Hearing Jiu You's words, Elder Tianque also felt a sense of helplessness in his heart. "Little Jiu You, have you forgotten that you yourself are also a member of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan?"
Jiu You folded her arms across her chest, propping up her proud curves, let out a cold snort, and turned her head away in an arrogant manner.
Elder Tianque shook his head, deciding not to lower himself to argue with this little girl, and his gaze shifted toward Liu Bai.
"I admit that your talent has indeed exceeded my expectations. Among the younger generation, not to mention my Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, there are probably not many even among other divine beast races who can compare to you."
As for what Liu Bai mentioned about being a battle formation master or an artifact refiner, Elder Tianque did not ask. Whether it was true or not, based solely on the spiritual array talent and strength Liu Bai had already displayed, it was enough for the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan to take him seriously.
"However, Jiu You's status is different. Her importance to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan is something outsiders do not understand. Therefore, I cannot decide this matter on my own. We can only let Jiu You's father, that is the Clan Leader of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, make the decision."
Hearing this, Jiu You's expression changed, and she immediately wanted to say something.
Liu Bai reacted quickly and grabbed her small hand, stopping her.
"Then may I have the honor of meeting the Clan Leader?" Liu Bai asked.
His words immediately caused everyone present to show looks of surprise. Even Jiu You's expression changed drastically as she wanted to stop him, but before she could speak, Liu Bai's smile blocked her words.
"Boy, do you know the consequences of doing this?" Elder Tianque asked in astonishment.
Although Liu Bai's array strength was impressive, that was only for those below Earth Sovereign. Such strength and talent might not necessarily move the Clan Leader of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan. At that time, a human entering the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan alone would truly have no one backing him.
Liu Bai nodded calmly. "I know."
Seeing Liu Bai's composed expression, Elder Tianque could not tell whether this was confidence or arrogance. However, Liu Bai's willingness to risk himself for Jiu You gave him a faint sense of satisfaction.
In fact, even he himself did not realize that since Liu Bai appeared, his impression of him had shifted greatly from initial disdain and anger to something entirely different.
"Very well. It seems I really need to re evaluate you. Although I still do not believe you are worthy of the little princess of my Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, I can bring you back to the clan and give you a chance."
"Thank you, Elder Tianque."
The decision was soon made.
Throughout this process, Jiu You's small hand was held by Liu Bai. She looked anxious, with many words bottled up inside her, yet she could not speak them out, each time gently restrained by Liu Bai.
As for Mandala, this was not a moment where she could interfere, so she could only let Liu Bai make his own decision.
"Good. Then we will depart in three days. During these days, we will trouble the Domain Lord," Elder Tianque said after confirming the departure time with Liu Bai, clasping his fists toward Mandala.
"Elder Tianque is too polite. Xiao Meng, go arrange accommodations for Elder Tianque," Mandala replied.
The Sleeping Emperor stepped forward, accepted the order, and left.
Mandala then turned her gaze to Liu Bai, sizing him up for a long while before speaking. "I am very curious. What gave you such confidence to dare go to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan? Once you arrive there, no one will be able to stand behind you. At that time, even Jiu You may not be able to protect you."
Liu Bai smiled slightly. "Mandala, you are being too violent. Why do you only think about fighting and killing? I am going there just to meet Jiu You's parents, not to fight."
Today, the last layer of ambiguity between him and Jiu You had finally been pierced, everything progressing naturally.
Mandala's delicate face was full of speechlessness. Her dark eyes stared at Liu Bai as if she were looking at a fool.
"Are you truly foolish, or are you pretending in front of me? Do you really not know what you will face?"
Liu Bai smiled calmly. "It is still the same answer. As long as I show enough ability to earn recognition, will not everything you worry about cease to be a problem?"
Hearing this, Jiu You and the others were shaken. Even Mandala, who had already suspected something, felt shocked in her heart. "I am very curious where your confidence comes from."
Liu Bai wore a mysterious expression and said lightly, "This is the confidence of an array grandmaster."
"Grandmaster?"
At this moment, all the high level figures of the Great Heavenlaw Domain present were stunned.
"Are you sure you did not misspeak? A grandmaster, not a master?" Mandala stared deeply at Liu Bai, her tone more solemn than ever.
