Among the thirteen noble families, the Li Family is not the strongest, but when the Western Ox Continent was first pioneered, the Li Family gave birth to two supreme powerhouses, possessed two supreme scriptural collections, and synthesized the great achievements of the world's Daoist arts.
Outside Western Capital City, in front of a roadside tea stall, two white-haired elders were drinking tea and playing a game of go.
Beside their chessboard, a pair of large tea vats sat. Tea stalls like this outside the city were mostly meant for physical laborers like sedan chair bearers, woodcutters, and firewood haulers. The tea was cheap, costing only a few copper coins, and the leaves were nothing fine either—just coarse stalks and large leaves, still bearing the mottled traces left by insect bites.
The tea vats were not very clean either, covered thickly with heavy tea scale and bearing the scrape marks of fingernails from when the vats were scrubbed.
These two white-haired elders were dressed with exquisite refinement, evidently people of wealth and nobility, yet they sat here in front of this tea stall drinking tea right alongside those rough laborers.
The tea in the vats before the two of them remained utterly motionless, like mirrors, but what they reflected was not the sky, but the scene unfolding in Wenchang Alley.
Behind them stood numerous powerhouses of the Ma Family, standing there motionless, their eyes fixed on their noses and their noses on their hearts, yet their aura was so overwhelmingly strong that aside from them, not a single other soul remained near the tea stall.
These two white-haired elders were none other than the two ancestors of the Ma Family. Though they looked to be of similar advanced age, they were actually grandfather and grandson.
The one on the left was