The Primordial Myriad Races had never been a single collective. Like the Eastern Wasteland Heavenly Court, they were an alliance, a legacy founded by the Immortal Emperor and perpetuated by successive Ancient Emperors.
During the Primordial Era, the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings had been the Divine Court of the myriad races. Each Ancient Emperor ruled the Great Universe in his first lifetime, then retreated into the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings toward the end of his second lifetime to await the opening of the Immortal Ascension Road.
This was also one reason the successive Imperial Clans could stand on equal footing with other races that produced Great Saints, and even Quasi-Emperors, despite not producing a Great Saint every generation like the Silver-Blood Royal Family.
For a race or a great sect to flourish, it needed outstanding young talents below, invincible sect leaders in the middle, and ancestral elders as its hidden reserve above.
Without such reserves, Primordial Lake was the perfect cautionary tale. One moment, the Origin Emperor passed away; the next, a Great Accomplished Saint Spirit came to seize his Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, leaving all his sons dead.
Other Imperial Clans had sealed away their emperors' sons and daughters as their hope of attaining immortality. Primordial Lake had only Yuan Gu, an eighth-generation descendant who came close to an Ancient Emperor's Son.
As everyone knew, in the cultivation world, a hair's breadth of difference often meant the gulf between heaven and earth.
An Ancient Emperor's Son inherited fragments of his father's Great Dao and possessed an invincible bloodline. Living off his father's legacy alone could carry him to the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven. Add Immortal Medicine for Foundation Establishment, Enlightenment Tea Leaves every day, and Divine Origin Immortal Liquid drunk like water, and his reserves were absurdly deep.