The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 985: Chapter 985: Xuanyuan Clan

”The Xuanyuan Clan can endure for a million years without decline, truly impressive!” Shen Mo exclaimed in wonder.

It’s not that he was marveling at the mystical nature of such Secret Techniques; on his path to cultivation, reaching his current Realm, what profound magic hasn’t he seen?

What truly intrigued him was the foresight and perseverance of the Xuanyuan Clan, executing this strategy over a million years ago and maintaining it for so long, creating a renowned cultivating family both in Phoenix Continent and the Immortal Realm!

Bear in mind, unlike the Immortal Sects that maintain their legacy through their doctrines, cultivating families struggle to endure for a million years.

Generally, a cultivator with exceptional talent along with their children, would have age differences of around a hundred years, at most not exceeding five hundred years, since the Lifespan of the Spirit Sea Realm is only five hundred years.

In the Spirit Sea Realm, it is extremely difficult to have offspring, while in the Golden Core Realm, unless ”extraordinarily gifted” or ”favored by the Heavens,” the probability of having offspring is even lower than attaining True Immortality!

Thus, even if an individual later achieves True Immortality, their children and grandchildren would likely have passed away long ago, and other descendants would have been many generations apart.

If the time extends to ten thousand years or a million years, their descendants might be hundreds or thousands of generations removed from the True Immortal Patriarch, bloodlines thinned to the level of strangers; and over such a long period, descendants reproducing and dying would likely be counted in tens or hundreds of billions...

The Immortal Patriarch could hardly feel any emotion for them!

Hence, most True Immortals, even if they had children during their early years, and those children formed a large family, would not go out of their way to support descendants several generations removed after achieving True Immortality.

But the Xuanyuan Clan planned ahead, using Secret Techniques to preserve the Yuan Yang and Yuan Yin of family members from their early years, avoiding difficulties for family members of higher Realm in producing offspring.

Additionally, if a family member becomes a Great Cultivator or a True Immortal, and their children and grandchildren have all passed away, they can use the preserved Yuan Yang and Yuan Yin to cultivate close-bloodline offspring, maintaining family bloodline ties to strengthen the foundation of the cultivating families!

Just like their Divine Immortal Patriarch Xuanyuan Tongzhen, who lived for over a million years, new generations of the family could be thousands of generations removed; naturally, there are no blood ties or affection, but offspring nurtured from his own Yuan Yang have very close blood ties. As long as cultivation is not on the Heartless Path, even a sparse affection could still provide some care.

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Of course, the offspring nurtured from Xuanyuan Tongzhen’s early Yuan Yang cannot inherit extraordinary traits like his Dao bone, Immortal body, or Skill, making them no different from typical family members... This can be observed from his original children, none of whom achieved True Immortality and all died of old age!

Over millions of years, Xuanyuan Tongzhen has nurtured and lost countless children. After all of his children died over a thousand years ago, he again nurtured Xuanyuan Luan and others from the preserved Yuan Yang.

Currently, Xuanyuan Luan perfectly inherited the original cultivation Talent of Xuanyuan Tongzhen. Given that he managed to grow into a Divine Immortal, his inherent talent couldn’t be too poor. If so, this girl might possess the potential of a True Immortal, it’s understandable Xuanyuan Tongzhen puts more effort into her!

Now, Xuanyuan Tongzhen is orchestrating grand arrangements, trying to select a suitable groom for Xuanyuan Luan from the celestial talents of various immortal continents poised to enter the True Immortal Realm. Partially to provide Xuanyuan Luan with a Dao companion for mutual support on the cultivation path, and partly to introduce someone with potential for Immortality into the Xuanyuan Clan.

As a Divine Immortal, Xuanyuan Tongzhen also needs to guard the Heavenly Gateway, where their greatest enemy is Lord Blue Venerable and other leftover evils from the old era.

This senior Immortal likely heard some news, which prompted him to value Shen Mo greatly, listing him as one of the potential suitors for Xuanyuan Luan!

However, Shen Mo already has a Dao companion...

The Xuanyuan Clan’s Ghost Immortal, Xuanyuan Song, received indications from the clan’s Divine Immortal Patriarch to personally visit Red Flame Sect, to persuade him to attend the groom selection ceremony. If he stands out among the celestial talents, he needs to dissolve his Dao companion relationship with Zhao Lingyin like mortal spouses.

Such matters cannot rely on others, so Xuanyuan Song insisted on an in-person conversation with Shen Mo.

After being decisively rejected by Shen Mo, Xuanyuan Song produced another prepared invitation, inviting him to observe the event held at Xuanyuan Mountain.

”Inviting someone to the groom selection is one thing, but this invitation to observe the ceremony also comes with a divine soul imprint from the Xuanyuan Clan Patriarch. I have no choice but to attend. Could it be that this senior Immortal is doing all this just to find a husband for his daughter?” Shen Mo pondered again over the invitation as he spoke to Jade Spring Fairy.

Xuanyuan Song must have prepared two invitations well in advance; one invites him to participate in the groom selection ceremony, granting eligibility to be evaluated by the Xuanyuan Clan Patriarch Xuanyuan Tongzhen and the younger senior Xuanyuan Luan.

The other is the ordinary invitation received after Shen Mo’s refusal, which Jade Spring Fairy also obtained.

This invitation is as luxurious as brocade, warm like jade upon touch, resistant to ordinary harm; clearly made from top-tier materials, suitable for crafting a magic robe of treasured level. This small detail reveals the deep heritage of the Xuanyuan Clan!

”Qingyun seems to think like me, things might not be so simple!”

Jade Spring Fairy took a sip of Enlightenment Tea but found the spiritual tea tasteless, requesting fine spiritual wine from Shen Mo, drinking while saying, ”Recently, Dongjie Continent has been troubled by demonic disasters, with the potential to spread across the entire immortal continent. Additionally, for some unknown reason, two Divine Immortals fought fiercely, destroying a million-mile radius in Dongjie Continent. Other immortal continents are also facing emerging tribulations!”

”Senior Tongzhen, being a Divine Immortal and long-standing guard of the Heavenly Gateway, likely knows more than us. His present broad invitations for groom selection from Phoenix Continent comrades might just be early preparations for future tribulations.”

”If you have no pressing matters, partner with this Immortal and go to observe the ceremony together. With an invitation from the senior Immortal, many True Immortal figures will be present, making it a grand event of Phoenix Continent!”

Shen Mo thought briefly and agreed.

He had no interest in marrying into the Xuanyuan Clan; not only is he unwilling to dissolve his Dao companion relationship with Zhao Lingyin like mortal spouses, but even if he were still alone now, he wouldn’t be willing to become Xuanyuan Tongzhen’s son-in-law.

Currently, he has glimpsed some insights on the path ahead; even if he doesn’t fall to the Immortal Tribulation, he might not immediately prove to be a Divine Immortal or Heavenly Immortal, but after achieving True Immortality, he would at least be an Earth Immortal. With his cultivation level and techniques, he could even confront Divine Immortals, having no need to marry in to seek Immortal opportunities or the shelter of other Divine Immortals, unnecessarily lowering himself before Xuanyuan Tongzhen!