Zhang Qingyuan's quiet emergence from seclusion did not cause much of a stir in Qingzhou's Cultivation World.
After all, he was not one who enjoyed fanfare.
He would not throw a grand banquet over his own breakthrough, proclaim it to the world, and invite great cultivators or representatives of powers from all across Qingzhou and even neighboring continents to celebrate.
Having reached his current height, Zhang Qingyuan no longer cared in the slightest about empty fame from the outside world.
Moreover, he stood alone.
Nor did he need to lend his presence to any affiliated force or intimidate hostile powers.
Thus,
he emerged from seclusion quietly.
Within the Flying Immortal Alliance's Sect Gate, he merely held a simple banquet with several familiar senior cultivators and the Alliance's higher-ups.
Among them was the Carefree Old Daoist, who had guided him like a mentor in life and pulled him back from the crooked path of becoming inhuman.
There were also the Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Ancestor Dao Venerable Xuan, who had spent a century recuperating in Qingzhou while waiting for Zhang Qingyuan to emerge from seclusion.
There was Lin Hao as well, whom he had taken in and taught for a time after arriving in Qingzhou, and who had successfully broken through to become a Cave True Realm Cultivator during those hundred years.
Even Zhou Zhengbin, the former president of the Dongshan Association, with whom he had shared some acquaintance when he had first arrived in Qingzhou and settled in Dongshan City.
Basically, it was a gathering of familiar faces.
The news was not deliberately spread outward.
Yet,
although Zhang Qingyuan had no intention of making a grand public announcement,
among the cultivator great powers at the Myriad Transformations Realm level, those standing atop the clouds among Qingzhou's Cultivation World's uppermost