The Nine Luminaries Realm, the Ai Lineage estate.
Ai Sheng secretly settled Li Dalong in a secluded spot deep within the estate, ensuring his safety and concealment.
After returning to the lineage, Ai Sheng did not immediately carry out the plan he had discussed with his wife to establish a cross-realm resource trading channel with the Immortal Realm. Instead, he first observed the lineage's situation.
He discovered that the lineage's cultivation resources had already been extremely scarce, and their uneven distribution meant that many of its younger members were progressing slowly in their cultivation for lack of resources.
Thus, he decided to begin by improving the cultivation conditions for the lineage's younger members.
Ai Sheng took out some of the cultivation resources from the Storage Ring Ke Meili had given him and handed them to the lineage's elders to distribute.
These resources included precious pills, spirit grass, spirit stones, and other things he had brought back from the Immortal Realm, all of which were tremendously helpful to the younger members' cultivation.
This measure immediately drew cheers and gratitude from the lineage's younger members. They all declared that they would cultivate even harder and bring honor to the lineage.
Such effective measures and changes soon drew the attention of hostile forces to the changes in the Ai Lineage as well.
However, Ai Sheng was not satisfied with this. He knew that to change the lineage's fate completely, he still needed to improve its strength at the roots.
He began drawing up a detailed development plan, hoping to gradually strengthen the Ai Lineage by providing its members with ample cultivation resources, nurturing more elites within the lineage, and other such methods.
Just as Ai Sheng was preparing the lineage's development plan amid a flurry of activity, the hostile Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan