Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 1003 - 295: [Brawny Man?] (3)

Cultivators go decades without fresh blood, relying solely on the older generations to hold on.

Yet they’re constantly fighting with the Demon Race, resulting in fewer cultivators as the battles continue, consuming talent without replenishment, leading to weakening over time."

Yun Zhao slowed down his speech here: "Before I left, I heard the clan chief talk about the Southern Border and mentioned the Ghost Race, all shaking their heads in regret.

If it were other sects and tribes, the absence of the Saint wouldn’t have a significant impact on the sect or tribe.

But for the Ghost Race, this Heaven-Crashing Ceremony is the only path of cultivation for them. The decades without a Saint appearing have significantly impacted the Ghost Race. Even though the Saint has reappeared, the missed decades have already lost them some Primordial Qi."

Chen Yan nodded: "Indeed."

Not holding the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony for decades meant the new generation of the Ghost Race couldn’t start their cultivation for decades, with no new cultivators added.

This is merely what’s visible on the surface.

The real loss is that the Ghost Race wasted the past few decades, losing several generations of talent!

In the past few decades, many Ghost Race children and teenagers, potentially possessing considerable cultivation talent, maybe even prodigies, were unnecessarily delayed because the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony couldn’t take place.

Countless Ghost Race youths, once full of outstanding talents, waited until they were old with white hair, still not having seen the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony.

This situation subtly leads to the loss of morale...

It’s said that over the past decades, many Ghost Race people from the eighteen tribes have already secretly left, seeking other paths of cultivation outside the Ghost Race territories.

Due to the ancestors’ indifference, the younger generation of the Ghost Race finds no path and must escape to seek their own way.

How many Ghost Race people have left their hometowns to seek cultivation paths elsewhere?

Some rely on other families and sects, while others become loose cultivators, wandering through the world.

Moreover, not holding the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony for several years means the hundred external slots can’t be sold.

This reduces the Ghost Race’s financial income significantly.

Furthermore, the decades-long halt abruptly cut off transactions with Domain Realm’s long-traded major sects and families, originally maintained by trading Heaven-Crashing Ceremony slots, along with various contacts, alliances, contracts, cooperation, etc...

Everything was severed all at once.

Money is one thing; without interest bindings, relationships also faded.

This is why the Ghost Race was bullied by the Demon Race, yet couldn’t find any external allies.

Lacking interest bindings, who would help you?

Loss of talent, loss of morale, sharp decline in financial income, weakening external cooperation relationships...

This is the internal and external crisis faced by the Ghost Race over the past few decades.

This Heaven-Crashing Ceremony is the first held in decades, gathering numerous talented children from the young generation in the Ghost Race. Reportedly, this Heaven-Crashing Ceremony is recorded as the largest in scale.

Due to decades of suspension, too many people wish for cultivation but have no chance to enter the path.

But even so, in the eighteen tribes of the Ghost Race, some sold their slots belonging to their tribe.

Yesterday, at the auction, we saw the Black Wood Tribe selling three slots.

In fact, they don’t really care about that bit of money; considering three slots can sell only for some money.

The slot sale is fake; seeking renewed cooperation, transactions, and contracts with noble sects and families is real.

Those three slots sold yesterday weren’t essentially trading the hundred or tens of thousands of money.

Instead, they reopened trade channels with three families through the three slots, hanging on relationships after the slot transactions, enabling long-term cooperation.

Trading in spiritual medicine, mineral transactions...

Therefore, medium and small sects can’t intervene in such business."

Listening to Yun Zhao’s words, Chen Yan nodded, finally realizing why at yesterday’s final auction, those medium and small families seated at the front round tables merely symbolically offered prices twice before withdrawing from the competition.

The slot sale is fake; seizing the opportunity to seek partner alliances is real.

Medium and small families lack the qualification to be allies of the Ghost Race.

After Chen Yan and Yun Zhao settled their discussion, the two decided to set off that afternoon and leave the City of No Return to embark on their journey.

After Chen Yan informed Steward Ma, Steward Ma didn’t object either.

Steward Ma expressed that leaving sooner would be better!

The City of No Return grows increasingly chaotic, lying at the vortex’s center of the Ghost Race and Demon Race struggle, staying in the City of No Return is inherently unsafe.

Better to leave early.

The Heaven-Crashing Ceremony is held at the Ghost Race’s Green Vine Tribe, located in the western part of the Southern Border—it’s the central area within the Ghost Race territories, far from the edge of the Demon Race battles, making it safer.

Before the departure, Steward Ma handed Chen Yan two family letters, asking him to return them to the sect.

Additionally, he prepared several gifts, as gestures of goodwill towards Chen Yan.

Chen Yan didn’t refuse, accepting them calmly, before leaving Four Directions City, accompanying Yun Zhao on their journey.

They still traveled by carriage, drawn by dragon horses, moving effortlessly on the mountain roads.

The carriage has array reinforcement, offering a spacious and comfortable interior. Moreover, there’s Liang, a master, accompanying as a guard.

Chen Yan and Yun Zhao rode in the carriage, leaving North City this afternoon, heading south, traversing to the south of City of No Return, then choosing their path forward.