Even among the countless beast-type Spirit Masters on the continent, Yu Yuanzhen stood at the very peak.
Even within the expert-filled Spirit Hall, among all Level 95 Titled Douluo of the same level, not a single one could defeat him.
"Elder Chen, greetings."
Yu Yuanzhen did not seem to possess a personality suited for negotiation. He merely cupped his hands politely toward Chen Ming before directly getting to the point:
"Elder Chen, your talent is extraordinary. Have you ever considered joining my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan? If you are willing, I can promise you the position of Vice Sect Master. Any unmarried woman within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan may be chosen by you."
"The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan is arrogant, but we respect the strong. You are a powerhouse in the field of knowledge, a genius who has broken limits, and one of the people destined to become the strongest in the future. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan respects you."
"Especially since your Martial Soul also belongs to the dragon lineage, you should understand the traditions the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has always upheld, and what the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon represents to ordinary Martial Souls."
"We absolutely will not force you. But if you are willing to join, your children will inherit both your talent and the power of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon."
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was extremely domineering.
The greed and arrogance inherent to dragons were displayed perfectly within them.
In order to seize suitable dragon-type Spirit Beasts and treasures, and to compete for every possible benefit, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had constantly fought throughout its history, repeatedly clashing against other dragon-attributed clans that might threaten them.
Many clans and Martial Souls once regarded as exceptional dragon-type inheritances had been squeezed to death by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan itself.
Their purpose was to monopolize as many dragon-type resources as possible so they could nurture generation after generation of powerful experts.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was not necessarily the strongest dragon-type Martial Soul in existence—
But they absolutely occupied the ecological niche of "the strongest dragon-type Martial Soul inheritance."
That said, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan also genuinely accepted fresh bloodlines.
If Spirit Masters or clans possessing high-quality dragon-type Martial Souls were willing to join them, they would gladly welcome them.
This was because the greatest flaw of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was its extremely high mutation rate.
Even among clan members considered to possess "pure bloodlines," there remained a significant probability that their Martial Souls would mutate into something other than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. And during this mutation process, they were highly susceptible to influence from the other parent's bloodline.
Only by continuously absorbing fresh blood and attempting to merge with the bloodlines of other top-tier dragon-type Martial Souls could they minimize this problem as much as possible.
It was precisely through this continuous absorption and integration with high-quality dragon-type bloodlines that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had grown to its current scale.
At the core of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect stood the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan itself, but beyond that, the sect also contained large numbers of Spirit Masters possessing other dragon-type and sub-dragon Martial Souls.
Quite a few dragon-type clans and sects across the continent had originally split off from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Though not officially considered part of the same family, they still functioned as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's vassals and extensions, responsible for handling various affairs on the clan's behalf.
One had to remember—
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had not merely existed for a few thousand years.
It was a true ancient inheritance that had been passed down continuously since ten thousand years ago.
The predecessor of the Spirit Hall was the Church, a force formed from the bloodline inheritance and followers left behind by the Angel God. Its purpose was to eradicate evil Spirit Beasts and fallen ones, fighting to secure living space for humanity.
Angel-type Martial Souls possessed the ability to increase their cultivation through slaying evil. In the eyes of evil Spirit Masters, they were essentially evil Spirit Masters specifically designed to counter evil Spirit Masters.
During the ancient era, when evil Spirit Beasts and fallen ones were rampant, the Church's power had actually been even greater than the Spirit Hall of today.
Only after the vast majority of evil Spirit Beasts and fallen ones across the continent had been hunted to near extinction did the Church gradually begin to decline, eventually transforming into the modern Spirit Hall.
The driving force behind that transformation had been the Six Great Families. Naturally, the Angel Clan—the Qian family—stood as their leader.
And among the other five families, one of them was the ancestor of the present-day Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
That's right.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had once been a part of the Spirit Hall itself. Its status had been extraordinarily prestigious, even considered one of the Spirit Hall's founding elder families, wielding immense influence within the organization.
It was only later, as the clan continuously grew stronger and its population expanded further and further, that it eventually split away from the Spirit Hall to establish itself as an independent sect. Afterward, due to various reasons, it gradually drifted farther and farther away from the Spirit Hall.
The Spirit Hall's Pope was usually selected from the Angel Clan, but the position was not exclusively reserved for Angel Martial Souls. Occasionally, Popes with different Martial Souls had appeared as well.
If one truly traced things back to their roots, there had even once been a Pope within Spirit Hall history who possessed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
Rumor had it that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan secretly possessed some hidden secret connected to the Angel God. However, even High Priest Qian Daoliu himself did not know what that secret actually was.
Later generations only knew that the Angel God had once descended through divine possession upon a certain generation's High Priest and reached some kind of agreement with the ancestor of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
But what exactly the contents of that agreement were, and why it had been important enough to trigger the Angel God's descent, remained completely unknown.
Still, during that savage and barren era, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit Masters had indeed perfectly fulfilled their responsibilities as members of the Church, relying upon their own power and lightning's natural suppressive effect against evil.
(Setting source from Douluo 3: Gu Yuena glanced at him and said, "Are you deliberately testing me? How could fire elemental control compare to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul? Even among dragons, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon is an extremely powerful existence. It doesn't merely control lightning—the more important aspect is the inheritance of dragon abilities. Strength, speed, and attributes combined into one. As early as twenty thousand years ago, this ancient clan already possessed tremendous power. It was one of the Six Great Families that founded the Spirit Hall. Later, it gradually withdrew from prominence, and there was even once a member who became the Sea God Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy.")
It was precisely because they seized the earliest opportunities and developed aggressively, firmly monopolizing the ecological niche of the strongest dragon-type Martial Soul, that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon—a true dragon Martial Soul that should have been extremely difficult to pass down—managed to reach a population of several hundred members.
This was entirely the result of leveraging their first-mover advantage and snowballing continuously over more than ten thousand years until they reached their current scale.
This kind of tightrope-walking aggressive expansion was both the reason for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's strength in the current era and also the reason why, in later eras, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon could never again become a truly great clan.
Because once they fell from the highest ecological position among dragon-type Spirit Masters, neither other Spirit Masters nor the era itself would ever allow the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to climb back up through the same methods again.
"Senior Yu, I think we should forget about that. If Senior Yu truly wishes for it, perhaps you could discuss it with my teacher instead. I will follow my teacher's opinion."
Yu Yuanzhen was not surprised by Chen Ming's rejection. He merely nodded, seeming instead to relax slightly.
"Very well. Since that is the case, I can at least return with an explanation."
"Elder Chen, the matter I came to discuss this time is also related to cultivation methods. I would like to ask you to specially tailor a cultivation method specifically for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul."