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Chapter 253 Extra Chapter – The Rise of a Bloodline Era

The True Dragon Clan has done an excellent job of keeping secrets.

For the next two hundred years, no outsiders knew about this matter. At most, they felt that the dragon race had become a bit strange in recent centuries compared to the past. For example, there were far fewer newly born dragon descendants, the true dragon demon lords rarely showed themselves, and they were even more greedy for rare and precious materials that could promote the recovery or growth of bloodlines.

However, these changes are spread out over two hundred years.

It becomes less obvious.

Over the course of these two hundred years, the True Dragon Clan spared no effort to successfully conceive a total of forty-eight descendants, descendants of the True Dragon bloodline, and did their utmost to cultivate them into Demon Lords.

At the same time, because the true dragon is inherently powerful, it does not face any bottlenecks before ascension. It does not even need to undergo tribulation; it only needs to undergo the ascension tribulation at the final moment.

Therefore, more than two hundred years passed afterward.

The other races remained completely unaware of their actions until they nurtured all the newly born descendants of the true dragon bloodline to the level of demon lords, assembling a total of seventy-two demon lords with the true dragon bloodline. They then launched a full-scale attack on the other divine beast races, including other demon races with deep resources, plundering their accumulated assets.

This officially exposed their ambitions and secret plot.

This directly caused a shock throughout the world, and all races were horrified.

Seventy-two demon lords with true dragon bloodlines might not have been much in ancient times, but they are truly invincible now. Previously, the entire demon alliance, including all the demon lords, couldn't even gather a hundred, and that still has to include the less than thirty demon lords from the true dragon clan.

This means that the number of demon lords from the True Dragon Clan alone is enough to rival the entire Demon Alliance, not to mention that the True Dragon bloodline makes them far stronger than demon lords with ordinary bloodlines—the kind of strength that would easily crush them.

Most importantly, they only robbed rare and precious materials, and their main target was the divine beast race. Therefore, under the intimidation of the seventy-two demon lords with true dragon bloodlines, the entire demon alliance was unable to unite and resist them.

At most, they might offer a couple of condemnations and call for peace.

The human race was quite proactive. Despite their fear and anxiety, they kept trying to instigate a fight among the demon race, hoping it would result in mutual destruction. Otherwise, the seventy-two demons with true dragon bloodlines, along with the other demons, posed a significant threat to the human race.

Unfortunately, the demon race isn't stupid.

The True Dragon Clan did not exterminate the demons; their main goal was to seize more rare and precious materials. Therefore, this incident only made the True Dragon Clan's reputation extremely bad.

Many demons privately cursed them.

And many demons, especially those demons who also possess the bloodline of divine beasts, began to wonder how the True Dragon Clan produced so many descendants with the bloodline of the True Dragon.

The reason a secret remains a secret is mainly because no one investigates it, or no one knows it, or perhaps not many people want to know it, or they are not powerful enough. But now, with the True Dragon Clan causing such a commotion...

Not only the demon race, but also the human race was alarmed.

Therefore, their secret could not be kept any longer.

Two years later, the races that needed to know, or rather, had the desire to investigate, basically knew everything. They also successfully learned about the innate talismans and cultivation techniques that could enhance the blood concentration of fetuses, and began to study them secretly.

Even humans who don't have any inherently powerful bloodlines have secretly begun to study these two things.

In practical terms, how to produce outstanding offspring.

It is a sore point for all races.

For example, in the case of human clan inheritance, the most important aspect is ensuring that each generation has outstanding descendants. Under the primogeniture system, it's not necessary to force the eldest son to be exceptionally outstanding, but it is essential to guarantee that each generation has outstanding members.

There are no outstanding descendants, or they are not outstanding enough.

Then the family's status may decline.

If there is a three-generation gap, the family's status will definitely decline precipitously, which is similar to the fact that the dragon race can never produce a true dragon bloodline.

Only those with exceptional talent can replace bloodlines.

But in essence, it's still about genes and bloodline.

Moreover, this refers to ordinary people. Cultivators rely more on bloodline talents. For example, if both husband and wife have spiritual roots, the probability of their child having spiritual roots is a hundred times higher than that of two ordinary people having a child with spiritual roots.

Therefore, the main purpose of human cultivators studying these things is undoubtedly to pass on their top-level spiritual root talents, or top-level innate physiques, to their children to ensure that they are passed down from generation to generation. Only by passing on top-level talents from generation to generation can the family prosper!

The core reason why sects are generally stronger than aristocratic families is that sects can continuously absorb disciples with good talent, while aristocratic families can only have children and hope for the best.

Over time, the elite forces in the cultivation world have transitioned from the aristocratic families of the past to the sects of today.

That is to say, it is only natural.

However, the innate talismans and special bloodline enhancement cultivation techniques passed down from the True Dragon Clan brought new hope to many aristocratic families. To be precise, all races and forces that held this hope were desperately researching it, with the Divine Beast Clan being the first to achieve results.

