Worries before arrival

Lü Qingxuan, the Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory, whose cultivation had reached half-step Nirvana, had arrived in Qinghe Commandery City to take up his post only three years earlier. He believed he still had more than twenty years left in office—ample time to carve out a world of his own within Qinghe Commandery Territory.

Thus, Lü Qingxuan was in no hurry to enter into direct conflict with the sixth-rank cultivation families—the Baili Family, the Xu Family, the Jin Family, and the Li Family—or the fifth-rank cultivation family, the Tianhai Family.

It was also under these circumstances that almost all the promises of cooperation made to Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family by Baili Shouxi, an elder of the sixth-rank Baili Family, had remained unfulfilled. The reason was none other than the presence of Commandery Governor Lü Qingxuan.

Lü Qingxuan felt that, while he did not wish to clash head-on with the other ranked families just yet, those families could not be allowed to interfere with his future plans either.

Not long after he took office as Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory, Baili Shouxi, an elder of the sixth-rank Baili Family, proposed that a small trading house be made available in one of Qinghe Commandery City's eastern and western marketplaces, allowing the Xinghua Village Meng Family, an eighth-rank cultivation family from Qingyang County Territory, to establish a presence there.

Lü Qingxuan, however, believed that Baili Shouxi was trying to build influence for his own sixth-rank Baili Family, and repeatedly rejected his requests.

The hopes of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, an eighth-rank cultivation family from Qingyang County Territory, of establishing a trading house in Qinghe Commandery City had consequently remained on hold until now.

Not long ago, when Baili Shouxi sent Baili Hongfei, a junior member of