Almost a hundred years old, Fu Changren picked it up and glanced at it, his brow furrowed. With a snap, he closed the book and sharply knocked his cane:
"Building a Lordless City in the Eastern Wilderness, a place that can't even guarantee safety from day to day, is utterly absurd!
Although the Eastern Wilderness seems peaceful now, historically it has never truly been calm. We are investing so much manpower and resources to construct a city we cannot even control. When war breaks out, those loose cultivators, originally gathered from all over, will guard that Lordless City like we guard our ancestral legacy? Surely when catastrophe comes, they'll all fly away, and our resources and efforts will go to waste.
The clan has these resources; it would be better to invest them in the future generations."
Fu Changren is an elder in the clan.
