After hearing Lu Yang's voice, Patriarch Tingyou fell into deep self-doubt for a moment. The 367th-generation disciple of the Witch Ghost Sect?
"Insolence!"
The next second, Patriarch Tingyou flew into a rage. "My Witch Ghost Sect has never had such a deep foundation. I was only its sixth sect master—where would a 367th-generation disciple come from?"
Faced with Patriarch Tingyou's questioning, Lu Yang was not flustered in the slightest. Instead, his eyes reddened, and two streams of hot tears rolled down his cheeks. He choked out, "Patriarch, you do not know this. For the past thousand years, the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion has refused to let us go, hunting us down everywhere. By now, only my single lineage remains."
The inheritance of great sects and immortal clans differed from that of Rogue Cultivators.
Any great sect or immortal clan would at least have a Foundation Establishment True Person overseeing it. Their inheritance was stable and orderly; even after several hundred years, there was often only a difference of one generation.
Rogue Cultivators, however, were different.
After all, most Rogue Cultivators wandered from place to place, never knowing whether they would survive the next day. Add a few enemies into the mix, and their generations changed at a blistering pace. Dozens of generations were entirely normal.
Thus, Patriarch Tingyou quickly understood.
If a branch of the sect had truly been stranded outside, without a True Person to oversee it and pursued by the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, then a thousand years producing several hundred generations was not impossible.
...Wait, that's not right!
Very quickly, Patriarch Tingyou grew doubtful again. He was the last sect master of the Witch Ghost Sect. If the sect had a branch outside, how could he possibly not know?
With that thought, Patriarch Tingyou suddenly asked, "Which