Li Qingyun saw that not only Lu Qianji, Wang Xian, and the other Senior Secret Artifact Masters with whom he had forged friendships lately had come, but Xi Shaofan, He Wu, and many mid-ranking officers had also arrived at his door, their faces full of ingratiating smiles.
Lord Shang had broken through to the Eternal Life Realm and officially ascended to the rank of Eternal Supreme Being. His status and standing were now as far removed from before as heaven from earth!
To become a "high official" among the Eternal Clan, one had to at least be a one Heng Level Supreme Being. Otherwise, no matter how extraordinary one's family background, one could never truly sit in a position of power.
Take noble scions like Xi Shaofan. Most possessed bloodlines at marquis rank or higher, but noble as they were, if their true strength could not rise, they could at most muddle along as squad commanders in the Eternal Legion.
If posted back to the Thirteen Privy Domains or the Nine Great Superstar Bodies, they would merely serve as assistant officers.
But if Xi Shaofan could attain Eternal Supreme Beinghood, and the Xi Clan behind him gave him another push, he would at the very least become a Supervisor of the Thirteen Privy Domains in the future—a lofty position like Shang Hechen's.
Of course, Shang Hechen had taken charge of the Thirty-seventh Supervisor as merely a Half-step Supreme Being not because of his cultivation or strength, but because the declining Shang Clan had burned away the last of its remaining strength, sending countless great merits his way through all manner of "fortunate coincidences" to force him into that position.
Within the Shang Clan, the only ones who held more actual power than Shang Hechen were its few Eternal Supreme Beings.