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Qingzhou, Linquan City!

Linquan City lay in the southeast. Its terrain was flat and its rainfall plentiful, making it one of Qingzhou's famous granaries.

At noon, Linquan City was bustling. Shops lined the streets, while small merchants and peddlers carried shoulder poles and hawked their wares.

In the years since Ghost Ridge Palace had taken control of Qingzhou, the order there had visibly improved. As long as people were willing to raise bugs or farm for Ghost Ridge Palace, or work in the factories it had established, they could support their entire families without worrying about starving.

In the southwest of Linquan City stood Huai Bai Street. Unlike the bustle elsewhere, the atmosphere here was quiet and peaceful.

That was because this was not a residential neighborhood, but a collection of mansions and estates. At a glance, they were clearly the residences of wealthy households.

Those who lived here were Linquan City's Noble Families and Powerful Clans.

The most luxurious of them all was a carved and painted mansion standing there. Azure-stone Pixiu statues guarded both sides of the entrance, while inside were gold-woven curtains, rockeries, lotus ponds, and servants moving about in groups. Everything proclaimed the strength and background of its master.

This was the Du Family's residence in Linquan City.

The Du Family was a cultivation family that had been passed down in Linquan City for more than four hundred years. It possessed a large family and vast assets.

The Du Family not only engaged in commerce and trade, but also dealt with both the underworld and the official world. The family was quite wealthy, owning sixteen spirit fields and medicinal valleys, one Purple Glaze Stone Mine, and two miniature spirit stone veins. Even Jade Phoenix Mountain, a small blessed-land spirit vein near Linquan City, belonged to the