"Xun'er can't compare to Brother Xiao Ling. You reached the One-Star Great Dou Master level purely through your talent. I wonder how Brother Xiao Ling managed to cultivate so quickly."
Xun'er lifted her delicate little face, as lovely as a porcelain doll, and tilted her head. Her expressive, wide eyes studied the young man in front of her again and again, as if she were trying to see through him.
But she was clearly disappointed. After staring at him for a long while and still seeing nothing, she had no choice but to give up.
In truth, it wasn't just her—even Gu Yuan might not be able to see through the system.
Only a Dou Di might be able to detect a clue, and that was only because the system was currently at level one.
Hearing this, Xiao Ling looked down at the little girl in his arms in surprise.
He hadn't expected her to awaken her bloodline so early. If those old fogeys in the Ancient Clan found out, they'd insist on taking her back.
After all, when the girl in front of him had first awakened her bloodline, its grade had reached the Ninth Grade. To the Ancient Eight Clans, that made her a future Dou Sheng.
And Xun'er's bloodline wasn't merely Ninth Grade—it was at the peak of the Tenth Grade.
"God-Tier Bloodline."
To the Ancient Eight Clans, a Tenth-Grade God-Tier Bloodline meant there was a sliver of a chance to break through the Dou Di barrier.
Even that tiny chance was enough to drive them mad.
If the Ancient Clan found out, Xun'er would definitely be taken back.
After all, Xun'er had currently awakened a Ninth-Grade Bloodline. Given the attitude of those elders in the Ancient Clan, they would never let her be with a