Dawan City, Back mountain.
Cultivators throughout the Tiannan Region Cultivation World knew that Dawan City was the birthplace from which Shen Changchuan, the peerless genius of a bygone generation, had risen to prominence.
But in truth, few knew that the Dawan City built later had actually been newly established more than ten li away from Dawan Village, rather than directly expanded from the village itself.
The reason was simple.
The back mountain of Dawan Village was where Shen Changchuan lived in quiet cultivation. If the marketplace were too close, then even with formations keeping it apart, the clamor would still have more or less affected him.
Thus, as Dawan Village gradually expanded, the center of Dawan City had essentially continued moving outward.
By today, the city center of Dawan City had already been relocated more than ten li away.
At this moment, the original site of Dawan Village had become much quieter.
Many of the residents who had once lived here had also largely moved to the current city center, leaving scarcely a soul visible on the streets.
Still, relocation was relocation, but the original layout of the buildings had basically been preserved.
The old village houses that had been expanded, the small marketplace at the edge of the village that Shen Changchuan had once arranged to establish with several merchant associations, and so on—all had largely retained the layout Shen Changchuan remembered.
It was simply that hardly anyone lived there anymore, and it normally required dedicated personnel to maintain it.
It seemed
that the Han Clan, who now managed Dawan City, had deliberately spared no extra expense to preserve it.
Their purpose
was likely nothing more than to ensure that, when he returned, the surroundings would still feel familiar and comfortable to him.
Even though, as his cultivation grew