Inside the great hall of Yellow Sand Mountain, the chimes rang softly.
The hall was solemn, and the cultivators stood in grave silence.
"Have Qinghua and Jingtian come here."
Ye Haiyan continuously summoned cultivators.
As one Ye Family clansman after another, along with disciples of the Heavenly Sand Sect, was gathered by Ye Haiyan, the collection and preparation of all manner of spirit materials were also put on the agenda.
Naturally, it was nominally for the temporary marketplace, but in truth, Ye Haiyan was making all sorts of secret arrangements.
Nearly every core disciple of the Ye Family had both an overt task and a covert one.
He had people send word to the Purple Fortune Sect, and he also had people send word to the Duan Family.
These were the two Golden Core factions in Xiao Mountain Prefecture that still had Golden Core cultivators, and both factions had shown an inclination to curry favor with the Ye Family.
Thus, they were also the most likely to send reinforcements. As for Xiao Mountain Prefecture and the Xuan Puppet Sect, though they were more suitable, Ye Haiyan held no expectations. After all, he was not Ye Jingcheng and simply could not command them.
Without evidence, neither was likely to dispatch a Golden Core cultivator to the Ye Family.
If they merely sent a few Purple Palace cultivators in the end, not only would it be of little use, it would also squander a favor for nothing.
Of course, although he had not contacted them directly, he had already instructed Ye Xingliu at Xiao Mountain Marketplace to secretly arrange talks with Xiao He and the Xuan Puppet Sect's Purple Palace cultivators. Should anything unusual happen at the border, the two factions would respond at once.
After the cultivators he had arranged had