All Five Ancient Clans had Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns standing guard.
This was no secret.
Those who could come into contact with the Five Ancient Clans took such common knowledge for granted, while those who could not naturally were the ones unable to come into contact with the Five Ancient Clans.
Their feelings were not worth the Five Ancient Clans' attention.
Thanks to its method of absorbing external talents, the Tai Ling Ancient Clan was not strong, but neither was it weak.
It possessed peerless prodigies like Tai Ling Su.
It also had many ordinary people with mediocre aptitude.
As the ruler of an entire continent, the Tai Ling Ancient Clan naturally had vassals. Moreover, while it was difficult for powerful cultivators to produce offspring, ordinary people having children was not particularly difficult in a certain sense.
Thus, as one of the Five Ancient Clans with a history spanning more than ten million years, the Tai Ling Ancient Clan had experienced several population booms over the years. If bloodlines had not limited fertility to a certain extent, if different cultivation levels had not likewise limited fertility, and if many ambitious cultivators had not had no intention of marrying at all, the Tai Ling Ancient Clan's total population might have exceeded a hundred million.
Even with birth, aging, illness, and death, generation after generation.
There were always cultivators who lived longer than ordinary people.
Accumulated generation after generation.
Five thousand years was enough to turn a tiny tribe into a vast nation with over a billion people. The Tai Ling Ancient Clan's current population remaining below ten million was already the result of deliberately restraining reproduction.
Therefore, due to objective factors, some clan members living in the Tai Ling Ancient Clan's clan land naturally had thin bloodlines, insufficient to achieve much