This was naturally not permitted.
Within the unwritten rules of the nobility, it was forbidden. Any noble who dared to marry a commoner would undoubtedly face scorn, disdain, and ostracization from their own class.
In this world, "matching social status" was a concept. Very few could truly cross class boundaries to marry a noblewoman.
Perhaps, some exceptionally beautiful women might occasionally be taken into a noble's harem. However, such actions, which diluted bloodline abilities, were not encouraged among nobles and were exceedingly rare.
Even this minuscule probability was useless to Quan, as he was male, not female.
Furthermore, Quan held no particular hope for bearing powerful offspring. After all, descendants were not oneself. It was they who would possess bloodline abilities, not him.
While some clans might value their offspring even more than themselves, Quan was not such a person.
Quan had no descendants yet. Even if influenced by the clan's emphasis on procreation, he himself did not feel that offspring were particularly important.
Therefore, compared to the sons and daughters he had yet to father, his own well-being was of greater concern.
His own bloodline ability, however, showed no possibility of improvement.
Quan should have accepted this outcome, accepted this fate.
Until he met Mo, from the Mingyi tribe.
Mo was also a commoner. His bloodline ability, like Quan's, had degenerated to a point where it could no longer manifest.
Yet, he possessed a strength that surpassed Quan's understanding.
Quan personally witnessed Mo pierce a monstrous beast with a beam of light from his fingertips.
The beast was not powerful, merely one of the weaker among many.
But monstrous beasts were not mere beasts that had completely lost their bloodline abilities. Even the weakest among them were not something commoners devoid of bloodline abilities could resist.
In Quan's understanding, a commoner like Mo, whose bloodline ability had completely degenerated, should not even be able to approach a monstrous beast. If they dared to, they would be harmed by the malevolent aura the beast exuded.
However, Mo's performance far exceeded Quan's comprehension.
A flicker of longing and hope arose in Quan's heart. He inquired of Mo the reason for his extraordinary strength.
Quan had expected Mo to refuse to answer, asking with only a one-in-ten-thousand, infinitesimally small hope.
But Mo answered.
Through this, Quan came to understand another path, independent of bloodline abilities: the immortal path.
The immortal path was a term Quan had never heard before.
But in Mo's words, the emergence of the immortal path became a fact.
According to Mo's explanation, the immortal path originated from humans with weak bloodline abilities, who refused to be limited by their circumstances and refused to accept such a fate for their entire lives.
In the very beginning, hundreds of humans did not intend to develop a path independent of bloodline abilities.
They merely wished to enhance and supplement their own bloodline ranks.
Theoretically, supplementing bloodline ranks was indeed possible.
Among humans with powerful bloodline abilities, there existed a very special anomaly: children born to parents with strong bloodlines who, despite this heritage, displayed very limited strength.
When their strength was insufficient, testing revealed that these children still possessed rich bloodline power within their bodies. The issue was a slight probabilistic anomaly during the inheritance of bloodline power, causing the bloodline power to remain unmanifested.
Such children, who possessed strong but unmanifested bloodline abilities, could use certain bloodline secret techniques to break the limitations of their internal bloodline power, thereby enhancing their strength.
Even without bloodline secret techniques, if they were to have offspring, the bloodline power would still be passed down.
Therefore, the status of these children remained noble. Their families still considered them individuals with strong bloodline abilities, distinct from ordinary commoners.
The hundreds of humans seeking to enhance their bloodline ranks first thought of studying methods to improve bloodline abilities based on the experiences of these children.
They even aimed to research methods to supplement bloodlines through those bloodline secret techniques.
But they soon failed.
The reason these children's strength was insufficient was not because their bloodline power was weak, but because their bloodline power had transitioned from an active to a latent state at that time.
The bloodline power still existed.
Precisely because the bloodline power existed, it could be transformed from latent to active through bloodline secret techniques, even after it had become latent.
Commoners, however, were different. The bloodline power within commoners had degenerated to the point of non-existence.
If it did not exist, how could it be transformed from latent to active?
The noble children with rich bloodline potential possessed bloodline abilities that were merely unmanifested. This was fundamentally different from commoners who lacked bloodline abilities altogether.
After exhausting immense effort and obtaining various bloodline secret techniques, only to arrive at this conclusion, the hundreds of commoners felt disheartened.
Some departed, abandoning all thoughts of advancing their bloodline ranks.
They had lost all hope.
Yet, more commoners remained, continuing their exploration into how to advance their bloodline ranks and how to awaken their bloodline power.
However, their research directions differed.
Some commoners believed that since commoners originated from nobles, and nobles originated from even higher-ranking nobles, with bloodlines tracing back to the strongest primordial divine human emperors, could it be that they inherited absolutely no ancestral bloodline power through generations of lineage?
Perhaps, they already possessed bloodline power, but it was even more latent than the latent state, to the extent that existing bloodline secret techniques could not excavate it, thus making them appear to lack bloodline power.
This group of commoners intended to continue researching bloodline secret techniques, delving deeply into them. Although at the beginning of their endeavor, they were advised by their peers not to do so—hadn't it just been proven that bloodline secret techniques were useless, and that they were fundamentally different from those noble children whose bloodlines were unmanifested? Why were they returning to the same approach now?
But this did not change their minds.
This group of commoners ultimately achieved no significant results.
A portion of the commoners decided to focus on the physical body.
Their reasoning was as follows: the bodies of clan leaders and nobles were incredibly resilient. Even when monstrous beasts unleashed their bloodline divine abilities, they could not leave a single white mark upon them.
Since the bodies of nobles were so powerful, perhaps the path to enhancing one's bloodline rank lay in strengthening the physical body, and from the power of the body, inferring the power of one's own bloodline.
This group of commoners, while achieving some minor progress, could also be considered to have failed.