When Xingxiu heard the Morning Star Ancient Emperor say that he could grant her a god-grade bloodline-even one as rich in origin energy as his had been when he first became a Dou Di-she froze, her face filled with disbelief.
After all, a supreme god-grade bloodline like that had not appeared among the Ancient Eight Clans for thousands of years.
Thousands of years ago, some strange upheaval seemed to have occurred on the Dou Qi Continent. Every Dou Di within the Eight Clans had mysteriously vanished, and no one knew where they had gone.
After those Dou Di disappeared, the clans' bloodlines began to decline to varying degrees. Powerful cultivators grew ever scarcer, and no one in the Eight Clans could reach that supreme realm of Dou Di again.
Over those thousands of years, almost every successive patriarch of the Eight Clans had spent the rest of their lives trapped at the nine-star Dou Sheng realm. Yet while the patriarchs of those Dou God Clans desperately sought entry into the Dou Di realm to no avail, a Dou Di suddenly emerged in the Central Plains-the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe.
When they heard of this Dou Di, all the patriarchs of the Eight Clans went mad with excitement. They scrambled to seek an audience with the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe, hoping to learn how he had advanced to the Dou Di realm. Yet the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe told them nothing. He merely left behind a piece of Ancient Jade, told them that the method for becoming a Dou Di lay within it, and concealed his whereabouts once more.
The people of the Eight Clans tried to investigate, but they could not uncover a single scrap of information. It was as though the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe had vanished from the Dou Qi Continent. Some