In the banquet hall of the Wan Manor, it was still a scene of hanging lanterns and colorful decorations, filled with laughter and cheerful voices.
The New Year was approaching, and the medicine envoys of the Thirteen Noble Families had already arrived: Li Xiaoguang of the Li family, Xia Jie of the Xia family, Yan Yi of the Yan family, Zhang Shouyi of the Zhang family, Yang Luohua of the Yang family, Gao Jian of the Gao family, Xu Fangzhi of the Xu family, Jiang Tu of the Jiang family, Fei Youying of the Fei family, Zhai Baobao of the Zhai family, Cui Zhi of the Cui family, Ma Dingguo of the Ma family, and Gu Xiaochuan of the Gu family.
Everyone clinked cups and exchanged toasts, laughter constantly ringing out while joy brimmed across their faces, yet if one observed closely, they could be seen to be slightly distracted, their peripheral vision constantly glancing sideways as if waiting for something.
The medicine envoys of the Thirteen Noble Families were obscure and unknown among the major lineages, all of them inconspicuous figures.
Take Li Xiaoguang for example; he ranked thirteenth in the sect master's lineage, with twelve older brothers and sisters ahead of him. All the opportunities to show his face had been snatched away by his older siblings, leaving him with no chance to make a name for himself.
He usually kept a low profile and lived in seclusion. Apart from disciples within the internal sect, who else recognized him?
Yet he held real power within the inner sect, received great importance from the sect, and was heavily cultivated!
He was by no means weak. At the young age of merely thirty-six or thirty-seven, he was already at Divine Descent Realm Perfection, having reached the level where he could