Liu Bai nodded, and Mandala let out a long breath.
"If that is truly the case, then you have really given me a huge surprise."
The Sky Vulture Emperor and Spiritual Pupil Emperor also reacted at this moment. Each of them looked at Liu Bai with eyes full of shock and intense eagerness.
"Domain Lord, if little friend Liu Bai is truly an array grandmaster, then when the Grand Hunt Battle arrives," the Sky Vulture Emperor said, leaving his words unfinished, but everyone understood his meaning.
"Yes, the Grand Hunt Battle," Mandala smiled faintly, then her expression turned serious as she said coldly, "This matter is limited to the Three Emperors. In the future, everything about Liu Bai in the Great Heavenlaw Domain will remain as usual. Do you understand?"
"Yes," the Sky Vulture Emperor and Spiritual Pupil Emperor replied respectfully.
As for Jiu You and Liu Bai.
"You two should be careful when going to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan this time. Do not end up unable to return and leave me rejoicing in vain," Mandala said to them.
Liu Bai smiled. "Rest assured. I have never thought of leaving the Great Heavenlaw Domain."
This was the truth. After all, he planned to take over the Great Heavenlaw Domain. How could he leave it?
"Oh right. We will probably stay at the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan for some time this trip. Let us finish what needs to be done first," Liu Bai said, thinking of Mandala's curse.
His cultivation had increased significantly, and the power he could draw from the Five Elements Seal would be stronger, making the sealing of the curse on Mandala more stable. This would indirectly enhance Mandala's combat strength.
However, matters regarding the curse were not suitable for others to know, so these words inevitably carried ambiguous meaning to those unaware of the situation.
Jiu You widened her eyes, puffing her cheeks as she glared at Liu Bai.
If he had acted recklessly before, that might have been tolerable. But under the current circumstances, he still dared to flirt around. Did he think this young lady had a good temper?
"Throw away all those colorful thoughts in your head. We are talking about serious matters," Liu Bai said with a laugh.
"I know," Jiu You said disdainfully. "With your little abilities, do you think the Domain Lord would even look at you?"
The two bickered as they left the guest hall, with Mandala leisurely following behind them, watching the scene like a spectator.
Only the Sky Vulture Emperor and Spiritual Pupil Emperor stood silently, watching everything, their hearts surging like raging seas.
"When did Liu Bai become so close to the Domain Lord, even to the point of intimacy?"
Moreover, this fellow dared to call the Domain Lord by her name directly, and she was not even angry. This was truly unbelievable.
Nine Nether Continent.
Although it was called a continent, its area was only comparable to the Northern Region. However, this small continent held considerable fame within the Great Thousand World.
The reason naturally came from the owner of this continent, the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan.
The saying of ten thousand races in the Great Thousand World was not just talk. The Great Thousand World possessed boundless territories, and since ancient times, the races living in this world numbered far more than ten thousand.
What people called the human race or spiritual beast races were broad terms. Even within the human race, there were many different clans, and the spiritual beast races were even more diverse.
Spiritual beast races were considered the beings with the most complex bloodlines among all living beings in the Great Thousand World.
Their power originated from their bloodlines. Therefore, some races with extremely powerful bloodlines were called divine beast races. Members of such races were born with tremendous strength that made even heaven and earth fear them.
However, there were also some spiritual beast races that were not divine beast races, yet possessed potential comparable to them. The Nine Nether Sparrow Clan was one such example.
The Nine Nether Sparrow Clan shares the same origin as the Phoenix Clan. They possess the bloodline of the Ancient Undying Bird. Once awakened, they are absolutely considered top tier existences even within the Phoenix Clan.
Because of this, the clan places extreme importance on bloodlines. Once a pure Undying Bird bloodline appears within the clan, it will inevitably be placed under strict protection. Anyone who attempts to contaminate it will be regarded as a mortal enemy.
Jiu You explained this situation in detail to Liu Bai, hoping he would recognize the seriousness of the matter and give up the idea of accompanying her to the Nine Nether Realm.
However, she clearly failed, because Liu Bai's resolve was extremely firm.
"If I retreat this time, how will I be able to walk openly by your side in the future? Would that not make the people of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan look down on me even more?" Liu Bai said with a cheerful smile as he looked at Jiu You.
