Drawing on numerous past examples.
Lu Yuan was not worried that something like a Hongmen Banquet—a phenomenon that had vanished for several Hundred Thousand Years—would happen to him. After all, from any perspective, betting an entire clan's fortune against a single person was far too irrational.
If the two sides had been enemies from the start, that would have been another matter.
But he had never even known this Top Family before.
Even if his performance had been somewhat outstanding.
He had defeated several Heavenly Sovereigns while still an Earth Supreme.
Still, after arriving in this era, he had never truly fought a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign. His clash with the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor had involved both sides tacitly holding back, so it did not carry much weight. Besides, even if these Top Families really had the connections to investigate such matters, the result at the time had been that he escaped using One Qi Transforming into Three Purities. As for whether he had truly escaped, that was open to interpretation. In short, he had given them enough face. Therefore, his true record amounted to no more than defeating an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign ancestor while at the Earth Supreme Realm.
That record was indeed impressive.
But it was not unprecedented or unmatched.
After all, seven of the Nine Emperors had accomplished the same feat.
They had fought Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns while still Earth Supremes.
Although most of those seven Emperors had achieved such records as High-Rank Earth Supremes or Earth Supreme Great Perfections, looking at it from another angle, they had truly killed those Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns who served as mere backdrops in their stories. He had only defeated one, and whether there had been any deliberate restraint involved remained uncertain. Fundamentally, there was still a