After that, aside from the gradual change in Wang Zongan's bloodline, it seemed as if nothing had happened at all.
He still diligently completed the chores of an ordinary disciple every day, went to cultivate when it was time to cultivate, and merely found time to buy up the surplus "Spirit Mushrooms." Then, with the help of his fifth aunt, Wang Luojing, he cobbled together a simple miniature Ice Crystal Iron cold storage unit, rented a Spirit Bird Flying Carriage, and took that mini cold room stuffed full of Spirit Mushrooms on a trip to Ping'an Town.
As for the matter of the Longevity Tree Spirit Seed, after causing an uproar for a while, it ultimately died down bit by bit because there was no evidence to prove who had obtained the spirit seed.
For a very long time afterward, the ownership of the Longevity Tree Spirit Seed remained an unsolved mystery, and it even once made it to the very bottom of "Purple Mansion Academy's Top Ten Unsolved Mysteries."
Until many years later...
Forget it. That was a story for later, and need not be mentioned for now.
Back to the present.
At this moment, calm had gradually returned to the academy. But within the Southern Six Guards, because of a series of new strategies from the Qian Clan Trading Firm, the originally peaceful situation had been broken, and beneath the water's surface, undercurrents had begun to surge frequently.
On this day.
Ping'an Town, Wang Clan Main Residence.
In a side hall specially used to receive guests, the rather blessed-looking former chief shopkeeper of the Qian Clan Trading Firm, Qian Xue'an, was currently pouring out his bitterness to Wang Shouzhe with a miserable expression. "Brother Shouzhe, tell me, I, Qian Xue'an, have worked diligently for so many years. How