There had been over ninety affiliated households on the eastern shore in the Jiang Family's era. When the Jiang Family split, the Xiao Family took advantage of the chaos and claimed many as their vassals. By the time the Yu Family controlled the east, there were only thirty-nine families outside of Milin Prefecture, while anything farther east was nearly all absorbed into Lixia Prefecture.0

Since then, neither the Yu Family nor the Li Family had ever regained authority over those seventy-nine families. The Xiao Family had even forbidden the establishment of markets around Moongaze Lake, causing the Li Family to lose more than eighty percent of potential commercial revenue.0

Now, with seventy-nine more households returned, the total came to one hundred and eighteen, even surpassing what the Jiang Family once controlled. The map of Moongaze Lake was finally whole again. Not only had thirteen spiritual mines been restored,...0