"Lord Phoenix King, honestly, we can only rely on you. If Yu Xiaogang... if he really brings his father back, we'll be finished. His father is a Titled Douluo. No matter what, he's still the legitimate son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Though he isn't the eldest, he was still born to his father's legally wedded wife."
How much deterrence did Yu Xiaogang's status as the legitimate son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan have in the eyes of ordinary soul masters? Especially among lower-class, small-town soul masters with no backing, Yu Xiaogang's identity as the "legitimate son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan" had a layered effect. Moreover, its weight was completely different in the first and second halves of his life.
The weight carried by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's name itself
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was one of the Upper Three Sects, possessing the "number one Beast Martial Soul in the world." Its clan leader, Yu Yuanzhen, was a level 95 Titled Douluo, the Thunder Douluo. Even Spirit Hall had to give the entire clan some face.
To ordinary soul masters:
Disciples of the Upper Three Sects = people standing at the pinnacle of the soul master world
Legitimate son = the clan leader's biological son, a "young clan leader" who might inherit the clan in the future
Offending him ≈ indirectly slapping the Blue Lightning Clan in the face ≈ having a Titled Douluo's lightning strike your head
Therefore, judging solely by the title of "Yu Yuanzhen's eldest son," he was genuinely someone ordinary soul masters could not afford to offend. Even if he himself was trash, his bloodline alone was a protective talisman.
However, in the original story, Yu Xiaogang's situation was that he had broken half of