After passing through generation after generation of inheritance, the cultivators of Soul-Suppressing Palace had gradually begun interacting with other soul cultivation sects, forming marriage alliances, and so on. Their cultivation methods had also begun to blend together.
Throughout this long process, some disciples left Soul-Suppressing Palace and established their own sects or lineages outside, becoming vassals of the Soul-Suppressing Sect.
Aside from being required to pay tribute every year, they could pass ordinary cultivation methods, as well as methods that Soul-Suppressing Palace permitted to be inherited, down to their own disciples.
However, they were generally forbidden from passing down the Soul-Suppressing Sect's secret arts. Once discovered, their entire sect or lineage would be slaughtered.
Since these people were able to leave and establish sects of their own, they were fundamentally all heaven-blessed geniuses. They often created cultivation methods of their own as well.
Later, after marrying into soul cultivators outside Soul-Suppressing Palace, the powerhouses of both sides exchanged insights and created even more new cultivation methods. In truth, this merely repeated what immortal sects throughout the realms had already done.
Otherwise, there would not be so many cultivation methods in the world; a few would have been enough. It was simply that soul cultivators of the past had lived in darkness at every turn and had not dared to truly develop.
For a time, Dizhen Domain slowly began to show the flourishing spectacle of a hundred schools contending through generation after generation. The soul cultivation methods here became ever stronger and more numerous, turning this place into a holy land for soul cultivators.
In fact, many sects later came to understand why the upper echelons of Soul-Suppressing Palace had done this.
Soul-Suppressing Palace hoped to test different cultivation methods and see whether any ingenious, unconventional methods would emerge that could