"Ha Bodong?"
Nalan Su could not help feeling a little surprised when he saw Ha Bodong.
They had been old friends in the capital for decades, so naturally Nalan Su had not forgotten him the moment he turned away.
He was just somewhat surprised that the person the Mittel Family had sent this time was actually him. He had thought they would merely send someone to go through the motions.
With that curiosity in his heart, Nalan Su walked toward the white-haired man leading a graceful woman beside him.
"Old Hai, it has been a long time. Your cultivation has improved."
Seeing that the man before him had nearly reached the point where he could faintly touch the Dou Venerate level, Nalan Su could not help laughing.
"You flatter me. In front of the current head of the Nalan Family, it is hardly worth mentioning."
Although the Nalan Su before him was already a High-level Dou Sheng, there was no fear in Ha Bodong's eyes. He merely nodded without batting an eyelid, then exchanged a few polite words with him.
Only, this praise sounded inevitably grating to Nalan Su's ears.
Though he also knew Ha Bodong naturally meant nothing else by it, such flattery still failed to make Nalan Su happy.
Still, Nalan Su was not going to haggle with Ha Bodong over such things.
This was not because Nalan Su was magnanimous, but simply because the Mittel Family was no easy target either.
As the faction that had first invested in Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan back then, and had even single-handedly helped the Xiao Clan return to the capital, these two matters alone had long since bound the Mittel Family deeply to the Xiao Clan. There were even countless marriages between the younger generations of the two