The entire Ye Family lineage numbered well into several hundreds of millions. Even after excluding those branch lineages, the people living near the Main Family still exceeded a hundred million. Yet among those rolling, unbroken mountain ranges, only the nobility of the Main Family's direct bloodline could possibly dwell, while ordinary clan members could only live within the numerous cities at the base of the mountains.
The surrounding area of the mountain ranges was dotted with numerous cities like shining stars. Many experts from the Main Family and branch lineages of the Ye Family, as well as many vassal families attached to the Ye Family, resided within them.
Yet branch lineage disciples coming from distant places, such as Ye Fan, all shared a common destination: Welcoming Guest City. Whether they were branch lineage disciples coming from all over the Ancient Barrens Continent to make a pilgrimage to the Main Family, guests from other forces, or disciples possessing Ye Family bloodlines who came to acknowledge their ancestors and return to the clan, all of them had to head to Welcoming Guest City.
Millions of martial artists permanently resided within this city, and during once-a-century ancestor worship events like this, the population might even break ten million. Overall, this was an extremely bustling city.
Ye Xiwen had to admit that the Ye Family certainly made grand gestures. The prosperity far surpassed what ordinary people could imagine. Back in the True Martial School, although there was a Welcoming City, it only opened once every century and was basically in a semi-abandoned state on ordinary days, opening only when recruiting newcomers. It was completely different from a place like Welcoming Guest City, which had millions of permanent residents year-round.
Just as the two of them were about to enter Welcoming Guest City, city guards