``` [You quietly watched Ouyang Shen flee in panic.]
[With your strength, it would not have been difficult to stop the master of Black Mountain Market from escaping for good.]
[Ouyang Shen was merely an elderly cultivator at the Foundation Establishment middle stage, well past his prime. He could never escape your pursuit.]
[Yet killing Ouyang Shen would not serve your interests.]
[If Ouyang Shen died, the Ouyang Family would surely fall into chaos, even with Ouyang Qian, a newly advanced Foundation Establishment realm cultivator, holding the fort.]
[Whether she could ultimately stabilize the situation was another question entirely.]
[By then, the Market District would most likely never return to its peak.]
[If it could not return to its peak, the many shops and properties you had purchased would not fetch the high prices you expected.]
[So Ouyang Shen had to live-at least until the Market District stabilized and returned to its peak.]
[As for why you took only fifty percent of the Market District's properties rather than more...]
[If you forcibly seized seventy or eighty percent of the Market District's properties, you would very likely drive the Ouyang Family to abandon Black Mountain Market altogether.]
[If they could not afford to offend you, could they not at least hide from you?]
[They might even bring in powerful reinforcements, paying an enormous price to invite other Foundation Establishment late stage senior cultivators to contend with you.]
[Fifty percent of the Market District's earnings stood at the limit of what the Ouyang Family could accept. Though it would still badly sap their vitality, at least it would not drive them to burn jade and stone alike.]
[Before I knew it, I had reached such heights...]
[You stood suspended in the air, faintly radiating a heart-quaking aura, and quietly reflected.]
[In your