Chapter 81: A Challenge at the Door

Outside Jade Capital City lay an estate that stretched on for miles, a sea of fields and courtyards that covered tens of thousands of acres. It was called Beam Garden, one of Silvarhold Temple's many private holdings. Beam Garden had been managed with meticulous care. It produced a generous yield every year, and its tenant farmers were all devotees of the Mount Salvation Sacred Land. They worked hard for meager wages, and more importantly, they paid no taxes. None of the Mount Salvation Sacred...