Lin Bai was left dumbfounded. Before him lay a mountain-high pile of visiting cards and invitations, numbering several thousand at least.
And this was supposed to be what they called "not many families and sects willing to befriend Tianshui Sect"?
Qiao Mo seemed to see through Lin Bai's thoughts and smiled. "This already counts as very few. You haven't seen the invitations sent to the Five Great Families of the imperial capital. Tens of thousands arrive at the Five Great Families every day. We've been at Tianshui Sect for two or three months, yet we've received only a mere few thousand. That's already very few."
Within the imperial capital, the Five Great Families might dominate their respective domains.
But there were still countless families, large and small, scattered throughout and around the imperial capital.
For example, Zhou Wang, the steward of Prince Chen's Residence, had mentioned before... He had grown up in the imperial capital from a young age, having been born into a small family there.
No one had ever counted exactly how many families existed in the imperial capital, but there were at least more than a million—a terrifying number.
With such a huge population base in the imperial capital, Tianshui Sect had received only a few thousand visiting cards and invitations. That really was very few.
Lin Bai took the visiting cards and invitations and placed them on the long table, then began reading them carefully.
The Nineteenth Elder said, "Many of these invitations have already expired. Only some of them are still valid."
"There are two invitations in particular that the Saint might be interested in."
Lin Bai asked curiously, "What invitations?"
The Nineteenth Elder stepped forward, pulled one invitation from the mountain-high pile, and handed it to Lin Bai. "This invitation was sent by the