According to Li Zhong's account, more than eight hundred years ago, when Lei Yunfeng—Lei Yanche's grandfather—was still the head of the Lei Clan—
Aside from the Lei Clan, which possessed considerable strength in Anye City, there had also been a family surnamed Ye. They were similarly powerful enough to wrestle with the Lei Clan!
Lei Nanmu, then the Lei Clan's eldest young master, was framed and ambushed by the Ye Family during one of his excursions for training!
By the time he dragged his battered, near-dead body back to the clan, he was practically breathing out more than he breathed in!
In order to save Lei Nanmu, the Lei Clan had paid a hefty price to invite a seventh-grade alchemist from the White Coral Immortal Realm to refine a life-saving pill!
And after Lei Nanmu was rescued, although he had nearly died after being besieged by several men in black—
While fighting desperately, he had risked his life to rip off the masks worn by several of his attackers, masks meant to shield their faces from divine-sense scrutiny. He saw that those who had besieged him were members of the Ye Family!
Afterward, Lei Yunfeng brought the Lei Clan's upper ranks to the Ye Family to demand an explanation!
Who would have thought that Ye Xiongyun, the Ye Family's head at the time, flatly refused to admit that the Ye Family had done it? He even claimed that the Ye Family had no such people as those Lei Nanmu described!
After that, the Lei Clan and the Ye Family engaged in open and covert struggles for several decades, until Lei Yunfeng seized an opening in the Ye Family's defenses and mobilized the entire Lei Clan to successfully crush them completely!
After that great battle, the Lei Clan established its strength