After returning home, Liu Changxu took Lian'er and their son Liu Han on a careful search for a suitable place to live within the lineage's territory.
After surveying the area, Liu Changxu selected several promising locations for Liu Han, but Lian'er acted quite unlike herself, rejecting her husband's suggestions one after another. On this crucial matter concerning the survival and prosperity of her descendants, she showed unprecedented firmness.
Left with no choice, Liu Changxu continued searching with mother and son, looking over the Liu Household's entire four-thousand-li territory. After carefully weighing their options, Lian'er personally chose a treasured site with excellent feng shui for their son.
This site lay between Peach Blossom Mountain, Red Lotus Lake, and Hundred Blossoms Mountain, in a valley spanning three hundred li. It was only a little over two hundred li from Liu Changxu's private domain, Jade Bamboo Island, and just over five hundred li from Peach Blossom Mountain. Although Hundred Blossoms Mountain was farther away, the mountain and Red Lotus Lake formed protective barriers, placing the valley safely within the Liu Household's heartland. This relative safety was what Lian'er valued most.
Precisely because the area was relatively safe, with fertile soil and beautiful scenery, tens of thousands of Liu Household members had already settled there.
As a result, the best land had already been occupied by those who arrived first. Even as the lineage's sole Golden Core cultivator, Liu Changxu could not seize it by force. He would either have to buy land from his clansmen or reclaim unclaimed land.
Although these matters were somewhat troublesome, they posed no real problem for a Golden Core True Person like Liu Changxu. He simply had to spend a little more money.
Once he had settled on a place for his son to live, Liu Changxu washed