So many years had passed, yet that lazy voice hadn't changed at all...
Raine looked at Xi Ye with mixed emotions, and distant memories rose in his mind once more...
From the moment he was born, his father had been extremely strict with him. He had begun warrior guidance training at two or three years old, something rarely seen even among the fiercely competitive Great Clans.
A young person's temperament was unstable. Forcing a child to practice martial arts from an early age often triggered rebelliousness and made them increasingly evasive. More patient families usually guided their children gradually instead of directly training them as warriors.
But sometimes things were different—for example, when it was necessary to gain an advantage as quickly as possible.
When a clan's resources were limited, the earlier a child stood out and revealed their talent, the more easily resources would be directed toward them. The reason his father had made him work so hard from the age of two or three was that his second uncle—his father's younger brother—had married into the nobility of the Night Demon Clan!
His second uncle had been the most talented child of his generation, and after joining with a noble of the Night Demon Clan, he had made many of the clan's elders look forward to the descendants born to his family.
In other words, before Xi Ye had even been born, Raine had already been chasing after him!
This sort of thing might not have been uncommon among the Great Clans of the universe, but experiencing it firsthand had been truly unpleasant. While everyone around him enjoyed their childhood and acted without restraint, he had been building his foundation and practicing his skills. When those around him slacked off and caused trouble, he had still been building his