Top-level Qi Luck: Leading My Clan to Cultivate

An hour had passed.

Inside a cave, Lin Tianming was smiling as he deftly stored several Second Order Medium Quality Earth Rampart Crystals into his bag.

After completing this task, he left the cave and stood in the tunnel.

Walking a short distance forward, he saw a solid rock wall, and there were no signs of any other caves nearby.

At that moment, he examined the wall and realized he had reached the end.

"That should be enough; it's time to leave!"

Lin Tianming muttered to himself, then followed the tunnel back towards the outside.

Soon, he emerged from the Earth Dragon Qiu's nest and appeared above the desolate desert.

The exploration of the Earth Dragon Qiu nest took just over half an hour.

But the gains were indeed exceptionally rich.

After calculating, he found that the haul of Third Order Earth Rampart Crystals alone totaled seven pieces, each the size of a fist, which could be used many times for Artifact Refining.

Other Second Order Earth Rampart Crystals numbered over forty pieces, and more than a hundred of First Order, all of excellent quality.

This was only the first day of the journey into the secret realm, and yet the haul was already so substantial—what would a year's worth of such good fortune amount to?

Thinking about all this, Lin Tianming was extremely excited, practically itching to charge headlong and seek out trouble with the Demonic Beasts.

After calming his emotions, he looked ahead, contemplating his next moves.

The journey in the secret realm had just begun, and with a long path ahead and without any intelligence, he could only wander aimlessly, striving to find fortune.

If a Demonic Beast proved too strong, he would have no choice but to give up, but he would do his best to seize any obtainable opportunity.

As for his next steps, he was nearing the edge of the desert, as evidenced by the sparse vegetation on the ground.

If he continued in this direction, he should be able to leave the desert and enter the dense forest.

Those areas are where the treasures of heaven and earth grew aplenty, unlike this desert covered in yellow sand, where the chances of finding anything valuable were lower.

He didn't expect to be so lucky every day like today.

Therefore, he decided to leave this place and head to the forests, where the Spiritual Energy was richer.

Having made up his mind, he still held the Tiangang Sword in his hand and then lifted his feet to fly forward.

...

Luoyun Mountain Range, Nanyun Town.

Nanyun Town was a Mortal Town with a population of over a hundred thousand, located very close to Jiuhua Mountain, nestled between Green Bamboo Mountain and Jiuhua Mountain, and only about five hundred miles from the ancestral land of the Jiuhua Mountain Wu Family.

More than twenty years ago, Nanyun Town was a Mortal Town under the control of the Wu Family of Jiuhua Mountain.

With the outbreak of the great clan war at Luoyun Mountain, and the downfall of both Jin Family and Wu Family, all the Mortal Towns they controlled were taken over by the Lin Family.

As a result, the number of Mortal Towns under the Lin Family's control increased by more than threefold, and the population also surged several times.

Initially, the Mortal Towns under Wu Family's control did not resist much against the rule of the Lin Family.

After all, it was the Jin Family that had destroyed the Wu Family, and the Lin Family had avenged the Wu Family by defeating the Jin Family.

Thus, the Lin Family easily took control over the Wu Family's Mortal Towns.

On the other hand, the Mortal Towns that had been under the Jin Family's control reacted violently, which was expected by the Lin Family.

After all, it was the Lin Family that had annihilated the Jin Family, causing the descendants of the Jin Family to want to rebel blindly against the Lin Family's rule without understanding the full context.

For these people, the Lin Family showed no mercy, cleaning up these stubborn offspring with swift and decisive action.

This method immediately stunned the numerous Mortal Town descendents of the Jin Family.

Despite their anger and desire to resist, how could their mere Mortal bodies possibly stand against the Lin Family?

It is known that to a Cultivator, Mortals are no more than ants, and not even considerable as ants.

Over the past twenty plus years of rule, the Lin Family destroyed all traces of Jin Family's heritage, also relocating many of their own Mortal descendants, marrying into the compliant population, and giving birth to a new generation of Lin Mortals.

Besides, the Lin Family widely propagated their own ideology and provided these Mortals with better living conditions.

In time, the rebellious sentiment faded away, and all the Mortals were brought under the rule of the Lin Family.

Today marked another annual Spirit Testing Convention for the Lin Family.

Every year at this time, the entire Lin Family became quite busy, deploying a large number of clan members to host the Spirit Testing Conventions that all Mortals in the forty towns governed by the Lin Family looked forward to.

Tasked with overseeing the Spirit Testing Convention in Nanyun Town were Lin Xingcai of the Xing generation and Lin Tianbo of the Tian generation.

Lin Xingcai was no longer young and did not possess great talent, having struggled with cultivation and only reaching the Seventh Level of Qi Refinement in his lifetime.

At this rate, it was highly unlikely he would ever make a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Having lost much hope, Lin Xingcai focused only on earning merits for the family to raise his children.

Therefore, he eagerly took on the task of the Spirit Testing Convention in Nanyun Town this time.

Lin Tianbo was much better off. Despite being one of the youngest members of the Tian generation,

he had promising talent and was diligent in cultivation, with the strong support of the Lin Family's stipend, he had reached the Fifth Level of Qi Refinement at just over twenty years old.

If he was lucky, he had a reasonable chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage in his lifetime.

Thus, he took the family-issued tasks to heart.