Cave Refuge

However, the high-end secret manuals of the Flower Planting Family, even if recorded in books, are generally written in code. Without knowing the correct decryption method, one could not even begin to cultivate the methods described therein, let alone understand them, even if they held the original manuals in their hands.

Furthermore, some of the Super First-Class Martial Arts are predominantly not recorded on paper but are passed down through word of mouth from master to disciple. Even then, most masters do not impart all of the secret manuals to their disciples at once. Instead, they teach the techniques layer by layer, according to the disciples' cultivation speed.

The advantage of this approach is that it prevented disciples from becoming distracted by ambition and thus succumbed to cultivation deviation. More importantly, it also allowed them to increase their control over their disciples.

The downside, however, was that if the master responsible for teaching the cultivation techniques suddenly died before the disciples learned everything, the cultivation method was at great risk of being lost.

Although those disciples had learned the initial layers, without the subsequent cultivation methods, those who had already started cultivating could only consider themselves unlucky, and naturally, those who had not started would not be willing to learn such a method with a low upper limit.

It was for this reason that many stunning Cultivation Methods of the Flower Planting Family had emerged, yet only a few have survived to this day.

Besides those peerless techniques, there were some methods whose original versions could lead a cultivator to the Super First-Class level. However, after someone followed one such method to reach a First-Class level, they found that it didn't resonate well with them.

Therefore, that cultivator began to modify the method according to their cultivation habits to better suit them, but as their talent was not as great as the creator's, the bespoke method they practiced could only take them to the First-Class realm they had already achieved.

When they later passed on the cultivation method to their disciples, those people no longer spread the original method that could reach the Super First-Class Realm. Instead, they proudly offered their modified method to their disciples, claiming it was a self-created technique that could reach a First-Class realm.

It was precisely for this reason that the Flower Planting Family's techniques weakened with each generation, leading to the belief that the older the Cultivation Method, the stronger the power obtained from practicing it.

However, it wasn't entirely fair to blame the masters for teaching their disciples self-created (albeit derived) methods, as with the Spirit Energy in the air gradually thinning, even if disciples practiced the ancient versions of methods, they might end up achieving nothing.

But with the changes made by those masters, although the disciples could not reach the same level of Cultivation as their masters, they were still able to cultivate normally and rapidly improve their Cultivation Levels.

Because the Flower Planting Family's techniques generally weakened over generations, the third-rate method that Basin Chicken managed to take from them gradually became comparable to the Flower Planting Family's mainstream methods.

Again, it's not that Basin Chicken's methods are getting stronger, but that Flower Planting Family's are growing weaker.

Unlike the Flower Planting Family, where the Imperial Court openly cultivates, aiming for all Rabbit People to be as mighty as dragons, the Noble Clans within the Basin Chicken that possess cultivation methods don't wish to share them with others, not even with illegitimate children within their families.

Upon discovering that Cultivation Methods could be practiced, those Noble Clans from Basin Chicken concealed this information from everyone else, and this secrecy directly resulted in the number of cultivators never exceeding three digits.

Moreover, since discovering they could cultivate, these individuals devoted all their energy to the practice, hence they did not join the battles between the new and old factions.

When the New Faction returned victorious after having eradicated the Old Faction at the Korean's territory, the meditative Noble Clans remained in their own fields without taking further action.

However, the mentality of the returning New Faction members gradually began to change after they reached their homeland.

When the new and old faction members had launched their attack on the Korean territory, they were all aboard the main battle fleets, and the smaller vessels did not accompany them.

And now, after eliminating all the Old Faction families, the mentality of the New Faction members also began to inflate.

There's a saying that he who fights dragons will eventually become a dragon himself. Those somewhat righteous rebels who led the initial resistance, once they achieved ultimate victory, could not contain their ambition upon seeing the subordinate spaceships left behind by the members of the Old Faction.

The patience of the members of the New Faction didn't last long; coveting the easily obtainable subordinate spaceships, they ultimately laid their hands on them.

After all, who hasn't dreamt of holding supreme power and living a life of luxury with beauties at their side?

When the young Brave Warriors turned into Evil Dragons, they became even more terrifying than the former Evil Dragons. Having themselves risen from the lower classes, they knew how to prevent others from becoming Brave Warriors, and how best to exploit them to the fullest extent.

However, as they became increasingly crazed, they stumbled upon the spaceships of the families who concentrated on Cultivation. Even at a glance, those family spaceships seemed formidable.

But the inflated egos of the New Faction members made them think, since they had already toppled the Old Faction forces that had suppressed them for hundreds of years, why should they care about these newly discovered remnants?

At this time, the members of the New Faction, upon seeing that great ship built before the calamity, didn't bother to investigate and instantly labeled it as remnants of the Old Faction forces.

Although the members of the New Faction were very much full of themselves, they weren't foolish. Thus, after spotting that large ship, they did not act rashly; instead, they called on friends, intending to collaborate with others to take it down.

After capturing the subordinate ships left by the Old Faction, they learned of the luxurious lifestyle the Old Faction members had enjoyed.

However, since their goal at the time was to kill all members of the Old Faction, they didn't entertain the idea of taking captives, and the Old Faction members had no desire to fall into the hands of the New Faction.

The new members had once been subordinates under the old members, and it was precisely because they had suffered mistreatment at their hands that they had risen in rebellion. If they were to fall into the New Faction's clutches now, they certainly wouldn't receive kind treatment.

So, when they were about to be captured and realized they couldn't escape, they triggered the self-destruct countdown of their ships, hoping to take those New Faction members down with them.

Therefore, although the New Faction members ultimately won, their gains were far from ideal because they hadn't had time to enjoy the spoils; the initial return was very calm.

But as some New Faction members took over the subordinate ships left by the Old Faction, all New Faction members' hearts began to change.

And when those New Faction members heard that a large ship left by the Old Faction had been discovered, they all got excited, eager to experience the luxurious life once enjoyed by the Old Faction members.

The easiest way to distinguish New Faction members from Old Faction ones in the Basin Chicken family was that New Faction members typically rode their own Companion Spiritual Treasures, while the Old Faction had great ships built before the calamity.

It's still the same old story: Companion Spiritual Treasures, while easy to store in the Sea of Consciousness, simply couldn't compare in comfort to the great ships built before the disaster.

Winning was one thing, but when there was little improvement in living conditions, one couldn't blame those New Faction members who quietly took over Old Faction's subordinate ships.

And this time, the New Faction members gathered with the aim of capturing this great ship. After all, the bigger the ship, the higher the comfort of living inside it—a fact that became undeniable.

Yet what these New Faction members did not realize was that their intended target, with friends rallied for the attack, had already spotted them and had prepared for a counterattack.