Myriad Spirit City, Xifu Tower.
A grand banquet was underway in the restaurant. The five-story building was festooned with lanterns and decorations, carriages lined the lane outside, and congratulatory guests arrived in an endless stream.
The first-floor hall blazed with light. Qiu Zhong, dressed in a purple robe, beamed as he accepted the guests' congratulations.
Most of these guests were representatives of families and merchant firms connected to the Xu family, or with whom they might do business in the future. They were not great figures, but neither were they nobodies.
The former Qiu Zhong had merely been the Xu family's steward. Though he was extremely close to Xu Xinlan, the family head, he was ultimately a servant, unqualified to stand on equal footing with such people.
But Qiu Zhong was now a Purple Mansion cultivator!
Though Purple Mansion cultivators were everywhere in Myriad Spirit City and hardly rare, in this world where strength reigned supreme, they still stood above the vast majority.
They were worthy of polite congratulations and gifts.
Moreover, this Purple Mansion cultivator, Qiu Zhong, was no ordinary one. He had broken through to a major realm at the age of eighty!
Although there had been countless cases throughout history of cultivators breaking through as their lifespan limit approached, compared to the enormous number of cultivators, such cases were pitifully rare.
Qiu Zhong's advancement could be called a small miracle!
But that was not the entire reason the guests had received invitations from the Xu family and flocked to this Ascension Feast.
Many people had noticed the young cultivator standing beside Xu Xinlan.
Everyone knew that he was the Xu family's new retainer, Wang Chen, an Inner Sect disciple of the West Sea Sect!
The Xu family's fortunes had truly not run out yet!
They sighed inwardly,