"The Qingqiu Li Clan?"
"The Baifang Li Clan?"
Li Yun curled his lip. Of course he couldn't casually claim to belong to either.
"Neither!"
"My surname isn't even Li, actually. It's Li, as in the Wanli Great House!"
"It's just that when you're out in the world, you need a little cover, so I casually gave myself the Li Clan's surname. I can be a Li today and a Chen tomorrow. Or a Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang..."
"Changing a surname is nothing. I can pluck one out at will."
This was pure fucking nonsense.
It made Li Qingyan grit her teeth in fury. She had originally wanted to trace Li Yun's background through his surname and see whether he was lying.
But with Li Yun spouting nonsense like this, how could she trace anything?
She suddenly began to suspect that Li Yun was talking out of his ass, but she had no evidence.
No...
That's not quite right. It isn't as though there's no evidence.
All I have to do is secretly check whether Li Yun carries another Divine Kingdom's brand, and everything will be clear, won't it?
Most people who truly regarded the Wanli Great House as their rightful origin scorned submission to the followers of those True Gods. Their Lineages moved time and again precisely to avoid those followers' expanding influence and being branded by other Divine Kingdoms.
If Li Yun carried another Divine Kingdom's brand, his claim to uphold the Wanli Great House as his rightful heritage wouldn't hold water at all.
Then she wouldn't need to keep wasting words on this fellow.
She could simply seize him and forcibly search his soul.
With a flicker of thought,
Li Qingyan secretly mobilized her authority, enveloping Li Yun without a sound.
The power of a divinity began to