"It was the time where my father can match all four sovereigns, making the Empire the strongest power within the Myriad Earth Abyss Continent, none dare to challenge its authority."
"But suddenly, my father was attacked by unknown powers, he came back terribly wounded and soon died after two years."
"My brother became his successor, but then, something happened to him as well after five years of handling the clan's affairs, he was never seen after his mission."
Two of the strongest experts of the Ouyang Clan was lost within no more than ten years, making us suffer terrible losses, as I am the only person in line, I was made the Patriarch of the Ouyang Clan."
"But I'm not really strong, I'm not a genius like my brother nor was I a great expert like my father."
"Our clan slowly became the 2nd strongest clan in the Empire, not the Myriad Earth Abyss continent."
"But when my son was born, we nurtured him, and just after reaching sixteen years of age, he became the Ouyang Clan's pillar and already reached Celestial Phenomenon rank."
"And when he turned 46, I handed him the seat of the Patriarch as he at the same time reached Divine Origin rank."
"Then, everything is going smoothly till it happened three years ago."
"He was in a mission with a group of elders before we lost connection with them, all of their soul essences were also destroyed within the clan chamber, by then, we knew that they've suffered an ill fate."
"We've tried to search for their remains, but we only found the aftermath of their battle, nothing else."
"Since then, we've dropped from the 2nd all the way to the 4th strongest clan, it was also due to our loyalty to the empire that we've remained as one of the great four clans."
"Our final hope lies within the siblings, but they show no potential as experts, but they are kind-hearted like their mother, also, we gave up and just wished to stay as a normal clan."
"But the Empire wishes us to be with them till the end."
"As the days grew by, it also happened, the Empire was attacked, our presence was almost nothing, we were like normal soldiers of the Empire as we were mostly ignored, we thought we also won as the Emperor chased the enemy out of the southern territory."
Ouyang Tou paused for a bit before continuing: "But he returned completely injured, all of those that were with him chasing after the enemies couldn't come back anymore."
"That incident caused the Empire's strength to grow weaker by more than half."
"The long family, who was tasked that time to defend the Empire was actually hooligans that works under the Church as well."
"With the Choi Clan vanishing and the Long Clan being chased, the only clans remaining are the Ouyang Clan who's already weak and Tu Clan, the only remaining true strongest clan of the Empire."
"Although they have suffered tremendous losses as well, they remained strong as they had been."
Mo Xie became confused: "Then, aren't you the least bit suspicious of them?"
"Suspicious? of them?" Ouyang Tou couldn't help but smile: "Everyone can betray the empire, but the Tu Clan will never do so."
"After all, they had already become a bit stronger than the Empire for a few tens of years already."
"And also, if that old coot actually wanted to take the throne, the Empire's monarch would've gladly handed it to them. The Emperor and he are actually sworn brother."
"I will also put my trust to them as that old coot is actually married to my own sister."
Mo Xie nodded, but from his previous life, he had witnessed families stab each other in the back because of their greed, but since he believed in it so much, maybe there is something more: "It's a really tight triangle of trust then."
Ouyang Tou nodded his head: "Right, before we came here as well, that old bones said that he'll finish the Long Clan on his own hence, he just wants us to return alive while he guards the Empire himself."
Mo Xie nodded his head: "Then, does that mean that the Empire still has two Divine Origin ranked experts? One heavily injured and another completely fine one?"
Ouyang Tou nodded his head: "Yes, sadly, Tu Kong is not fine as he had also lost one of his arms from his youth, but he's a master of mace, he boasts about only needing one hand to fight."
Mo Xie then asked: "Then, how many Divine experts does the church have?"
"They have five." Ouyang Tou replied with a grim expression: "But we're in an alliance with the Dragon Core Empire, and they have four divine origins ranked experts."
Mo Xie nodded his head: "So, which one allied with the Twin Peak Demon Group?"
Ouyang Tou shook his head: "No one, but the Church had been trying to ally themselves with them for a long time ago, although they had formed a marriage between Solar Son and Ashyvna, it's not official yet as the lady find Solar Son's incompetence truly dreadful."
"Hence, Solar Son was given a year to prove himself, or else they will cancel the marriage."
"Pathetic." Mo Xie couldn't help but chuckle as he uttered that word.
"And how many Divine ranked experts do they have?" Mo Xie asked.
Ouyang Tou replied: "They have two, but we don't know what rank is one of them."
"Oh, so which is stronger between the east and the west?"
"Definitely them." Ouyang Tou replied without any hesitation: "Because their grand elder, Argon is already a peak stage Divine Origin ranked expert, just his presence alone is enough for the three powers to think twice before meeting him."
'Him?' Mo Xie frowned, because clearly, the one he met before is a female, and also, a Divine ranked expert, he couldn't gauge her cultivation since she's hidden it quite well.
Mo Xie nodded his head: "Then I guess the church has a long way to go before it can fight the two empires alone."
Divine ranked experts, even with two of the same cultivation rank have a massive disparity between them, after all, Mo Xie as a lone cultivator from his previous life had killed more than a hundred experts of the same Divine Origin rank in a single fight.
Right now, Mo Xie is about to see people of that 'God' level from his previous realm, it was the highest cultivation rank there was before he broke through it and became the true ruler of the realm.
Mo Xie looked at the siblings and spoke: "We'll stay here for seven days, let's let the two of them recover some more and head to the Empire after, I'll be visiting the Empire, I hope it won't be any inconvenience?"
Ouyang Tou shook his head: "I'll welcome you to the clan with open arms."
Mo Xie nodded, he bowed his head in respect towards Ouyang Tou: "Old man, I'll thank you in advance and will try to help the Ouyang Clan as much as I can."
Ouyang Tou shook his head: "Just you helping me with my children is enough, considering you've also saved the two princes' life, the Empire will gladly welcome you as well."
Mo Xie nodded his head as the two of them chatted again.