Chapter 159: 【Kneeling to Ancestors, Reaching the Top of the Rankings】 (Second update, begging for)

My name is Guan Youzhi, I am twenty-three years old, at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, and I am a daughter of a collateral branch of the Guan Family, a Golden Core family within the Secret Mansion Realm of Mingwang Prefecture, Jiuding Yu.

You might not believe it, but I was originally going to be sent off today as a marriage pawn for my family to the Chen Family, a Nascent Soul family, to be the Dao companion of the third grandson of their main branch, but halfway there, I was suddenly abducted to a strange mountain peak.

Then, a fellow radiating immortal energy told me that I should be surnamed Lu, that I was originally of the Lu Family bloodline, and that he was the current Patriarch of the Lu Family, now a top-tier cultivator of the continent, a Land Immortal!

And so, I became a member of the Lu Immortal Clan.

Just a moment ago, I was merely a marriage pawn for a tiny Golden Core family; yet now, I am a noble daughter of the Lu Immortal Clan!

I no longer need to marry out, and I can even find a few male Dao companions to serve me.

Lu Runping used the 【Round Light Manifestation】 Supernatural Power to find the Lu, Guan, and Cheng family bloodlines that had branched off in the Beihuang Yu years ago, and he gathered them all here.

As for the Taotie Bloodline Descendant branch and the Five Thunders Orthodox Method lineage of the Song Family, he did not disturb them.

Although these two lineages also lack great beings at the Land Immortal Realm or Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Monarch level, they have both produced a Great Vehicle Realm cultivator, and thus have their own destiny to suppress them.

It is better not to intervene rashly; they can be allowed to develop as hidden lineages.

However, the various branches that split off from the Guan, Cheng, and Lu families have at strongest only Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, not even a single Spirit Severing Realm cultivator, so they need to be fully incorporated into the Immortal Clan and cultivated with priority.

They also have the largest population; men and women, ancestors and descendants, adding up to over ten thousand people.

Compared to true great immortal-cultivating clans, these people are somewhat lacking, but for developing the Lu Immortal Clan right now, they are just right.

With fewer people, resources can be better allocated, concentrated for development, and focused on reproduction.

Facing the many bewildered clansmen, Lu Runping directly slashed off a nearby mountain peak and, using the smooth stone wall he had cut, carved the Lu Family lineage genealogy, starting from Lu Yuantu, with his divine sense.

Of course, the Song Family and the Taotie Bloodline Descendant were hidden.

Upon seeing this complete genealogy, many clansmen shed tears.

It is not hard to see that the first three generations of Patriarchs went through many twists and turns for the early accumulation of the family.

And the fourth-generation Patriarch, Lu Chengtong, worked alone, enduring hardships and overcoming obstacles, single-handedly propagating the family bloodline descendants that followed.

Later, he passed the position of Patriarch to the current Patriarch and lived in seclusion to cultivate, until today, when he achieved the Land Immortal Realm and finally established the Lu Immortal Clan—what a magnificent and grand epic of the Lu Family!

They are all beneficiaries now.

Lu Runping spoke up:

"Bloodline descendants of the Lu Immortal Clan, kneel! First bow to Ancestor Lu Yuantu, who opened the path of the Lu Family's heritage!"

Everyone knelt and bowed toward the genealogy.

"Kneel again! Second bow to the ancestors Lu Mingzhang and Lu Wuzhen, who fought to the death for the family and won a glimmer of survival for the Lu Family!"

Everyone bowed again.

"Finally, third bow to the revival ancestor Lu Chengtong, who spread the bloodline, spent his life accumulating the family's foundation, and laid the groundwork for the Lu Family's rise!"

With the three bows completed, Lu Runping looked at everyone solemnly and urged them again:

"All of you, remember! Today, you inherit the legacy of the Lu Family ancestors, become bloodline descendants of the Immortal Clan, and are able to stand tall upon Donghua Zhenzhou; you must strive for strength and not spare yourselves for the ten-thousand-year heritage of the Immortal Clan!"

"We obey the Patriarch's command!"

All the clansmen shouted together.

Not far away, Liu Yixiao and the other cultivators of the Qingyan Sect watched this scene with complex expressions; they had perhaps witnessed history, a history named the Lu Immortal Clan!

