Longzuo Commandery City.
It had always been a place where dragons and snakes mingled, with Rogue Cultivators of low strength gathering to try their luck, as well as Purple Mansion Aristocratic Clans that had inherited for a thousand years and stood high above others.
Yet among the teeming masses, the one most worshiped and revered was the hereditary Prince Zhenzuo of the Longzuo Prefecture Prince's Mansion—Wu Dianshan.
Nominally speaking, Prince Zhenzuo's line were enfeoffed princes who guarded Longzuo Commandery on behalf of the sovereign. However, after Great Qian's founding, what was truly implemented was the prefecture-governor system.
The Prefecture Governor's Office was the true institution subject to the capital's control and in charge of all affairs, great and small, within a commandery.
Prince Zhenzuo's line had always been enfeoffed princes in name only; in truth, they did not possess much authority. As for the current commandery prince, Wu Dianshan, he had possessed no great talent or sweeping strategy since childhood. What he enjoyed were all sorts of food, drink, and pleasure; at most, he befriended a few eminent Rogue Cultivators, and even then it was limited to the kind of gentlemanly friendship as pale as water.
When some aristocratic clans encountered difficulties and came to the Prince's Mansion for help, they would mostly receive righteous assistance as well. Therefore, the reputation of the commandery prince's line was, overall, quite good.
The Prefecture Prince's Mansion was not far from the Longzuo Wang Clan, and belonged to the core area of the commandery city. From this, one could also see that when the Longzuo Wang Clan had been at its most flourishing back then, it had also been extremely powerful.
It was just that the Prefecture Prince's Mansion had an even grander scale; the grounds of its main residence were roughly several