The main reason the Thirteen Provinces Alliance had grown dominant within the Eternal Devil Sect was still the lax management of its upper echelons. The sect's higher-ups had indulged their disciples time and again, causing many of them to grow increasingly brazen until they reached the point of lawlessness.
Even the rise of the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province was closely connected to this.
The Eternal Thirteen Provinces were vast and richly endowed, with outstanding talents emerging one after another. Ever since the Eternal Devil Sect had established itself here and received the support of the Evil Moon Sect, it had flourished day by day, becoming a powerful sect within the Eternal Thirteen Provinces. Many martial artists took pride in joining the Eternal Devil Sect.
As management grew lax and disciples were indulged, many prodigies defected from the sect and established enormous families in Heng Province.
Without a doubt, among the ancestors of the Eight Great Noble Families of Heng Province, nearly eighty percent of the martial artists had been born in the Eternal Devil Sect. It was just that the Eight Great Noble Families had grown increasingly powerful, and their united strength was now sufficient to stand against the Eternal Devil Sect as an equal.
Lin Bai had just pointed out the main reason for the Thirteen Provinces Alliance's rise, but Li Mojun's next words plunged him into deep thought.
A martial artist in the Quasi-Dao Realm had a maximum lifespan of no more than seven or eight hundred years.
But a Dao Realm martial artist might live for as little as one or two thousand years, or as long as five or six thousand.
Over such a long span of time, aside from daily cultivation and personal interests, a martial artist spent much of his life