Cen Clan Immortal Domain.
Towering immortal palaces rose amid drifting clouds and mist, with Spirit Flowers and exotic grasses painting a scene of immortal splendor.
A young, handsome man slowly ascended the ancient stone steps. His face was tense yet betrayed excitement and agitation. Trying his utmost to maintain a perfect bearing, he arrived stiffly before the hall gates.
He worked hard to calm his nervous excitement, drew a deep breath, and his handsome face was particularly flushed.
The Immortal Lord was now the overlord of the immortal realm. He had established a clan and created an immortal domain; the clan's descendants enjoyed the finest resources and supreme cultivation arts, envied by all loose immortals and Rogue Cultivators. Yet as a descendant of the Immortal Lord, separated by who knew how many generations, he appeared glorious, while outsiders could never know the bitterness within.
The greatest characteristic of an immortal domain clan was that its members were too numerous to count. Three wives and four concubines were merely commonplace.
For countless years, they had never stopped reproducing. Every year, innumerable clan members were born. The difficulty of rising above the rest was comparable to ascending the heavens—perhaps ascending the heavens was even easier...
First, one had to possess the aptitude of a cultivation genius.
Yet becoming a genius did not guarantee the Lineage's attention.
There were countless geniuses in the world.
Competition within the clan was fierce. Of the geniuses who survived long enough to mature, not even one in ten remained, but that was still far from enough. Only by never fading into the crowd could one endure. If the Lineage forgot someone like him, all preferential treatment would drift away, and from then on he would be an ordinary clan member, ordered about by others.
Of course, some