Xiao Yelin's surname was Xiao, after all. Even if he became an immortal, he would not truly count as a member of the Nangong Lineage.
The Nangong clan, a divine clan that had endured for hundreds of millions of years, was far too proud. They did not want an outsider to become immortal and then shelter them. What they wanted was for one of their own to become immortal!
—Countless hundreds of millions of years ago, Nangong and Northern Underworld had sprung from the same branch!
They were both descendants of the same True Immortal. It was only later that their family split and diverged, becoming two great divine clans.
Yet they had always maintained close ties.
Both divine clans had such a legend—or perhaps a superstitious belief: the Saint Body possessed by their shared ancestor had been the "North-South Heaven and Earth Body," invincible beneath heaven, without equal in the world!
As long as one possessed such a divine body, the odds of becoming immortal could be greatly increased!
Although Saint Bodies had limits to both their values and functions, that did not stop the two divine clans from believing that the "North-South Heaven and Earth Body" stood head and shoulders above the rest, stronger than other Perfection Saint Bodies. Within the two clans, it was called a "divine body."
You knew that becoming immortal had little to do with one's Saint Body. What mattered most was whether one's Dao Seal had been completed, whether one could withstand the Dao transformation of ascension, and so on.
But this was the Nangong Divine Clan's own unique superstition!
Who cared whether it was scientific or fantastical? They believed it could raise the chances of becoming immortal, and that was that!
The chances of awakening this kind of divine body were far