As spring gave way to autumn, twenty years swiftly passed.
Hundred Beasts Market, Han Residence.
Within a secluded small courtyard roofed in green tiles stood a three-story azure pavilion.
Inside a guest room, a tall, lanky youth in green robes with delicate features sat cross-legged on an azure meditation cushion, his eyes shut and his hands forming seals.
After a while, the youth in green opened his eyes and let out a breath of turbid air.
"Qi Refining Level Five!"
Han Changsheng said joyfully, his face brimming with excitement.
The clan's generation names followed the sequence: Upright, Great, Bright, Far; Letters, Virtue, Long; Root, End, Loyal, Everlasting, Flourishing; Self-Reliant, World, Flame, Direction; Bearing, Dragon, Benevolence, Life, Manifest; Nation Thrives, Revives the Clan and State; Broad Faith, Summons Great Attainment; Contemplates the Dog, Opens Primordial Prosperity. At present, the youngest generation was the Chang generation.
The youth in green was named Han Changsheng. He was thirteen years old and at Qi Refining Level Five. A descendant of Han Changying, he was a cultivator with three spiritual roots.
Han Changying had taken in a husband, and by now her descendants numbered over a thousand. That was only counting clan members with spiritual roots; there were even more descendants without them.
Han Changsheng's parents were both Qi Refining cultivators. They had followed Han Changming to Central Heaven Continent to seek development. Han Changsheng had been born in Hundred Beasts Market, and he also had two younger sisters.
Han Changming had brought along quite a few Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators, most of whom had no families. After arriving on Central Heaven Continent, they became highly sought after by low-level female cultivators due to their status as relatives of Ten Thousand Gourd True Man, and they married and had children.
Han Changming was