Four Seas Merchant Alliance, mountain summit cave abode.
A streak of light suddenly descended, revealing a green-robed figure. The two maidservants who had long been waiting here hurried forward and cupped their hands in salute.
"Greetings, Elder Song!"
"No need for such formality."
With a wave of his hand, Song Qingming indicated for the two to rise. Following behind them, he soon arrived at a pavilion not far away.
The place was completely empty. Only a White Light Restriction hovered quietly before them, seeming to be a Teleportation Array leading somewhere.
After bringing Song Qingming here, the two did not continue forward. They turned around and spoke directly.
"Elder Song, the First Elder is waiting for you inside.
She has instructed that no one is to disturb her without a summons. We shall take our leave first."
"Mm, go on!"
Song Qingming nodded slightly. After glancing at the restriction formation set into the mountain wall ahead, he strode directly inside.
Once he passed through the formation, the scene before him shifted. Song Qingming found himself standing in an exceptionally spacious cave abode hall.
The surroundings were splendid and magnificent, filled with artificial hills and streams, beaded curtains and murals, all exquisitely decorated.
Beyond a half-drawn purple gauze curtain stood a long table and tea table, with green lotus cushions on either side. A figure slowly came forward to greet him.
It was Long Ziyun, who had already succeeded to the position of First Elder of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance.
Unlike before, Long Ziyun had changed into a plain white lotus dress today.
Her immortal bearing was graceful and slender, light as a drifting cloud, yet she had lost the shrewd, valiant air she had once possessed as the alliance's First Elder.
It made her seem as though she had