Without Tribulation, None Becomes a Lord; Without Hardship, How Can One Speak of the Dao?

A patriarch pointing out the way and determining a Dao Path was treatment that the Dao Children of the Eight Sects were entitled to receive.

Fortune flowed through the Jambudvipa Vast Land, and countless fortuitous encounters surged forth, rising and falling.

From ancient times to the present, there had been no shortage of such accounts: a cultivator at the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining might go out searching for medicinal herbs, chance upon Five Phases True Essence and Five Virtues Life Qi, and successfully soar into Foundation Establishment;

Or some great True Person might stumble upon a legacy of antiquity or a secret Dao Lineage treasury, and thereafter ride the wind and clouds, towering above ravines and reaching into the heavens.

Of these stories, roughly ninety percent were false, another five percent were empty exaggerations, and only the final five percent might be true.

Thus, most Dao Children of Sect-tier powers would have an audience with their patriarch after assuming their position.

A Dao Lord, a Great Power, would personally divine their Dao Path to ensure nothing could go wrong.

Their words bore heaven's authority. Whatever they settled upon was heaven's will, an immutable law, not to be shaken or altered.

Within those Sect-tier powers, a hundred barges vied in the current and a thousand sails raced one another. Competition for position and strength began with the candidates for True Disciple and continued until a Dao Child was finally selected and established as Heir Apparent.

This brutal struggle, in which everyone displayed their methods, appeared to be a contest for the title of Dao Child, but what they truly sought was its substance.

They merely hoped for the patriarch's favor and guidance toward a clear Dao Path, gaining another chance to occupy the position of "Master of the Metal Position"