Immemorial Spirit Race

The Immemorial Spirit Race (太古灵族) is the behind-the-scenes overseer of Martial Heaven Continent and the protectors of the world. 
The divine families are actually an extremely ancient race called the Immemorial Spirit race. It is said that they have preserved the human race’s purest, most original bloodline. They have the talent to innately awaken their Spirit Blood as soon as they are born. As long as they are not lazy, at least half of them end up becoming Empyreans with awakened manifestations.
In the cultivation world, there is something called Essence (体) and Function (用). The manifestation is Function, while Spirit Blood is Essence. Only once you have the Essence can you have the Function. For most, they have to use the Function to slowly awaken our Essence. That is because their bloodlines are no longer pure.
== Divine Family ==
There are four known clans made up of this kind of race. These clans are the Long Family, Ye Family, Jiang Family and the Zhao Family.
The Four Divines Writ is a symbol of the divine families’ communication. Counting this time, it has only appeared three times throughout history. 
They are split between the main families and the outer branches. 
The elders in the outer branches have their own rankings which decides their importance in the branch. From the lowest to the highest ranking elder ranks, they are: Man, Earth, and Heaven. 
== Members ==
The known members of the Immemorial Spirit Race among the four divine families are:
=== Long Family ===
*Main Bloodlines:
**Long Junwu (Leader)
**Long Zhantian
**Luo Ningshuang
**Long Qifeng
**Chu Sunhao
**Long Aotian
**Long Chen (Kicked out immediately after birth)
*Collateral Relatives:
*Branch Families:
**Shen Chengfeng (Earth Elder) - 8th Commander of Heavenly Dragon Legion
**Xie Feng - 8th Vice Commander of Heavenly Dragon Legion
**Qiu Yang
*Outer Branch's Long Family:
**Elder Long (Heaven Elder)
=== Ye Family ===
*Main Bloodlines:
**Ye Liangchen
**Yan Fei
*Collateral Relatives:
**Ye Shan - The overseer
*Branch Families:
**Ye Lingfeng - 3rd Commander of Heavenly Dragon Legion
**Yan Fei New - 7th Commander of Heavenly Dragon Legion
**Ye Benchang Old - 7th Commander of Heavenly Dragon Legion (Deceased)
*Outer Branch's Ye Family:
**Ye Yaochen (Earth Elder)
=== Jiang Family ===
*Main Bloodlines:
**Feng Fei
** Jiang Wuchen
*Collateral Relatives:
*Branch Families:
*Outer Branch's Jiang Family:
=== Zhao Family ===
*Main Bloodlines:
**Zhao Ritian
*Collateral Relatives:
*Branch Families:
*Outer Branch's Zhao Family:
**Zhao Feng (Elder)
==Ranks==
*The first rank consists of the main bloodlines: 
**These are the purest bloodlines and the experts from these bloodlines all possess the power of commanders.
*The second rank is made up of collateral relatives: 
**who have purer bloodlines.
*The third rank includes the branch families: 
**These families are from the branch relatives and have less pure bloodlines.
***The Heavenly Dragon warriors.
*The fourth rank is composed of those outer branches hidden within the Martial Heaven Continent: 
**They aren’t even related by blood. They just share the family name.
=== Divine Families: ===
Main Bloodlines:
Collateral Relatives:
Branch Families:
Outer Branch
== Story ==
They are called the protectors of the entire world. They had countless glorious achievements, but after the first dark era descended, they were heavily injured and retreated to look after themselves. At that time, just as the continent's powers were smashed apart and scattered, just as countless sects were destroyed and the entire continent was on the verge of destruction as well, the first generation Sovereign, Yun Shang, rose. He united the races on the continent and forced back the invaders, giving the Martial Heaven Continent a chance to recover.
Sovereign Yun Shang was the first Sovereign, and the only one to suddenly soar against that kind of adversity. He was the only Sovereign who did not experience the qi flow eruption. After that, the divine families were silent for many years. Their ruling era was ended by the first dark era. After that came the time of the five Sovereigns. The divine families also appeared during those times to help the Sovereigns, but their light was eclipsed by the Sovereigns. 
The last time the divine families appeared on the continent was a dark era 43000 years ago. The dark era from that time was not particularly large in scope, but it was the divine families that allowed the continent to pass through that tribulation. That was how their name once more resounded across the continent, but ever since then, they've been silent. For them to come out now while there is still no clear candidate for the next Sovereign indicates that the divine families might be leading the upcoming battles in the dark era. I explain this to you so that you understand what the divine families are. If your light is too bright, you'll draw their attention."
=== Meddling in ancient family affairs ===
"The divine families have truly been gone, but that doesn't represent that they are isolated from the world. Don't you think it's curious how Di Long could be publicly scorned, insulted, and cursed by his wife with him only being able to accept it silently? There's also the fact that Mo Gate was so powerful back in the day. With a pair of Sages, just as they were about to reach an unprecedented era, they were destroyed overnight. Some things simply cannot be said, but if you think about it, it's not impossible to notice the answers," said the High Priest profoundly.
Long Chen's heart pounded wildly. To put it like this, the Di family had been supported by the divine families. As for Mo Gate, it had been destroyed precisely because of the divine families.
Long Chen suddenly understood why when he asked Mo Nian if he wanted to reclaim the ancient family alliance for Mo Gate, Mo Nian always shook his head.
Long Chen had always thought it was simply because Mo Nian was too lazy and liked his freedom, but in reality, he must have known that the divine families were related to the destruction of his clan. His enemies were far too powerful, so powerful that he didn't even have the courage to get revenge against them.
Just what were the divine families thinking? If they were the protectors of the continent, they should be fighting openly and honorably. Why would they do something so petty in the dark?
Why would they interfere in personal enmities between families? Was it just to control the ancient family alliance? Just what would their goal be in that?
The High Priest hadn't actually said much about this matter, but it was enough to raise Long Chen's guard.
The waters of the Martial Heaven Continent were truly deep, frighteningly deep. If the ancient family alliance had such powerful secret supporters, then what about the other powers of the continent? The Xuan Beasts? Pill Valley?
==References==
 
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