The Heavenly Tomb Conference was not particularly famous in the Central Plains. In the eyes of most people there, it might even have been less well known than the old Four Pavilions Conference.
But anyone who truly understood these matters could strip away such meaningless surface popularity and see that the two stood as far apart in stature and influence as clouds and mud.
That was because everyone who took part in the Heavenly Tomb Conference came from the Dou Di Descendant Clans, which had long kept their distance from the outside world. To them, fame in the Central Plains was hardly worth mentioning. What mattered was distinguishing oneself in a contest among the highest-ranking Imperial Clans. Because they deliberately kept it that way, this gathering—which had nurtured the Douqi Continent's finest talents for more than ten thousand years—remained little known.
In truth, the Heavenly Tomb Conference was the most consequential contest for the Douqi Continent's younger generation. Everyone who entered the Heavenly Tomb and did not die prematurely through some unforeseen mishap would eventually reach the Dou Saint Realm. On that point alone, no other contest or gathering on the entire Douqi Continent could compare.
Every Dou Di Descendant Clan sent its most talented young people into the Heavenly Tomb to be tempered. Though they were young, their Dou Di Descendant Bloodline gave even the weakest among them the strength of a Dou Zun.
One reason they sent only Dou Zun-level fighters was that those fighters had enormous room to grow. Even for the prodigies of the Dou Di Descendant Clans, the Heavenly Tomb offered an opportunity they could not afford to overlook.
Among the Dou Di Descendant Clans, the concentration of one's bloodline shaped everything that followed. Yet even prodigies blessed with exceptionally potent imperial blood enjoyed a