Star Luo Empire, Star Luo City, a luxurious estate.
This was the estate of the An Clan, one of Star Luo City's great noble families. It covered tens of thousands of mu, linked to mountains, rivers, and lakes, and was planted with all kinds of precious trees and flowers. Any single item here could cover a middle-class family's total expenses for an entire year, yet here, it was nothing more than a flower or a blade of grass.
Tens of thousands of tenant farmers worked the fields, while others served as gardeners, trimming the flowers and plants in the rear gardens planned by their masters and keeping everything neat and orderly with a unique beauty.
One trained bodyguard after another stood fully armed, clad in golden armor and golden helmets, gripping golden iron swords. There were more than a thousand of them.
Moreover, every one of them was remarkably strong. Even the weakest had reached the rank of a level-thirty Great Soul Elder, while the strongest had reached level eighty-nine Spirit Douluo.
Such a formidable force served merely as the An Clan's bodyguards. From this alone, one could see just how immense the An Clan's wealth and influence were.
A luxurious mansion dozens of meters tall stood here. At this moment, a lavish party was underway inside. Beautiful women wearing rabbit ears and skimpy outfits moved constantly among potbellied middle-aged men, accompanied by wanton laughter and revelry.
Anyone familiar with the powers of the Star Luo Empire would recognize at a glance that the dignitaries and great noble families of the entire empire had gathered here.
The An Clan, whose ducal title had been inherited for generations; the Liu Clan, which controlled the empire's sea trade routes both large and small; the Li Clan, which controlled sixty percent of the