Chapter 152: The Clear-Headed Ling Yuexian

Eight-Star Dou Sheng?!!!

Ling Yi and Ling Yu both widened their eyes, looking in shock at the suddenly silent Xiao Han; the other party actually possessed such strength!

Xiao Han remained silent for a long time, just quietly watching the smiling Ling Clan Chief opposite him.

"Heh~"

Xiao Han sighed, "I didn't expect... that my strength would still be discovered by someone."

"No wonder you, a Clan Leader of an Ancient Race, would personally receive a Five-Star Dou Sheng from a Central Plains faction like me." Xiao Han shook his head and gave a wry smile.

"As expected, the existence of the Ancient Races truly cannot be underestimated."

"Dou Qi perception..." Xiao Han said with emotion: "What a useless yet terrifying ability!"

Saying it is useless is only because it has no great use for combat or cultivation; what does it matter if you perceive the other party's cultivation level? If the gap in strength is too great, the result will never change.

Moreover, most experts on the Dou Qi Continent have similar methods of detecting others' cultivation levels; it is just that the Ling Clan's ability is more powerful.

However, if one encounters someone like Xiao Han who intentionally conceals their strength, then this ability becomes the most terrifying sharp weapon, and everything will have nowhere to hide.

For instance, this time, Xiao Han tripped up.

"It's just..." Xiao Han looked at the two, Ling Yi and the other, and asked curiously: "Why did the two of them not detect my cultivation?"

As the words fell, both Ling Yi and the other appeared somewhat embarrassed, especially Ling Yi; Xiao Han had even fought with her and used Dou Qi in front of her.

"They are just poorly skilled." Ling Yuexian ruthlessly struck them down, causing both to shrink their heads.

"This kind of ability also requires training, and besides, their strength and bloodline concentration are a bit lacking."

Speaking of this, Ling Yuexian smiled.

"What's more, Pavilion Master Su's caution is the only one I have seen in my life. To think you have been using Heaven Realm Great Perfection level Soul Power to conceal your cultivation."

This means that as long as Xiao Han does not encounter an Emperor Realm Soul and does not take the initiative to show his strength, then... no one will be able to probe his true cultivation.

"In the entire Ling Clan, I estimate that only I, a Clan Leader with a Ninth-Grade Bloodline, a soul at the Heavenly Realm Late Stage, and strength closest to Pavilion Master Su, could barely manage it."

"Is this the reason why you dismissed everyone and even 'acted arbitrarily' to form an alliance with my Langya Pavilion?"

From the moment the other party called out his true cultivation, Xiao Han had guessed this Ling Clan Chief's intentions.

A super expert who is an Eight-Star Dou Sheng is enough to smooth over all gaps between Langya Pavilion and the Ling Clan, making the premise for an alliance between the two sides truly exist.

"Correct. I think that since Pavilion Master Su dared to enter my Ling Clan alone, you must have strong confidence in your own cultivation!"

The existence of an Eight-Star Dou Sheng is fully qualified to leave gracefully after causing a scene in the Ling Clan, if their Ling Clan truly harbored malicious intentions.

"Then I wonder what Pavilion Master Su thinks?" Ling Yuexian asked expectantly and nervously.

"What if I do not agree to the alliance? Will the Ling Clan spread word of my true cultivation?" Xiao Han suddenly said in an indifferent tone.

"Pavilion Master Su is joking. I still have that much sense." Ling Yuexian shook her head and said,

"If I really were to reveal your cultivation, I imagine my Ling Clan's days ahead would be even harder!"

Ling Yuexian is very clear that Xiao Han's Eight-Star Dou Sheng cultivation is too shocking; even if she said it, not everyone would be willing to believe it.

After all, you are a junior not even two hundred years old who has reached an achievement that takes others nearly a thousand years or even a lifetime; it makes people feel ashamed.

It absolutely cannot be true.

Although there are exceptions, the last such exception was named Xiao Xuan, an existence who single-handedly beat the entire Soul Clan into a state of vitality damage.

People always believe what they are willing to believe. Clearly, this is not news people hope to believe.

And since Xiao Han chose to hide his cultivation, he must have his own plans, and he is definitely plotting something big.

