"Hiss!"
Lei Dong rose to his feet, a streak of pitch-black lightning flashing across his body. Lightning flickered around him as he transformed into a bolt of seething thunder and, in an instant, crashed onto the Competition Stage.
Seeing Lei Dong act so quickly, the members of the various clans watched him charge into the arena with curiosity in their eyes.
"Lei Dong seems to have already stepped halfway into the Dou Zun realm..."
(His strength can be gauged against Xun'er's. At this point, Xiao Yan was only a late-stage Dou Emperor, so it should be normal for Xun'er to be a little more than a major realm ahead of him. Thus, Xun'er should have just broken through to Dou Zun. Xun'er and Hun Feng are set as Dou Zun, while the other geniuses of the ancient clans range from late-stage Dou Zong to peak Dou Zong.)
Searching gazes from the ancient clans settled on Lei Dong in the arena. He truly lived up to his standing as the successor favored by the Lei Clan's Clan Chief. At such a young age, he had already found the threshold of the Dou Zun realm.
On the continent, anyone who reached the Dou Huang realm by thirty was considered exceptionally talented. Yet these youths of the ancient clans were already advancing toward the Dou Zun realm in their early twenties. No wonder so many members of the ancient clans looked down on the continent's so-called geniuses.
Among the Yan Clan, a young man immediately rose from his seat upon seeing Lei Dong enter the arena, paying no heed to what those around him might think.
Of the Ancient Eight Clans, setting aside the Xiao Clan, which existed in name only, the remaining seven could be roughly ranked by strength.
The Gu Clan