"Hai Bodong?"
Nalan Su was also somewhat surprised when he saw Hai Bodong.
As old friends who had both lived in the Imperial Capital for decades, Nalan Su naturally had not forgotten him the moment he turned away.
He was merely surprised that the Mittel Family had sent him this time. He had assumed they would only send someone to go through the motions.
With curiosity in his heart, Nalan Su walked over to the white-haired man escorting a graceful woman.
"Elder Hai, it has indeed been a long time. Your cultivation has improved considerably."
Seeing that the man before him had nearly reached the realm of Dou Zun, Nalan Su could not help but smile.
"You flatter me. Before the current head of the Nalan Family, it is nothing worth mentioning."
Although Nalan Su was already a high-level Dou Sheng, Hai Bodong showed no fear. He merely nodded calmly and exchanged a few polite words with him.
Yet those words of praise inevitably sounded somewhat grating to Nalan Su.
Although he knew Hai Bodong meant nothing else by it, such flattery did not make Nalan Su happy either.
Still, Nalan Su was not about to fuss with Hai Bodong over such matters.
It was not because Nalan Su was particularly magnanimous, but simply because the Mittel Family was no easy opponent either.
As one of the first forces to invest in Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family, they had even personally helped the Xiao Family return to the Imperial Capital. Those two deeds alone had long since bound the Mittel Family tightly to the Xiao Clan. Countless members of the younger generations of the two families had intermarried, and in the future, they too could receive the blessings of the Dou Di Bloodline.
Moreover, the Mittel Family had practically