Watching the current state of the Lu Clan, Lu Xuanji's thoughts churned as he muttered, "Cultivating immortality as a clan... cultivating immortality as a clan... in the end, the concept of a clan is getting farther and farther away from me..."
The memories of the past had grown increasingly hazy. He needed to keep recalling them before he could gradually piece them together.
What a tragedy this was!
Long ago, he had been born into the Lu Clan. At that time, the Lu Clan had merely been a minor cultivation family, with its strongest member only a Purple Mansion cultivator.
Within the Purple Mansion World, the Lu Clan had been an utterly insignificant existence. Yet back then, it had sheltered him from wind and rain, shielded him from outside harm, and given him the chance to rise.
Under the Lu Clan's protection, he had grown step by step, becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator, then a Purple Mansion cultivator, and had begun repaying the clan in turn.
The Lu Clan had also continued to grow, becoming one of the great families of Chu Kingdom. It had expanded rapidly, swelling like a balloon being filled with air. Its rate of expansion had been astonishingly fast.
The Lu Clan had grown, and the Lu Clan had expanded.
Likewise, because of its connection to him, the Lu Clan had encountered crises several times, even suffering the extinction of its lineage on multiple occasions.
But as time passed, the Lu Clan's help to him grew smaller and smaller. The clan cultivators' rate of growth could never match his own. In the beginning, they could still play a supporting role and offer him some help, but later on, they could only shout encouragement from the sidelines.
Regarding the clan, he had begun giving unilaterally.
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