Amid forty-five tolls of the bell, Zhang Tie appeared at the ceremony grounds before the ancestral hall, stepping in on the lingering echoes of the chimes.
With Zhang Tie's arrival, every guest seated in the viewing area involuntarily turned their heads to watch him approach slowly, calm and confident, surrounded like the moon by a host of stars.
Among the guests, many who had seen Zhang Tie before were not overly shocked upon seeing him again. But those who had never seen him before gaped open-mouthed at his seventeen- or eighteen-year-old face.
He was simply too young. An Earth Knight like this was outrageously young. Zhang Tie had only celebrated his thirtieth birthday last year, and in another month or so, he would turn thirty-one. Even among the seven great sects, a thirty-year-old Earth Knight was as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns, let alone the fact that Zhang Tie looked far younger than his actual age. He was practically a youth—how did he resemble a family elder at all?
Many who were seeing Zhang Tie's appearance for the first time even forgot the shock brought by the two Battle Qi tornadoes that had just shot into the heavens.
Bai Suxian's eyes shone as she watched Zhang Tie arrive, while the heir of Prince of Guangnan's Mansion seated beside her wore an expression of utter disbelief, as though he had seen a ghost.
"Little sister, after this ceremony, help me ask Zhang Tie how he takes care of himself. So long as he tells me how to look like this decades from now, when you get married, I'll give you another two cities as dowry!" the heir of Prince of Guangnan's Mansion secretly transmitted to Bai Suxian.
Bai Suxian rolled her eyes at her elder brother and transmitted back,