"I have already seen all the relatively important guests. You can just casually humor the remaining ones."

"If you are worried about overstepping, then just pretend I am not here, alright?"

"But..." Cedric said with a bitter face.

"As the Saint Lord, if you wander around outside while leaving me to receive guests here, when those guests see you, they will definitely feel you do not value them enough."

"Sigh, what does that matter?" Alex waved his hand dismissively.

"I will just put on a disguise, absolutely no one will be able to tell."

"Then... I still have a massive pile of things to get busy with..."

"It is fine. Finish getting busy with my matters, then you can go get busy with yours." Alex was directly unapologetic, dumping the entire burden squarely onto Cedric’s shoulders.

Subsequently, with a flick of his sleeves, he turned and left quite dashingly. Leaving Cedric sitting in the grand armchair, his face full of helplessness and misery.

Having such a capricious Saint Lord was truly a massive challenge for a Great Elder.

After leaving the cave dwelling, Alex disguised himself as Taryn and strolled into the venue.

Although Taryn’s appearance was close to his true looks, he appeared much younger. Moreover, the guests would never imagine that the Saint Lord, who should be receiving guests in the cave dwelling, would disguise himself as a young man and walk right into the venue.

Therefore, not a single person saw through his identity.

The reason he disguised himself was, on one hand, to avoid causing dissatisfaction among the guests outside.

On the other hand, he wanted to listen in on how these guests, who were respectful to his face, would evaluate and discuss him the moment his back was turned. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Alex stayed silent, first walking over to two tables in the fourth row. Sitting there were exactly the people from the Moon Brilliance Sect and the Hundred Beasts Sect.

Renis and Brook were drinking sulkily while sighing and chatting.

"Brother Brook, that Demonic Flood Dragon of yours, did Saint Lord Alex accept it?"

"He accepted it." Brook nodded.

"He seemed very satisfied with it, too."

"Then the favor you wanted to ask, was it settled?"

"Settled? Settled my foot!" Brook sighed, saying somewhat indignantly.

"This Saint Lord Alex is truly just like the rumors say. He eats people without spitting out the bones!"

"He accepted my Demonic Flood Dragon, and before I could even make my request, he directly issued an eviction order and invited me out!"

"Brother Renis, I went through so much trouble to hunt down a Supreme Realm Demonic Flood Dragon, just to ask him for a favor. In the end, before I could even say the request out loud, I was chased out. Is he not going a bit too far?"

Renis sighed helplessly. "Sigh, Brother Brook, I suffered the same. Those ten Star-Moon Tricolor Stones of mine, did they not also just go right down the drain?"

The two men sighed continuously, their faces full of heartache and helplessness.

Alex listened for a while and could not help but secretly feel amused.

Tsk tsk, look at the lack of ambition in you two.

How are you just like Alistair and Malakai, having no sense of the bigger picture? Although I did not help with your favors, accepting your gifts means I remember the sentiment. Is a favor from the dignified Saint Lord Alex not worth much more than whatever minor help you wanted?

Alex had no interest in listening to these two pour out their grievances. He continued strolling forward and arrived at the third row of tables.

Sitting here were all the first-rate Saint Lineage families of the Heavenly Flame Dynasty.

The focal point of conversation was naturally the Wren family Saint Lord, Thalen Wren, and the Mire family Saint Lord, Ziven Mire.

"Saint Lord Thalen, previously in the Heavenly Flame Secret Realm, did you truly encounter the Three Evil Buddhas?"

"What did they look like? Were they really as formidable as the legends say?"

"Are you not just speaking nonsense? If they were not formidable, could they have killed the Saint Lords of four Saint Lineage families?"

"Those four Saint Lords were all Supreme Realm mighty figures, yet they all died tragically. It truly makes one sigh in sorrow..."

The crowd lamented for a moment before Thalen spoke up. "To tell the truth, Old Ziven and I were also nearly killed by the Three Evil Buddhas."

"Fortunately, at the critical moment, Saint Lord Alex arrived in time."

"Without expending the effort to blow away dust, he annihilated the Three Evil Buddhas and saved me, Saint Lord Ziven, and the younger juniors of the various major Saint Lineage families."

"That rescue can absolutely be considered an act of boundless merit!"

Some could not help but voice doubts. "Is this possible? The Three Evil Buddhas, who overpowered six great Saint Lords, were finished off by Saint Lord Alex single-handedly? No matter how strong he is, it could not be this exaggerated, right?"

Ziven said grumpily. "If you doubt his strength, go challenge him right now, and we will collect your corpse!"

"We were right there in the Heavenly Flame Secret Realm and nearly died. Could our eyes deceive us?"

"Saint Lord Alex’s abilities completely surpass those of our generation’s Saint Lineage families. According to my speculation, although his physical body is still in the mortal realm, his strength has long since reached the level of a true Saint!"

Listening to the gasps of amazement, Alex could not help but smile secretly.

Good, these two old fellows are indeed sensible and understand the times.

He had shown mercy back then and spared Thalen Wren and Ziven Mire. He did not expect that these two would actually turn into his number one hype men.

Listening to Thalen and Ziven’s various fancy forms of over-the-top flattery, the crowd was convinced it was all true.

Alex instantly found this extremely satisfying, unable to help but smile and nod repeatedly in contentment.