Just over a month later, a piece of news shocked the entire Jia Ma Empire!
The Xiao Household, one of the Four Great Clans long established in the Gama Imperial Capital, was actually relocating!
Wutan City had risen to become a first-rate city over the past decade.
Even so, under normal circumstances, it should hardly have caught the Xiao Household's eye.
Yet the Xiao Household had chosen to move there.
This stunned every faction within the Jia Ma Empire.
They were all puzzled. Why had the Xiao Household made this decision?
Admittedly, several months earlier, the household's former patriarch, Xiao Lin, had suffered grave injuries and fallen unconscious, and even after waking, he had been left with severe lingering effects.
But the Xiao Household still had its considerable strength. There was no need for it to make such a choice!
After all, Xiao Lin was still alive, the Xiao Household still had ties to the Misty Cloud Sect, and it had quite a few Dou Lings among its members. It was perfectly capable of maintaining its foothold in the capital.
Nor would any faction be foolish enough to provoke the Xiao Household.
In the eyes of the various factions, Xiao Lin's injuries had, at most, halted the Xiao Household's upward momentum. It was nowhere near falling into decline.
Thus, no one understood the Xiao Household's decision.
So, after word spread that the Xiao Household was moving to Wutan City, many factions once again paid visits, hoping to find out what was really going on.
However, the Xiao Household's new patriarch, Xiao Zhan, deftly handled them all.
As for Xiao Lin, after choosing to retire, he rarely interacted with outsiders.
Only a handful of close friends, such as Nalan Jie and Mu Chen, could still see him.
This also made Xiao