The council hall on Penglai Mountain had now been rebuilt on a magnificent scale.
The hall had six stories, constructed entirely from special black iron and cloudstone marble. Before its entrance stood a fourth-stage Black Jade Lion spirit puppet modeled after the Earth Armor Puppet.
The eaves were carved with dragons and adorned with phoenixes, and fitted with special spirit mirrors and magnificent spirit paintings.
Even the plaque bore the words "Council Hall," written by Ye Jingcheng himself.
Within those words lingered a trace of the essence of Ye Jingcheng's Divine Domain.
"Father, these are the spirit herbs and gifts brought by the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation factions that came to visit." Inside the hall, Ye Qingnian took out another list and a storage bag.
Over the past seven years, Ye Qingnian had done little else; most of his time had been spent receiving visitors.
First came the Spirit Transformation factions, then the Nascent Soul factions, and even Golden Core factions.
Of course, for the Golden Core factions, Ye Qingnian arranged for young talents such as Teng Ming and Yun Feng to receive them.
All told, they had received a considerable number of spirit herbs and gifts.
Ye Jingcheng looked through them. He could use many of the spirit herbs, though most were spirit materials for fifth-stage pills, suitable for refining pills for spirit beasts such as the Golden-Scaled Beast, Earth Dragon, and Zhuyan.
For his own use, only the six-colored Buddha lotus sent by the Golden Light Temple and the sixth-stage spirit herbs sent by a handful of immortal sects were useful.
But he had already expected this, so he asked Ye Qingnian another question:
"Where are those young Stellar Whales and Golden Rocs now?"
"Father, out of concern over Demon Emperor Star Sound, we placed all those