"What's the big deal? Don't forget, before this, I hatched it on my own. I never asked the Lineage for a single coin!" Ye Xiwen glanced at the Celestial Supreme Realm elder and spoke unhurriedly.
The implication was clear: when I was putting in the effort, I never asked the Lineage for even a cent of help. Now that they wanted to come pick the peaches, wasn't that a little too obvious?
That elder's face immediately flushed red. Ye Xiwen had angered him. Who would ordinarily dare speak to him like that?
It had been a long time since anyone had talked back to him like this, but the person before him was Ye Xiwen. After all this time, they had long known that Ye Xiwen was no longer the same.
Having already defeated an early-stage Celestial Supreme Realm expert, Ye Xiwen now possessed enough standing to be mentioned in the same breath as them, enough to sit on equal footing with them.
Looking at him as a junior at this point would only be laughable.
There were now far more younger-generation disciples qualified to attend the Elder Council. It was no longer solely the domain of the older generation. Even among the younger generation, there were already Celestial Supreme Realm figures such as Ye Xukong, Ye Qiong, and Ye Kuang.
These people were already qualified to stand on equal footing with them. If things continued like this, it might not be long before these younger generations replaced them.
No one now dared to bark orders at these younger-generation members, because they had earned the right to be treated as equals.
"No matter what, wouldn't one personally fed by its master be better?" Ye Xiwen continued asking.
He questioned them until every one of those elders was left speechless. Indeed,