Heavenly Dao Engine

Chapter 1084 - 1084 0637 The Curse in the Imperial Family

?Chapter 1084: Chapter 0637: The Curse in the Imperial Family Secret Territory_2 Chapter 1084: Chapter 0637: The Curse in the Imperial Family Secret Territory_2 The Zhao family ancestors obtained an opportunity in the Imperial Family Secret Territory, which made them acutely aware that if used well, the Secret Territory could keep the Zhao family strong forever. Thus, they left an ancestral instruction, requiring their descendants, after cultivating to the Gold Core Stage, not to go to other places but must enter the Imperial Family Secret Territory. On the one hand, they had to guard the Secret Territory for generations of the Zhao family, ensuring no other person or organization could take it away. On the other hand, they hoped someone could find even greater opportunities within, and thereby push the strength of the Zhao family a step further.

However, thousands of years have passed, the Zhao family ancestors long since exhausted their lifespans and “died.” The descendants of the Zhao family continued to enter the Imperial Family Secret Territory in an unbroken stream, staying there for hundreds of years, hoping to gain more. Yet, for some reason, none of the Zhao descendants who entered the Imperial Family Secret Territory, no matter how hard they tried, could ever break through to the Nascent Soul Stage, not even to Half-step Nascent Soul, and most couldn’t even cultivate to the late stage of the Gold Core Realm.

This circumstance left successive emperors of the Great Zhao Nation incredulous and unable to accept it. Some believed the Zhao family’s bloodline might be cursed, while others wondered whether there were some unknown restrictions within the Imperial Family Secret Territory. Thus, the Princes in the Secret Territory would conduct selections periodically, choosing promising youths and sending them outside the Secret Territory to cultivate using outside resources to see if they could break through the Gold Core Realm. However, those sent out faced the same cultivation ceiling as those inside the Secret Territory. No matter who was sent out, they could not advance to the Nascent Soul Stage, ultimately succumbing to frustration within the Gold Core Realm.