After all, there are certain similarities among divine beasts. Moreover, they have a deep understanding of their own bloodline and the bloodline passed down to their descendants. Therefore, after more than ten years, they gradually made progress and began to work hard to breed pure-blooded offspring.

For example, the Xuanwu Ancestor of the Xuanwu Clan, being the only pure-blooded member left in the entire clan, passed on the modified innate talismans and cultivation techniques to his grandson, whose Xuanwu bloodline was the strongest, after confirming their effectiveness. He instructed the grandson to absorb the Xuanwu bloodline within him through cultivation, purifying his own bloodline and transforming into a pure-blooded Xuanwu divine beast.

In addition, he explicitly forbade anyone else from practicing, even his own son.

They all had to die, and he personally carried out the killings.

After all, he only wanted a pure-blooded descendant, not to be absorbed as nourishment by all his descendants. Even if that day ever came, it would have to wait until his lifespan was almost over, or until he failed his tribulation and couldn't ascend. He was only a little over ten million years old and hadn't lived enough yet. If nothing unexpected happened, he could live for at least another ten million years.

Then came the Azure Phoenix of the Phoenix Clan, the White Tiger Clan, and so on. As more and more divine beast races made breakthroughs in this area, some key techniques gradually spread, so more and more races made breakthroughs and successfully applied talisman techniques.

For a time, there was a trend toward a Renaissance.

However, what was being revived was the rule of bloodline aristocracy.

Originally, due to the gradual decline of the divine beast race, the ordinary bloodline demon race gradually took over the leadership of the demon race through hard work and the leakage of some divine beast bloodline inheritance. The situation of establishing the demon alliance and ruling the demon race completely collapsed, and the divine beast race regained the upper hand.

And they are no longer willing to accept the jurisdiction of the Demon Alliance.

As a result, although the Demon Alliance did not disband directly, almost all the divine beast clans and demon clans with higher bloodlines withdrew. Outsiders even jokingly called them a group of destitute people who banded together for warmth.

The Demon Alliance's status plummeted.

This was just the beginning, because the once-powerful True Dragon Clan began to coerce all aquatic creatures into joining them, demanding that all scales and armor in the world be under the control of the Dragon Clan.

Although the Phoenix Clan was slightly weaker, it still demanded that all birds with close ties to the Phoenix Clan sever ties with the Demon Alliance and submit to them. Only the Beast Clan was in a better situation because the Qilin Clan had been wiped out.

Even the Qilin clan, which inherited the bloodline of the Qilin clan, is a race of four unlike creatures.

They've all perished.

The Demon Alliance's power was already severely weakened, and this further turmoil has rendered it virtually defunct, with the demons becoming independent and acting independently.

The corresponding human race.

Things were not very stable at that time.

After years of research, they had finally developed innate bloodline talismans and bloodline inheritance techniques suitable for them. As a result, major clans were demanding that their disciples who had joined other sects and possessed high talent return. Even if they didn't openly summon them back, they would secretly have them return to have a child, or directly send several women to them for them to marry.

Until pregnancy.

Even though the power of sects has completely surpassed that of aristocratic families for tens of thousands of years, most members of sects still trust their own families more when they have a family, and even use the resources and power of the sect to benefit their own families.

Only some monks without a family.

Only then will they regard the sect as their own home.

Moreover, even cultivators without families, unless truly devoted to the Dao, will still prioritize their family's interests over their sect's once they have a Daoist partner, children, and descendants. Just like in many ordinary mortal countries, where powerful families prioritize their own interests over the nation's, very few are truly dedicated to the country or their sect.

This applies to mortals as well as cultivators.

Those who are single-mindedly focused on becoming immortals are just as few as those who are single-mindedly devoted to the country and its people.

Therefore, conflicts inevitably erupted between human cultivation families and cultivation sects, leading to conflicts over talent. Some high-ranking cultivators were originally from families and sects, which directly caused the sects to disintegrate on the spot, with the cultivators taking away resources and returning to their own homes.

Only a few special sects were not significantly affected.

For example, the Hundred Flowers Sect and the Jade Pool Holy Land.

For example, some Buddhist and Taoist sects that require people to be without parents, without blood ties, and to sever all emotional attachments and desires, and not to marry or seek partners, may experience fluctuations at most among their outer disciples and nominal disciples.

It has no impact on the core inner disciples.

However, in any case, a hundred years later, both the human and demon races have basically regressed to the golden age of bloodline nobility tens or even hundreds of thousands of years ago, with the nobility of bloodline becoming the most important criterion for measurement in the world.

Human clans also started with the surname "So-and-so".

Those families that become Flame Spirit Body Families, Five Elements Spirit Body Families, etc., but lack spirit bodies and only possess decent spiritual roots, can only be relegated to second-rate families.

The Nine-Rank System evolved into the Nine-Rank Bloodline System.

This situation was something Ding Shuiyuan had not anticipated.