To put it bluntly.
If anyone else had been the family head, they would have given up long ago. It was only one clansman's life; it was not worth the lineage paying such a heavy price. Even if it had been their own biological daughter, as family head, the lineage's interests always had to come first.
This was precisely why the family head was the strongest head the Bai Family had ever seen. Before the family head rose to power, the Bai Family had merely been a very strong force on Qi Tian Continent, still far from a top-tier power. It was under the family head's leadership that they became one of Qi Tian Continent's top forces!
Such prestige gave the family head absolute authority within the lineage.
The kind where his word was law.
And their rapidly rising status had also brought the clansmen's sense of honor to an unprecedented height. Everyone pulled in the same direction. It could be said that, if not for this incident, the family head would already have ambitiously led the entire lineage to charge onto the Fourth-Grade Continent!
In the family head's eyes, he had always looked down on Qi Tian Continent. Not because he despised its grade or thought it was too low, but because Qi Tian Continent was a Polluted Continent, one that could almost only produce a single kind of trait.
Namely, traits that caused bodily mutations. Nearly ninety-nine percent of all traits were of this type.
There was no choice.
As long as one's cultivation realm broke through, one had to choose. The three-trait selection upon entering a major realm could not be declined; one had to pick one. It was for this very reason that there were basically no normal people on Qi Tian Continent. The higher one's