The young man's voice rang across Tiangang Continent, shaking the heavens and earth with its thunderous echo. It brimmed with authority, and his fierce confidence pressed down on everyone.
He looked down over the people present, his gaze proud. Though this place teemed with geniuses, he seemed to be the one who stood above them all!
"The Xia Clan...?!"
The emperors of the High-Level Heavenly Vault furrowed their brows. They had no impression of this surname. So that force had a clan like this, too?
Even the great figures of Quasi-Hegemon Level from the High-Level Heavenly Vault looked puzzled, unfamiliar with the "Xia Clan."
Even with their strength and status, they had never heard of it.
But the gazes of a few Old Monsters among them shifted again and again. They had lived for countless years and were already peak War Emperor Grade beings. Over those long years, they seemed to remember hearing the Ancient Ancestors in their clans mention this surname.
Later, however, the Ancient Ancestors had said that this surname was taboo in the High-Level Heavenly Vault. Like that clan and that force, it could not be spoken of; they could only call it "that."
"The Xia Clan!?" The awakened Ancient Ancestors of the High-Level Heavenly Vault turned their eyes toward the young man. Their descendants might not know, but how could they?
The people of this surname possessed talent, insight, and strength no less than that extraordinary clan. But there were fewer of them, and they were more discreet. Since ancient times, there had been few legends about them.
Because most of the time, they had no need to act.
That extraordinary clan alone could openly sweep aside every enemy!
"Quite unexpected. They actually forced out an heir of this discreet surname." In the Seventeenth Layer Heavenly