Feeling Liu Bai's intense gaze, Jiu You had long since lost the calm and alluring confidence she once had when teasing him. Instead, her pretty face flushed red as she said in embarrassment and anger, "Then just wait to be dealt with when the time comes."
She stomped her small foot and turned away.
Watching Jiu You's departing graceful figure, the smile on Liu Bai's face faded slightly.
To be honest, even after two lifetimes, meeting one's future father in law was inevitably nerve wracking.
Moreover, the current situation was that the woman's family background was clearly far stronger than his own. In his previous life, at most he might receive a few cold looks or suffer some humiliation. But this place was different. Here, lives could truly be lost.
"Still, this may not be a bad opportunity, right?"
Liu Bai seemed to be talking to himself, but more than anything, he was giving himself a reason to take this risk.
Speaking of which, this was also Liu Bai's first time hearing that the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan originally came from a spiritual beast race of a lower plane and was once insignificant in the Great Thousand World.
However, after several astonishingly talented ancestors appeared in succession, the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan rose among the countless spiritual beast races of the Great Thousand World and firmly established its position.
It was said that during the most prosperous era of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, there were three consecutive generations that produced Heavenly Sovereigns. At that time, the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan ranked among the top of the avian races. Even the Phoenix Clan treated them with great importance and interacted with them on equal footing.
As for the place where the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan currently resided, it was called the Nine Nether Realm. It was said to be the lower plane where the Nine Nether Sparrows lived in ancient times. Later, a great power of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan used heaven defying means to connect it with the Great Thousand World, turning it into the ancestral land of the clan.
In fact, such things were quite common in the Great Thousand World.
After all, the Great Thousand World is connected to countless lower planes. Those who could actively break through planar shackles and ascend from lower planes to the Great Thousand World, aside from a very small number of lucky individuals, were almost all beings with astonishing talent and willpower. Once such prodigies adapted to the Great Thousand World, they would bloom with dazzling brilliance of their own.
One only needed to look at the Endless Fire Domain and the Martial Realm to understand this. When the Flame Emperor and the Martial Ancestor first arrived, they too suffered oppression from native experts of the Great Thousand World. But once they adapted to the Great Thousand environment, they instantly became dominant figures and even stood at the pinnacle of the world.
At this moment, within the Nine Nether Realm, at Nine Nether Mountain.
This was an enormous mountain range, floating within the Nine Nether Realm, almost like a continent. This colossal mountain was also the sacred land of the Nine Nether Realm.
At the same time, it was also the ancestral land of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan. It was said that in extremely ancient times, the very first Nine Nether Sparrow was born here.
At this moment, inside the ancestral hall of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, figures sat one after another. Vast and majestic auras caused even heaven and earth to tremble slightly.
These seated figures were naturally the elders of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan.
Although Elder Tianque and Jiu You had not yet returned, the news had already been sent back in advance. This was the reason why Tianhuang, the Clan Leader of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, had summoned all these elders today.
"This is utter nonsense. Jiu You possesses the pure Undying Bird bloodline that appears only once in a thousand years in our Nine Nether Sparrow Clan. This is the opportunity for our clan to regain its peak glory. How can it be ruined by a human?" an elder in green robes said with a livid face, speaking harshly.
"In my opinion, we should immediately capture that human called Liu Bai and use our clan's secret technique to forcibly sever the bloodline link between him and Jiu You."
"That proposal is not bad, but there is no need to capture him," another elder said, first agreeing before sneering mockingly. "Did not Tianque say that the boy actually plans to follow them to our Nine Nether Sparrow Clan this time? Truly an ignorant boy who does not know the immensity of heaven and earth."
Of course, there were elders who were more radical, and others who remained rational.
"This matter should not be handled too excessively. Tianque also said that little Jiu You values that human boy greatly, even to the point of falling out with him. If we go too far afterward, how will you face little Jiu You in the future?"
If they truly harmed Liu Bai and caused Jiu You to harbor resentment, then when Jiu You eventually evolved into an Undying Bird and became the leader of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, would she take action against them?
Even if she did not kill them, it would be unbearable if she merely caused them some trouble.
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