The powerful northern nobles, even they.
It was also because of the arrival of the northern nobles that the cultivators were cleared out. The southern nobles, who were dancing in celebration, were immediately attacked and killed by the cultivators.
Many southern nobles, tribal leaders, and elders died in this war.
Their numbers even far exceeded those of the northern nobles by hundreds of times.
The northern nobles came to exterminate the cultivators.
However, the cultivators' revenge on the southern nobles exceeded that of the northern nobles by hundreds of times.
This was purely due to the difference in strength.
The cultivators could not yet retaliate against all the northern nobles, especially those in the upper and middle echelons of the northern royal capital.
But for the bloodline humans and nobles of the Southern Wilderness, the cultivators' strength was enough to hunt them, and thus they became prey.
The war between the cultivators and the southern nobles broke out.
Although the northern nobles would rush to exterminate the cultivators whenever they sensed a war.
Due to the formidable strength of the northern nobles, once they found sufficient clues and intervened in the conflict, the death rate of cultivators was far higher than that of southern nobles.
If this death rate were to befall other collective nobles, collapse would not be far off.
But for cultivators, who could replenish their numbers, as long as their lineage was not erased, they would not completely collapse.
Therefore, more and more cultivators went to the Western Desert, to the Endless Sea, and even stayed in the South.
Their goal was singular: to spread cultivation methods to more commoners and cultivate more cultivators.
Although a large number of cultivators died in the struggle against the nobles, the proportion of commoners in the total human population was simply too large.
Cultivators always had hundreds of millions of commoners as their foundation, as future cultivators.
The nobles, on the other hand, were only a small group.
Although both sides were already engaged in a great war, and the cultivators were at an absolute disadvantage, constantly in danger of being captured and killed, and facing mortal peril at any moment.
However, due to the non-hereditary nature of bloodline abilities, commoners had no possibility of advancing on the bloodline path.
This path, lacking any channels for advancement or possibility of promotion, seemed irrelevant to commoners, no matter how powerful it was, as they could not gain power from it.
But the path of cultivation, despite the constant danger of being hunted by nobles and its extreme risks, always offered a channel for advancement, a way to climb higher on this path.
The commoners had no choice.
Bloodline abilities were simply not feasible for them, and a path that was not feasible naturally did not need to be considered.
Apart from cultivation, they had no other path to improve their strength.
If they did not want to live an ordinary life forever, with a lifespan of less than a hundred years, and to live the life of mortals.
If they wanted to increase their lifespan.
If they wanted to possess extraordinary power.
When they accepted the cultivation secret methods and the complete cultivation system spread by cultivators, they would inevitably choose cultivation.
Thus, a war that spanned a thousand years began.
The Human King issued an order to exterminate cultivators, sever the transmitters of cultivation, and burn cultivation books that spread to other tribes and commoners.
These measures were indeed effective. For a time, cultivators' traces were superficially erased across the world, including the Western Desert, the Endless Sea, the Southern Wilderness, the North, and the Misty Mountains.
Even Quan, who had once condensed his primordial spirit and was called an immortal, could not escape death under the direct extermination by the Human King.
But the core of the cultivation system lay in inheritance and knowledge.
Before his death, Quan organized and perfected his complete cultivation knowledge, including what he learned from Mount Taihang up to the Yin God realm, as well as the new realms of Yang God and Primordial Spirit that he deduced and finally created while fleeing after the destruction of Mount Taihang.
The complete cultivation system, perfected by Quan, extending all the way to the realm of immortals, had been fully disseminated throughout the world.
Even Quan, who had condensed his primordial spirit and was called an immortal, was easily killed by the Human King.
However, the Human King could kill one immortal expert but not all immortal practitioners.
Within three hundred years of the Human King killing Quan, no trace of cultivators could be found from the Western Desert in the west to the Endless Sea in the east, from the Southern Wilderness in the south to the Misty Mountains in the north.
But after four hundred years, many nobles who believed the immortal lineage had been extinguished once again saw the existence of cultivators.
Seven hundred years later, cultivation began to reappear and even openly gather in the desolate regions outside the North.
Three thousand years later, realms beyond the immortal realm were also researched.
The immortal path rose from its ashes, and the Human King ultimately did not destroy all cultivation scriptures.
Eventually, commoners obtained cultivation scriptures and embarked on the path of cultivation.
Looking at the situation three thousand years ago, when it was thought to be extinct, but then rose from its ashes again, fluctuating between good and bad, and constantly struggling with the nobles.
The Human King sighed, his heart disheartened.
Although before this, the bloodline humans and nobles had won battles against cultivators time and time again.
In almost every war, the northern nobles were the ones who laughed last. Cultivators were like mice, scurrying all over the place. Although truly disgusting, they were merely stray dogs.
But the fact that bloodline abilities could not be developed, while the immortal path could be developed, could open up new realms, and had channels for advancement.
This made the Human King realize that, in the end, it was the immortal path, the cultivators whom he had always opposed, who would truly laugh last.
The northern nobles had won time and time again, but they could not truly exterminate all the cultivation scriptures and inheritances of the cultivators.
This meant that no matter how many times the northern nobles won, they could only delay the speed of the cultivators' growth, but could not truly destroy them.
And the cultivators, despite failing time and time again, were able to stand up each time, showing that they had not truly and completely failed.
Instead, they were becoming stronger and stronger.
Deducing stronger realms, uniting more people.
Compared to the northern nobles who won repeatedly, the cultivators were the ones who would truly laugh last.
The Human King had completely understood.
He felt a hint of regret for the choice he made and the order he issued three thousand years ago.
But regret was useless now.
The Human King had no elixir of regret. He could only instruct the next Human King, before his lifespan ended, to pay attention to and resolve the issue of cultivators.
The Human King's lifespan ended.
The next Human King ascended the throne.
The power of the cultivators grew more and more immense. Even though the Human King tried his best to destroy these cultivators and personally took action, he could not salvage the situation.
After another two thousand years, this Human King also reached the end of his lifespan and passed the throne to the next Human King.
The power of the cultivators had spread throughout the world.
The upper-class nobles in the royal capital felt the fear brought by the cultivators.
This Human King could no longer pass the throne to the next Human King.
The cultivators surrounded the royal capital.
The cultivators rebelled against the bloodline nobles.
At that time, the defenses of the royal capital were breached.
The Human King was directly executed by the cultivators during the trial assembly.
The sacred bloodline abilities were shattered.