Retiring Behind the Scenes

Hearing this, Meng Jingshan, Clan Leader of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, smiled faintly. With a thoroughly genial expression, he looked at Meng Haoran, a younger clansman seated opposite him, and said, "Hao Ran, what you said is not wrong. Old ginger is spicier, after all. But there is another saying that is equally true: talent rises generation after generation, each leading the age for several hundred years; the waves behind drive on those before, and the waves before die upon the shore. We old men have limited cultivation talent, and the achievements we can bring about are equally limited. All we can do is provide you juniors with what we ought to provide. Thus, the future of Xinghua Village still depends on you young people!"

Meng Haoran, a younger clansman of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, nodded lightly and replied, "This junior Hao Ran shall heed Clan Leader Jingshan's wise words and will certainly not disappoint your entrusted hopes. After these seven years of the Lineage's development, my cultivation has reached the Late Foundation Establishment Realm. If things continue like this, so long as the Xinghua Village Meng Family does not encounter any great upheaval, I dare promise you here and now, Clan Leader Jingshan, that my cultivation will certainly reach the Nascent Soul Realm!"

A Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator could raise a Ranked Family to the level of a Ninth-Rank Cultivation Family.

A Golden Core Realm cultivator could raise their cultivation Lineage's rank to that of an Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family.

The Xinghua Village Meng Family was currently in precisely such a situation.

If what Meng Haoran, that younger clansman of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, said truly came to pass, and his cultivation reached the Nascent Soul Realm within his lifetime, then the Xinghua Village Meng Family would