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The Five Guards of the Northwest of Longzuo!
Centered on the Northwest Guard, the area is vast and yet its water resources are very scanty. The prominent families mostly rely on animal husbandry, mining, or growing so drought-resistant crops.
The famous heavyweight cart horses of the North are a local specialty of the Northwest Guards. Many prominent families in Longzuo County buy and raise these heavy cart horses to increase their family’s transportation capacity.
The whole Northwest Five Guards, collectively, have eleven 7th-rank Aristocratic Families, with countless eight or nine Rank families scattered across the vast pastures. The majority of the family mbers belonging to these families never travel beyond the Northwest Guard City in their lifeti.
The Northwest Guard City stands at the edge of the vast grassland, its outline imposing. The towering, thick city walls can easily withstand the impact of Level Five fierce beasts. Ard soldiers stationed in the castle towers keep vigil over the city.
As the sun rises, the world lights up.
The heavy city gates slowly swing open, the early-rising rchant caravans, civilians, or independent cultivator wandering rchants, all orderly making their way into the city. Humans only inhabit a small part of the large unending plains.
Though the plains don’t produce resources as abundantly as the southern regions, they still have their unique products. For example, the famous common mushroom and the spirit grass mushroom are scattered randomly across the grasslands.
The forr is delicious, and rare delicacy when cooked with the beef and mutton from the plains. The latter is a rare and valuable spirit food ingredient, also beneficial as a dicinal component in pill prescriptions.
However, both mushrooms are the most delicious when fresh, their value diminishing sharply with each passing day once they’re preserved. Therefore, regions slightly further away will only have dried products for consumption.
Chunyu Andong cos from one of the non-ranked Xuanwu families of the Five Guards of the Northwest of Longzuo. He showed promising potential from a young age. However, given the resources and power his family controlled, it was impossible for him to break through to the Spiritual Platform Realm and beco a revered Spiritual Platform Ancestor.
As a result, Chunyu Andong ended up becoming an independent cultivator rchant at the age of eighteen, traveling throughout Longzuo County. There are many such people in Longzuo County.
Most of them end up dying quietly in foreign lands. A few settle down, forming unremarkable families. Only a select few, owing to opportunity and hard work, manage to break through to the Spiritual Platform Realm, breaking free from their rigid social status.
Chunyu Andong was one of those few successful people. After attaining the Spiritual Platform Realm, he continued organizing the scattered cultivators to maintain the business, establishing a small and inconspicuous comrcial firm. Along the way they increased his initial family’s status, gradually elevating them to a 9th-rank Aristocratic Family.
Thus, Chunyu Andong beca the Old Ancestor of the 9th-rank Chunyu Family, achieving a satisfactory life.
However, Chunyu Andong, in his youth, had gotten used to running around. He longed for his adventurous tis in the Great Wilderness Marsh with his cultivator buddies in Zhenze Guard. He also missed the days of running trades back and forth between the Eastern Sea Guard and Hundred Islands Guard, earning a ager profit.
In the sa way, he longed for his carefree days in Cloud Security, when he, then a young and naive man, had spent ti watching sunrises with a young girl from a prominent family. Unfortunately, because of their drastically different social statuses, their love story was put to an end by the girl’s family mbers, leaving regret in his heart.
He wished to travel again, but now that he was over a hundred years old, his family needed him as a guardian. His sons, grandsons, and generations to co couldn’t live without him. He couldn’t possibly take his ti to wander afar like in his youth.
For the sake of his family, Chunyu Andong compromised. Thinking to himself that his longings and desires would be buried with him.
However, an opportunity has now reinvigorated Chunyu Andong’s initially lost spirit.
The Hundred Taste Residence branch in Northwest Guard.
Thanks to the efficient operation of the Yuwen Family, this branch of the Hundred Taste Residence ranks among the top restaurants, and many high-end banquets and dinners are held here.
Limited by the available ingredients, this branch mainly cooks beef, lamb, and spirit at. Its most famous spirit at cos from a high-end ingredient known as the Spirit Snow Sheep, which when roasted or used in a hotpot, is incredibly juicy and tender, lting in one’s mouth.
Several adjacent properties to this Hundred Taste Residence, unbeknownst to everyone, had already been bought over. After so renovations, a signboard reading "Keep Achieving Comrcial Firm" was early hung over the door.
Undoubtedly, it is the new retail business established in cooperation between the Wang Family and the In-laws Alliance. Originally, it was going to be nad Shouzhe Firm, but Wang Shouzhe declined, so it was nad using his generation character, Shou, hinting at their aim to always keep their promises and achieve success.
The current store manager of the Northwest Guard branch of the Keep Achieving Comrcial Firm is a man nad Lei Yongbai. He is a Spiritual Platform elder from the Changning Lei Clan. At over a hundred fifty years old, he was sent to the Northwest Guard to serve as the store manager, contributing to the new firm established by the In-laws Alliance.
In addition to him, a number of younger generation mbers from each clan were arranged to work in the branch. They serve not only as workers and learners but also have to strive in their cultivation.
Branches like these need at least one Realm Cultivator to stabilize them; otherwise, they won’t et the requirents for a comrcial firm and could easily be questioned. Each mber of the In-law Families having a Realm Cultivator is limited and they each have their own tasks.
However, for this comrcial developnt expedition, many of the old ancestors have paused their duties to break new ground.
Each family is simultaneously training the next generation of Realm Cultivators, gradually expanding the scale and interchanging personnel.
One day,
it’s the second month since the opening of the Keep Achieving Comrcial Firm’s Northwest Guard branch. Because the Northwest Guard branch is in a remote location, there’s only one spirit bird flying carriage arriving in the morning. After a brief rest, the spirit bird trainer and the carriage leave for Longzuo County Town in the evening.
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