Throughout the ages, countless Great Emperors, Ancient Emperors, and even Heavenly Venerables had left descendants on this ancient planet.
Their bloodlines had mingled together, though after a million years of change, they had grown incredibly thin.
But once spiritual energy revived and stimulated those bloodlines, some people were bound to undergo ancestral reversion. Bloodlines might even fuse and mutate.
Sometimes, Lin Xian even felt that the Ancient Great Emperors had done this deliberately. Earth's true sacred mountains and blessed lands were all concealed by grand formations, while its humans crowded into the minuscule regions outside them. This mere tip of the iceberg housed ninety-nine percent of the planet's living beings.
Such an immense gene pool was confined to a few landmasses for breeding and selection. Never mind producing one or two Sacred Bodies or Heavenly Demon Bodies-even a Chaotic Body popping up on Earth would fall within the bounds of reason.
As the Heavenly Court's decree spread, the sects of the Central Land, the families descended from Demon Gods, and the Dao Lineages of the West all sprang into action.
Quality mattered, not quantity. Anyone who recommended an exceptional disciple would not only receive precious medicines and Emperor Scriptures as rewards; the Great Saint behind their family would also be allowed to enter Kunlun Mountain first and study the Immortal Artifact alongside the Quasi-Emperors.
Apart from a few predetermined candidates, such as the young Celestial Master Zhang Qingyang and Great Xia's Long Xiaoqiao, the cultivation world abandoned its old insular ways and began searching among mortals. Even picking one in ten thousand from several billion people would yield hundreds of thousands of promising candidates. With further careful selection, geniuses were bound to emerge.
And they really did find an outstanding talent-or rather, an outstanding demon!
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