The carriages traveled for a full day before finally arriving at a valley.
This valley was enormous. Yet from outside, one could see all manner of strange flowers and herbs covering the mountains and plains.
This was the true location of the Hundred Flowers Pavilion—the Hundred Flowers Valley.
Though the Hundred Flowers Pavilion was one of the peak powers in the Land of Shining Stars, the places truly bustling with people were merely its pavilions in the major cities.
This valley, on the other hand, rarely saw visitors.
Yet at the entrance to the valley now stood a great many people, each holding an invitation as they underwent inspection before entering Hundred Flowers Valley.
The sky had gradually darkened.
As the sound of hooves rang out, two carriages lavish beyond compare came leisurely rolling over.
An eight-member welcoming party of young women immediately lit up at the sight of the two carriages.
"Hasn't everyone from the major powers already arrived? Why would such extravagant carriages still be coming?" one girl asked the person beside her, her eyes full of confusion.
"There is... something strange about this."
At the very front of the group stood a woman who appeared to be seventeen or eighteen.
She rarely appeared before others; if not for the special circumstances today,
and if she had not so deeply disliked that Pavilion Lord's husband who was about to "marry" into Hundred Flowers Valley, she would never have come here.
For the past two days, she had been here handling the welcoming duties.
Yet the girls in this welcoming party all knew perfectly well that this young grandaunt had definitely not come to do anything good.
Over the past two days, dozens of powers, great and small, had arrived.
But apart from the representative of the Heavenly Machine