Time Changes All Things, Qin Daoran!
Qin Mingyi served as the clan leader.
Corresponding arrangements were quickly made, and given the current situation, resources began to be allocated to Crimson Flame Hell Crimson Flame Hell make the best use of it...
All members of the clan who cultivate the Fire Dao are stationed in the Crimson Flame Hell.
Bringing Qin Yingjie back was also Qin Mingyi's idea. As the future leader of the Eight Sons of Dao Heaven, he was to be trained under Nether Flame Lord...
That's already extremely biased towards Qin Yingjie!
Despite the Qin Clan's current strength, internal competition is extremely fierce. The Qin Clan is mainly composed of seven branches: Xiao, Hui, Wu, Wen, Zhao, Zhuang, and Zheng...
Disciples of the Seven Lineages enjoy resources several times greater than those of collateral branches!
If a disciple from a collateral branch is exceptionally talented, they might be able to trace their roots and rejoin the Seven Lineages. But if their talent is mediocre...
He may have become a marginal figure in the Lineage.
The competition among the collateral descendants alone is already incredibly fierce, all in order to demonstrate their worth and rejoin the main line of the Seven Families...
Those collateral descendants of the Qin Clan are all ruthless and vicious!
It perfectly inherited the Qin Clan's survival rule: the strong are respected, and the weak are reduced to food, though not to life-or-death battles...
But the difference isn't that big.
Often, in their quest for a chance to rejoin the Seven Lineages, these collateral disciples would even resort to brutal violence against each other, crippling or destroying their opponents...
It was a bit cruel, though.
But often, it's the collateral disciples who manage to climb up the ranks step by step...
They almost all became Dao Foundation cultivator, the backbone of the Qin Clan, through constant death battles and by risking their lives for the Lineage...
The honor and dignity earned in return!
The Qin Clan has no sympathy for the weak; only the strong possess everything...
Over the years, the Qin Clan has existed for nearly 250 years, with hundreds of thousands of members, including more than 10,000 cultivators...
The Qin Clan could certainly afford to support tens of thousands of people.
But compared to raising a bunch of good-for-nothings who just loaf around and do nothing, a Qin Clan family member who dares to fight and is determined...
Even more worthwhile for Lineage investment!
If you lack talent, then grit your teeth and climb upwards; if cultivation resources are scarce, then fight for them with your own fists. Only by demonstrating your worth...
Then your Lineage will be your strongest support!
Every ounce of blood from a member of the Qin Clan family is incredibly precious...
Because that person was forged through countless trials and tribulations, constantly crossing life and death, and thus became invincible in the eyes of the Qin Clan...
There are only two kinds of people in this world!
One group consists of other people, and the other group consists of members of the Qin Clan...
Even the weakest member of the Qin Clan, while perhaps not the most talented in the outside world, possesses exceptional willpower and skill...
They are absolutely the elite, one in a thousand!
Leaving aside other parts of the Northern Nether Domain, focusing solely on the Northern Continent, an ordinary member of the Qin Clan family, among those in the same realm...
In a one-on-one situation, you almost never lose!
One against three is common, and they can even turn the tables and kill one or two of them...
And these are just collateral descendants. If they were direct descendants of the seven branches of the Qin Clan, their aptitude would be even better, along with the treasures and Cultivation Method...
That's top-tier!
Their competitiveness is in no way inferior to that of collateral disciples...
It's like a promotion and demotion system; there are always collateral disciples who rise to the ranks of the seven main lineages, and there are also often main lineage members who are at the bottom...
They are being continuously eliminated!
Compared to collateral branches, the selection process for direct descendants is even more rigorous, beginning from birth...
Those with poor aptitude will be eliminated directly, thus losing their status as direct descendants and becoming collateral descendants...
Then came the rigorous selection process.
The disciples of the Seven Lineages undergo a test almost every few years, and only those who excel are allowed to cultivate the Lineage's core Cultivation Method...
Or perhaps they can obtain various resources and Lineage benefits!
It could be obtaining a great treasure, receiving personal instruction from the Lineage patriarch, acquiring a powerful spirit beast, or finding a better cultivation environment...
These are all things you have to earn through your own hard work, step by step!
The Qin Clan treated every clansman equally, adhering to the fundamental principle of elevating the capable and demoting the weak, which benefited generations of their descendants...
Those who have consistently maintained their status as direct descendants of the Seven Lineages have already proven many things, proving the worth of each generation of their descendants...
Their qualifications are certainly not bad, and their abilities are absolutely top-notch!
If any generation fails, they will almost certainly be filtered out of the seven direct lineages by the system and relegated to the collateral lineage, and then new collateral lineage disciples will emerge...
He was promoted to a direct descendant, thus taking the place of the original candidate!
The Qin Clan took the pursuit of power to its extreme, and at the same time, instilled in their members a deep-seated loyalty to the Lineage from generation to generation...
Especially after the Fourth Heaven was forged.
The Qin Clan family ruled over their own territory, regarding Lineage honor as their life's creed, and with no outside interference...
The new generation of the Qin Clan family members are extremely loyal to the Lineage!
Even after experiencing the outside world.
It can even generate a sense of superiority, viewing outsiders as inferior beings while they themselves are born noble...
In addition, there was the Qin Clan's rigorous selection process.
This also ensured that the Qin Clan family members would not display excessive arrogance or ignorance, while simultaneously maintaining sufficient combat strength...
They are the elite of the elite!
Several years later, in the 121st year of the Great Qin Dynasty --
The Qin Clan continued its steady development, constructing the fourth layer of heaven step by step and gradually perfecting it...
At this time, after several years of cultivation, the Crimson Flame Hell has given birth to several small fire-attribute Spirit Vein and micro- Spirit Vein...
That would be even more!
Here stands a colossal ghost city built atop a volcano, the city of the Nether Flame Ghost, where many disciples of the Qin Clan also reside...
The entire Crimson Flame Hell was built around this city!
The lava lake is home to many Fire Dao spirit beasts...
Lava flowed like a river across the gray earth, herds of Crimson Profound Horse galloped wildly across the land, and birds soared in the sky...
They were all Crimson-Plumed Profound Bird, Crimson-Winged Bird, and many other Fire Dao flying birds!
Various fire-attribute spiritual herbs and flowers grow in numerous volcanic craters, and are tended and cultivated by members of the Qin Clan family every so often...
And on this day...
An unremarkable disciple from a collateral branch, while routinely tending to Spirit Plant, inadvertently discovered a crimson bead inside a dormant volcano...
Disciple's name: Qin Daoran!
He was an ordinary disciple with only a 1.2-inch talent, plain appearance, and no outstanding features, among the many collateral relatives...
He belongs to the category of extremely mediocre individuals.
"What's this?"
Qin Daoran picked up the crimson bead, a look of confusion on his face. Inside, a flame flickered and shimmered with a faint golden light...
"Treasure?"
"Could it be Fire Dao spirit creature naturally evolved from the Crimson Flame Hell?!"
He muttered to himself, unaware that this treasure would forever change his life, in the blink of an eye...
The crimson pearl seemed to possess a spirit, and with a whoosh, it burrowed into his body!
Qin Daoran then fell into a deep sleep.
When he awoke again, his cultivation level had risen from the first Qi Condensation First Layer Sixth Layer of Qi Condensation, and he was even faintly...
It seems I've touched upon some kind of Dao Rhyme!
When he stood up in surprise, he discovered that his absorption rate of Spiritual Power had increased, but his aptitude remained unchanged...
Instead, he used the crimson pearl inside his body to accelerate the absorption of fire Spiritual Power!