"Mother Smiles is right. My father wouldn't have gone into seclusion if he didn't think I could handle this position. Besides, I fought Iron Blood and defeated him. Though now, I don't think he'll be able to keep up with me too well. It's a shame that when he is next ready to fight, he won't be my opponent." I sighed.
"If that's the case then why should we fight you brother? Won't it just be embarrassing?" Xu Yi asked, clearly not wanting to fight. And who could blame him? His cultivation is more built for creating a small world for others to use in the future.
"I can understand your misgivings Brother Xu Yi. However, think of this way, you'll eventually have the responsibility of taking to the battlefield whether it be in vengeance, or a call of arms. And once this happens, it's better for you to have a handle on not just your strengths, but your weaknesses as well. And it's even better if you understand your friends strengths and weaknesses on top of your own. Besides, there is something you three can definitely learn together. And with it, there won't be an 8th rank that could best you." I answered, as if I was speaking to a child, to calmly explain the situation.
"Pfft, the Little brother is parenting the older brother." Bai Yi giggled.
"I... I see." Xu Yi said, reluctantly accepting the situation.
"To that end, it might be for the best that brother Yang Xiao doesn't join you. Since you'll very rarely ever fight as a single cohesive unit. Though it would be great if there was a Lightning Dao user on your team. In that way, you'd be able to at least mimic my abilities to some degree." I said, thinking about it.
"Oh? Then maybe we can find a woman for brother Xu Yi, using this as a pretense." Zhao Ya said, with a random excitement. Though she didn't realize that she just revealed her own hand.
"Uhm? Why not me then?" Zhao Ye Bai asked, confused why he was going to be helping find a woman for someone else.
The entire room sighed, including Yang Xiao. I shook my head. "Brother Zhao Ye Bai, I knew men could be as dense as can be. But even you should have realized why you're not getting another woman." I explained. "Though, that's all I can say, any more than that, is beyond what I should do. The rest for you to figure out. Oh, but don't worry, I'll punch you if you screw up too badly, alright." I added with a smile.
"Eh! What? I... Zhao Ya do you know what brother Leiji is talking about?" Zhao Ye Bai asked, in a bit of a panic.
"Hmph! How should I know? Stinky man." Zhao Ya retorted and looked away.
"Uh... Brother Xu Yi... Do you know?" Zhao Ye Bai asked, turning to his last hope, only to see the quiet brother of his, simply shake his head and remain quiet.
"Ahahaha, this is too funny. Brother Zhao Ye Bai, you should take a bit of a closer look at Brother Leiji's words." Yang Xiao said, nearly falling over himself laughing.
"Hey, you don't have much room to talk about it either Brother Yang Xiao. In fact you're likely the worst offender in this room. No, you definitely are. Seriously stop hiding behind that false pretense and just take the damn plunge already. Who cares about who hatched your egg? Actually, our situations aren't too dissimilar. Another woman bore me, though my real mother is here." I said, giving Yang Xiao a deathly stare. "Well, I guess, in your case, you had a man hatch you... So... that might have caused some differences... Wait a minute... You're not... Ga, or are you?" I asked, in a half joking way.
Those who were drinking tea spit it out in shock at the thought. And then murmurs started circulating. Things like; "Oh, that might be possible." and, "He has spent his whole life with her, and still has yet to ask her hand, could it be?". Yang Xiao was now panicking at the realization he had been put into a rough space. Meanwhile everyone knew right off the bat that I had real business getting involved in this one. I was a similar case after all, just a version of it that got over that initial hump.
"What! No! I'm not Gay! I don't Men! It's just that... I don't like any women that way except for little aunt Yang Xue! So don't say such things!" Yang Xiao said, practically yelling at me in the process.
I sat there and smiled the whole time, Including the halfway awkward moment of silence when Yang Xiao was realizing, what, he just said. Because it held no small amount of significance for several of the people involved in the current gathering. Some of them, obviously held far more significance to the situation than others.
For example Yang Xue was now beat red with a wide smile from ear to ear. It was so obvious that it was clear she had been waiting to hear those words come out for quite a long time. Dong Su Zhu on the other hand was a bit worried about this sudden declaration of, albeit previously known information.
"Wow, brother, you're really a bit more bold than I gave you credit for. But, now I don't think it's a good thing for you to keep saying that I'm the only bold one here. Ahahaha!" I said laughing as I finished speaking. "Congratulations Aunt Xue, it may not have been in the manner that is expected of a man, but at least you can start whipping him into shape with the knowledge that he won't get up and leave. As for the generational Gap, I don't think that will be a problem. After all, my father is only an adoptive father. Such titles can be held but they don't change where the blood originated from. So there really never was a gap to begin with. Merely a perceived gap." I explained with an unbothered look on my face. "Besides, I'm sure Mother Zhu Qing has been waiting to say something similar this whole time anyways, Just because a Dragon receives my fathers blood essence, that doesn't make that dragon his own kin, far from it in fact." I elaborated further.