Grand Wedding Ceremony
Time passed gradually.
Before we knew it, it was the fifteenth of the next month.
On this day, all the houses on Ling Clan Mountain Lingxiao Mountain were decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and the entire Ling Clan Mountain was filled with joy.
Outside the mountain gate, a steady stream of charming cultivators poured in.
These cultivators are from all over the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect.
A month ago, after learning about Ling Pengyun's marriage, Clan Head Ling Yunhong spread the news widely.
Ling Pengyun earned considerable prestige during the Beast Tide chaos more than a decade ago, helping many Foundation Establishment Family escape the invasion of Demon Beast.
Furthermore, the Ling Clan is now on the rise, making them the number one Foundation Establishment Family in the entire Hundred Spirits Sect territory.
This also affected the cultivators of all major forces in the entire Hundred Spirits Sect territory.
Even some high-ranking cultivators from the Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor faction within the Hundred Spirits Sect sent cultivators to deliver lavish gifts.
Even some members of the Ling Clan who were stationed outside the clan took leave and returned to the Clan Mountain with generous gifts to congratulate Supreme Elder Ling Pengyun on his wedding day, and also to take the opportunity to meet Ling Pengyun's Daoist partner, Yan Siyi.
By noon, most of the visitors had been welcomed into Lingxiao Mountain.
A loud clang of a bronze bell echoed from the Lingxiao Mountain.
"The time has come, welcome the newlyweds."
These words had barely left his lips.
In the distance, a festive red sedan chair pulled by a flock of white Immortal Crane appeared on the horizon.
Around this festive sedan chair, there are thousands of birds of all kinds.
The birdsong was quite unified, not noisy at all; on the contrary, the chorus of thousands of birds was quite beautiful, adding a touch of joy to the red sedan chair.
Meanwhile, at the summit of Falling Dusk Mountain.
Ling Pengyun, dressed in a bright red festive Daoist robe, saw the wedding sedan chair gradually approaching in the sky and his expression brightened with joy.
With a flick of his Daoist robe, a large number of colorful flowers, which had been prepared beforehand, flew out from the Storage Bag at his waist.
Ling Pengyun followed suit, leaping onto the flowers and soaring into the air, hovering above Lingxiao Mountain, quietly awaiting the arrival of the wedding sedan chair.
Before long, the wedding sedan chair pulled by the flock of Immortal Crane arrived in the sky above Lingxiao Mountain.
Countless joyous drumbeats and music resounded from all over Lingxiao Mountain.
Immediately afterwards, a fair arm reached out from the wedding sedan chair pulled by the flock of Immortal Crane and lifted the red curtain of the sedan chair.
A female cultivator emerged from the crowd, dressed in a red wedding robe, with a silk ribbon tightly tied around her slender waist. Although her face was covered by a red cloth, her figure was still exceptionally beautiful.
Ling Pengyun, who had been waiting there, smiled brightly when he saw the man arrive, and stepped on the countless flowers beneath him to greet him.
"Lady..."
The beautiful young lady was Yan Siyi. Her face was covered by a red cloth. Upon hearing this, Yan Siyi smiled even more and replied sweetly.
"My husband."
"Madam, please come with me into the mountains."
With a thought, Ling Pengyun caused many of the vibrant flowers beneath his feet to separate and stop in front of Yan Siyi.
Yan Siyi nodded slightly and stepped into the sea of flowers.
Ling Pengyun then took Yan Siyi's soft, boneless little hand in his.
Together, they rode the sea of flowers beneath their feet, slowly descending to the flat ground outside the ancestral hall halfway up Lingxiao Mountain, where a Wedding Feast was being held.
At this moment, a void appeared above the summit of Lingxiao Mountain and descended into the mountain, supporting today's Master Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi.
After the two arrived at the center of the Wedding Feast, Ling Pengyun bowed to the guests present and thanked them.
"Thank you all for coming to this Wedding Feast today."
After saying this, Ling Pengyun led Yan Siyi slowly into the ancestral hall next to the Wedding Feast.
