Xiao Yan froze slightly at those words. He had only ever seen such breezy composure in one other young man.
Jiang Yun!
That peerless Heavenly Prodigy whose brilliance astonished everyone, whom even his teacher praised endlessly, also possessed the composure of someone with everything in his grasp.
Nodding, Xiao Yan lifted the teacup before him in a distant toast.
Seeing Xiao Yan's response, Gu Zhen smiled and asked softly, "Do you know why the clan opposes your relationship with the young lady so strongly?"
"Is it because of the Dou Di Bloodline?" Xiao Yan paused slightly, then caught on and ventured a guess.
Through Yun Yi, he had already lifted the mysterious veil surrounding Xun'er's family today: descendants of a legendary Dou Di.
He had little conception of just how powerful a Dou Di was, but seeing those Dou Zuns serving as Xun'er's guards, he could roughly guess.
The answer was simply suffocating!
"It is indeed the Dou Di Bloodline!" Gu Zhen gave Xiao Yan an approving look and confirmed it.
"The Gu Clan lives within the Ancient Realm and has an enormous population of descendants. They are the foundation of the Gu Clan. All Ancient Clan Descendants possess the Ancient Emperor Bloodline. Though it is so thin as to be negligible, mutations occasionally occur. They provide the Gu Clan with an endless supply of fresh blood!"
"But precisely because that bloodline is so thin, outside bloodlines can easily overwhelm the Ancient Emperor Bloodline. That is why the Gu Clan never marries outsiders!"
Gu Zhen paused here, then looked at Xiao Yan and said, "That applies to ordinary descendants, and it also applies to the Gu Clan's core members. The prohibition against marrying outsiders is even written into our clan rules."
"Young Lady Xun'er has the purest bloodline our clan