Li Ping did not attend the Bo Family Ancestor's funeral to pay his respects.
In truth, he had already fallen out with the Bai Family over Bai Lin's Foundation Establishment Pill. By declining to attend the Bo Family Ancestor's funeral, he was also making his position clear to everyone: he no longer had any connection to the Bai Family and would no longer lend them his backing.
Yet Li Ping attended Old Lin's funeral in person, solemnly bidding farewell to the old man with whom he had shared something of a friendship.
At the funeral, Li Ping also saw Zhang Tie's child, who had been renamed Lin Zhien. The five-year-old clutched the hem of Zhang Tie's clothes, looking rather bewildered.
Li Ping smiled and patted his head without saying much.
As a son-in-law of the Meng Family who also oversaw the distribution of supplies, Zhang Tie now held an extraordinary position in the Immortal City. He could rightly be called a man of high rank and great authority.
Old Lin's funeral was quite a grand affair, with even quite a few Foundation Establishment cultivators in attendance.
Li Ping even saw Meng Qingyi, the current head of the Immortal City.
"Fellow Daoist Li, it's been a long time." Meng Qingyi greeted Li Ping with a smile.
Li Ping likewise smiled and nodded. "Fairy Meng."
Back when he had just reached Foundation Establishment, Meng Qingyi had been a Foundation Establishment middle stage cultivator and a second-tier mid-grade talisman maker.
Before Meng Qingyi, the city lord's outstanding disciple, he had been nothing more than a fledgling.
But now, thirty-four years had passed. He had reached the Foundation Establishment middle stage, while Meng Qingyi, despite possessing deeper reserves of mana, was still a Foundation Establishment middle stage cultivator.
Their cultivation could just about be