Only a geomantic treasure land capable of continuously producing cultivation resources could satisfy the development of sects, lineages, and other powers.
At such times, the needed resources were renewable resources such as spirit veins, Spirit Fields, and Spirit Ore, or resources that could not be exhausted within a short time.
Beyond territory capable of producing cultivation resources, a power also needed recognition from other forces.
As the saying went, water flowed downhill, while people climbed upward.
Any mortal with decent Spiritual Roots and ambition, once stepping onto the path of cultivation, would want to join a major sect with greater strength.
For any sect or faction, it needed powerful experts to hold the fort, but it also needed to recruit large numbers of promising disciples. Only when one generation linked to the next could a sect continue to grow and flourish.
If there were no successors, then as times changed and the world shifted, decline would ultimately be unavoidable.
Of course, some cultivators, upon reaching a certain level of cultivation and feeling that their potential had run dry, leaving them unable to advance further on the path of cultivation, would consider the generations to come.
They would choose to found sects, establish schools, or bear descendants through a Dual Cultivation Secret Law and form a lineage.
By occupying a patch of land and relying on the strength of the collective, they ensured that their inheritance could continue.
The best outcome was that even if no genius appeared in the short term, talented people would emerge generation after generation, with their goals and convictions remaining firm.
Through tireless scheming and the accumulation of long years, they could someday concentrate their strength on nurturing a batch of geniuses.
Perhaps in some generation, an exceptionally gifted prodigy would emerge and lead the power