Fire God City, within an elegant pavilion hall.
A middle-aged cultivator in a plain brocade robe sat at the table, slowly sipping spiritual tea. His weathered face could not conceal the anxiety between his brows.
This man was Liu Yuan, the current head of the Liu Family in Fire God City.
The Liu Family had originally been a native clan of the Dunhuang Domain. After offending a major power, they had paid an enormous price to relocate across domains to the Fire God Great World. They had hoped to seek greater development, only to find that the powers here were entrenched and fiercely hostile to outsiders. Foreign clans were suppressed at every turn, and after ten thousand years, the Liu Family had steadily declined.
Now, the vast Liu Family had only three Seventh-Order Emperor Realm cultivators left to hold up its name.
Other than Liu Yuan himself, whose foundation was still passable, the other two Emperor Realm cultivators had both attained the Emperor Realm through a public sixth-grade Small World in the Dunhuang Domain. Their foundations were shallow, their paths sealed, and they had no hope of ever breaking through to the mid-Emperor Realm.
The family had long been weak, and its future was bleak. Every burden rested on Liu Yuan's shoulders alone.
Just as Liu Yuan was at his wits' end, someone secretly approached him, offering a high price to purchase all the ancient inheritances the Liu Family had brought from the Dunhuang Domain.
Under normal circumstances, Liu Yuan would never have agreed. Those inheritances were the foundation upon which the Liu Family stood, the roots passed down through generations. There was no reason to sell them.
But the family was now in its twilight years, with not the slightest hope in sight. On top of that, the price