Half a month later, the ceremony to establish the cauldron in Yue Province proceeded as scheduled.
That day, the blazing sun shone overhead, and not a cloud stretched across ten thousand miles of sky.
Led by Liang Ruijian, the Liang Family party sat in the seats arranged by the Xiong Family, observing the ceremony to establish Yue Province's cauldron.
Liang Ruiqin was not with them. He had accepted the invitation of Jiang Lieshan of the "Brocade" Jiang Family and was currently stationed in the satellite city south of Yue Province City, presiding over the southern formation diagram of Yue Province City's grand protective formation.
This was not merely due to Fang Hong's recommendation. More importantly, Liang Ruiqin was deeply interested in Yue Province City's protective formation. With such an opportunity to personally control and experience it, naturally he would not let it pass him by.
The establishment of a cauldron for a newly developed province followed prescribed rites, ceremonies, and procedures within the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty.
Before the Heavenly Altar and Earth Temple at the center of Yue Province City, True Lord Xiong, the Xiong Family patriarch, had led the family's disciples and cultivators in paying respects and making sacrifices for many days already.
Then, at the auspicious hour calculated by the Immortal Dynasty's Directorate of Celestial Observation, an official from the Ministry of Rites entered carrying an imperial decree and began to read it aloud.
This time, the one proclaiming the decree was no longer Vice Minister Xiao of the Ministry of Rites, but Vice Minister Jiang—the Vice Minister Jiang of Yi Province's aristocratic "Brocade" Jiang Family.
The "Heavenly Fire" Xiao Family controlled the Ministry of Works, the "Golden Spear" Zhao Family controlled the Ministry of War, while the "Brocade" Jiang Family controlled the Ministry of Rites.
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