The Final Showdown

"This situation wasn't actually strange."

"Advancing from the Out of Body Stage realm to the Spirit Wandering realm was already fraught with immense difficulty. Leaving aside everything else, merely failing to condense a Spirit Body when advancing into the Out of Body Stage realm nearly cut off the possibility for ordinary peak Out of Body Stage cultivators to go any further. Not to mention the other crucial hurdles still ahead."

"Compared to advancing into the Spirit Wandering realm, advancing into the Mysterious Pill realm would only be even more difficult!"

"Among the peak lineages of an immortal sect, having one or two people achieve the Mysterious Pill realm in several hundred years and stabilize their peak's inheritance for the future was already considered quite good."

"A situation like Ten Thousand Ren Peak's, where the peak master and the only other Mysterious Pill realm ancestor were nearing the end of their lifespans almost at the same time, was rare, but not impossible."

"One could only say that it was an unfortunate coincidence."

Seeing Shen Changchuan's tightly furrowed brows, Hong Yang roughly guessed what he was thinking.

Hong Yang briefly explained it to him.

Actually,

he had also been somewhat puzzled by this in the past.

Since Ancestor Qianyuan had been Old Ancestor Banshan's eldest disciple, where were his Senior Brothers and Sisters? Could it be that not a single one of them had attained the Mysterious Pill realm?

Besides that,

You Longzi had been Ancestor Qianyuan's final disciple.

Then what about the Senior Brothers and Sisters of You Longzi's Master, those whom Ancestor Qianyuan had taken in before You Longzi?

Had those people been intercepted and perished midway,

or had someone successfully advanced into the Mysterious Pill realm,

only to die unexpectedly due to some unknown change, leaving Ten Thousand Ren