The meager family assets of the Gǔyǎn Clan were far inferior even to the Abyss Li Clan, a third-tier noble family where Li Qingyun's Taiqing Body resided.
At least the Abyss Li Clan still possessed a Xuan Kun Tower in the Ancestor Land Heaven; no matter how poorly managed, over several thousand years it had still earned plenty of spiritual seeds.
The Gǔyǎn Clan could only rely on two hundred resource-rich great stars; how could that possibly support eight or nine Heaven Masters?
"As the head of the Four Emperors, I am reduced to weaving mats and selling straw sandals, shamelessly seeking a bit of living expense in my ex-wife's clan fief. It isn't easy..."
Li Xuanji strode toward the central river domain of the Golden Pattern Clan's fief, where tall reed houses stood in continuous rows, and several majestic auras of Heaven Masters invisibly surged into the sky.
"Hey! What kind of person are you, acting so reckless and daring to barge into the Golden Pattern Clan's fief!"
Along the way, several brawny dragon slaves, clad in armor and holding swords, stepped forward to interrogate him.
Li Xuanji's dignified, handsome, and remarkably refined appearance was simply too glaring within the Golden Pattern Clan.
He hurriedly stimulated his true blood aura, produced a Disaster-Replacing Grass Doll as a sign, and chuckled awkwardly, "This He has come to borrow your esteemed land for the market and offload some Disaster-Replacing Grass dolls."
From the perspective of Li Qingyun's Jade Pure's main body, who was all along "observing" from the sidelines, the River Mother Clan's territory differed from the Abyss Clan's, as customs resembling trade between primitive tribes prevailed here.
By the grand central house of every fief, there was a small market where other collateral or main-line descendants of the River Mother