Some time earlier, Chen Ming had happened to encounter Bai He and Bai Chenxiang leading a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast toward his territory. Bai Chenxiang had suffered a backlash when her absorption of its spirit ring was interrupted. In the end, this had set off a chain of events that left Bai He with no choice but to move the Speed Clan into Chen Ming's territory.
At first, this incident had indeed made the Breaking Clan and the Defense Clan feel betrayed by the Speed Clan. Yet it was precisely this chance twist of fate that had made the Speed Clan, originally the closest to the Clear Sky Sect, the only one of the Three Great Single-Attribute Sects to escape the Clear Sky Sect's vicious clutches.
Faced with this situation, Tang Xiao had plenty of thoughts of his own. But whenever he remembered that Bai He was his uncle, and that he had nestled in his uncle's arms and acted spoiled as a child, he chose to ignore the Speed Clan's existence.
Despite some considerable setbacks, Tang Xiao ultimately achieved his objective. The Breaking Clan and the Defense Clan were forced to hand over their outstanding young spirit masters who met the age requirements. But the strength of those two spirit masters made Tang Xiao frown.
Both were merely Soul Elders in their thirties. Because they had invested everything into maximizing a single attribute, they were stronger than ordinary spirit masters, but on a stage like that, they would be less effective than ordinary Soul Ancestors.
Although they were not as extreme as the Four Great Single-Attribute Families, who could only obtain spirit rings from the same kind of spirit beast, the Heaven Dou Empire's advanced soul master academies, led by the Five Elemental Academies, also followed the path of single-attribute