The words "Holy Eagle Pearl" made Yuan Changkong, Yuan Yi, Yuan Ying Shu, and the others turn ashen.
Never mind how shocking Ye Zhen's condition was—merely the fact that Ye Zhen knew the words "Holy Eagle Pearl" meant that the Holy Eagle Family's secret had been exposed.
The Holy Eagle Pearl was the key to the Holy Eagle Family's Bloodline Divine Ability, its most closely guarded secret.
Yuan Changkong and the others immediately suspected that Yuan Hongying, Yuan Yinying, and the others whom Ye Zhen had captured alive had leaked it.
Otherwise, how could Ye Zhen possibly know such a top-secret matter?
At that thought, Yuan Changkong and the others had the urge to kill Yuan Yinying and the rest on the spot.
Now that Ye Zhen had spoken of it before these Sacred Priests of the Ancestral God Hall, the secret of the Holy Eagle Family's Holy Eagle Pearl was likely impossible to keep.
It would not become common knowledge, but the people of the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall would certainly know.
Yet at this moment, no amount of rage or fury was of any use.
Though they dearly wished to kill whoever had leaked the secret, Yuan Changkong and the others still had to negotiate with Ye Zhen.
Just as Sacred Priest Mo Yu had said, if those seven direct-bloodline members were lost, the Holy Eagle Family could very well face the extinction of its bloodline.
"Marshal Ye knows of my clan's Holy Eagle Pearl. That truly surprises me. However, Marshal Ye should know that, as you said, our Holy Eagle Pearls are cultivated from childhood and fused as one with our bloodlines and flesh. Even if we wished to give them to you, it would be impossible," Yuan Ying Shu refused.
Hearing this, Ye Zhen merely