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This was a choice made from the perspective of maintaining the traditions of the sect.
For ordinary mortals, several years were enough for significant changes to occur.
After Fu Quanliang by chance took an oath with Phantom Spirit Sect years ago, he hadn't returned home for many years. When he finally had the chance to go back, all that was left were ruins.
Not long after he had left to cultivate, there came a three-year drought. Crops failed, and starving corpses littered the land. His parents and siblings had no way to send word and all starved to death; even weeds didn't grow atop their graves.
In just a few short years, everything had changed beyond recognition.
The fate of the Song Family from Great Zhou was actually among the better ones for many cultivators who joined the Immortal Sects.
The saying that when one person gains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven is, after all, just a legend. In most cases, chickens and dogs remain chickens and dogs.
