"Cultivators may be boundless, yet cultivators also have roots. The news from the Heaven-Opening Cauldron was not limited to this. It also brought a message that left us later generations, who came out of the ancestral land four thousand years ago, not knowing whether to feel gratified or saddened..."
"What?"
Shi Qianhe said, "We finally learned why this branch of our clan refused to acknowledge us poor relatives from the backwoods. It was not because the world had turned cold and hearts had changed, but because they knew they were living from one day to the next! They knew that the sword hanging over their heads would fall someday. They dared not drag the ancestral land's kin into it. When that generation's clan head encountered the Azure Lotus Cataclysm and was about to step onto the Path of Reincarnation, he was still murmuring two lines of poetry: 'Three thousand years to the ancestral land, twenty thousand miles on the road home...' He had truly wanted to return to the ancestral land. He simply did not dare!"
As she recited those two lines, Shi Qianhe was filled with boundless emotion.
Lin Su slowly raised his gaze. "What exactly was the Azure Lotus Cataclysm?"
"The ancestors did not state the specific reason, but the clan elders surmised that it might have been related to something the ancestors took part in. That matter was called the Seal the Heavenly Path."
"And what is the Seal the Heavenly Path?"
"No one knows. It must be an enormous taboo even in the Immortal Realm Great World. I truly hope that one day, I can enter the Immortal Realm Great World and ask what exactly the Seal the Heavenly Path is..."
She gazed into the vast sky.
Her spirits were low.
She had dreams, but she