Three days later, the Lu Immortal Clan had completely stabilized.

In the thirteen regions of the Central Continent, every sect with any bit of strength knew of the establishment of a Lu Immortal Clan.

A Lu Family immortal had emerged from nowhere to create an Immortal Clan, which could not help but cause the surrounding immortal sects to harbor some suspicion and wariness.

They sent people one after another with heavy gifts to offer congratulations; although the purpose was to probe the truth, the gifts were indeed very valuable.

Any single gift, before the Lu Family had been gathered by Lu Runping to form the Immortal Clan, could have been used as a bounty for the entire Lu Family.

But now, such things were merely ordinary.

The younger generation of the Lu Family was almost going crazy with joy.

The Nascent Soul Realm cultivation resources that were once out of their reach seemed like trash to the Lu Family now; the lowest level of cultivation resources brought by those coming to congratulate them were actually at the Great Vehicle Realm.

The Great Vehicle Realm—a level they had never imagined they would ever touch.

They realized once again what kind of status they held now.

From the lowest, destitute beggar-cultivators of this continent, they had leaped to become a top-tier cultivation powerhouse!

How to resolve worries? Only by getting rich!

Since the Lu Family had no other people who could be presented, all the guests were received by Lu Runping personally, which also served to let them know exactly what kind of power the Lu Family's Land Immortal possessed.

Of course, while it was called receiving them, it was actually just sitting in the main hall waiting for everyone to come in and pay their respects.

Accompanying him were some Lu Family elders who were of a higher generation than Lu Runping.

The highest among them were only at the Nascent Soul Realm, and facing the tea-offering from a crowd of Tribulation Transcendence and Great Vehicle Realm great beings, they were also barely holding it together, just forcing themselves to endure.

They could not lose face!

After this visit, all the immortal sects had accurate information.

The Lu Family immortal's cultivation was at least at the early Great Vehicle stage, complete and stable, with immortal spiritual energy and a Spirit Treasure in hand; he was not like an ordinary rogue cultivator and had certainly obtained the inheritance of some ancient immortal sect.

The conclusion was that they needed to be treated with awe and courtesy.

With this, the status of the Lu Immortal Clan in Lianze Yu was stabilized.

The first to arrive at the Lu Immortal Clan to pay respects was the nearest Qingyang Immortal Sect, and the one who came was none other than the three-tribulation cultivator, Shangyi Tianjun, who was about to achieve the status of a Land Immortal.

"My Qingyang Immortal Sect is the number one immortal sect in Lianze Yu, and governing such a vast area of Lianze Yu is very strenuous; now that the Lu Immortal Clan is here to share the burden, it is truly a fortunate event.

From now on, our two families are both immortal gates of the same land and should watch over and help each other to face disasters together."

Shangyi Tianjun said as much.

After all, Lu Runping had schemed against his predecessor to obtain the Dao Fruit, so he also said very politely:

"As long as the Lu Immortal Clan is glorious for one day, we will not let the Qingyang Immortal Sect decline."

Hearing him say this, Shangyi Tianjun immediately laughed:

"Fellow Daoist!"

These two words alone were enough to explain everything.

Subsequently, the Qingyang Immortal Sect sent over a large quantity of cultivation supplies and also proposed the suggestion of letting Lu Family disciples enter the Qingyang Immortal Sect to cultivate.

However, this was rejected by Lu Runping.

Lu Clan Immortal Clan disciples would not enter any sect; they would pass down their legacy in the form of a family, and the base of the Empty Bright Mountain, which was the residence of the Empty Bright Immortal Sect, was merely a starting point; in the future, the Lu Clan Immortal Clan would have a presence throughout the thirteen domains of the Central Continent, and even the entire nine continents of the Yuanshuo Jie.

The family model and the sect model could not be confused; an affiliated sect was merely an affiliate, while the Immortal Clan was the main body; if one joined an Immortal Sect, that would be a different matter entirely.

The Lu Clan Immortal Clan began to develop, and the first step was to distribute a large amount of cultivation resources to everyone.

