Given the Qi Family's status, they actually weren't qualified to sit in the middle!
They could only sit somewhat toward the back of the middle section!
But because Qi Mengya was there, they had been given seats in the middle.
After all, Xiang Siji liked Qi Mengya, so moving their seats around a little wasn't a problem.
Everyone who came here was on a list, and all the seating had been arranged in advance.
Of course, there were some special guests—people of unquestionably high status. Even now, Xiang Siji wasn't sure whether they would come!
If they didn't come, it was no big deal. But if they did, it would bring him great honor.
Qi Xiangyang looked at Qi Mengya and said, "Although the Qi Family and the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect are supposedly Emperor-Ranked Forces, our Emperor-Ranked Force isn't even in the same league as the Emperor-Ranked Forces in those places. Take the Land Beyond Heaven, for example—even the regions just outside it. Which Emperor-Ranked Force capable of surviving there isn't ten times stronger than us?"
Then he looked at a table ahead of them and said, "Those are people from the Nine Suns Palace, also an Emperor-Ranked Force. But their seats are more than twenty meters ahead of ours. The reason is that they're dozens of times stronger than us. They haven't reached the Land Beyond Heaven, but they're still in a first-rate region. That's the difference."
"I understand, Father."
"Mm. They aren't important. What's important is that you look at those people sitting at the very front."
Qi Xiangyang looked ahead.
There were more than a dozen people seated at the very front! Most of them had come alone.
"That one is a Royal Member of the Imperial Snow Empire, one of Season King's uncles. Though he