When Long Ziyun led Song Qingming into the main hall, more than a dozen Nascent Soul Elders of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance rose to their feet.
"Junior Sister Long, this must be Fellow Daoist Song.
"This is our first meeting. Ruo offers his respects. Please, both of you, take a seat!"
The man speaking at the head of the group had already reached the Nascent Soul Eighth Layer Peak.
He was none other than Luo Ziliang, the one who had gone to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range years ago to capture Long Ziyun, only to be driven away by Song Qingming and the others.
When Daoist Jin Chen had passed away, there had still been three Nascent Soul Late Stage Elders within the Four Seas Merchant Alliance.
They were Wang Heyun, who had succeeded to the position of First Elder; Lin Yuan, whom Song Qingming had slain on Xuan Yun Island not long ago; and Luo Ziliang, who stood before them now.
Among them, Wang Heyun and Lin Yuan had both been at the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer, each representing a different faction.
Luo Ziliang's cultivation and strength were inferior to theirs, so he had always remained neutral, drifting between the two sides.
More than a hundred years ago, Lin Yuan had suddenly led men in a sneak attack and killed Wang Heyun, then purged the Elders of Long Ziyun's faction.
Seeing that the wind had shifted, Luo Ziliang had finally thrown his lot in completely with the other side.
Not only had he declared his support for Lin Yuan's temporary appointment as acting First Elder, he had also obeyed orders to personally travel to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range and pursue Long Ziyun and the others.
Now, upon suddenly hearing that Lin Yuan had fallen and learning that