Although the resources were very abundant, Lu Runping did not directly give everyone cultivation resources for the Dao Integration Realm, but instead provided resources one level higher than their current cultivation base for them to use in their practice.

Once they broke through to a higher level, they could go and claim higher-grade resources, without needing to complete tasks to obtain resources as one would in a sect.

With only ten thousand people, Lu Runping could fully afford to support them.

Even these low-level resources could be provided by the affiliated Qingyan Sect, and the gifts given by those sects were enough for these clansmen to use for several hundred to a thousand years.

Their cultivation speed could not compare to Lu Runping's.

Possessing the heirloom treasure of the Lu Clan Immortal Clan, Lu Runping's cultivation speed was unique, and although these bloodlines had now been bestowed with Dao Seed Supernatural Powers, it was merely an extra technique for self-defense.

The true might of a Supernatural Power only revealed a glimpse of its surface upon entering the Transformation to Divinity Realm, one only gained a bit of true understanding upon achieving the status of an Earthly Immortal, and to truly unleash great power, one still had to wait until after becoming an immortal.

Nowadays, it could be considered an extra bit of foundation.

Compared to other cultivators, they already possessed too much and were already very satisfied.

It was just that their own cultivation bases were a disgrace to the Lu Family, so they all exerted their full efforts to cultivate.

Lu Runping was not in a hurry to let them reproduce.

Although it was difficult to conceive and bear children when one's cultivation base was high, after one's cultivation base was high, the children produced would almost certainly possess Spirit Roots, and furthermore, after one's cultivation base was profound, even if a couple were originally Four Spirit Roots, they could still give birth to a child with a Heavenly Spirit Root.

Although it was very difficult, for the sake of the Lu Family's ten-thousand-year development plan, they still had to strive for excellence.

The rule Lu Runping set was that anyone who had not entered the Nascent Soul Realm by the age of three hundred must continue the family bloodline and produce an offspring with a Three Spirit Root talent; regardless of gender, they could continue to enjoy resources for fifty years, otherwise, cultivation resources would no longer be supplied, and they would be left to fend for themselves.

Since they could not contribute to the Lu Family, they did not deserve to possess resources; the resources before the age of three hundred were considered the shade of the ancestors, which every person surnamed Lu who possessed the Lu Clan bloodline could enjoy.

Whether they could continue to enjoy them afterward depended on their own value.

During the period when the Lu Clan Immortal Clan was flourishing, the Qingyang Immortal Sect was busily preparing for Shangyi Tianjun to become an Earthly Immortal, while the Tianyu Immortal Sect was in a precarious state.

In the blink of an eye, twenty-two years later, in the year 1066 of the Supernatural Era, Chiyangzi of the Tianyu Immortal Sect underwent the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, failed, and died, though his primordial spirit luckily survived.

Yuntuan Xianren placed all his energy on his final hope, Lv Gong, who was third on the Immortal Sect Heaven's Pride Ranking.

Another fifty-four years passed, and Lu Runping's clone, Lv Gong, who was four hundred and seven years old, passed the second Heavenly Tribulation to become a Second-Tribulation Heavenly Monarch, suppressing Jincheng Zi, who was now nine hundred and eighteen years old and still a First-Tribulation Heavenly Monarch, to reach the top of the Heaven's Pride Ranking.

In the same year, one month after Lu Runping passed his tribulation, Yuntuan Xianren called him to his presence.

He made a decision to transmit all his Essence Qi and Spirit to Lu Runping, betting that he could successfully pass the tribulation.

When he said these words, Lu Runping revealed a look of hesitation.

He could not help but ask:

"Do you have something you want to tell me?"

Lu Runping nodded and said:

"Yes. The day after I passed my tribulation, a person with the Daoist name Xuanjizi found me and gave me a seed.

He said that if you, Senior, were to transmit all your cultivation to me, I should give the seed to you for you to refine; this way, after you ascend to immortality, it will bear an Immortal Fruit, and if I eat it, I will definitely be able to become an immortal!"

As he spoke, Lu Runping took out a Dao Seed, which contained the new Supernatural Power 【Call Wind and Summon Rain】 obtained in the year 1080 of the Supernatural Era, which had never appeared in this world before.

As for the previous words, they were all made up.