The Yuanen Family was very powerful, but they actually weren't all that wealthy as they had no avenue through which they could earn large sums of money. In present-day society, Soul Masters weren't as revered as they were in the past, and the Yuanen Family was only able to earn money through normal saving and accumulation.

Soul technology had resolved the vast majority of the world's problems, and mecha pilots no longer had to exclusively be Soul Masters.

On top of that, the Yuanen Family was a very proud family that refused to be employed by others, so the family was far from rich.

Even though they had taken on secondary occupations as well, it was very difficult to progress very far in these occupations with the family's limited resources.

Even Yuanen Zhentian only had a suit of three-word battle armor, and he was too embarrassed to even...