Although the City Lord's Mansion had won this battle, their casualties far exceeded those of the enemy, dealing a devastating blow to an already declining family.
Fortunately, Shentu Mingming's biological parents both survived, though Shentu Xingba had been singled out for harsh treatment; not only was his arm severed, but his Cultivation base was nearly crippled, making it virtually impossible for him to ever become a cultivator.
While ordinary martial artists lived for only two to three hundred years, once someone became a cultivator, their lifespan exceeded eight hundred years. Across the entire Guang Prefecture, there were fewer than ten cultivators left—such was the decline of the once-proud dynasty.
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