Five years had passed. The landscape of Forgotten River City had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Today, Forgotten River City was already dominated by the Li Family alone.
The gap between the other five Cultivation Families and the Li Family was simply far too vast.
Of course, that was assuming those two Divine Ability Realm Great Experts did not emerge.
Yet as the balance of power in Forgotten River City gradually tipped out of equilibrium, those two Divine Ability Realm cultivators still made no move.
The people of the city did not know why.
And among those who did know, aside from those two Divine Ability Realm cultivators, there was likely only one person in Forgotten River City at present.
Wei Yang sat cross-legged in the training ground, regulating his breath and the circulation of true qi through his meridians.
By now, he was already a Qi Condensation Realm Late-stage cultivator.
At twenty-four, he had attained his current achievements.
If Wei Yang had still been the young city lord he once was, content as long as he possessed some cultivation and could smoothly inherit the position of city lord, then Qi Condensation Realm Late-stage cultivation would have been enough.
After all, Wei Zhao was merely a Qi Condensation Realm cultivator.
But the Wei Family was no longer the same.
They had been tied to the Forgotten River City Chamber of Commerce's ship, and to the Li Family's ship as well.
Besides, neither Wei Yang nor Wei Zhao was a fool.
From the day the Li Family accepted the betrothal gift of five million high-grade spirit stones, they had both understood what was truly going on behind it all.
The current Wei Family was far from worthy of its present standing in Forgotten River City.
The gap was even greater than the one