The grand City Lord's Mansion was brilliantly lit tonight!
Fine wine and delicacies streamed out from the kitchens, filling more than a hundred banquet tables.
All of it was to celebrate the successful return of three merchant caravans.
Such a thing would never have happened in previous years, but this year was somewhat special.
The City Lord's Mansion had dispatched five merchant caravans in total, yet two had been lost, while even the remaining three had suffered grievous losses.
By all rights, after suffering such losses, they should have lowered their banners and licked their wounds. Yet Young City Lord Xiao Feng had instead made a great show of holding this banquet to reward the meritorious men who had defended the caravans to the death.
"Even amid danger, he does not let his momentum fall. This Young City Lord is quite a shrewd man."
In the main hall, Luo Chen watched the lively scene outside with an indifferent expression.
He had once governed a behemoth like the Luo Tian Sect. Naturally, he knew that the more difficult the times, the less one could expose weakness to outsiders. Otherwise, enemies might swarm forward all at once.
However, judging from the few tables and chairs arranged in the main hall, he was not truly an esteemed guest at tonight's banquet.
One figure after another filed in from outside.
There was an elderly woman leaning on a cane, a red-faced burly man, and a relatively young-looking man.
The instant these three entered and saw Luo Chen, surprise could not help appearing on their faces.
"Tonight's banquet actually has someone other than a Third Realm Body Cultivator at the same table?"
The speaker was the young man with an air of arrogance on his face.
Luo Chen seemed not to have heard him. He