In Yang Province City, the Yang Family gave Liang Zhaohuang's visit a grand welcome.
Nascent Soul True Lord Yang Xiue personally led the party out of the city to receive him. They flung open the main gates, cleared the roads, and guided Liang Zhaohuang into the city, taking him straight to the Yang Family's ancestral grounds within the city.
As an aristocratic family of Yang Province, the Yang Family of the Dragon River had been passed down for several thousand years. In population, foundation, strength, and every other regard, they far surpassed the present Liang Family.
The entire North City of Yang Province City had been enclosed by the Yang Family and turned into their ancestral grounds, a city within a city. There were no fewer than a hundred thousand Yang Family members living within it, with each generation alone able to provide the family with tens of thousands of descendants and cultivators.
With such a vast foundation, they naturally produced more geniuses—those who cultivated, refined artifacts, concocted pills, laid formations, fought, and more.
It could be said that great aristocratic clans like the Yang Family, which had endured for millennia, and even commandery clans, never lacked manpower or talent.
What they needed to consider instead was that with so many family cultivators and talents, the destiny, resources, and wealth consumed each year were likewise astronomical figures.
How could they gather more destiny, earn more wealth and resources, and nurture every family descendant as fully as possible, so that none of their talent or hard work would be squandered?
Those were the troubles that plagued the Yang Family Patriarch and upper ranks.
As for the Liang Family, even counting the more than hundred years from their time as a humble gate, their inheritance had still lasted less than three hundred