The Jing Province clan, the second-rank clan known as the "Shaman Spirit," the Chu Family, had risen to replace the original Jing Province clans after the West-Pacifying King's rebellion over two thousand years ago. Its development had thus spanned only some two thousand years.
Moreover, Jing Province contained the unique environment of the Cloud Dream Great Marsh, which occupied nearly half the province. Nearly half of the Shaman Spirit Chu Family's manpower, strength, and effort had to be devoted to defending against and suppressing the Cloud Dream Great Marsh.
This greatly hindered the Chu Family's development, leaving it merely a second-rank clan even after all these years.
Even in this operation led by the Crimson Cauldron Wang Family to develop New Province, they had sent only a True Lord at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage to lead their family battle force.
Furthermore, the Chu Family's inheritance, along with the habits and fighting methods they had developed through years of slaughter and battle in the Cloud Dream Great Marsh, made their battles strange, sinister, and perilous. They excelled at fighting in complex environments—something one could glean from their title, "Shaman Spirit."
Previously, amid Green Moth Demon City and the marshland surrounding it, the complex and chaotic environment had suited the Shaman Spirit Chu Family's True Lord and the family battle force under his command like a fish in water. Their performance had been exceptionally eye-catching. It could even be said that the capture of Green Moth Demon City was more than half due to the Chu Family True Lord's efforts.
Liang Zhaohuang had once seen, through the images sent back by Liang Ruijian and the others, the methods the Chu Family had used to breach Green Moth Demon City.
The Chu Family True Lord had used various methods to raise a