The Council Hall atop Penglai Mountain had now been built to an exceptionally grand scale.
The hall had six floors, its entire structure forged from special dark iron and cloud-rock marble. Before its doors stood an imitation spirit puppet modeled after the Earth Armor Puppet—a fourth-order Mystic Jade Lion.
The eaves were carved with dragons and adorned with phoenixes, furnished with special spirit mirrors and magnificent spirit paintings.
Even the plaque had been personally inscribed by Ye Jingcheng, bearing the four grand characters: Council Hall.
It even contained a trace of the essence of Ye Jingcheng's divine domain.
"Father, these are the spirit herbs and gifts sent by the Nascent Soul Factions and Spirit Transformation Factions that came to visit." Inside the hall, Ye Qing Nian took out another list and a storage bag.
Over the past seven years, Ye Qing Nian had not done much else. Most of his time had been spent receiving guests.
At first, it had been the Spirit Transformation Factions, followed by the Nascent Soul Factions, and even Golden Core Factions.
Of course, for Golden Core Factions, Ye Qing Nian would arrange for young talents such as Teng Ming and Yun Feng to receive them.
All in all, they had received quite a few spirit herbs and gifts.
Ye Jingcheng looked through them. Many of the spirit herbs were useful to him, though most were ingredients for Fifth Order Spirit Pills, which could be used to refine pills for Spirit Beasts such as the Golden Scale Beast, the Earth Dragon, and Zhu Yan.
As for himself, only the Six-Colored Buddha Lotus sent by Golden Light Temple and the Sixth Order Spirit Herbs sent by a handful of immortal sects were of use.
Still, he had expected this already, so he asked Ye Qing Nian, "Where