The matter was quickly investigated: the Pan and Wu Clans had joined forces to oppress the Sun Clan.
Logically speaking, the Sun Clan had merely been helping protect someone's territory, so it should not have led to much trouble. The problem was that no one knew why someone had spent such a fortune to buy such a vast tract of land.
Wang Bocai had explained it to the Sun Clan, saying that the land contained "Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses," and that the buyer intended to do business with them.
But even the Sun Clan themselves did not believe that explanation, much less outsiders—Oil-Transformed Insect Carcasses could be exchanged for Spirit Stones?
The Sun Clan diligently guarded the land, but at the same time, they sent clan disciples to seek some extra income within it.
This was very common, even something of an unspoken convention. Those who lived by the mountains lived off the mountains, and those who lived by the water lived off the water. There were simply too many things that could be produced across those four thousand-odd li of land. So long as the Sun Clan disciples did not go too far, even if Feng Jun learned that they had found some extra profits inside, he would not have cared.
The Sun Clan disciples mainly searched for mineral deposits and natural treasures, while patrolling the area along the way.
The Sun Clan had done nothing wrong at all. However, they had one inherent weakness—there were no Emergence from Dust Stage cultivators in their clan.
When Wang Bocai had sought someone to guard the land, he had considered asking the Pan Clan or Wu Clan. But come on... although Wang Bocai was a Carefree Platform disciple, he was only at Mid Qi Refining. If it had been Pan Renjie, he