Because Yu Congzhang's status was special, and his talent monstrous, even though he had murdered several of his own clansmen, they had not executed him. They had merely imprisoned him here, letting him properly reflect on his actions.
But precisely because Yu Congzhang's status was far too special, even imprisoned inside the cavern, other members of the Yu Clan still made things convenient for him.
Yu Congzhang spent a thousand years freeing himself from the seal here, and relying on his own talent, he took control of part of the secret realm's array formations step by step in reverse.
After that, Yu Congzhang bewitched some of his clansmen into working for him.
In the end, after spending nearly ten thousand years, Yu Congzhang sacrificed every member of the Yu Clan inside the secret realm. Even toward the clansmen who had once helped him, Yu Congzhang showed not the slightest mercy.
But even so, Yu Congzhang still failed to break through to the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm. He was pinned firmly at the realm of Limit Eighth-Order.
With monstrous talent, and after sacrificing the entire Yu Clan, under normal circumstances, Yu Congzhang breaking through to the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm should have been a nail hammered into the board.
After all, the Yu Clan had once been a Ninth-Order Supreme race. They lacked no resources, lacked no cultivation techniques, and Yu Congzhang lacked no talent whatsoever. There was absolutely no reason for his breakthrough to fail.
And the reason this had happened was actually very simple: the entire Yu Clan had been placed under a curse. They would never be able to produce a Ninth-Order Supreme Realm expert, and as long as any Yu Clan cultivator lived past a thousand years, their body would automatically begin to decay.
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