Seven days later.
Heavenly Prefecture.
The Shen Family.
Gazing at the Purple Bamboo Forest stretching beyond sight, Lan Family Patriarch Lan Hengyu sighed.
"Ten miles of purple bamboo, a thousand years of the Shen Family guiding souls across. It's been so long since I last saw this forest."
In Heavenly Prefecture, the Purple Bamboo Forest had long been a symbol of the renowned Royal Family known as the Shen Family.
But over the past few centuries, the Shen Family had fallen further and further. As another Royal Family, the Lan Family could not help feeling a chill at their decline.
"Patriarch Lan, don't people usually celebrate birthdays at round-number ages? Why is the Shen Family Patriarch celebrating his three hundred and ninety-fifth? Isn't that strange?"
Ning Shanshan looked at the Purple Bamboo Forest for a while, then turned away, bored.
She was far more curious about Shen Family Patriarch Shen Qingxuan's birthday celebration.
"Well..."
At the mention of it, Lan Hengyu sighed again.
"Most people do celebrate round-number birthdays, but the Shen Family is different... Technology and medicine keep improving, and people's lifespans are growing too. Even ordinary people can easily live past a hundred. Once someone reaches the Transcendent Realm, their lifespan at least doubles to two or three hundred years. As their Cultivation Level rises, so does their lifespan. At Transcendent Ninth Heaven, they can live a thousand years. And if they become a King, they can even... Ahem. In short, the higher a Martial Artist's Cultivation Level, the longer he lives."
"But the Shen Family... Back on the Human-Demon Battlefield, a Demon King cursed the Shen Family Ancestor. That curse passed through his Bloodline to the Shen Family Clansmen, leaving them all short-lived."
"An ordinary Shen Family Clansman is lucky to reach sixty. Even after entering the