I sneered contemptuously. "Lowly? Among all the races under heaven, as long as they possess even a trace of intelligence, how could there be distinctions between high and low, noble and base? You think yourself noble, but that's only because you're relying on the glory your ancestors won through their efforts! How do you know I didn't think I was the one losing out by marrying Di Juan?"
"You! You actually dare say that marrying Di Juan was a loss?! You're a hybrid of the Heaven and Earth Clans, incapable even of reproducing offspring, so how dare you say such a thing?!" Di Feng rebuked furiously.
Only when Di Juan heard the latter half did she remember that hybrids were unable to reproduce. Her face flushed red with embarrassment.
The elites present all smiled. Though they were wary of me and didn't dare laugh aloud, this was a rare source of mockery involving the Heaven and Earth Clans. How could they pass up the chance to tease them?
"Heh heh, everyone knows that mongrels can't reproduce, yet he actually wants to marry the Earth Clan's imperial heir. That's hilarious!"
"Forget the imperial heir—even among the Earth Clan, I doubt anyone would be willing to marry him, would they?"
"Exactly. The imperial heirs of the Heaven and Earth Clans have never married outside their own clans. I just wonder whether they'll even acknowledge a hybrid of the Heaven and Earth Clans!"
"Heh heh, but with such a star artifact right in front of them, serving someone who can't reproduce might not be such a bad deal, would it?"
"That's true, I suppose. The Earth Clan's imperial heirs only have that much lifespan, and there are more than a dozen of them. Even if Di Juan is exceptionally beautiful, isn't she still