"The Wang Clan," Xu Chuan murmured.
"What, you know them?" True Person Yunding looked at Xu Chuan.
"The first aristocratic clan to approach me about cooperating was the Wang Clan."
"I see." True Person Yunding stroked his beard and nodded, then continued, "The Wang Clan produced a genius with a true spiritual root. I heard he has an Ice Attribute Bloodline. Rather than his lineage's cultivation art, he practices an ice-attribute technique they paid dearly to obtain.
"Now that he has acquired this High-Grade Magical Artifact, the Iceedge Sword, his strength will likely climb another level."
"An Ice Attribute Bloodline?"
"Something that occasionally arises through marriages between aristocratic clans. Once someone reaches Foundation Establishment and specializes in a cultivation technique of a particular origin energy attribute, their bloodline naturally undergoes some changes.
"But not everyone in an aristocratic clan is born with one. Those who are can cultivate a corresponding technique thirty to forty percent faster than they would an ordinary cultivation art."
Xu Chuan nodded slightly, recalling Xu Dezhao's false fire virtue bloodline. If he cultivated a fire-attribute art in the future, it would likewise give him a ten to twenty percent boost.
If it were a complete fire virtue bloodline, perhaps it would be comparable to the bloodlines of those Foundation Establishment Clans.
Could the Yang Household have had a Foundation Establishment cultivator among its ancestors, with only a branch surviving to this day after losing its inheritance?
After pondering briefly, Xu Chuan set aside the matter of the Yang Household and asked curiously, "What cultivation level has that true spiritual root genius reached?"
"Eighteen years old, at the Qi Refining Seventh-Layer Peak."
"Then he truly is a genius."
"Nothing but resources piled upon resources." A trace of disdain seemed to flash through True Person Yunding's eyes.
"Haha,