In the Ancient God Race's elders' council hall.
"I don't agree to humans obtaining the Desolate Celestial Race's bloodline. This is absurd. How can a lower race plunder the bloodline of a superior race?"
"Exactly. We only took humans in because we pitied them as a lower race. If they obtain the Desolate Celestial Race's bloodline, wouldn't that put them on equal footing with our Ancient God Race?"
"Today, Lu Yang dares to propose plundering the Desolate Celestial Race's bloodline. Tomorrow, he'll dare to propose plundering our Ancient God Race's bloodline. Are we supposed to give that to him too?"
The vast majority of the twelve elders opposed it. Even Aiguda was among them, and they all disparaged Lu Yang and the human race before Aigulie.
Aigulie's expression was as still as stagnant water. After all twelve elders had finished speaking, he tapped the table with his right hand and said, "May I share my opinion?"
"Go ahead!" The elders all looked at Aigulie.
Aigulie pondered for a moment before saying, "If everyone disagrees, should we return these Desolate Celestial Race weapons to Lu Yang?"
"Why should we return them to him?" Aiguda and the other elders were unwilling, protesting heatedly.
Aigulie smiled and said, "Think back on what just happened, then think back on your honor. When Lu Yang told us he possessed Desolate Celestial Race weapons, did he state his conditions first, or did he raise them only after we told him to?"
"Of course, he gave us the weapons first, and only afterward did we ask him to state his conditions," Elder Bai Puti said.
"Lu Yang did not treat us as outsiders. You must understand that he ventured deep into Blood Purgatory, a place we cannot enter. When he saw weapons we could use, he