A Gift of a Merchant House

"Mm, this old man believes in the strength of your Xinghua Village Meng Family, and even more so in your strength, Meng Haoran. But belief is belief, Hao Ran. You and your Xinghua Village Meng Family must not disappoint the expectations that our Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, has placed upon you. You should know that Patriarch Xuanming and I pushed aside all objections before we managed to dissuade those Baili Family elders who opposed you. If you and your Xinghua Village Meng Family disappoint Patriarch Xuanming and me..."

Baili Shouxi, an elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, spoke earnestly. "To allow your Xinghua Village Meng Family to obtain better opportunities for development in future Lineage struggles, I received an order from Patriarch Xuanming to unconditionally transfer to your Xinghua Village Meng Family the merchant house in West Market with the best location. Of course, this is only a loan, for a term of five years. Once the term expires, our Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, will take this merchant house back from your Xinghua Village Meng Family!"

At those words, Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family's eyes suddenly lit up again.

They had obtained a merchant house for free, and it was even located in West Market, where every inch of land was worth an inch of gold, within Qinghe Commandery City.

Although their Xinghua Village Meng Family had now advanced to an Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family, if they wanted to purchase or lease such a merchant house in Qinghe Commandery City with their Lineage's foundations, they would still have to bleed heavily. Moreover, merchant houses in such locations were sought after but unavailable.

The favor the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, had bestowed upon their Xinghua Village Meng Family today could