When Yang Lingrui first heard this result, he was incomparably shocked. But after thinking it over carefully, he truly could not say whether this had been right or wrong.
Judging from the outcome, the fact that the Su and He Families could still continue their bloodlines in the Northwest today showed that the actions of the He Family's two ancestors had indeed preserved the bloodlines of both families.
But...
If they had not done so, and that Su Family prodigy had truly succeeded in attaining the Dao, perhaps the Su and He Families could have joined forces and survived that calamity as well?
"By preserving that opportunity, they preserved a way out for both families. After the battle between the peak cultivators of both sides, that great sect did not slaughter them to the last. It merely drove the two families out of the Central Region."
He Shenglai continued, "In that battle, the He Family's two True Intent Cultivators both died fighting. Of the Su Family's True Intent Cultivators, one died and one was crippled. More than half of the two families' Spiritual Connection combatants also fell. Once they retreated to the Northwest, they no longer possessed their former glory."
"The He Family lost all its territory. Only because it had old ties with the Murong Clan did it manage to find a place to settle in Tiger Chasing, which had not yet established a Dynasty at the time. After that, no He Family cultivator ever succeeded in attaining True Intent again."
"The Su Family, meanwhile, relied on that severely wounded yet surviving True Intent Cultivator to preserve an independent family estate. Later, Su Dingcang, whose mastery of the Dao was unfathomable, emerged from the family and successfully attained True Intent, reclaiming the Northwest's largest mineral vein."
"After this matter,