Northwest of Longzuo Prefecture City, the terrain gradually rose.
A broad river originated in the plateau region of the vast Tianlong Mountain range. Flowing from west to east, it cut across all of Longzuo before surging into the sea from Ferryboat Peninsula.
Its middle and upper reaches lay upon the Red Gold Plateau. With a considerable drop in elevation toward the east, the great river swept along vast quantities of red sand, turning its waters crimson. Its rolling waves were magnificent beyond compare, and thus this river was called—the Red Gold River!
Compared with the An River's "winding tenderness" and "splendor stretching ten thousand miles," the Red Gold River was surging and majestic, as though it could swallow mountains and rivers whole, possessing a boldness all its own.
Red Gold Guard.
This guard city had once enjoyed a glorious age of its own.
During the early reclamation of Longzuo Prefecture, this place had been densely populated, with the various clan powers running rampant. It was the undisputed core of northern Longzuo, land every aristocratic clan fought to claim.
In the end, after the Yan Clan Ancestor advanced into the Purple Mansion Realm, the clan declared its overlordship over the entire region—and maintained that position to this day.
Today's Ancestor Yufei was the Yan Clan's third-generation Purple Mansion Ancestor. The Purple Mansion seed of the Yan Clan from more than a century ago, the Heavenly Prodigy Yan Jingchi, would have become the Yan Clan's fourth-generation Purple Mansion Ancestor if he had succeeded in breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm.
Unfortunately, eight or nine things out of ten in this world never went as one wished. Yan Jingchi ultimately failed to break through to the Purple Mansion Realm, plunging the Yan Clan into a crisis of succession.
At present, the thousand-li