In the council hall on Soaring Cloud Peak in Taihang Commandery, wisps of tea mist curled through the steaming air. The hall was bustling.
Figures flickered through the mist, chatting and laughing freely. Instead, it was Ye Xuecang, the patriarch, who felt somewhat restrained.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, I once cultivated a qi-observation technique. Purple qi rises above your Ye Family like a dragon's silhouette soaring into the sky. Your lineage has a boundless future!"
The speaker was Talisman True Lord Luan of the Spirit Talisman Sect. Ye Xuecang could only shake his head modestly and offer a string of polite replies.
Before him stood not one Nascent Soul cultivator, but five.
Blood Cloud True Lord of Blood King Valley, Azure Spirit True Lord of the Azure Spirit Commerce Association, Spirit Rainbow Fairy of the Taiyi Sect, Light Dust True Lord of Medicine King Valley, and Talisman True Lord Luan of the Spirit Talisman Sect.
Ye Jingcheng was pretending to be injured and in seclusion, leaving him, the patriarch, to bear the burden.
Ye Haicheng lacked both the cultivation and the seniority, so Ye Xuecang had to entertain them himself.
Moreover, all of them had brought gifts, making it even harder for Ye Xuecang to receive them casually.
Medicine King Valley had brought a reward: a fifth-stage Spirit-Gathering Formation and a spirit-guiding stone.
Spirit Rainbow Fairy had gifted a fifth-stage flying sword magical treasure, the Spirit Talisman Sect a fifth-stage Great Sun Golden Dragon Talisman, and Blood King Valley a fifth-stage jade spirit snow ginseng king. Azure Spirit True Lord had brought a rootlet successfully cultivated from nine-bend spirit ginseng.
These five treasures were more than suitable as gifts for a Nascent Soul celebration. To exaggerate a little, they would not have looked shabby even at a Spirit Transformation ceremony.
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