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"I heard City Lord Gao is still unmarried?"
Marquis Sifang paid no mind to Gao Jinyang's teasing and smiled faintly.
"This old man has many daughters. Quite a few are close to City Lord Gao in age and remain unwed—several thousand..."
"Several tens of thousands."
Marquis of Affection and Righteousness, who had not spoken until now, interrupted his father and corrected him.
"You must be joking, Marquis. I have no plans to marry yet..."
Gao Jinyang's expression stiffened. This old fellow was no good—he actually wanted to become his father-in-law.
In truth, it was not just Marquis Sifang. Nearly all the marquises and kings entertained over the past ten thousand years had been the same.
Those old fellows were simply far too prolific.
"What a pity."
Marquis Sifang shook his head, genuinely feeling it was a shame.
For Gao Jinyang to succeed the High Priest as Xiaoyao City's City Lord, he had to be the High Priest's trusted confidant. Though he had not been granted a marquisate, his cultivation was no weaker than Marquis Sifang's.
He truly was an excellent match. What a pity.
"You have traveled a long way, Marquis. Please enter the city and rest awhile."
Gao Jinyang changed the subject and invited them into the city.
Yu Hongyi and the others had long since grown accustomed to this. In fact, the least valuable people among the Vast Human Race were the children of marquises and kings.
It was not only Gao Jinyang. Some of the Godfiend-level experts present had also taken daughters of marquises and kings as wives.
Even Yu Hongyi, if her bloodline were traced back to its origins, was descended from a marquis or king. It was merely that after a hundred generations, those blood ties had become faint.
At once, the group stepped