Five Dragons Sea Region, Azure Lotus Island.
In a spacious courtyard, the ground was paved with bluestone, and a patch of Red Spirit Bamboo grew in one corner.
Beside the spirit bamboo stood a red stone pavilion, where Wang Jiyu was drinking and chatting with three cultivators.
Of the three cultivators, one was a shrewd-looking middle-aged man, while the other two were young girls as lovely as flowers.
The middle-aged man was named Fang Tianyuan. He came from a small family and had joined the Wang Family over twenty years ago.
The two girls were Fang Yufei and Fang Yuruo, respectively. They were Fang Tianyuan's nieces.
By Fang Tianyuan's generation, the Fang Family had already fallen into decline. There were fewer than thirty cultivators in the entire clan. As it happened, the Wang Family was recruiting far and wide, so Fang Tianyuan brought his whole clan to join them.
As outsiders, the best way to secure better treatment within the Wang Family was to form marriage alliances with the Wang Family's outstanding descendants.
Wang Jiyu was Wang Qingqi's most favored grandson, and even the Azure Lotus Couple knew of him. Many female cultivators from other surnames with only ordinary aptitude wanted to marry Wang Jiyu and elevate their own status.
Fang Yufei and Fang Yuruo both possessed Triple Spirit Roots and had not mastered any craft. Accumulating enough Merit Points to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill would be exceedingly difficult for them.
Their parents had died early, and Fang Tianyuan was their biological uncle. For the future development of the Fang Family, persuaded by Fang Tianyuan, they were willing to marry Wang Jiyu.
Under Fang Tianyuan's arrangements, they began studying alchemy. Whenever Wang Jiyu came to the Lecture Hall to teach alchemy, they would both attend and ask questions