"Bloodline restriction!"
Li Yun parted his lips and spoke the Dongfang Family's greatest secret outright.
At its core, this was a birdcage through which the main family controlled the branch families, and the branch families controlled their subsidiary lineages. Only this thing existed within the bloodline itself, making it exceptionally difficult to deal with.
Of course, with Li Yun's knowledge, he could see that it was not impossible to undo. One only needed to cultivate the Soul Law and develop it to a certain level.
However, once it was undone, the Eastern Bloodline would be gone as well, or would even lose its effects. The damage to the person in question would also be immense.
Otherwise, how could so many members of the Dongfang Family never have tried to break such a restriction? How could they never have resisted such methods?
Previously, he had thought they were making a mountain out of a molehill. But after learning about the Eastern Divine Blood, Li Yun understood that this was indeed a protective ability. Yet was it not also a special form of raising venomous insects in a jar?
According to the man's account, the Eastern Divine Blood could use the Eastern Bloodline to recover, awaken, and even grow stronger. That also meant that the so-called collateral branches and subsidiary lineages were all being treated as venomous insects in that jar.
When they were not needed, nothing would happen to them. But when they were needed, their bloodlines could simply be extracted to restore the wielder's own strength.
"That's right."
Nodding, Dongfang Quan said solemnly, "That's exactly it. Every member of the Dongfang Family has a bloodline restriction planted in them as soon as they are born!"
"Once the bloodline restriction is planted, they lose their freedom completely. Although it can protect