Bai Qingqian spoke with a warm smile, engaging in idle chitchat with the ladies around her, though such occasions were somewhat unfamiliar to her, as she had not attended such lively gatherings for many years.
Over these years, she had lived a reclusive life, devoted to her cultivation, finally advancing to the God Sensing Realm, and her entire being had settled; previously following the arrangements of men, she now reverted to the instincts of a cultivator, gradually extricating her involvement in trade and commerce from her life.
The Bai family had completely withdrawn their business operations from Anhe Dao Country and had made developments in other directions, especially along the coast of the Mirage, where trade had been growing larger; overall, it had not yet returned to its heyday, but it was steadily on the rise, firmly and steadily progressing.
