If one were to speak of the most eye-catching recent event in Northern Mountain Pass, or even the Azure Cang Realm, then without a doubt, it was the promotion ceremony of Chen Ping'an, acting warden of Northern Mountain and presiding seat of the Northern Mountain Province Town Pacification Office.
In the days before this promotion ceremony began, powers had begun arriving one after another to pay visits, seeking an audience with the newly promoted presiding seat of the Northern Mountain Province Town Pacification Office.
Chen Ping'an refused every single one of these invitations and visits without exception.
His current realm had already reached Half-Step Great Cultivator, and his combat strength could suppress ordinary Celestial Great Cultivators. His horizons had long since broken free of the category of ordinary Celestials.
He had little interest in the courtesies and connections among these powers, or in Celestials discussing the Dao.
If it had been before, he would still have had some confusions in cultivation within the Celestial Realm, some questions about cultivation methods and artistic conception, and would have wanted to use Dao discussions and conversations to learn a few things from others.
But previously, when he had spoken with the Heavenly Luo Saintess, he had already learned relevant information from her. He now had a considerable understanding of certain cultivation secrets and information about crucial passes.
Naturally, he no longer had the kind of interest he once did in such matters.
The powers that came to visit this time were all large-scale powers with names and faces in their respective territories, and the Celestial-level experts presiding over them often numbered more than just one.
Aside from that, territorial overlord-level powers like the Green Wood Sect and Luan Ming Sect had both shown him a considerable degree of goodwill. For instance, in this