Because of such inside stories, challenges among Mahayana and Tribulation Transcendence cultivators in the inner continent, if not happening at every moment, would certainly occur every now and then.
Such competition was equally present within families and sects. For a family to grow stronger, to cultivate more descendants, and to secure a greater voice of its own, the competition among high-level cultivators—whether between family and sect, family and family, or sect and sect—had never ceased.
Unless one truly remained aloof from worldly affairs, caring nothing for descendants, family, or power.
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