Meeting Shouxi

After leaving behind that question, Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family rose to leave the inn.

Seeing Meng Haoran preparing to depart, Gray Robe Jiang Lao, Jiang Haifei, spoke from the side. "Haoran, it is already late. What are you going out for? Our Xinghua Village Meng Family was invited here by Baili Shouxi, elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family. I believe that from the very moment our Xinghua Village Meng Family entered Qinghe Commandery City, every one of our family members has been under the watchful eyes of interested parties."

Gray Robe Jiang Lao, Jiang Haifei, was not wrong. The Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery, Lü Qingxuan, had now received orders from the Empress, who lived deep within Chaoge Immortal Palace in the imperial capital of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty. He had loosened the restrictions on newly established Ranked Families such as the Xinghua Village Meng Family, allowing them to establish themselves in Qinghe Commandery City.

At the same time, he had ordered the old-established high-ranking families within Qinghe Commandery City not to directly involve themselves in disputes between newly established Ranked Families. But how could an old-established Ranked Family like the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, possibly allow such a thing to happen?

No Ranked Family would willingly squander its own family resources on other newly established Ranked Families. Such thankless labor was something no Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family would agree to. Thus, for the sake of their own family interests, the moment newly established Ranked Families like the Xinghua Village Meng Family entered Qinghe Commandery City, those old-established Ranked Families began keeping a close eye on every move their members made.

After all, they understood rather well the newly established Ranked Families recommended by forces within their own family factions. But