Was the lineage above all else?
Chu Qing had expected this long ago.
Whether during the Unique Association era or the Divine Court era,
those generations upon generations of dukes and ministers had, aside from a little chaos at the very beginning, all followed the same lineage.
Sometimes, the experts of those lineages deliberately sent their own people before him for him to kill, all to clear out people from other lineages.
As for standing by and watching others die, or plotting harm in secret, that had begun as early as Young Master Heaven's time.
Back then, Young Master Heaven had even let the Unique Association run rampant.
No one knew how many innocent people had died.
Later, when he emerged from the forbidden zone and encountered the human army, he discovered:
those martial artists gathered together were actually all from the same lineage.
Whenever these martial artists of unified lineages encountered danger, they would rack their brains to bring that danger before martial artists of other lineages, caring nothing for whether this would affect humanity's defensive line.
There were even prodigies like Luo Tian, forced by disputes over lineage to venture deep into the forbidden zone for ten years without returning.
There was also the Moon God, who had died because of disputes over lineage.
All of this showed one thing:
the struggle over lineages had already become extremely serious.
However, because he had neither a sect nor any organization, this struggle had not deliberately targeted him yet.
Chu Qing felt that, as time passed, he would sooner or later be drawn into the struggle over lineages as well.
In the past, entering the forbidden zone had allowed him to avoid it.
Now, he felt that unless he kept venturing deeper into the forbidden zone like Luo Tian, breaking