Having married into the East Port Chen Family for over a decade, Wang Luoyi now has both a son and a daughter, and her brother-in-law, Chen Fangjie, has long since taken over from his father as the patriarch of the East Port Chen Family.

Through their collaboration with the Wang Family, the East Port Chen Family has made significant profits, and the couple advanced to the Spirit Platform Realm early on. Now, the number of Spirit Platform Realm members within the East Port Chen Family has exceeded six, making them a strong Eighth-Grade Noble Family, preparing to ascend to a Seventh-Grade Noble Family next.

Wang Liuyun and Wang Liudan, the two aunts who were married off from the Wang Family, naturally wouldn’t miss this grand event. One is sixty-seven and the other forty-five; both now have grandchildren. The Wang Family’s ascension to the Seventh Grade has them both extremely excited, losing sleep for several nights in anticipation before arriving.

Of course, such a grand event wouldn’t be complete without Ancestor Ruhong.

Ancestor Ruhong, the Chen Family patriarch’s family, the aunts from the Wang Family who married into the Chen Family, and numerous younger family members all together made for quite the spectacle when they disembarked from their ship.

Finally arriving were the Changning Xu Family.

This time, not only did Xu Anbang, the patriarch of the Changning Xu Family, attend, but Celestial Human Ancestor Beichen also came personally, bringing generous gifts, giving the Wang Family considerable face.

Additionally, Wang Liuqin, the aunt who married into the Changning Xu Family, naturally attended. She is the eldest daughter of Ancestor Xiaohan, and this time returned home with her husband Xu Anfeng, making a significant impression within the Changning Xu Family.

Moreover, Wang Shouxin’s two brothers-in-law, the Xu brothers, Xu Zhenxing and Xu Zhenye, also came. Both are well into their sixties but still full of vigor and youth, evidently thriving within the Xu Family and holding significant positions.

Of course, there is also a small guest worth mentioning. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

That is the Xu granddaughter, Xu Pingting, who has a marriage arrangement with Wang Zong’an. Though only twelve years old, she is already blossoming into a beautiful young lady, evidently a beauty in the making, with a gentle and gracious personality.

Wang Shouzhe and Liua Ruolan are quite pleased with this prospective daughter-in-law.

By this time, throughout Changning Guard, whether Seventh, Eighth, or Ninth-Grade Noble Families, all had arrived without a single one absent.

As expected, anyone who dared not come or was unwilling to attend would have been blatantly disrespecting the Wang Family, wouldn’t they?

Even if the Wang Family did not act, such families’ good days would soon be over, and many families or individuals eager to ingratiate themselves with the Wang Family would take action against them.

Besides the Changning Guard, families from Hundred Islands Guard, the Zhong Family, the Guang Family, the Tantai Family from East Sea Guard, the two major families from Zhenze Guard, as well as from Dingnan Guard and An Yuan Guard... all Celestial Human Families of the Six Southern Guards gathered together.

The Six Southern Guards of Longzuo County were originally outer territories, gradually developed over time. Even the most historically enduring An Yuan Guard does not have a history reaching a thousand years.

Thus, none of the Six Guards holds a Sixth-Grade Noble Family; currently, the most prosperous ones are only two strong Seventh Grades.

The so-called strong Seventh Grade refers to a family having two Celestial Human Realm Ancestors, with one needing to have reached the Middle Stage of the Celestial Human Realm.

For many Seventh-Grade Noble Families, the primary goal is to complete Celestial Human succession, maintaining the family’s continuation.

Only when wealth, influence, and other factors are sufficiently abundant, leaving enough surplus, do they qualify for a dual Celestial Human succession model.

For example, although the Xiao Family of An Yuan Guard also has two Celestial Human Realm Ancestors currently, they cannot yet be considered a strong Seventh Grade.

After all, they are merely conducting a normal Celestial Human succession, with two Celestial Human Ancestors only coexisting for a certain period. In several decades or over a hundred years, once Ancestor Xiao Yuanwu’s lifespan is exhausted, the An Yuan Xiao Family will revert to having only one Celestial Human Ancestor.

A strong Seventh-Grade Family is different; most of the time, they maintain two Celestial Human Realm Ancestors, with the rare occurrence of three.

Such families’ overall strength is incomparable to typical Celestial Human Families.

In the entire Six Southern Guards, currently firmly holding strong Seventh Grade, are only the Celestial Human Waang Family of Zhenze Guard, and the Celestial Human Tuoba Family of East Sea Guard.

Even the renowned King of the Eastern Sea, the Tantai Family, does not qualify as a strong Seventh Grade.

Other than that, the Eighth-Grade Noble Families of other Guards weren’t proactively invited by the Wang Family.

It’s not that Wang Shouzhe looks down on those Eighth-Grade Noble Families; rather, it’s long-standing etiquette for each city and guard’s Celestial Human Families to avoid fraternizing with unrelated Eighth or Ninth-Grade Noble Families from other cities or guards.

This is because each city and guard’s Celestial Human Families treat their respective territories as their domain, inherently resisting external forces interfering in internal affairs, as flouting this can cause conflicts and unnecessary incidents.

Just like in recent years, when several major families in Changning Guard wanted to redeem the Huangfu Family’s assets, even families from outer cities or guards didn’t make this matter difficult or troublesome.

After all, these unwritten rules that have passed down through thousands or tens of thousands of years were summarized from various lessons by predecessor families, and hold their rationality. No family that has stood for hundreds or thousands of years in their respective turfs would want to make a taboo for a trivial matter.

As all the major families arrived, the Wang Family’s students studying at the Purple Mansion Academy also returned.

Even Faang You’an, Jii Mingyu, and Junior Sister Lvwei, several close academy disciples, specially disguised themselves, blending into the ordinary guests to congratulate Ancestor Longyan.