For the Wang Family of Yu-Shun Hall in Tranquil Peace City, today was a day of glory unlike any they had ever known.
The Wang Family congee shop had distributed porridge without fail through wind and rain in Tranquil Peace City for over seventy years. The perseverance of several generations had finally borne fruit on this day.
Two disciples from Earth Knight families had been chosen through the Dragon-Pointing Ceremony, one from a Black Iron Knight family. The Wang Family had no knight, yet its descendants had been the first to take the stage after all the knight families—and Candle Dragon True Person had chosen seven members of the Wang Family?
What kind of treatment was this?
Only eight people in total from the families of the three provincial governors of Swallow Province, Passage Province, and You Province had been accepted by Candle Dragon True Person. Among those eight, the Golden Crow City branch of Huaiyuan Hall's Zhang Family held a special status, which was why two extra people had been chosen, displaying Candle Dragon True Person's regard for Huaiyuan Hall's Zhang Family and the Tiger of You Province, whose name was renowned throughout Great Xia. Yet the Wang Family alone had seven people chosen. The three provincial governor families combined had only one more person chosen than the Wang Family. If the Golden Crow City branch of the Zhang Family were excluded, the Wang Family would even have one more person chosen than the Zhu, Qian, and Zhang Families combined.
Ninety years ago, the Wang Family had also produced a Black Iron Knight. That knight had been the ancestor who established the Wang Family's Yu-Shun Hall branch. But like other knight families of Great Xia that had flared brilliantly for a moment only to decline, more than seventy years