Chen Li mingled with a few familiar Foundation Establishment cultivators and chatted idly.
From time to time, people joined in the conversation voluntarily. Nowadays, Chen Li was no longer the unknown figure he used to be; many came to meet him out of admiration.
One had to say that even now, Chen Li had not gotten to know all of the Returning True Sect's Foundation Establishment cultivators; every gathering, many were either in closed-door cultivation, traveling abroad, or stationed in marketplaces far and wide.
"Alas, many familiar faces have disappeared!" Xiao Yuan said with a melancholic sigh, "Now the gatherings have become much less lively."
The atmosphere grew somewhat silent.
Chen Li couldn't help but recall Guo Xingquan, the companion he was closest to:
"Does Fellow Daoist Guo Xingquan have any family?"