If the Ling Clan leaks the other party's information, that would be blocking the other party's path; even being severely injured by the latter is possible.

Making friends versus making enemies—an easy choice to make, isn't it?

"An alliance is impossible." After thinking for a long time, Xiao Han said slowly.

"Then I have troubled Pavilion Master Su. Let us pretend I never said this matter."

Although Ling Yuexian had expected this in her heart, disappointment was inevitable; however, she quickly adjusted and said as if nothing had happened.

"But I can help the Ling Clan preserve a bit of bloodline and shelter them so they can grow up safely." Immediately after, Xiao Han said.

"Oh?" Ling Yuexian's pupils shrank, and her fists suddenly clenched.

Before she could speak, the Great Elder Ling Yu said displeasedly: "What does Ice Saint mean by this? Could it be that you think my Ling Clan will perish?"

If Ling Yu did not know that she was not the other party's opponent, she would have already made a move.

Xiao Han's words were practically saying the Ling Clan was finished; how could Ling Yu, as the Ling Clan's Great Elder, be friendly?

And Ling Yi, who had a good first impression of Xiao Han, now also had an unpleasant expression.

"This is not what I said, but what the Ling Clan Chief told me." Xiao Han said somewhat innocently.

"Hmm?" Ling Yi and Ling Yu also looked at Ling Yuexian in surprise. When did their own Clan Leader say this?

"Oh?" Ling Yuexian's expression was calm, "When did I say that my Ling Clan was going to perish?"

"Your actions." Xiao Han said firmly.

"I would like to hear the details!"

Xiao Han organized his words and then said:

"As the Clan Leader of an Ancient Race, although your strength is far inferior to mine, since I did not reveal my cultivation, you could have completely acted as if you knew nothing, and then let everything end naturally."

"If it were just to make friends, the previous reception was already enough."

"However, you went against the norm and personally accompanied me, and pointed out my strength, taking the initiative to propose an alliance with my Langya Pavilion."

This slightly low attitude really does not fit your bearing as a Clan Leader.

The Ling Clan is, to some extent, an Ancient Race; when facing people who are not from an Ancient Race, there is always a sense of transcendent superiority.

If there were no major events, they would absolutely not take the initiative to propose something like an alliance.

"So... what did Ice Saint see?" Ling Yuexian asked with interest.

"You must have already sensed that a great disaster is coming for the Ling Clan, so you want to rope in an Eight-Star Dou Sheng like me, hoping to resolve the potential crisis. Is that so or not?" Xiao Han looked directly at Ling Yuexian and said.

Ling Yi and Ling Yuexian also looked nervously at the Clan Leader, hoping to hear a negative answer from the latter's mouth.

"As expected of the Langya Pavilion Master, a figure who could cultivate to an Eight-Star Dou Sheng in such a short time and still thrive right under the noses of the many Ancient Races," Ling Yuexian praised with applause.

Naturally, he agreed with Xiao Han's speculation.

"Clan Leader, what is going on?" Ling Yi asked, sitting up in shock with terror in her eyes.

Their own Clan Leader actually believed that a great catastrophe was approaching for the Ling Clan, yet they, as Elders of the clan, knew nothing about it; how could this not fill one with fear?

"The great catastrophe is approaching, and it cannot be avoided. As an Elder of the Ling Clan, how can you be so flustered?" Ling Yuexian reprimanded with a displeased expression.

Instantly, Ling Yi shut her mouth like a mouse seeing a cat. Only, the worried look in her eyes was not hidden in the slightest.

"I believe Pavilion Master Su has also guessed who the enemy of our Ling Clan is, right?"

Under normal circumstances, forming an alliance with the Ling Clan was not a bad thing; after all, although Langya Pavilion had an Eight-Star Dou Sheng like Xiao Han, aside from the Ice Saint, it was certainly much inferior compared to the Ling Clan.

And for Xiao Han to give up the temptation of an alliance, it was naturally because the other party believed that his Eight-Star Dou Sheng cultivation was not yet qualified to intervene in the affairs of the Ling Clan.

Thus, the truth was not difficult to deduce.