Within the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land, everything was festooned in celebration.
Vast swathes of crimson silk carpeted the ground, while joyous lanterns and tassels adorned the magnificent pavilions and jade-like halls. Every disciple wore red ceremonial robes, bustling about with beaming faces as they welcomed guests from all corners.
After all, this was the wedding of their sect master, Nangong Li—the "Young Master Nangong," ranked first on the Celestial Phenomena Rankings!
And he was marrying the Thousand Bath Sect's Holy Maiden! They had practically offered their entire sect as her dowry! The implications were naturally extraordinary—it represented the complete submission of yet another sacred land!
The entrance to the mountain was packed with people. Evidently, all the major powers of the realm had come to offer their congratulations.
The great heroes, ambitious warlords, and towering figures of the martial world were no fools. On the contrary, each was more cunning and calculating than the last. Naturally, they could see the tremendous significance of this wedding. Through this marriage alliance, the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land and Earthly Pole Sacred Land had merged. With the addition of the Thousand Bath Sect, perhaps a unified force akin to the Martial Dynasty would rise in the Martial Heaven World in the future!
Therefore, no matter how unwilling they were, even if they wished Nangong Li would immediately suffer cultivation deviation and die, the leaders of every faction still had to come respectfully with smiles on their faces to offer congratulations. They feared that the slightest breach of etiquette would make them the first to be purged afterward.
"Ding Peng, the Sun-Refining Hand of the Blazing Sun Sect in Prosperous Martial Commandery, has arrived! His gifts are three thousand-year ginseng roots and fifty pairs of flawless jade disks..."
Following the usher's loud announcement, Ding Peng