After seeing Wang Chen off, Qiu Haoran returned to the private room.
He poured himself another cup of Spiritual Tea and pondered as he sipped it.
In others' eyes, the position of Chief Steward of North Mountain Cave Mansion was incomparably prestigious. He held the most important cultivation resources in Myriad Cultivator City, enjoying both status and substance.
But only one's own family knew its own affairs. North Mountain Cave Mansion did not belong to a single family; it was a shared resource of fifty-seven Purple Mansions. He had merely taken this position as his clan's representative.
Let alone covering the sky with one hand, even if he wanted to use public resources for private gain and skim off a few benefits, he had to proceed with great caution.
Otherwise, others might seize upon it to attack him, and he could lose this hard-won position.
Over the past few years, Qiu Haoran had clearly felt the support from his clan dwindling.
That was because his cultivation had been stuck at the Purple Mansion initial stage, unable to break through to the fourth level for a long time.
The Qiu Clan had more than one or two Purple Mansion cultivators, while the clan's resources were limited. It could not keep investing in a Purple Mansion with no bright future.
Qiu Haoran understood this perfectly well.
Once he lost the clan's support, he would have no chance of holding on to the position of Chief Steward of North Mountain Cave Mansion.
Under such circumstances, Qiu Haoran had placed his hopes on Wang Chen, who had just Broken Through Apertures and Opened the Mansion!
If he could recruit this newly advanced Purple Mansion, who possessed Golden Core potential, into the Qiu Clan, he could live off that merit for another ten years.
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