"Young clan leader, I have an idea, but I don't know whether I should speak."
All of a sudden, the guard in front of him spoke.
"Go ahead."
"Young clan leader, the clan's rules say that we can only marry within the clan. I've been in love with a woman from outside the clan for many years, but because of that rule, I can't give her any official standing. I don't want anyone but her. Young clan leader, could you grant my wish?"
With that, the guard fell to his knees with a thud.
He knocked his head on the ground several times before Yu Tianheng.
Traces of blood had already appeared on his forehead.
Hearing this, Yu Tianheng shot to his feet.
How could I have forgotten about that?
To ensure the purity of its bloodline, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had maintained this rule for who knew how many years.
It was precisely because of this that the clan had never had a particularly large population.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was not alone; many other prestigious clans were the same.
After thinking for a moment, Yu Tianheng spoke.
"Pass on my order: from now on, that rule is abolished! Let our bloodline spread beyond the clan and welcome outsiders in!"
"Thank you, young clan leader! Thank you, young clan leader!"
The guard's eyes were brimming with tears.
After kowtowing to Yu Tianheng a few more times, he hurried out of the hall.
But once the news spread, it immediately met with opposition from quite a few highly respected old fossils in the clan.
In their eyes, the purity of the bloodline was what mattered most.
If they could not even guarantee the bloodline's purity, how could there still be a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in the future?
Several old fossils went straight to the clan leader's hall.
They wanted to persuade Yu Tianheng to rescind the decision!
Yu Tianheng had long known they would come, so he sat in the clan leader's chair and waited.
"Clan leader, we absolutely cannot let the bloodline spread outside the clan!"
"Clan leader, if the clan ends up with all sorts of jumbled Martial Souls in the future, how can it still be the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"
"We hope the clan leader will reconsider!"
"..."
The old fossils bowed to Yu Tianheng, then spoke one after another in a rapid-fire barrage.
Yu Tianheng showed no sign of panic, his expression calm.
Strictly speaking, the people before him were of his grandfather's generation.
"Everyone, I understand your concerns. Letting the bloodline spread outside the clan will have no effect on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."
"The only thing the bloodline can affect is the Martial Soul. If someone doesn't have the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul but has Innate Full Soul Power, do you think we should simply leave him to fend for himself?"
Those two brief remarks immediately left the old fossils speechless.
Someone with Innate Full Soul Power was undoubtedly a genius!
As long as it was not a Trash Martial Soul, his future achievements would surely be limitless!
Seeing them fall into thought, Yu Tianheng continued.
"Our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has only this many people at present, and fewer than five hundred children are born each year. Of those five hundred, how many do you think will have Innate Soul Power above rank seven? But if there were five thousand newborns, how many do you think there would be?"
Yu Tianheng's words were simple and clear.
He had gone straight to the heart of the current problem.
At most, spreading the bloodline outside the clan would only affect Martial Souls.
Seeing that the old fossils could not find a word to say for quite some time,
Yu Tianheng waved his hand and said,
"I know you are highly respected in the clan. If you think there's a problem with what I've said, you can first select a few clan members and observe them. If spreading the bloodline outside the clan doesn't turn out as I've said, then we'll do as you suggest. How about it?"
Yu Tianheng's approach combined firmness with persuasion, leaving the old fossils at a complete loss for how to refuse.
After a long while, the elderly man leading them nodded and said,
"Then we'll do as you say for now."
The spreading of the bloodline outside the clan and the development of Soul Tools were both in full swing.
Afterward, Yu Tianheng made another announcement.
The clan could not focus solely on cultivating Soul Power; it also had to pay attention to cultivating Qi and blood and the physical body.
When the clan members first heard this rule, they looked at one another.
They could not understand the point of it.
For thousands of years, Soul Power had reigned supreme on the continent.
No matter how far a person cultivated their Qi and blood and physical body, they could never withstand a single blow from a Titled Douluo.
How could a mortal body of flesh compare to a Martial Soul?
Otherwise, how could there be any trash in this world who could not cultivate?
Everyone should have been a top expert.
Faced with the clan members' doubts, Yu Tianheng did not immediately explain.
Instead, he summoned all the clan's high-level Soul Masters above rank sixty.
Leading these high-level Soul Masters, he began developing the Nine Thunder Dragon Moves.
To this day, Yu Tianheng could not forget the sight of someone unleashing the Nine Golden Dragon Moves.
If they could also develop similar moves,
then the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's strength would surely rise to a whole new level.
Several months passed, and the research into Soul Tools had already produced considerable results.
The craftsmen had developed a first-level Defensive Soul Tool, the Falling Light Silver Shield, and a first-level offensive Soul Tool, Fire in the Palm.
Yu Tianheng once again gathered the clan members and began demonstrating what Soul Tools could do.
When they saw the strange-looking thing in Yu Tianheng's hand,
the clan members' faces were full of confusion.
What was that thing? How come they had never seen it before?
As Soul Power was fed into the Heavenly Cannon, it suddenly fired a Soul Power shell.
It blasted a boulder in front of Yu Tianheng to pieces.
Its power was already about equal to a Soul Grandmaster's full-strength strike.
Yu Tianheng suddenly felt that demonstrating it himself might not be quite appropriate.
The clan members might even think it was his own power that had caused it.
After looking around, Yu Tianheng fixed his gaze on a child with rank-seven Soul Power.
Yu Tianheng reached out and beckoned the child over.
At the same time, he placed the Heavenly Cannon in the child's hands.
After briefly explaining how to operate it,
he motioned for the child to pull the trigger at another boulder not far away.
Soul Power flowed in, and another shell roared out.
Its power was almost no different from when Yu Tianheng had operated it!
This time, everyone present was dumbfounded.
What was going on?
A Soul Scholar with rank-seven Soul Power could actually unleash an attack like that?
It completely defied common sense!
Seeing the mixture of confusion and surprise on everyone's faces,
Yu Tianheng cleared his throat twice and explained,
"This is a device I specifically assigned people to develop. It's called a Soul Tool, and it can be used simply by feeding Soul Power into it. Does anyone else want to try?"
As soon as he said that, quite a few clan members scrambled to volunteer.
They had never even heard of anything so novel, much less seen one!
The use of a first-level Soul Tool was indeed limited.
That was the greatest power it could achieve.
But since they could develop first-level Soul Tools,
more advanced ones would not be a problem in the future, as long as enough was invested.