According to the Old Turtle, ninety percent of all the ruins, Secret Realms, and treasures related to the Primordial Black Dragon across the entire True Profound Continent had been artificially created by their Turtle Servant clan.
All for the sake of selecting an inheritor for their master, the fallen Primordial Black Dragon.
However, their master, the Primordial Black Dragon, had fallen far too long ago. According to the Old Turtle, their clan records indicated that it had been at least a hundred thousand years.
And the Old Turtle before him was already the eleventh generation of Turtle Servants.
Though turtles lived long lives, they still could not withstand the passage of time.
Take their ancestor, that great-great-great-great-grandfather—the first-generation Turtle Servant after the Primordial Black Dragon's fall. His cultivation had been quite high. According to the clan records, it had surpassed the World King Realm, and his lifespan had been measured in hundreds of thousands of years.
Yet during the cataclysm that shattered Heaven and Earth, he had also suffered severe injuries. He had barely survived for over a thousand years on the True Profound Continent before dying.
The first-generation Turtle Servant's descendant had relied on his father's bloodline and the various treasures left behind to raise his cultivation to the Spirit-Connecting Realm. Yet after eighteen thousand years, his lifespan had still run dry.
That was only because turtles, as beasts, were born with exceptionally long lifespans. Had it been an ordinary human, even with Spirit-Connecting Realm cultivation, lasting two thousand years would have been difficult.
After that, the Turtle Servants' lifespans grew shorter with each generation, until every generation lived less than ten thousand years.
By this generation, reaching the fifth level of the Dao Entry Realm was already the limit.
Moreover, more importantly, after being passed down generation after