Zhou Quan is a former Zhou clan leader who works as a shopkeeper under Shang Ya Zi in Shang Clan City during Shang Xin Ci's young master competition.
Fang Yuan tells Shang Xin Ci she needs him for an intel business: rank three, experienced at trading, and posted as a shopkeeper under Shang Ya Zi. Shang Xin Ci already knows him as proud, once rank four, then reduced to rank three upper stage after internal strife and a demonic slaughter left him heavily injured. She notes he always posts the best shop results, yet even Shang Ya Zi could not get his loyalty. ch. 325
Her early recruitment attempts stall. He stays arrogant and refuses discussion. ch. 326 Shang Chao Feng later recounts that Shang Qiu Niu personally tried to recruit him and was refused with a rebuke about an inexperienced junior approaching a hundred-year-old man. Zhou Quan is already over a hundred years old and will not willingly submit to a junior. ch. 327
Appearance
He is already over a hundred years old. ch. 327 He has a beard. ch. 332
Forced into Shang Xin Ci’s force
Fang Yuan treats recruiting him as the missing piece that would make Shang Xin Ci’s young-master bid secure, and leads a raid on the manor Zhou Quan manages. ch. 331 Zhou Quan flees to a Shang clan shop, then loses a short fight when Fang Yuan barges in. Fang Yuan destroys a purple thorn token in front of the crowd and threatens to kill him. ch. 332 Shang Xin Ci arrives and stages a speech about rebuilding Zhou clan and a dying wife’s wish. Zhou Quan recognizes the act, greets her as Lady Xin Ci, and joins her force. With him assisting, the battle-stage intel business opens soon after. ch. 333
Chief steward
At Shang Xin Ci’s succession he is her chief steward, remembering that Fang Yuan forced him under her after Zhou clan’s fall. He watches her take the cloud throne, thinks of the black and white demons, and decides revival of Zhou clan must wait while she still needs subordinates. ch. 1072 In a later meeting he helps redirect talk when she falls into a daze, then asks Xiao Die what is wrong with the clan leader. ch. 1113
Shang Liang Mountain watch
When Shang Xin Ci leaves for a Gu-formation contest against Tie and Hou clan leaders, steward Zhou Quan takes her place on Shang Liang Mountain to keep the clan steady. ch. 1531
Fake Gu crisis
During a fake Gu crisis, Zhu Ba and Wan Qian Shan resign of their own accord. Xiao Yan gets news of distant fire path Gu materials and leaves to search for them. Xiong Tu, Xiong Huo, and Xiong Feng receive information on how to save their ancestor Xiong Yan Po. Zhou Quan and Wei De Xin become coincidentally ill and bedridden. At once Shang Xin Ci is without her capable subordinates. ch. 2122 When she visits, he backs her handling of the dispute and recalls that Fang Yuan first forced him into her service, then that he came to admire her growth under his and Wei De Xin’s guidance. ch. 2123 Days later he and Wei De Xin encircle Shang Ya Zi’s group in the second inner city. Clansmen call him Steward Zhou Quan as he announces the fake Gu investigation, presents evidence that Feng Tian Yu refined the fakes, and with Wei De Xin and others fights through Shang Yi Fan’s mud-monster escape until the crisis eases. ch. 2125
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