Shopkeeper Lai entered the house that belonged to the Clan Leader within the family. The Clan Leader and his family would all live there, and there would also be an ancestral hall and a Council Hall.
Glancing at the Council Hall he hadn't returned to for many years and had never entered, his thoughts were quite complicated. Could he one day also sit inside as an Elder?
Could he also sit there one day, idly chatting about all manner of big and small matters?
Perhaps he would find it dull by then?
At the moment, what he was more concerned about was how to become stronger, to grow stronger and stronger, to walk further on the path of cultivation, to become more powerful, to live a longer life.
His shadow would be on the Path of Longevity, his reputation in the Martial World; he would no longer be just a shopkeeper, an obscure nobody.