"Good, good child!"
Li Xiang's face was full of approval for Li Yunlin.
Every time he opened that place belonging to the Litian Sect, he'd seen Daoist Zhenyang brainwashing Li Yunlin with the same nonsense about cutting off love and severing worldly ties. The man acted like some cultist.
Fortunately, after all these years in seclusion, Li Yunlin had never forgotten his original intention.
Looking over Li Yunlin's past, Li Xiang saw that, sure enough, a few days ago he had sent a loyal disciple to deliver a treasure.
Soon.
As time sped up, the day arrived for Li Tianyi, the Li Family's newborn, to celebrate his first month.
This celebration was nowhere near as lively as the last one. The two great families of Tailin Town used to come with their direct descendants to attend, hoping to find an opportunity for marriage alliances. They'd arrive in groups of dozens, but now they had already left Tailin Town.
The Gu Family, far away in Qingping Town, and the other friends who did business with the Li Family had each sent only a handful of somewhat important figures.
That was already giving the Li Family plenty of face, since their clansmen risked being ambushed and robbed of their treasures at any moment.
The banquet was just about to end.
But a crowd of about a hundred people entered the Li Family's grounds from Zhien Village, making quite a commotion. The strongest among them was actually at the Golden Core Stage!
There was one person among them whom Li Xiang still remembered.
[Lin Yixiu]
[Tailin Town's mayor. Ignored twenty years of drought, while his vermilion gates feasted on meat and wine. When several Tailin families fought, he stayed behind closed doors, waiting for it all to end before reappearing. When two sects