What Is a Young Master? The Entire Sect's Strength, Raising Up One Man

At this moment, Ning Zhenyuan, the Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, stepped forward and gave Yu Yuanzhen a slight nod.

"Sect Master Yu, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is ready."

At the same time, the elders of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan began to move.

With solemn expressions, they raised their hands one after another, placing peculiar stones around the Body Refinement grounds.

These stones were no ordinary kind.

They were pale blue and jade-like throughout, with threads of lightning slowly flowing within them.

As the stones were placed on the ground, they emitted a droning hum like a Dragon Roar, their radiance intertwining with the lightning of the Thunder Pool.

Jade Marrow Thunder Stones!

Quite a few Sect Elders felt their hearts bleed as they watched the formation formed from thirty-six Jade Marrow Thunder Stones.

The Sect Records stated that such strange stones could only occasionally be found within the core of lightning ore veins.

The purity of the lightning energy they contained was more than ten times that of ordinary Thunderstones!

Even rarer, they carried a faint trace of dragon aura, making them nearly a perfect match for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.

Every single one was a treasured reserve of the sect, never to be used lightly except for a peerless genius.

Yet this time, they had taken out thirty-six of them!

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had truly gone all out this time.

Not only had they emptied out their accumulated Body Refinement resources, but they had also made heavy promises to the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, paying a genuine price to invite both sects to serve as Guardians with their full strength.

This was because the sect's Body Refinement inheritance recorded that the first Body Refinement of a Soul Master was the most important.

At this stage, a Soul Master's Physical Body had yet to fully take shape. Like an uncut jade stone, its capacity to absorb lightning energy and immense Medicinal Power was at the peak of its entire life.

The foundation laid during this first attempt would directly determine the upper limit of one's future path of Body Refinement.

Trying to achieve the same result afterward would require several times, or even more than ten times, the resources and time—and still might not succeed.

Since Yu Xiaoheng had been recognized by the entire sect as their hope for the future, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had resolved to spare no cost in paving a path to the heavens for him!

Looking at everything before him—

The precious medicinal liquid in the barrel, Golden Light flowing through it as its fragrance nearly became tangible.

The thirty-six Jade Marrow Thunder Stones surrounding the area, drawing upon the Thunder Pool's lightning to form a humming Body Refinement Formation.

And the chilling sight of elite Disciples from two of the Upper Three Sects standing ready behind Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan.

Yu Xiaoheng was completely stunned.

His lips moved as he unconsciously murmured four words.

"Blue Lightning... Young Master..."

Only at this moment did he truly understand the weight carried by those four words.

It was not merely a title, nor merely an identity.

It was the entire sect's wholehearted support and protection!

Around the Thunder Pool, every Blue Lightning Sect Disciple held his breath, unable to conceal the fervor on his face as he waited to witness the Young Master's transformation.

Only one person's face turned livid. He suddenly reached out and tightly seized an Elder's sleeve!

Yu Xiaogang!

His voice became shrill with overwhelming rage.

"What are you doing? Why? Why are you giving all of this to Yu Xiaoheng?"

The Elder whose sleeve he had grabbed frowned, but seeing Yu Xiaogang's twisted expression, he ultimately did not flare up.

Yu Xiaogang stared fixedly at the thirty-six Jade Marrow Thunder Stones, his eyes bloodshot.

"What about mine?!"

He practically howled the words.

"Wasn't it agreed that when I underwent Body Refinement at twelve, three Jade Marrow Thunder Stones would be activated for me?!"

"Now you've used them all! What am I supposed to use?!"

The air instantly froze.

Even the lightning hanging above the Thunder Pool, poised but unreleased, seemed to grow much quieter.

Tang Wei of the Clear Sky Sect, Ning Zhenyuan of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and even the patriarchs of the Four Great Families all showed a trace of awkwardness.

This was an internal matter of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. As outsiders, they truly could not interfere.

Who could have expected it?

Yu Xiaogang, the man rumored to be refined and elegant, praised as the "Blue Lightning Kirin Child," would actually make such a disgraceful scene at such an important occasion, right before the Sect Masters of two Upper Three Sects.

What he had shamed was the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

Yet Yu Xiaogang, standing at the center of the storm, was exceptionally clear-headed.

He had not lost his mind.

Just moments ago, he had still been secretly pleased with himself for having "defeated" Yu Xiaoheng through theoretical knowledge.

Yu Xiaoheng had once said something.

"There are no worthless Martial Souls, only worthless Soul Masters."

Yu Xiaogang had to admit that perhaps those words were right.

He and Yu Xiaoheng were twins. Their Martial Soul origins came from the same root, and their paths of evolution were also very likely the same.

It was only because that damned Yu Xiaoheng had stolen most of the bloodline power while they were still in their mother's womb that his Innate Soul Power was left at a pitiful Level 0.7!

Now that things had come to this, blaming heaven and others was useless. Only action remained!

The family's Body Refinement manuals recorded that after some exceptionally talented Disciples succeeded in their first Body Refinement, their Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls would undergo subtle evolution.

Perhaps their dragon scales would become more compact, perhaps their dragon bodies would become more majestic, or perhaps the lightning clinging to them would take on a faint violet hue.

Though such improvements were small, they were fundamental leaps!

He firmly believed that his Martial Soul, like Yu Xiaoheng's, was one capable of evolving!

Therefore, he was determined to obtain those three Jade Marrow Thunder Stones!

But now Yu Xiaoheng alone had used thirty-six! The sect's reserves had practically been emptied—where could they possibly squeeze out another three for him? Even if they had them, they would need to preserve them as a Core Flame for any other geniuses who might appear in the future!

So he could only make a scene!

He had to make the matter bigger in front of all these outsiders!

With everyone watching, the Sect Elders could not openly condemn him for the sake of their dignity.

And the ordinary Disciples, under the pressure of Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan, would not dare to descend into the same chaos as during the Martial Soul Awakening and attack him.

This was his only chance!

Yu Xiaogang slowly straightened his back.

He had already thought it through. The moment the elders gave even the slightest concession, he would immediately take the offered way out and settle the matter.

Yu Xiaoheng had once believed that it was easier to change rivers and mountains than to alter one's nature.

He had been wrong.

Yu Xiaogang had changed.

From the Brother who had lived alongside him day and night, he had learned something.

The tenacity to never give up until one achieved one's goal.

Yu Xiaogang had seen all of Yu Xiaoheng's past persistence.

That had been the path of the eldest brother who had always been smarter and more mature than himself.

Only later had Yu Xiaoheng "neglected his proper duties," giving rise to the saying that Blue Lightning Sect's future belonged to Xiao Gang.

Now...

In his despair, Yu Xiaogang had chosen the same path as well.

He chose the path of the person he had looked up to as a child.

Now that things had come to this, he could only fight!

He would study theoretical knowledge, then seize every resource he could.

Fight his way onto a path!

My Martial Soul may not be unable to evolve just like Xiaoheng's!

Yu Xiaogang felt that he had already taken the first step, but...

Just then—