The Great River Gang, one of the six great powers under heaven, possessed the inherited Divine Weapon, the Sea-Treading River-Turning Staff. It primarily conducted business on the water, and its gang leader was known as the Jiang Dragon King, with External Scenery Pinnacle cultivation.
Among all the sects and aristocratic families under heaven, not every family or sect had a Half-Step Dharma Body expert overseeing it.
In the Real World, Dharma Body-level Land Immortals were rare, and Half-Step Dharma Body Grandmasters were not numerous either.
An External Scenery Pinnacle expert wielding a Divine Weapon could briefly contend against a Dharma Body expert. Protecting their own inheritance from extinction was not much of a problem.
Qi Xia's father, Qi Yuantong, was also a Master-level expert and one of the Great River Gang's main pillars.
"My father has also invited senior experts from the True Martial Sect to his birthday banquet. Senior Brother Zhang has been making quite a name for himself lately, so he should come with the sect elders. We can get acquainted then." Qi Xia smiled, though she seemed somewhat regretful.
"Unfortunately, Senior Brother Qi and the little monk cannot come. Otherwise, our team could reunite."
Qi Yuantong had old friends in the Huanhua Sword Sect as well, but Qi Zhengyan was merely an ordinary disciple sent out into the secular world to manage mundane affairs. He certainly could not be brought along.
As for Meng Qi—
He was only a Shaolin outcast who could not show his face in public. He was not qualified to associate with a vice gang leader's daughter.
Watching Qi Xia chat and laugh with Jiang Zhiwei and Ruan Yushu, Qin Sheng thought to himself: In the original plot, Qi Xia died at Shaolin Temple. Her father probably never held this fiftieth birthday banquet—