Seeing the Spirit Clan's chief like that, the chiefs of the other clans were also filled with complicated feelings they could hardly put into words.
In the past, the Spirit Clan had indeed been the weakest of the Ancient Eight Clans. Even the Hun Clan, crippled as it had been back then, had barely spared the Spirit Clan a glance, let alone the other clans.
Only the Stone Clan had been somewhat close to this fellow sufferer.
Yet none of them had expected the Spirit Clan to ascend to heaven in a single step, suddenly gaining eight combatants powerful enough to suppress even a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
They even possessed a bloodline that was highly sought after in the Great Thousand World.
For those who had once looked down on the Spirit Clan, the contrast was staggering.
Still, whatever their feelings about that contrast, they no longer regarded the Spirit Clan as the weakest. Instead, they placed tremendous importance on the Spirit-Gathering Clan bloodline Xiao Yan had mentioned.
According to Xiao Yan, after ascending to the Great Thousand World, having a friend or even a cultivation partner from the Spirit Clan would be an enormous help to their cultivation.
Thus, they had already secretly resolved to improve the treatment of clansmen married to members of the Spirit Clan once they returned. They would even begin openly offering rewards: anyone who became partners with a Spirit Clan member would receive corresponding resources from their clan.
"Hehe, everyone, don't envy the Spirit Clan's good fortune too much. Several Heavenly Sovereign Experts from our Dou Qi Continent lineage fell in the Great Thousand World back then. Perhaps they all left opportunities behind for the descendants of the Dou Qi Continent.
"Once you complete your conversion to spiritual energy in the Great Thousand