True Immortal Cave Abode

"At the time, this old man had the same doubts, so I questioned Fellow Daoist Ciji in detail." The silver-haired child poured himself a cup of spiritual wine. After draining it in one gulp, he continued his tale in an old-fashioned tone.

The friend whose four-thousandth birthday True Lord Fulong had attended was known by the Daoist title Immortal Elder Ciji.

He had been born into an Aristocratic Clan of cultivators that had endured for ten thousand years, its prestige blazing far and wide. That Lineage controlled several human kingdoms where immortals and mortals lived side by side, with hundreds of millions of cultivators and common folk under its rule.

The imperial kin and high-ranking cultivators at the very top almost all came from that Lineage. Through marriage, they gathered promising rising talents of exceptional cultivation aptitude, male and female alike. By such means, they injected fresh blood into the Lineage, nurtured more outstanding descendants, and ensured that the Lineage would flourish without decline for ten thousand years!

Immortal Elder Ciji's father had been a gifted young man who married into the Lineage, while his mother had also been one of the finest of her generation within the clan. Before either of them reached the Spirit Sea Realm, pressured by the Lineage's upper echelons, they had produced quite a few children. Later, they both cultivated to the peak of the Origin Core Realm and held no low status within the Lineage.

Thus, before Immortal Elder Ciji and his siblings condensed their Origin Cores, they had almost never lacked cultivation resources!

Yet among his parents and siblings, not one achieved the Divine Bridge Realm. Only Immortal Elder Ciji rose above the rest. After a long cultivation journey, he advanced step by step to the Formless Realm, only one major realm away