The main seat inside the ancestral hall has four seats.
Ling Pengyun's parents, Ling Xiaoshun Yang Qiuyun, Yan Siyi's Grandfather Yan Cang, Ling Clan Head Ling Yunhong were seated here.
There are more seats on both sides of the ancestral hall, with twenty-five chairs on each side, and a monk sitting on each chair.
These cultivators were mostly older members of the Ling Clan, or those who had reached the Lineage Foundation Establishment, or relatives such as Ling Pengyun's cousin Yang Siling and cousin Yang Sitong.
A minority were cultivators sent by powerful forces or Lineage with good relations with the Ling Clan.
Relatives of the Ling Clan family, such as the Peace Cloud Yang Clan, the Cloud Mist Wen Clan, and Zhang Yan, the deputy Hall Master of the Hundred Spirits Sect Hall of Affairs, were seated here.
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Behind the chairs on both sides of the ancestral hall stood dozens, nearly a hundred, of the younger generation of the Ling Clan, or some cultivators who had a good relationship with the Ling Clan.
Only during clan weddings are outsiders allowed to enter the Ling Clan Ancestral Hall, so that the ancestors of the Ling Clan clan can witness this lively occasion.
Just then, Ling Penglin, Array Formation Master of the Peng Generation who was acting as the female master of ceremonies, saw the arrival of today's newlyweds and a look of joy appeared on her face. She stood up from her seat.
"Newcomer arrived!"
"Bowing to my parents!"
Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi walked hand in hand to the main seat in the ancestral hall and bowed deeply to Ling Xiaoshun and his wife, Yan Cang, and Ling Yunhong, who were sitting in the main seat.
"Bowing to relatives and friends twice."
Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi then bowed slightly to the monks sitting or standing on both sides of the ancestral hall.
The cultivators sitting or standing on either side were not Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi's parents or elders; many of them were even Qi Refining cultivators.
In contrast, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi both possessed cultivation levels as high as the Foundation Establishment Realm, so they did not need to perform grand salutes to those cultivators.
"Husband and wife bow to each other!"
Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi turned to each other, stood facing each other, and bowed deeply to one another.
"The groom lifts the veil."
The customs in the Cultivation World are quite different; one can lift the veil without entering the cave abode.
Ling Pengyun then reached out and lifted the red veil off Yan Siyi's head.
Yan Siyi's beautiful face was also displayed before Ling Pengyun.
Looking at the woman who had officially become his wife, Ling Pengyun's joy was even greater, and he was also a little excited. His mind couldn't help but recall all the things he had done with Yan Siyi over the years.
It was as if all of this happened in an instant.
The surrounding guests also offered their congratulations at this moment.
Many guests also praised Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi as a perfect match.
"Husband and wife drink spiritual tea together."
Then, two maids, who were female cultivators from the Ling Clan, carried two cups of spiritual tea on trays and walked to Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi.
Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi each picked up their respective cups of spiritual tea and drank a toast together.
Afterwards, the two of them offered a small toast of the sacred tea to the hundreds of relatives and friends in the Ancestral Hall as a sign of respect.
Those relatives and friends also had maids serving them sacrificial tea, and they returned the courtesy in return.
After sharing a cup of sacred tea with the other relatives and friends inside the ancestral hall, Ling Penglin, who was acting as the master of ceremonies, also spoke with a smile.
The ceremony is complete.
"The guests took their seats and began to drink."
As soon as these words were spoken, the cultivators inside the ancestral hall gradually got up, left the ancestral hall, and sat down near several empty tables in the large Wedding Feast center outside the ancestral hall.
The remaining dozens or even hundreds of cultivators who were already seated waited expectantly for the dishes to be served at the Ling Clan's Wedding Feast.
A few breaths later, maids carrying fragrant dishes, sweet spiritual fruit juices, and spiritual wines moved about the Wedding Feast.
In no time, all of the dozens or even hundreds of empty tables at the banquet were filled with twenty-four kinds of Spirit Cuisine.
