Penglai Island, Penglai Mountain.
Vast clouds and mist swirled around the entire spirit mountain, hiding it completely. Now and then, a few enormous cranes flew past, lending it an even more immortal air.
At that moment, a huge yellow flood dragon rose into the sky and streaked through the air, leaving a trail of golden spiritual radiance that lingered long afterward.
Several cultivators rode atop the flood dragon.
"Penglai truly is an immortal land of the Eastern Region. A pity I've visited several times, yet only now have I finally seen its true splendor." A cultivator with the bearing of an immortal smiled faintly and remarked to the others beside him, prompting the young man nearby to cup his hands in reply.
"You're too kind, Martial Uncle Xingyuan!" This young man was Ye Qingnian. Since Ye Jingcheng was Divine Lord Zhengyuan's disciple and True Lord Xingyuan's junior martial brother, he addressed True Lord Xingyuan as his martial uncle, even though he too was a Nascent Soul cultivator.
As the current head of the Ye Family, he was especially busy.
With the strife in the Southern Region drawing to a close, forces from across the Great Yu Realm were now arriving in the Eastern Region through Sanyuan Mountain's teleportation formation.
Although the Spirit Transformation ceremony was still more than forty years away, the various forces could hardly wait until the Nascent Soul ceremony to offer their congratulations.
The appropriate congratulatory gifts still had to be delivered.
Moreover, almost all those delivering gifts were great cultivators at the late Nascent Soul stage, and most of their gifts were spirit materials or spiritual herbs ranging from peak fifth-stage to low-grade sixth-stage. This was both an unspoken understanding among the Spirit Transformation forces and a display of their prestige.
As head of the Ye