Xiang Yuan had arrived late and hadn't heard Bai Shumo's earlier conversation with Elder Shui, so he had failed to catch the key term, Ancient God Clan. Otherwise, with his brain and the clues at hand, he definitely would have deduced the truth.
But no key term was no problem. With a turn of his quick little mind, Xiang Yuan immediately concluded that Xu Jixian's bloodline was extraordinary. For Ana Heiyan to make such a huge spectacle, blood-sacrifice an entire city, and personally take the seat herself, this bloodline clearly had an immense origin.
Thinking of the native legends of Earth Dragon Fort and the former site of the fiendish god altar on Little Sesame Mountain, then looking at Xu Jixian beneath the divine statue, Xiang Yuan swiftly sorted out a line of reasoning, made a bold hypothesis, and reached a conclusion.
The reason Xu Jixian was ugly wasn't because the Xu Family had bad genes. Quite the opposite—the Xu Family's genes were simply like that. Ugly had its reasons.
If Xu Jixian had been born with delicate features and fair looks, that would have been the real problem.
The Ancient God Clan was born with boundless strength and innate divine abilities. Countless people wanted to be ugly like that, yet even kneeling and begging wouldn't get them through the door!
Xiang Yuan's thoughts spread outward as he recalled his experience in the blood pool last time, a thoughtful look rising in his heart.
His gaze swept around the great formation in all directions, but he found no source for the blood pool. Suspicion stirred within him, and he cast a divination with Seven Hearts Divination.
The opportunity lay right here!
Xiang Yuan looked beneath his feet, thanking nature for its bounty. Right then and there, he was about to