The Native Faction grew increasingly powerful, and the Song Family and Situ Family it supported grew stronger as well. The Song Family, in particular, seemed poised to become a second Li Family.
As long as Townsea Palace continued to have several Body Integration Cultivators and its affiliated Immortal Cultivation Families remained powerful, that was not necessarily a bad thing for Townsea Palace. Not to mention how difficult it was for a Void Refinement Cultivator to advance to the Body Integration Realm, for an affiliated Immortal Cultivation Family to surpass Townsea Palace, it would need to have more Body Integration Cultivators than Townsea Palace—or a Great Ascension Cultivator.
Townsea Palace had more than three hundred Void Refinement Cultivators, but only a dozen or so Body Integration Cultivators. For an affiliated Immortal Cultivation Family to produce several Body Integration Cultivators was already quite impressive. It was far too difficult for one to surpass Townsea Palace.
The Song Family's ability to produce a Body Integration Cultivator was due not only to the Native Faction's support but also to Song Yunlong's great aptitude.
The Native Faction had the Song Family and the Situ Family, while the Ascension Faction had only the somewhat outstanding Wang Family. The Wang Family was still not strong enough to contend with the Song Family.
After Song Yunlong entered the Body Integration Realm, the Song Family's Void Refinement Cultivators continued to increase. There were already more than twenty Void Refinement Cultivators in the open, and there might be even more.
Within Townsea Palace, there were Lin Tianlong and Liu Qingfeng. Outside it were the Song Family and the Situ Family. These were all the Native Faction's forces, while the Ascension Faction was comparatively much weaker. As time went on, Townsea Palace might well become a one-party rule of the Native