This is a traditional concept in the Cultivation World.
Many Cultivation Families hold this type of idea.
Like the master-disciple relationship within Sects, there is also a bit of this ideology.
Apart from legacy, some even harbor thoughts.
If an unparalleled figure, a great power, were to appear among their descendants, it could resurrect their long-dead ancestors, or perhaps when they themselves reincarnate, take a round.
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Inside the main hall.
Lu Changsheng, clad in a blue Spiritual Robe, sat in the main seat.
On either side of him were Lu Miaoge and Ling Zixiao, the Main Mothers.
He was drinking and conversing jovially with several Cultivators in the hall.
To be seated here, one must either have a special identity or be a Foundation Establishment Ancestor.
Everyone who had come was also looking to gauge the attitude of Lu Ancestor.
"Beast Taming Xu Family, Xu Ruyin has arrived!"
At that moment, a voice announced from outside.
"Beast Taming Xu Family!?"