These Spirit Cuisine were all prepared by ten Spirit Chef borrowed from the Serpent Dragon Lake Branch by Ling Pengyun's cousin, Yang Siling, using spiritual ingredients. They were top-notch spiritual ingredients, with effects equivalent to cultivation pills of the same level.
In addition, each guest was given a First Rank Low Grade Spirit Peach grown by the Ling Clan, which was considered an excellent hospitality.
The guests' faces were filled with smiles as they happily used their chopsticks to pick up the Spirit Cuisine from the dishes, afraid that if they were too slow, their fellow diners would take it away.
That night, Ling Pengyun and his wife, still in their wedding attire, tallied up the value of the gifts they had received at the Wedding Feast.
They were shocked when they calculated that the total value of the gifts they received at their wedding banquet was close to ten thousand Spirit Stone.
Of course, they also knew that this was because of the large number of people attending the Wedding Feast.
Of these gifts, at least 70% will have to be returned in the future.
Even so, the couple was still overjoyed.
The next day.
The Wedding Feast continued as planned.
The event lasted for three days, and the Ling Clan provided all three meals for the guests each day.
This made the guests quite satisfied with their meal, and their good impression of the Ling Clan deepened considerably.
This is exactly what the Ling Clan wanted to see.
After the Wedding Feast ended.
After seeing off their relatives and friends, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi, along with their parents and Yan Siyi's Grandfather Yan Cang, returned together to the small courtyard where Ling Pengyun had once lived.
As soon as everyone entered the courtyard, they sat down together at the stone table.
"Father, Mother, Grandfather, now that Si Yi and I are married, what are your plans?"
Ling Pengyun asked his parents, Ling Xiaoshun, Yang Qiuyun, Yan Cang.
"Your father and I still plan to go to the Serpent Dragon Marketplace to run a shop, so we can earn some Spirit Stone, since we are not that old."
"At the same time, I can often see your cousin and that child Xiao Hong. Your aunt and uncle are also in the market, so your father and I have company," Yang Qiuyun, the head of the household, answered first.
"I agree with your mother. After you two have the baby, I'll retire and help you take care of the child," Ling Xiaoshun said with a smile.
"I agree with that. I will stop once you have your child. I plan to return to Serpent Dragon Lake first, as the Spirit Plant Hall at the Serpent Dragon Lake Branch still needs me to oversee it."
"Every year, I can earn a lot of Spirit Stone by overseeing the Spirit Plant Hall. In addition, the Spiritual Qi in the Serpent Dragon Lake is also more abundant, which is helpful for my cultivation."
Yan Cang said with a smile.
Yan Siyi, who had remained silent until now, sighed helplessly upon hearing this.
Yan Cang Yan Cang has a few years left to live, and she desperately wants to stay by his side.
However, the Spirit Plant on Falling Dusk Mountain still need to be taken care of by her husband, Ling Pengyun. She and Ling Pengyun have just gotten married, and if she goes to Serpent Dragon Lake, they will be separated, which is not good.
Having a child is too difficult.
It is much more difficult for monks to have children than for ordinary people; it is extremely common for them to go for several years or even more than ten years without being able to conceive.
Caught in a dilemma, Yan Siyi's expression gradually turned somber.
Ling Pengyun also noticed Yan Siyi's worries and spoke up.
"Madam, every autumn from now on, I can accompany you to Serpent Dragon Lake and Serpent Dragon Marketplace for a short stay. In this way, we can also spend time with Grandfather and our parents."
"Even if we miss a quarter of the year, the growth rate of the Spirit Plant on Falling Dusk Mountain won't be much slower."
Upon hearing this, Yan Siyi's gloom vanished instantly, and a look of joy appeared on her face.
"Good."
"That's excellent," Yan Cang said with a smile.
"Yes, it seems that every autumn, your father and I will be able to enjoy the Spirit Cuisine cooked by our daughter-in-law," Yang Qiuyun said with a smile.
Afterwards, the family chatted together.