With the Sect in My Hands, It Was Steady as a Rock

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Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Before Deputy Sect Master Yu Luomian stood a girl of about fourteen. She wore a fiery red training outfit, her hair tied in a high ponytail. What stood out most was her figure—despite her young age, she was already well developed.

At that moment, the girl stared coldly at Yu Luomian.

She did not look at him as though he were her father, but like he was a stranger.

"So you came to see me over this? You want me, your illegitimate daughter, to sell my body and dignity to curry favor with some powerful man?"

"Yu Luomian, you really have opened my eyes."

Yu Luomian flew into a rage from shame and rebuked her.

"You insolent brat! Who taught you to speak to your father like that?"

"The person I want you to serve is no ordinary man, but the Supreme Douluo! A powerhouse who reached the Titled Douluo rank at merely twenty years old! According to the sect master, the Supreme Douluo may very well have already reached the pinnacle!"

"If you were not my biological daughter, and if your talent were not passable, how could such a fine opportunity possibly fall to you? Think carefully. Your mother is lowborn and cannot enter the sect."

"If you can render service to the sect, then your lowborn mother will be qualified to enter as well. Even the sect master would have nothing to say, and no one in the sect would dare look down on her!"

At that, Yu Luomian paused, his high-minded tone concealing a hint of contempt.

"Besides, your mother is quite skilled at pleasing men."

"You should have inherited some talent in that regard too."

Liu Erlong's eyes instantly turned red as she roared.

"Yu Luomian, you bastard!"

Yu Luomian's gaze sharpened as he threatened her.

"You dare speak to me like that? Who has been providing you with cultivation resources all these years? Who has been supporting that sickly mother of yours? Without me, you mother and daughter would have long since ended up on the streets!"

"Erlong, think this through!"

"If you do not want this opportunity, plenty of others do! If there were not already so few women in the sect, and even fewer from the direct line who were both talented and beautiful, how would it ever have been your turn?"

Liu Erlong's eyes were bloodshot as tears streamed down her face.

Yu Luomian snorted coldly, flicked his sleeve, and left.

"Wait."

The girl suddenly called after him.

Yu Luomian halted.

"Is what you said true? As long as I... please that important man, the sect will acknowledge Mother, and you will bring her in?"

Yu Luomian said, "Of course it is true."

"Since you have made up your mind, dress yourself up properly. Learn some ladylike manners too. Stop running around with spears and sticks like some tomboy, working yourself into a sweat."

"And stop wearing training clothes. Put on a dress!"

Liu Erlong gave a low "Mm," her eyes hollow.

Mother... did not have much time left.

Her greatest heartache was that Yu Luomian did not acknowledge her, and that the entire Blue Tyrant Sect despised her. She was not even qualified to step through the gates of the Blue Tyrant Sect.

Liu Erlong did not want this woman, whose life was about to burn out, to die amid endless regret and inferiority.

(Liu Erlong, in her youth)

Yu Luomian left the study, returned to the reception hall, and found Yu Yuanzhen.

"Sect Master, Erlong has agreed."

Yu Yuanzhen nodded slightly and asked.

"You did not force her, did you? It must be voluntary."

Yu Luomian said,

"It was voluntary. Sect Master, do you think someone can truly become a Titled Douluo at twenty and break through to the pinnacle at twenty-six?"

Yu Luomian had never met Lu Xuan, and he had always harbored some doubts about the rumored Supreme Douluo.

After all, it was simply too unbelievable!

Yu Yuanzhen did not answer. He merely picked up a stack of intelligence reports from the desk. They were messages sent back by Blue Tyrant Sect personnel in Spirit City.

Yu Luomian picked them up and rapidly flipped through them, his breathing gradually quickening.

"It is actually true!"

"In full view of everyone, the Supreme Douluo fought the Grand Worshipper, Qian Daoliu, and emerged unscathed!"

"He may even... have held the upper hand!"

Yu Luomian had still been somewhat hesitant before. Liu Erlong might have been an illegitimate daughter, but she was still his flesh and blood, and she had innate soul power at rank eight. Her talent was quite good.

Did he really need to send Erlong to please a man?

But now, Yu Luomian no longer had any doubts!

It was worth it!

Even if it was only a one-night affair, it was worth it!

If she happened to become pregnant, the entire Blue Tyrant Sect would benefit immensely!

In the Soul Master world, some powerful figures from small sects or minor clans would sometimes arrange for their concubines or maidservants to sleep with talented commoner Soul Masters. They would even actively provide opportunities, all for the possibility of inheriting that talent.

Of course, such matters were all done in secret and could not see the light of day.

"Now all we have to do is wait for the Supreme Douluo to visit the Blue Tyrant Sect!"

Yu Luomian was brimming with excitement.

Suddenly, rolling thunder echoed throughout the entire Blue Tyrant Sect.

"Yu Yuanzhen! I am the Supreme Douluo! Come out and meet me!"

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian exchanged a look, both stunned.

Speak of the devil, and he arrived!

But why had the Supreme Douluo, who had never liked visiting others, suddenly come calling today?

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian swiftly appeared at the sect gate.

The disciple who had just been about to report the matter was left dumbfounded.

He had barely taken a step, so how had the sect master and deputy sect master suddenly appeared before him?

When he saw the kind, enthusiastic smiles on Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian's faces, the disciple found it even stranger.

What the hell? The sect's two cold-faced kings of hell were smiling so hard today that their faces looked ready to cramp!

Yu Yuanzhen smiled.

"Your Excellency Supreme Douluo, I have long wished to invite you to visit my Blue Tyrant Sect. Yet you have always been so elusive that I never had the chance. I never expected you to honor us with your presence today. It is truly our greatest privilege."

"Please follow me... At any time, Your Excellency Supreme Douluo will be an honored guest of the Blue Tyrant Sect."

"Luomian, go make the arrangements. Have them prepare the proper reception etiquette."

When he mentioned "etiquette," Yu Yuanzhen deliberately emphasized the word.

Yu Luomian immediately understood, though inwardly he regretted not speaking to Erlong sooner. That wild girl was still wearing training clothes, her hair in a high ponytail. She looked crude and uncouth, like a tomboy.

Would His Excellency Supreme Douluo like her?

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian had placed all their attention on Lu Xuan.

As for Yu Xiaogang standing to the side, he was completely ignored.

Lu Xuan was somewhat disappointed too.

He had thought he would get to enjoy a satisfying scene of showing off and slapping faces, but these two old men were being so cooperative... That made things difficult for him.

Beneath the Sky Screen, the audience was equally astonished.

"Damn, is this really the Yu Yuanzhen I know? I saw him from afar once before. His face was colder than ice, and his eyes were sharp and domineering. Why is he acting like such a nice old man before the Supreme Douluo?"

"How boring. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect really judged people by their strength. Could they not show a little backbone? They do not have a shred of the dignity expected from one of the Upper Three Sects."

"Yu Yuanzhen is a capable man! This is how a true man should be—soft when it is time to be soft, hard when it is time to be hard. Who can stay hard all the time? Being hard at the critical moment is what matters!"

"Hiss, is that kind of 'hard' you mean actually proper?"

Within the Blue Tyrant Sect, Yu Yuanzhen looked at his own performance on the Sky Screen and was fairly satisfied.

Was he, Yu Yuanzhen, one of those fools?

With the sect in his hands, it was steady as a rock!