The SITONG Chamber of Commerce, once so down-and-out that it barely had any men left, had now been completely refurbished, and the number of hands under its banner had surged overnight. Nan Tianlong bustled in and out at the entrance, welcoming and seeing off guests from all over. The SITONG Chamber of Commerce had swept away its former decline and was now flourishing beyond compare.
Everyone in the town knew—indeed, not merely everyone in the town, but everyone in the Immortal Realm knew—that the SITONG Chamber of Commerce owed its present state to one man: Wu Xiong, the Great Commander of External Affairs for the Immortal Palace. It was precisely because Great Commander Wu Xiong had entered into a marriage agreement with Mu Tianjiao that the SITONG Chamber of Commerce had undergone such earth-shaking changes.
Meanwhile, the Bada Chamber of Commerce, once the other great chamber in town, had been wiped out root and branch, its entire household exterminated without a single survivor. With the Bada Chamber of Commerce uprooted, all the smaller chambers in town trembled before the SITONG Chamber of Commerce. Back when SITONG had fallen into decline, quite a few had kicked it while it was down. Now, to avoid its sharp edge, they hurriedly moved away one after another. Thus, only the SITONG Chamber of Commerce remained in the entire town. Yet the town did not become desolate; instead, it grew ever more prosperous with SITONG's rapid rise. The myriad faces of life, its rises and falls, could all be seen from this.
Mu Bing emerged from the main hall with a group of fawning flatterers. After having Nan Tianlong see the guests off, he turned to look toward the rear courtyard. His daughter, who had originally taken over the chamber's affairs, had handed everything back