LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 455 - 111: Longyan Celestial Being Feast (End of the second part)_3
Chapter 455: Chapter 111: Longyan Celestial Being Feast (End of the second part)_3
Having been married into the Chen Clan of Donggang for over a decade, Wang Luoyi now has both a son and a daughter. Her brother-in-law, Chen Fangjie, has already stepped up to take over from his father, becoming the Family Head of the Chen Clan of Donggang.
The Chen Clan of Donggang had profited significantly from their cooperation with the Wang family. The couple had already advanced to the Spirit Platform Realm many years ago, and now, the Chen Clan of Donggang had over six members in the Spirit Platform Realm, making them a strong 8th Rank Prominent Family. They are now set to aim for becoming a 7th-rank Aristocratic Family.
The Wang family’s aunts who had married into it, Wang Liu Yun and Wang Liu Dan, naturally wouldn’t miss this grand meeting. Both now with families of their own, and at the ages of sixty-seven and forty-five years respectively, the excitement of the Wang family’s promotion to 7th-rank has kept them awake for several nights in anticipation.
Of course, such a grand meeting would not be complete without Old Ancestor Ruhong.
The crowd, including Old Ancestor Ruhong, the family head of the Chen Clan and his family, the aunts from the Wang family who had married into different families, and the younger generation, was vast. When they disembarked from the ship, it caused quite a stir.
The last to arrive was the Xu Family of Changning.
This time, not only did the head of the Xu Family of Changning, Xu Anbang, attend, but also the Celestial Old Ancestor Beichen. They brought extravagant gifts as a gesture of respect to the Wang family.
In addition, Wang Liuqin, the aunt who had married into the Xu family of Changning, naturally wouldn’t miss this meeting. She is the eldest daughter of Old Ancestor Xiaohan and arrived with her husband Xu Anfeng, making an impressive appearance on behalf the Xu Family of Changning.
Additionally, Wang Shouxin’s two brothers-in-law, the Xu brothers, Xu Zhenxing, and Xu Zhenye, also came. Now both in their sixties, their appearances still radiant and youthful, they seem to have risen to significant positions in the Xu family.
Of course, a little guest also deserves a special mention.
That would be Xu Pingting, the child who is betrothed to Wang Zong’an. At just twelve years old, she is already becoming a beauty and is known for being gracefully mature.
Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan are quite satisfied with this future daughter-in-law.
By this time, all the Prominent Families of Changning City, whether they are 7th, 8th or 9th rank, had arrived without exception.
This was to be expected, as any family who dared not to attend or was not willing to attend was openly disrespecting the Wang family.
Even if the Wang family did nothing, that family’s good days would be over. Many other families and individuals would seize the opportunity to curry favor with the Wang family and act against them.
Apart from Changning City, families from the Hundred Islands Guard, Guang Clan, the Dan Tai Clan from Donghaei, the two prominent families from Zhenze, as well as Ding Nan Wei, and Anyuan, all of the Heavenly Prominent Families of the Southern Six Guards from Longzuo were gathered together.
In Longzuo South, all six guards were historically seen as frontier regions, and only gradually developed. Even Anyuan, which has the longest history, has not reached a thousand years.
Therefore, the entire Six Guards does not even have a single 6th-rank Aristocratic Family. Currently, the most powerful are only two Strong grade seven families.
A Strong grade seven family refers to a family that has two Celestial Realm elders, with one of them having reached the mid-Celestial Realm stage.
For many 7th-rank families, the primary goal is to ensure the exchange of Celestial beings, thus ensuring the continuation of the family.
Only when the scale of wealth and influence is abundant, and there are sufficient resources, does a family qualify to undergo the dual Celestial exchange model.
Take the Xiao Clan of Anyuan for instance, they currently have two Celestial Realm elders, but they are not considered a Strong Grade Seven family.
After all, they are just experiencing a normal exchange of Celestial Beings, with two Celestial Realm elders coincidentally coexisting for a certain period of time. In a few decades or a century, once the lifespan of Old Ancestor Xiao Yuanwu is exhausted, the Xiao Clan of Anyuan will return to having just one Celestial Realm elder.
A Strong Grade Seven Family is different, as they maintain two Celestial Realm elders for the majority of the time, and on rare occasions, even three.
The overall strength of such families is far beyond that of normal Celestial families.
Among the Southern Six Guards, currently, only the Heavenly Being Wang Clan of Zhenze Guard and the Heavenly Being Tuoba Clan of Donghaei are considered Strong Grade Seven families.
Even the renowned East Sea King Dan Tai Clan is not considered a Strong Grade Seven family.
As for the 8th-rank families from other guards, the Wang family did not actively invite them.
It wasn’t that Wang Shouzhe looked down on these 8th-rank families, but this was an age-old rule, all the Celestial families from each city and guard would actively avoid associating with the 8th and 9th-rank families from other cities and guards who they did not have a relationship with.
This is because the Celestial families of each guard city regard their region as their own territory. They inherently resist the intervention of external parties, and failing to abide by the rules can easily lead to conflict and cause unnecessary trouble.
For instance, when several large families of Changning City wanted to buy back the assets of the Huangfu Clan, the families from other cities and guards did not deliberately make things difficult for them.
After all, these unwritten rules that have been passed down for thousands of years are based on the experiences and lessons of the previous generations of families and thus have their reasons. There isn’t a single prominent family that has stood for hundreds or thousands of years in its territory that would foolishly break these taboos over small matters.
As all the major families arrived, the students from the Wang family studying at the Purple Abode Academic Palace also returned.
Even Fang Youan, Ji Mingyu, and the senior sister Green Fern from the Academic Palace, who were all close to each other, made special arrangements to disguise themselves among the common guests to come and congratulate Old Ancestor Longyan.