At his words, everyone in the hall changed expression, seized by the heavy unease of a storm about to break.
Li Bing and Li Ye in particular secretly groaned in misery.
Why couldn't you, Li Qingyun, just lower your head a little?
Did you have to clash head-on with the main branch like this?
Was having your Dao Path cut off really so hard to weigh against becoming Dao companions with the great beauty Yuan Yiping?
Why drag the entire Abyss Li Clan of Lingping Heaven down the road to ruin as well...
"Nephew, have you truly thought this through?"
Yuan Guhong's expression shifted endlessly, carrying both disappointment and regret. He kindly reminded him again, "Though this old man is alone here today, I represent the attitude of the entire main branch, and even that of beyond the void. Nephew, you may still consider this carefully!"
The Holy Seed potential of the young man before him was simply too astonishing, too peerlessly gifted.
The main branch would absolutely not allow such a monstrous talent to emerge from a side branch without submitting.
The Abyss Clan could stand tall in the Great Universe and rank fourth among the Twelve Superior Clans because of the Nine Saints.
And the main branch consisted of the descendants the Nine Saints had left behind in the "mortal world" of the cosmos.
The side branches, meanwhile, had arisen from Abyss Clan True Blood flowing outward—children of the main branch who had joined with outsiders. Generation after generation, their "true blood" had long since become impure.
This time, for the main branch to use Yuan Yiping as bait was already an immense "favor" bestowed upon Li Qingyun!
One had to know that even Abyss Guardian Yuan Weinmian had only been able to marry into the main branch