Lu Jiaojiao had previously told Lu Li that outer disciples could also earn Secret Blood Crystals through meritorious service, leading him to believe that Martial God Mountain had quite a few Secret Blood Warriors from outside families.
In truth, he had misunderstood. It was not that there were no Secret Blood Warriors from outside families, but they only made up one-twentieth of the non-Lu Family disciples. Among them, those who could regularly obtain Secret Blood Crystals and continue strengthening themselves along this path were even rarer.
The vast majority had only obtained Secret Blood Crystals after performing extraordinary deeds or accumulating merit over a long period. This gave them the Bloodline of Secret Blood Warriors and enhanced their martial prowess.
From the principles behind the production of Secret Blood Crystals, one could tell that they were made by elder Secret Blood Warriors refining their origins. Those Secret Blood Warriors had all reached the end of their respective paths in Secret Blood cultivation. They were born Secret Blood Warriors—the Lu Family members at the mountain peak.
What Lu Li did not yet know was that although Martial God's Secret Blood had many formidable aspects, it also had a fatal flaw: its fertility was extremely low. If two Secret Blood Warriors joined together, it became even harder for them to produce offspring.
Thus, despite the Divine Martial Continent's history being so ancient as to be untraceable, Martial God Mountain still had fewer than two thousand innate Secret Blood Warriors in total, including disciples in secluded cultivation and the elders.
Only after one had cultivated the path of Secret Blood to their personal limit, reaching the point where their Secret Blood origin could circulate and regenerate on its own, could they refine their origin to create Secret Blood Crystals. Otherwise, they would be