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Star Luo City was one of the continent's Three Great Capitals. Its ash-gray walls resembled the spine of a sleeping ancient beast, guarding concentric districts layered one around another.
Its layout differed completely from Heaven Dou City's orderly square design. Seven rings spread outward from the center, growing broader and more expansive toward the outskirts, ultimately forming the largest city on the continent, surpassing Heaven Dou City's area of two thousand five hundred square kilometers.
In the third-ring district, on Tangfeng Street, stood a marquis's residence.
Before its gates, two metal pillars shaped like Seven Kill Swords stood embedded deep in the flagstones like silent sentries. Their unusual material had a silver base through which a cold, dusky-blue light flowed.
On the dark plaque overhead, the words "Jiannan" were written in iron strokes and silver hooks, proclaiming the Chen Clan's foothold in this foreign capital.
This was indeed a genuine marquis's residence, no smaller than the Heaven Dou Chen Residence.
The Chen Clan's operations in the Star Luo Empire had only truly taken root over the past two or three centuries. Before that, they had been scattered ventures without scale or structure-a rather late start compared with the other ancient noble families.
Nor did the clan's foundations and main focus lie here. Its properties and influence in this region were chiefly sustained through the painstaking efforts of the Light Lineage, one of the Chen Clan's Five Veins.
This marquisate had been won through generations of accumulated military exploits, as Chen Clan descendants fought north and south alongside the Foreign Legion under the Star Luo Empire's Duke of Southern Defense.
Without that golden marquis's plaque symbolizing imperial recognition, the resistance Princess Zhu Qianqing had faced when marrying Chen Yinzu