"The Xuanyuan Aristocratic Clan had endured for a million years without decline. It truly had some tricks up its sleeve!" Shen Mo exclaimed in amazement.
He was not marveling at the profundity of this secret art. Having come this far and cultivated to his current realm, what profound techniques and wondrous arts had he not seen?
What truly surprised him was the Xuanyuan Aristocratic Clan's careful planning and perseverance. More than a million years ago, they had already set this strategy in motion and carried it through for so long, thus creating a cultivation clan renowned throughout Fenglin Continent and even the Immortal Realm!
One had to know that, unlike Immortal Sects whose inheritances were sustained by their lineages of teachings, cultivation clans found it difficult to endure for a million years.
Under normal circumstances, the age gap between an exceptionally gifted cultivator and his children was only around a hundred years, at most no more than five hundred, since Spirit Sea Realm cultivators only had a lifespan of five hundred years.
It was already extremely difficult for Spirit Sea Realm cultivators to bear children. Upon reaching the Origin Core Realm, unless one was "extraordinarily endowed" or "favored by the Heavenly Dao," the odds of having offspring were even lower than the odds of cultivating into a True Immortal!
In that case, even if the person later became a True Immortal, his children and their descendants would likely have already died of old age, while his other descendants would have long since been separated from him by who knew how many generations.
If the span stretched to a hundred thousand or a million years later, his descendants might already be a thousand or ten thousand generations removed from that True Immortal ancestor. The bloodline in them would have thinned until