Liuli City was an ordinary city on Taihe World Island. It had been built atop a Wish Power Well, and a nearby source of glazed crystal ore had made it famous.
Taihe World Island already had two true gods and one pseudo-god, so Divine Path experts were not especially rare. This important city had one stationed there.
Besides that, the city's thirteen Great Saint families controlled every aspect of life within its walls.
All mining in the city was controlled by its Divine Path Venerable city lord and his direct subordinates. The Saint families, meanwhile, divided up the many profits from the Abyssal Pioneer Zone, forming a spiraling hierarchy in which each level paid tribute to the one above it.
Besides the Wish Power Well and mineral resources near the city, the pioneers developing the Abyss themselves were also a resource to be "mined"!
The Tianfeng Huang Family had one Saint and one Quasi-Saint. Though they could not compare to the few families in the city with multiple Saints, the family's steady succession had earned them a respectable position.
This unexpected incident in the New Frontier had prompted the family's higher-ups to hold a rare discussion.
"Although Huang Yao is only from a collateral branch, all three of his talents are decent, and he has potential worth cultivating. Nothing has been discovered over there yet, but it is a new region, after all. If we manage it well, we can seize the advantage of being first on the scene and make a decent profit."
"Hmph. And then what? In the end, this world runs on strength. Even if we put in all the hard work to develop it, won't those few families just demand a cut and force us to hand over the profits?"
"The family's business is nearing capacity.