Xiao Yan had guessed as much. The elders accompanying Lei Jingxiao and Ling Zhuo offered a glimpse of the truth. Elder Yan, who accompanied Ling Zhuo, was only about as strong as Qing Lin, but the elder with Lei Jingxiao was unfathomable even to her. One of those two elders was also an Alchemist. To have people of such status and strength serve as attendants was luxury taken to the extreme. Only a colossal power with deep foundations could afford it.
"Then where does the Thunder Clan rank among the Dou God Clans?"
"Third."
Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow. For all Lei Jingxiao's confidence, he believed the Thunder Clan ranked only third?
"Who are first and second?"
"The Soul Clan and the Ancient Clan, of course!" Lei Jingxiao answered without hesitation.
There was quite a difference between claiming first place for oneself and having others acknowledge it.
The Ancient Clan and the Soul Clan were powerful enough to win even Lei Jingxiao's wholehearted respect. That alone spoke volumes. Xiao Yan knew the Ancient Clan: it was the clan behind Xun'er. Her father had also been the first person to leave Xiao Yan with a sense that he was invincible, an existence no one could match.
"What's the relationship between the Soul Clan and Soul Hall?" Xiao Yan asked suddenly.
Lei Jingxiao chuckled. "Soul Hall claims there's no relationship, but we all know the truth: the Soul Clan controls it completely!"
Xiao Yan had learned from Yan Di long ago that Soul Hall and the Soul Clan were connected. Now he fell silent, pondering. He still carried a secret: members of the Soul Clan had tried to intercept and kill Yan Di and him in the spatial passage to the Central Plains.
Xiao Yan had kept the matter to himself and