"Please welcome Hall Master Xing of the Martial Hall Elixir Hall!"
"Please welcome Hall Master Zhao of the Martial Hall Technique Hall!"
"Please welcome Hall Master Qin of the Martial Hall Weapon Hall!"
"Please welcome Hall Master Liu of the Martial Hall Bounty Hall!"
"Please welcome Hall Master Fang of the Martial Hall Martial Records Hall!"
"Please welcome Hall Master Wang of the Martial Hall Duty Exchange Hall!"
"Please welcome Hall Master Yang of the Martial Hall Procurement Hall!"
"Please welcome Lord Zhao, the county magistrate!"
"Please welcome..."
"..."
In the plaza deliberately cleared before the Zheng Estate, besides the sturdy arena built from bluestone and blue bricks, there stood a row of elevated seating platforms, with twenty or so grand armchairs arranged in two rows upon them.
As Zheng Pandao stood in the middle of the grounds and called out each name, powerful martial artists emerged one after another amid the cheers of the surrounding townspeople and took their seats in the grand armchairs, every one of them smiling.
Other than the county magistrate, who was a True Qi Realm martial artist, the seven main hall masters of the Martial Hall all exuded a far more terrifying aura than those of the True Qi Realm. And beyond those eight, there was also a Qinghe Gang branch master whose cultivation had likewise reached the Channel-Opening Realm!
In the row behind the nine grand armchairs where they sat, more than a dozen seats were occupied by the heads of various factions. All wore master's robes and sat smiling broadly in the second row, gazing at the city's townspeople packed thickly before them.
"Zheng Pandao truly is no ordinary man. With this one invitation, he's brought in all the pillars holding Green Mountain City steady."
Beside the arena, Zhao Lie stood next