Drowning Sorrows in Drink

Song Xia and Tang Shi ascending the throne one after the other meant that Song Ankang's children had begun to stand on their own, no longer requiring much of his concern.

With the children supporting one another, Song Ankang had even more time to cultivate.

However, because they were too low-key, and because keeping a low profile and acting cautiously had been made an important family rule, some of the children and grandchildren had yet to realize just how formidable their father and grandfather truly was.

This was also deliberate on Song Ankang's part. The habits he had cultivated over the years had allowed him to master the art of lying low to perfection, far beyond the reach of the younger generation.

Under Song Ankang's influence, the entire Song Family remained relatively low-key. There were basically no flamboyant members. If not for the sheer number of Song Family descendants, each and every one a prodigy, making it impossible to keep them down, their reputation would not have spread throughout the Human Race.

But the Human Race was already the limit of that spread. Beyond it, their fame was scarce to nonexistent, tightly suppressed by Song Ankang so that the excellence of the Song Family's descendants would not spread any farther.

Otherwise, if one family suddenly produced so many outstanding prodigies, it would definitely arouse suspicion. After all, this was not ten or eight people, but thousands upon thousands.

What the outside world did not know was that, in Song Ankang's eyes, his children were decent enough, but among his many grandsons and granddaughters, only around ten percent possessed good talent and aptitude. The remaining ninety percent or so were merely average, with rather limited potential. It would be difficult for them to even reach the Heavenly Immortal realm in this