As Yang Feilong walked towards Ze Lian, who threw him a bottle of healing pills, many onlookers thought Yang Feilong was trying to curry favor with Ze Lian. However, after hearing Yang Feilong's explanation, they were all stunned speechless.
"This Yang Feilong, he actually wants to fight Ze Lian?"
"His strength is even greater than Ze Lian's? I don't believe it. His medical skills are so outstanding, surpassing the Woodpecker Divine Doctor, and his strength can also suppress Ze Lian? If he can do both, then this human's talent and strength are too formidable!"
"Actually, even without sufficient strength, he is already excellent enough. However, if his combat power can suppress Ze Lian, I think even the Patriarch would be tempted. After all, such a son-in-law, although not of the same race, would surely have outstanding offspring. Moreover, although human bloodline is weak, humans who grow up have considerable potential, otherwise, why would all the myriad races of demons and monsters take human form when they transform!"
"It is said that the highest-grade human bloodline can rival top races like dragons, phoenixes, and nine-tailed foxes!"
In fact, it's not just humans. If some ordinary races, inferior to the Woodpecker race, were to produce an existence at the Integration Stage, their offspring would also be exceptionally outstanding!
It could even elevate the status of that race by several notches.
However, the Woodpecker race has limited talent. Currently, the strongest Woodpecker cultivator in the demon-monster realm has only reached the Nascent Soul stage. Of course, the Woodpecker clan is very large, and the one affiliated with the Azure Phoenix clan is just a branch of the Woodpecker race.
The Woodpecker race has excellent medical skills, so they are very popular as affiliated races to many top-tier races.
Ze Lian was not foolish, he was just low in emotional intelligence. After hearing Yang Feilong's explanation, he also understood that this human could gain Alice's favor not only because of his astonishing medical skills, but also because his martial arts prowess was likely not weak, possibly also at the Nascent Soul stage.
He couldn't lose. If he lost, what reason or excuse would he have left? Would he rely solely on bloodline to argue?
He gritted his teeth.
He thought of his parents' words. Why did their Azure Phoenix clan patriarch want to break through to the Integration Stage? Why did so many existences in their Azure Phoenix clan want to break through to the Integration Stage? Because once they broke through to the Integration Stage, their Azure Phoenix clan, even if inferior to the Phoenix clan, could still become one of the top-tier races!
Like the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, one Integration Stage Nine-Tailed Fox dared to refuse the proposal of the Purple Golden Demonic Dragon. Why? Because the Purple Golden Demonic Dragon did not dare to use forceful means. If your Vera Empire forced me, fine, then my Nine-Tailed Fox clan would leave your empire and go to other empires, wouldn't that work?
Existences at the Integration Stage were highly sought after in any kingdom. Aside from the Nine-Tails Fox being a top-tier race, other Integration Stage existences, whose original races might not have been strong, such as the King Cobra clan, were inferior to the Azure Phoenix clan in terms of bloodline and status before the birth of an Integration Stage existence. But now?
The King Cobra clan is even called a top-tier race. Although it cannot be counted among the ten great top-tier races, it is considered a top-tier race!
The ten great top-tier races all have more than one or two Integration Stage existences, some even exceeding ten. For example, the Phoenix clan. The Purple Golden Demonic Dragon was strong enough, but in the Feng Hou clan, it was almost beaten to death because the Feng Hou clan had more than twenty Integration Stage existences, far more than the Purple Golden Demonic Dragon clan. The Purple Golden Demonic Dragon clan, it is said, only has a dozen or so, which is still inferior to the Phoenix clan.
The King Cobra clan currently only has one Integration Stage existence, so it cannot be counted among the ten great top-tier races, and even has a significant gap with them.
In terms of numbers, they cannot compare!
Looking further back, the Azure Phoenix clan was actually a branch of the Phoenix clan, but later the Phoenix clan no longer recognized it as a branch. Why? Except for the Azure Phoenixes in the previous few generations who gave birth to Integration Stage existences, none have been born since!
The Phoenixes are a proud race. If your race hasn't produced an Integration Stage existence in so many generations, what right do you have to call yourselves a branch of our Phoenix race?
This is also why the ancestors of the Azure Phoenix clan migrated away from the Phoenix ancestral land. There was no other way. Either become dependents, but as dependents, their status was far inferior to that of a Phoenix branch. The Azure Phoenix clan could not tolerate such treatment, so they moved to the Vera Empire!
Soon, Ze Lian suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart.
If he still wanted to be with Alice, then today he had to defeat Yang Feilong, and not just defeat him, but crush him!
"This is your pill, I have my own healing pills!" Ze Lian snorted coldly, throwing back the pill Yang Feilong had given him. He took out his own pill and consumed it, then sat cross-legged on the spot. How could the proud him accept aid from a love rival!
"Ambitious!" Yang Feilong said with a half-smile, and took back the bottle of pills. Saving a bottle of pills was saving a bottle. Although these were refined by himself, they were not cheap.
After taking the pill, Ze Lian's injuries did not fully recover instantly, but his combat effectiveness was no longer affected.
"Come on!" Ze Lian stood up, his gaze fixed coldly on Yang Feilong.
"Wait." Yang Feilong spoke.
"Are you scared?" Ze Lian taunted.
"Scared? No. If you lose, I hope you won't pester Alice anymore!" Yang Feilong's lips curved into a cold smile as he said, "Of course, I also believe that you won't have the face to pester Alice again by then!"
Ze Lian's lips twitched, then he gritted his teeth and said, "I promise you!"
If he couldn't even compare to Yang Feilong in terms of strength, what right would he have to pester Alice?
"But if you lose, you must also terminate the contractual relationship with Alice and no longer contact her!" Ze Lian said coldly.
"No problem!" Yang Feilong shrugged and said calmly.
"Hahaha!" Ze Lian suddenly burst into laughter, looking at Alice and saying, "Alice, do you see? He's betting you, and if he loses, he'll terminate the contract with you and promised not to contact you. This shows he doesn't care about you at all!"
"Idiot!" Alice spat out two cold words: "If you think that by sowing discord, even if he loses and terminates the contract, and he doesn't contact me, I will still contact him. Do you think your few words can make our relationship worse? I tell you, you are destined to be disappointed! Because he will never lose."
Ze Lian was laughing, but as he heard Alice's words, he could no longer laugh. It felt like a knife was plunged into his heart, then pulled out and plunged in again.
It was so painful he couldn't breathe!
She called me an idiot!
She has absolute confidence in him!
She looks down on me!
Words, sometimes, are more hurtful than force!
Kill him!
At this moment, Ze Lian's eyes turned red, and only one thought echoed in his mind: Kill this person, otherwise, Alice will never enter my embrace!
In the distance, several figures watched silently. Among them, of course, were Alice's mother and father, and of course, Ze Lian's parents.
Of course, they did not intervene, but if Ze Lian were to resort to killing, they would definitely step in, because Yang Feilong was still needed to heal the Dao wounds of Aiden, the Patriarch of the Azure Phoenix clan.
However, Yang Feilong is so confident, and Alice is also so confident in Yang Feilong. Is this human Yang Feilong really that strong?