"Wasn't that surprising?"
Seeing Li Yun's face full of shock, the Cracked Heaven Crown Prince asked with great interest.
"Uh... hehe, it was quite surprising."
"You don't suspect that I'm deceiving you?"
"Uh... Your Highness truly loves to joke. Someone like me is merely a newly advanced Heavenly Human Realm cultivator. I'm penniless—what could possibly be worth your trouble to deceive me over?"
"Not necessarily!"
The Cracked Heaven Crown Prince sneered. "Those people of the White Emperor Family all think I came for them, but that is not the case at all. The main reason I personally came to White Emperor City was to see you and, while I was at it, bring you back to acknowledge your ancestors and return to your clan."
Damn!
Li Yun instantly sprang up from his seat.
"Your Highness, you can't be serious... are you really for real?"
"What are you saying? If I didn't come steamed, was I supposed to come boiled? If I wasn't taking you back to acknowledge your ancestors and return to your clan, why would I waste so much breath on you?"
"Simply because we are both members of the Li Clan?"
"Don't make me laugh. If I said that, I'm afraid even you wouldn't believe it."
"But in truth, over the past century, seventeen members of the Li Clan have been brought back through me to acknowledge their ancestors and return to the clan... I hope you can become the eighteenth."
"Why?"
Li Yun drew a deep breath. "What benefit does doing this bring to Your Highness?"
The Cracked Heaven Crown Prince said, "Of course it brings benefits!"
"May I ask what they are?"
"Hehe, to put it bluntly, it is all for the Wood Emperor Palace. During the ancient era, Ancestor Wood Emperor left the Ancient Celestial