The moment those words were spoken, all the cultivators present revealed astonished expressions.
If this matter had come from their own Sect Master's mouth, then it could not possibly be false.
Yet in forty-eight years, they had gone from a small clan in a town under a dynasty's rule to the point of establishing themselves as the ruler of an entire borderland?
Wasn't that rate of development a little too outrageous?
Seeing the shock written across his fellow disciples' faces, Peng Tao immediately turned from worry to delight, unable to hide the smile on his face.
Since the Sect Master had brought this up, there was an eighty to ninety percent chance that he had already settled the matter with the Dongfang Clan's Great Venerable!
"Only forty-eight years? By that calculation, if they had not encountered this war between the two Dao Paths, so long as the Yang Clan continued developing steadily, they would have the strength to enter the Central Region within twenty years."
"Indeed. I had only known that the Yang Clan had unified the Northwest and assumed they were no different from that Profound Ice Palace in the northeast. But looking at it now, the Yang Clan's momentum of rise is far swifter than the Profound Ice Palace's back then."
"At present, counting the Vaulting Dragon Lord, the Yang Clan already has three prodigies, two of whom are on the Gold Ranking. So long as two of those three survive the coming war, attaining True Intent will be as easy as reaching into a bag to take something out."
"Hiss—now that you mention it, if our Fuyao Sect were to join forces with the Yang Clan at this moment, wouldn't that count as recognizing a pearl with discerning eyes?"
"The Elder speaks reasonably. Besides, even in the