Cloud Mystic Willow Heartwood, Golden Cores Gather (Asking for Monthly Votes, Asking for Monthly Votes)

On Yellow Sand Mountain, it was already noon.

The sunlight had become exceptionally dazzling, and the five-colored spiritual clouds in the sky had grown ever denser, making the entire ceremony appear increasingly grand and magnificent.

As more and more people arrived, there were likely five or six thousand cultivators gathered across Yellow Sand Mountain.

Do not think five or six thousand was a small number. After all, most family cultivators had only sent a few representatives; it was impossible for them all to come.

Besides the cultivators who had come up the mountain to offer congratulations, quite a few had also settled around Yellow Sand Mountain.

These cultivators could not produce suitable gifts, yet they still wished to try their luck. Since this was Heavenly Sand Sect's joyous day, they naturally would not drive anyone away.

As strange phenomena arose one after another, Ye Xingliu had somehow already descended to stand beside Ye Qinghe.

Now that Golden Core cultivators were involved, Foundation Establishment cultivators naturally could no longer be the ones calling out the congratulations.

As Duan Chuanyun approached carrying a jade box, Ye Xingliu hurried forward and welcomed him in.

"Duan Family's True Person Chuanyun congratulates True Person Qianchen on his Golden Core ceremony, and presents one third-rank high-grade Green Jade Lotus tea tree and one fourth-rank cloudglow grass."

As the announcement fell, a patch of five-colored rosy cloud flew over from the sky, sometimes transforming into the shadow of a phoenix, sometimes into that of a crane.

At times it leapt about, at times it cried out clearly, like a performance by spirit beasts, before finally transforming into a shower of spiritual rain that sprinkled down.

The spiritual rain drifted over the Duan Family cultivators and fell upon the nearby cultivators as well, drawing waves of astonished exclamations