otherwise, his talent would have been even higher."
Yu Luomian looked sowhat embarrassed as he explained.
The nature of dragons is inherently lustful, and humans are creatures that can enter an aroused state at any ti—twelve months a year, thirty days a month, twenty-four hours a day. Once a Spirit Master's strength rises, their ability to manage their impulses often declines.
Most Spirit Masters of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had trouble keeping themselves restrained. And because the clan emphasized maintaining the purity of its bloodline, arranged marriages were common, which only worsened the issue further.
Douluo Continent was practically nicknad the "Romance Continent." As a result, many people who already had families still sought comfort elsewhere.
So brought their lovers back with them. Others simply left descendants behind wherever they went.
Even Yu Luomian himself, despite already having an official wife, had found his "true love" outside and fathered Liu Erlong.
Compared to others, however, he at least possessed a bit of moral conscience. He supported the mother and daughter from afar. Though he never gave them status, he never let them lack food or clothing either.
In the end, his falling out with Liu Erlong had more to do with Liu Erlong's own issues than his.
Many of the seemingly mutated high-level dragon-type Martial Souls or dragon-bloodline Martial Souls appearing across Douluo Continent were likely not purely random mutations at all.
If one traced their origins carefully enough, many of them would reveal connections to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Even though the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan had introduced extrely severe regulations for this—absolutely forbidding relations between close relatives and strictly prohibiting Spirit Masters from secretly leaving bloodlines outside...
But in reality, on the whole... it was just how it was. After all, even Yu Luomian, the actual manager of the sect, couldn't control his own trousers.
Chen Ming expressed his understanding, then had these Spirit Masters state their innate Spirit Power levels alongside their current Spirit Power level, while demonstrating their lightning and dragonification abilities.
After recording the data from these people, Chen Ming then had them sit down one by one and begin circulating the cultivation thod, examining their cultivation efficiency and Spirit Power flow speed.
Among the six people, five had completely normal cultivation speeds.
Only one person's condition was abnormal.
His cultivation speed was faster, but also far more unstable, and the structure of his Spirit Power carried enormous risks.
At first glance, it seed as though the thod had been specially modified for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, sacrificing a certain degree of stability and compatibility in exchange for faster cultivation speed.
But in reality, it was extrely dangerous and utterly inefficient—sacrificing thirty percent of stability for less than ten percent improvent in cultivation efficiency.
After the examination, Chen Ming frowned and asked the Spirit Master whose first Spirit Ring was white:
"I want to know who modified your Spirit Power cultivation thod. Was it you?"
"Using stability in exchange for cultivation speed is not necessarily an impossible path, but your modifications are far too crude and violent. There was absolutely no consideration for the risk of cultivation deviation, and the conversion efficiency is extrely low. It's a highly dangerous and completely unprofitable thod."
"I..." The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit Master who had been singled out stamred nervously.
After hesitating for a mont, he looked toward Yu Yuanzhen. Under Yu Yuanzhen's gaze, he finally spoke slowly.
"It... it wasn't who changed it. Soone else helped modify it."
"Who?" Yu Yuanzhen took a deep breath, though he already had a strong suspicion about who was causing trouble.
"It was... Yu Xiaogang... He said he was a theoretical grandmaster who had once guided Elder Chen's cultivation. He claid his understanding of cultivation was no worse than Elder Chen's. Since I was always looked down on within the clan, I listened to him..."
"Yu Xiaogang?!"
Chen Ming widened his eyes and spoke decisively:
"I only know that person by acquaintance. There is absolutely no relationship between him and . He has never guided , nor do I have any comnts about him."
"But how does a man who hasn't even broken through Level 30 at fifty years old, whose Spirit Ability is basically just farting, have the nerve to tie himself to my na? How can such a useless failure, incompetent in both cultivation and scholarship, use to elevate himself?"
"Sect Master Yu, Vice Sect Master Yu—I do not accept this kind of insult!"
Chen Ming's tone was resolute and openly impolite.
Yet whether it was Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Luomian, or the surrounding clan mbers, all of them lowered their heads without daring to show even the slightest trace of their usual pride.
This was not rely because Chen Ming's reputation was overwhelming.
It was because, as natives of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, they all knew exactly what kind of person Yu Xiaogang truly was.
His ambitions were higher than the heavens, yet his fate was thinner than paper.
He possessed absolutely no real ability, yet his arrogance surpassed ordinary people. He consud more resources and received more support than others, yet constantly blad heaven and complained about others.
He loved lecturing people at every opportunity, but the mont soone pointed out his mistakes, he would fly into a rage and storm off dramatically.
Just like his Martial Soul—his farts were earth-shakingly loud, but aside from disgusting people, they served no other purpose.
He called himself a "grandmaster of theory," yet had not produced a single genuine achievent.
Of the so-called Ten Core Competencies of Spirit Masters, half had been plagiarized, while the other half were his own guesses. Out of the ten points, only half were actually correct—and those correct ones just happened to be the plagiarized half.
Back when Yu Xiaogang still lived within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he had nearly ruined the cultivation of several clan mbers. In the end, Yu Yuanzhen had personally scolded him into shutting up.
Forget using Chen Ming's reputation to elevate himself.
Aside from Yu Yuanzhen being unable to do much because Yu Xiaogang was his biological son, if Yu Xiaogang tried stepping on anyone else's reputation, their reactions would absolutely not be calr than Chen Ming's.
The only reason this Spirit Master had been deceived was because he had not grown up within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and therefore knew very little about what kind of person Yu Xiaogang truly was.
Otherwise, if it had been anyone else, the mont they heard Yu Xiaogang wanted to "improve" their cultivation thod for them, rely cursing him a few tis for his delusional fantasies would already have been considered polite.
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