Lu Bei stood there dumbfounded. He could understand that the Gu Family had Dragon Blood in their veins.
Wu Zhou's totem was the phoenix, while Mighty Chu's was the dragon. This was common knowledge in the Immortality Cultivation World, not some hidden secret. He had known it for a long time.
Unlike the other crouching dragons and phoenix chicks, Wu Zhou's Zhu family had put all their talent points into internal strife, while Mighty Chu's Gu family had been born unlucky. Because of the Bloodline Curse, they had never managed to truly rise.
But Lu Bei had never expected that the Dragon Blood in the Gu Family's veins came from Dragon King Ao Yi.
Far too shocked, he took a sip of wine to steady himself.
When the wine cup did not move, Lu Bei raised his hand and patted Lord Xinli on the butt, telling her not to sit there dazed and to fill his cup halfway again.
Lord Xinli was still in a dream. She placed the empty cup before her, hazily drank a mouthful of loneliness, filled her own cup, and drank it down again.
She had been far too startled and needed something to steady herself even more.
Leaving the final two aside, the most shocked of all were King Yuanji and Gu Yuanping. The two stared at Dragon King Ao Yi with their mouths agape, while the latter's astonishing words left them completely at a loss.
"You cannot be blamed for not knowing. Although the Gu Family possesses this king's bloodline, its purity was never high to begin with. Passed down through the generations, it was diluted year after year, and even fewer could awaken it," Ao Yi said blandly.
King Yuanji swallowed. "D-dare I ask, Palace... Dragon King, what exactly was the relationship between