The best thing that happened to them after that unfortunate war was that the Sword Way sect didn't choose to wipe out everyone who once opposed them. This way the Roe family was able to survive till today despite being the losers.
But the Roe family lost so much power that they couldn't maintain their status as a cultivation family anymore. They weren't the only families that lost so much in the gamble and were forced into such a predicament.
The fall of the Roe family led to the rise of new cultivation families like the Dyson family. Currently, the Dyson family is still rising in power and influence, while the Roae family is teetering on the edge of total collapse.
The Roe family is struggling to maintain its status as a cultivation family. In order to rise again and increase their power, they began a blood refinement technique to refine the fetus of the talented women in their family in hopes of giving birth to someone with an innate blood physique.
The blood technique comes from the Jade Cauldron sect. It is an alchemy technique that uses life to refine other living beings. This time, instead of refining pills, the product is a child with an innate blood physique, which means the child will be able to reach the fourth mortal coil.
This blood refinement technique involves determining a talented lady, using this talented lady as a cauldron, getting her pregnant with the seed of a talented man, and then enhancing the talents of the fetus by sacrificing the lifespan and fertility of other ladies in the family.
They do this every generation, and it rarely works. Even when it works, the product doesn't have an innate blood physique but only a good talent for body forging. But they kept performing the technique in hopes of creating a miracle baby that would change the fate of the family.
When it came to the generation of Lady Vena, Lady Vena lost the competition to become the cauldron. She wasn't talented, so she became one of the materials that will be used to refine the miracle baby.
Lady Vena didn't want this fate. So she escaped from her family, sneaked into the territory of the Dyson family, drugged a promising descendant of the Dyson family, slept with him, and gave birth to him. This was how Arthur was born.
Rather than give up half of her lifespan and her fertility for something that might not work and would be a waste, she would rather use her fertility to attach herself to a bonafide cultivation family by birthing their son.
It was a traitorous and selfish action from the point of view of the Roe family. But Arthur thinks it was a smart move. And as time has proven, her decision turned out to be the correct one.
On the other side, even though the Roe family lost a high-quality material for their blood refinement, they still won the jackpot. Not only did the blood refinement technique work, it also led to the birth of a girl with an innate blood physique. That girl was Jade.
Jade was very talented. She was so talented that she began cultivating at 10 years old but managed to reach the peak of the first mortal coil in 7 years.
So she was 3 years faster than Arthur, even though Arthur had the help of the Mountain Sitting Dao. This was also because Jade had the support of her entire family, unlike Arthur, who only had the support of his mother until the seventh transformation and had to fend for himself after that.
Arthur thought that she reminded him of his mother when he met her the first time. She also thought that he looked familiar because he had inherited his mother's features too.
He was curious about her, so he did some investigations about her. It took him 10 years before he discovered this much about her and the Roe family.
His investigation took so much time because he wasn't that interested in her and her background. He was too busy cultivating, learning forging, or learning formations.
Actually, it was his mother who told him about the blood refinement. He hadn't discovered it through impeccable and determined investigation. He had simply asked his mother if she knew Jade, and she had told him everything he needed to know.
But his lack of interest was the opposite for Jade. She was interested in him right from the moment she saw his name and face in the dossier about S grade disciples that got admitted with her.
She told her family about him at the earliest opportunity. They quickly discovered his origin and background. But they left him alone because they thought he was just a lucky offspring of the traitorous Vena.
Their judgment of him changed when he performed well during the performance excellence test and even set a new record in the history of the sect. Jade sent word back to her family to review their judgment of him.
The Roe family took the new data about him into consideration and realized that they might have been wrong. They decided to increase their estimation of his value, but their estimation kept becoming inadequate the more feats he performed.
In five years of entering the sect, he reached the top 1,000 in the outer sect. In that same year, he killed a rank 3 beast despite being at the second mortal coil. Every five years after that, he became stronger and stronger.
The point came when they couldn't sit still anymore. They sent someone to speak to him about providing his sperm to impregnate his cousin Jade and other talented family members so that they can increase the chances of the blood refinement working.
They tried to use money, resources, and family relationship to make him give them his spear. Unfortunately, none of their tactics worked.
That request nearly made him vomit. He didn't vomit, though. But he became disgusted with them.