The Grand Assembly Begins, and Offense Is Taken Too (Asking for Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the Heavenly Lord River was still incomparably swift, surging grandly as it flowed east.

Of course, compared to the spectacle of the Lord River, what everyone was paying more attention to at this moment was the Nascent Soul Grand Assembly.

All the prefecture lords, along with the leaders of the five great Nascent Soul powers, had gathered, and nearly every force in Southern Wasteland Province had arrived as well.

Bells and drums, carved jades and fine viands, rare delicacies and sumptuous dishes—the scene was exceedingly grand. Golden Cores and Nascent Souls, difficult to glimpse on ordinary days, had already become sparse and commonplace at this grand assembly.

For most cultivators, they might exhaust their entire lives and still never see such a grand gathering once.

On the plaza, Governor Liu of the Righteous Path Sect also appeared on the high platform, a rare sight.

In the past several assemblies, the governor had never shown himself. His appearance this time naturally astonished everyone.

True Lord Xuan Puppet, even more so, looked toward Ye Jingcheng.

He kept feeling that Governor Liu's appearance was related to True Lord Qianchen before him.

Among the struggles over the various prefecture territories, Xiao Mountain Prefecture, Celestial Pivot Prefecture, and Red Maple Prefecture were currently the ones with comparatively more suspense.

But in truth, in his earliest expectations, only Xiao Mountain Prefecture and Red Maple Prefecture had suspense; Celestial Pivot Prefecture had not been among them.

It was the Heavenly Sand Sect that had persuaded several elders of the Bloodred Faction, and also drawn in the neutral Prefecture Lord Luo of Celestial Pivot Prefecture, creating this suspense.

After all, among the twelve prefectures, five prefectures had already been fixed from the start.

Of the remaining five prefectures,