This was hardly strange. Every year, large numbers of Ye Family members joined them. Once their origins and branch affiliations had been verified, they would be assigned to their respective branches and enjoy the corresponding benefits of the Ye Family.
The practice of shutting illegitimate children outside the door was something only small households would think of. To a colossal family, whether one was an illegitimate child or a pearl lost beyond the walls, one still carried the family bloodline. It was greatly beneficial to the revival of the entire family.
Especially to the upper echelons of those great families, one's identity made little difference in their eyes. This was true not only among the upper ranks of the Ancient Barrens Continent, but even in the True Martial Realm. Only on Earth was it different, because the families there often consisted of merely a few people, so naturally they did not welcome anyone coming to share their slice of the pie.
But everyone knew what mattered most if one wanted to revive and expand a force.
Talent!
Whether one was an illegitimate child or born of the legitimate line, the more people there were, the greater the chance of producing geniuses!
This was the path to a force's lasting peace and enduring prosperity. Only those with mouse eyes and an inch of vision would drive talent away.
"Ah!" Suddenly, a tremendous roar came from all directions around the forest path.
Ye Xiwen's heart tightened. A figure sprang out from nearby, revealing a robust man standing nine feet tall.
"Hahaha, after hundreds of years, I've finally walked out of that damned mountain village! Geniuses of the Ye Family's Main Family, wait for me! I, Ye Fan, will beat every last one of you flat! Hahaha!"
He was a tall, powerfully built