As noon arrived and the blazing sun shone overhead, Yellow Sand Mountain seemed to don a veil of gold.
The cultivators attending the ceremony were all exceedingly curious about how many more Golden Cores would arrive.
After all, eleven Golden Cores had already come.
But as time passed, what arrived this time were not Golden Cores, but two Dragon Envoy Flying Vessels.
And they were not the ordinary yellow Dragon Envoy Flying Vessels, but orange ones.
This meant that Prefect Xiao and Prefect Wang had arrived.
Ye Jingcheng also descended from the mountain. Unlike the other Golden Cores, who could wait until the visitors had presented their congratulatory gifts before going down to greet them, he needed to descend in advance to receive these two prefects at the peak of Golden Core.
Moreover, before the congratulatory gifts were even presented, the auspicious clouds in the sky had already reached their zenith. Nine clouds transformed into auspicious beasts in the heavens, dancing gracefully before turning into spiritual rain that fell from above.
Quite a few cultivators benefited from the spiritual rain and hurriedly closed their eyes to absorb it.
Those cultivators who had neither brought gifts nor gone up the mountain were now filled with regret.
Had they known this would happen, they would have prepared a gift as well. Forget going up the mountain—even just catching some spiritual rain, eating some spirit fruits, and listening to the sermon would have made the trip worthwhile.
"Prefect Wang, Prefect Xiao, your esteemed arrival honors us. Forgive me for failing to welcome you from afar!" Ye Jingcheng stepped forward.
Behind Prefect Xiao stood Xiao He, while behind Prefect Wang stood Wang Shiyun, one of Wangqing Prefecture's Three Fairies.
"Fellow Daoist Qianchen, the fact that you came down the mountain to receive us has