In the blink of an eye, a hundred days had passed.
The entire Evergreen Valley was decked in lanterns and colored banners, brimming with celebration.
Red silk and lanterns adorned every corner of the valley, while even the open ground outside had been neatly filled with brand-new banquet tables and chairs.
The Yun Clan was even more considerate, sending abundant food to the tenant farmers of Evergreen Valley and the nearby farming households, drawing waves of grateful praise.
For such a grand celebration, the Yun Clan's current manpower was naturally far from sufficient.
At a glance, more than half of the bustling figures were from the Ning Clan.
Ning Yongrui personally led the clan's younger generation through the crowds, coordinating everything and handling every detail himself.
Whenever he saw a member of the Yun Clan, he bent even lower at the waist, his face piled with humble smiles. He looked every inch the Yun Clan's loyal servant, without the slightest trace of the airs once held by Sanshui County's powerful Ning Clan.
Through its connections with the imperial court, the Ning Clan's actual strength had not increased by much.
However, the information Ning Yongrui could access was far beyond what ordinary Cultivation Families could obtain, naturally broadening his horizons considerably.
His current posture was undoubtedly a gamble that staked his entire clan.
He was betting that the Yun Clan, this rising new star, could carry the Ning Clan with it as it soared into the heavens and beheld a broader world.
As the hour of the Snake approached, a faint stir arose at the entrance to Evergreen Valley.
The first to arrive was none other than the Shangguan Family.
Shangguan Long arrived shoulder to shoulder with an elegant-looking middle-aged cultivator. The formidable auras of the Late Qi Refining Stage around