Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 467: Chapter 4 Shou Zhe! It’s actually Shou Zhe who’s come_2

Now, the entire Yuwen Clan was feeling a strong sense of urgency, desiring to acquire the fighting power of the Purple Abode Realm as soon as possible.

“If it’s just that, Shouzhe could perhaps give it a try,” Wang Shouzhe proposed after some thought, “but I can’t guarantee this undertaking. If I fail, I hope Madam will not blame me.”

Upon hearing this, Lady Bilian’s face lit up with joy, “Very good, as long as you’re willing to help. In all of Longzuo County, it would be hard to find a candidate more suitable than Master Shouzhe. Regardless of success or failure, our Yuwen Clan will owe you a favor.”

Learning this, Wang Shouzhe also felt delighted.

The strength of the Yuwen Clan, even among the top prominent families of Grade Six, was considered one of the strongest. Having the opportunity to put the Yuwen Clan in his debt was an absolute advantage for the Wang family, and no harm could come of it.

Besides, Lady Bilian from the Yuwen Clan was a direct descendant of a Purple Abode family. There was a chance they could return to the Purple Abode status in the future.

For the development of the entire Changning Wang Clan, having more friends always meant more options.

After that, Wang Shouzhe and Lady Bilian made some arrangements. Once he had taken care of his current affairs, he agreed to visit the Yuwen Clan.

…

A few days later.

More than two hundred miles west of the County Town in Longzuo County.

This area was densely populated with various villages, farms, and manors.

The closer one was to the County Town, the safer it was. Fierce beasts had long become extinct in these places. Generations of people had propagated here, forming towns.

Once upon a time, when the Longzuo Wang Clan was still of the Purple Abode, they owned countless manors. The tenant farmers and ordinary people under their rule numbered in hundreds of thousands.

Even without other income sources, the grain harvested every year alone was enough to bring continuous wealth to the Longzuo Wang Clan.

Unfortunately, times changed.

The Longzuo Wang Clan now only had a few medium-sized manors and tens of thousands of fertile acres. The number of tenant farmers they had was only a fraction of what it once was.

No matter how much wealth they inherited from their ancestors, after several failed attempts to ascend to Purple Abode status, they had gradually depleted it all.

It wasn’t until this generation that Old Ancestor Zhubo discarded the facade of an old prominent family, established the Purple Abode Palace, and saw an increase in income. Only then did he consider reclaiming some of the family’s ancestral farmland, hoping to build prosperity for future generations.

At this moment, a standoff was occurring next to a Longzuo Wang Manor.

On one side was a group from the Longzuo Wang Clan, led by Old Ancestor Zhubo. The Clan Head, Wang Xiaorui, Elder Wang Yuchen, and several other Elders of the Spirit Platform Realm from the “Chen”, “Qiong”, and “Xiao” generations trailed closely behind him.

Even judging from the number of Spirit Platform Realm Elders they had, the Longzuo Wang Clan’s family foundation was not something the Changning Wang Clan could compare to.

From the “Yu” generation onwards, Elders survived in every generation.

Meanwhile, all the Elders of the “Chen” and “Qiong” generations of the Changning Wang Clan had already perished. There were only three left from the “Xiao” generation.

It was not until the “Shou” generation of Wang Shouzhe that the populace began to flourish.

The “Ding” and “Shou” generations of the Longzuo Wang Clan were also quite prosperous. Just the young men of the “Shou” generation alone seemed to number twenty or thirty. Wang Shouxin and Wang Shouyue, who Wang Shouzhe was familiar with, were impressive young men of the “Shou” generation.

The total number of Spirit Platform Realm cultivators in the Longzuo Wang Clan had now reached twenty-one.

The oldest among them was Elder Wang Yuchen, who was nearing one hundred and seventy years old. Looking at his aged and frail appearance, it was clear that the end of his life was near.

The youngest Spirit Platform Realm cultivator was now the direct descendant of the Clan Head Wang Xiaorui, Wang Shouyue.

Compared to more than ten years ago, he had matured considerably, and with the great development of the family, he had smoothly advanced to the Spirit Platform Realm.

According to Old Ancestor Zhubo, the family had plans to cultivate him into a Celestial-Type.

The large population of the Longzuo Wang Clan was quite understandable.

After all, when Old Ancestor Zhou Xuan went to Changning to make his fortune, he only took two sons with him. After more than a hundred years of reproduction, even with many having been lost to beast calamities, the population had grown to more than fifty.

For a Celestial family with hundreds of years of heritage, having hundreds of clansmen was to be expected.

The Longzuo Wang Clan had even more profound heritage. If it weren’t for their extreme poverty, the clan’s population might have been even bigger.

On the other side of the standoff with the Longzuo Wang Clan was the Zhang family, who were noticeably more prosperous than the Longzuo Wang Clan, with abundant manpower among old and young. Just the Elders of the Spirit Platform Realm, surpassed twenty individuals.

The muscular, white-bearded elderly man leading them exuded an aura as deep and intimidating as a bottomless cold lake.

This man was the number one Celestial Elder of the Longzuo Zhang Clan, Zhang Hongqing.

Everyone referred to him as “Old Ancestor Hongqing”.

Old Ancestor Hongqing, nearing three hundred years old, had already reached the mid-stage of the Heavenly Human Realm. Seeing that there was no hope for advancing to the Purple Abode in his lifetime, he gave up on further cultivation and maintained his cultivation base with minimal consumption. He left the majority of the resources to his descendants.

“Wang Zhubo, the contract you’ve brought is three hundred years old,” Old Ancestor Hongqing’s voice boomed, “Those involved are no longer here. How am I supposed to believe this contract is real? Since I was born, those manors have belonged to our Zhang Clan. Now you claim that they belong to your Wang Clan – this is outrageous. Don’t think that because our Zhang Clan seems weak, we can be easily bullied.”