"Greetings, Patriarch Wu."
"Haha, Young Master Shen has arrived. No need for such courtesy—please, take a seat."
"These past few days, Wu has been occupied with many affairs and failed to properly receive Young Master Shen. Please forgive me."
As Shen Changchuan entered the main hall under the guidance of Wu family servants,
Wu family Patriarch Wu Yuanzhi received him with great warmth.
Yet such warmth
made Shen Changchuan somewhat unaccustomed, and his heart rose slightly on guard.
As the local tiger rooted in this land,
before coming, Shen Changchuan had naturally chatted with local figures such as the Li family Patriarch and Guo Cheng, learning about the Wu Family that controlled Wu Family Market.
Although compared to the Tiannan Shen Clan,
the Wu Family still fell far short.
Within a radius of several hundred li, however, it was one of the foremost powerful clans.
It was said that three hundred years ago, during the great war between the Yuqing Sect and Elephant Mountain Sect, the Wu family had moved here from the flourishing northern regions of the Cultivation World to escape the chaos of war.
Here, they had reclaimed Spirit Fields, managed their Lineage, and spread branches and leaves.
Over three hundred years, they had reclaimed more than a hundred mu of Spirit Fields and cultivated a medicinal field,
and rumors claimed that at the core of their great family formation stood a grove of spirit peach trees.
Among them was a main peach tree that blossomed once every thirty years, bore fruit once every thirty years, and ripened once every thirty years. The hundred-year spirit peaches it produced were of considerable use to cultivators attempting to break through the bottleneck of the Out of Body Stage realm.
With such abundant resources under its control, along with Wu Family