Choosing the Right Enemy

Lü Siya told Meng Chao that, because their intense radiation could not be directly absorbed by human cells and for various other reasons, Transcendents normally did not devour crystals directly to cultivate.

Crystals had to be ground into powder and mixed with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures such as monster flesh and blood to make Gene Serum before they could be consumed or injected, allowing them to meld into one's internal organs and limbs.

Like when Meng Chao and Lü Siya had chanced upon the Blue Origin Motherstone cave during the Red Radiance Jade Mania and directly absorbed two kinds of Spiritual Energy that conflicted with yet neutralized each other, it was an exceptionally rare and fortunate occurrence.

Only those with extraordinary talent and unusual constitutions, like Lü Siya's grandfather, Qingtian Corporation's founder and crystal expert Lü Zhongqi, possessed the gift of directly absorbing Spiritual Energy from crystals.

After Lü Zhongqi founded Qingtian Corporation and brought the Lü family to prosperity, the second and third generations of descendants all wished to inherit this rare and powerful gift.

Yet no matter how closely they resembled their fathers or grandfathers, not a single descendant had awakened the exact same talent or replicated Lü Zhongqi's abilities.

At most, like Lü Siya in the past, they inherited a portion of the gift and became merely "sensitives."

The Lü family descendants refused to believe it, convinced that Lü Zhongqi's gift lay dormant deep within their bloodline, waiting to be awakened.

To awaken it, they had undertaken all manner of extremely dangerous and radical cultivation.

Quite a few had suffered Cultivation Deviation or even perished as a result.

—In that era of savage growth and bloody competition, maintaining a "great family" required a price as well.

Only after the Lü family and Qingtian Corporation gradually gained