Just as Lin Chuan found insights into cultivating the Supreme One Scripture from the two great holy ancestors of the Supreme One Clan and began his secluded cultivation, the outside cultivation world had already begun to change dramatically.
Back then, the Central River Imperial Family's reputation had suffered tremendous damage because of the Underworld Operation carried out by the [Akatsuki] organization. Many small and mid-sized factions that had once been dependent on them, intimidated by the [Akatsuki] organization's fearsome power, chose to break away from the Central River Imperial Family. At the very least, they no longer dared to openly support the imperial family. Otherwise, if the [Akatsuki] organization truly decided to deal with them, a single Yomotsu Hirasaka could wipe them out within the time it took for a few sticks of incense to burn.
However, this situation changed drastically after Lin Chuan was sealed inside the Longevity Realm.
The reason the [Akatsuki] organization had been able to cause trouble before the powerful Central River Imperial Family was not because the organization itself was especially strong, but because of Lin Chuan's Yomotsu Hirasaka.
That spatial technique was simply too powerful. Even tribulation-transcending cultivators could not keep up with the [Akatsuki] organization. Every time they received word and rushed over to provide aid, the [Akatsuki] organization had already destroyed the faction in question and departed at leisure through Yomotsu Hirasaka's spatial teleportation.
But after Lin Chuan was gone, all of that lost its effectiveness.
In terms of raw strength, although the members of the [Akatsuki] organization possessed outstanding talent, the gap in cultivation was still enormous. They had no way whatsoever to deal with tribulation-transcending cultivators. Even Mahayana cultivators posed an immense threat to the [Akatsuki] organization at that time.
After Lin Chuan was sealed into the Longevity Realm, the