In the five days after Xiao Yan's grand wedding, the guests left Starfall Pavilion one after another.
They departed wearing all manner of expressions. The wedding was over, but its impact on the continent was far from spent. During those five days, quite a few things had happened within Starfall Pavilion.
As soon as the last guests had been seen off, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Mu Yaoyin, Venerable Wind, and Yao Lao gathered in Starfall Pavilion's council hall.
The hall was not particularly lavish, though it had more than a dozen seats. At present, only the five of them occupied it.
Together, they formed the core of Starfall Pavilion, One Domain Valley, and the Heavenly Luan Clan. With all five present, they could essentially keep all three powers in line.
Through their ties to Xiao Yan, the three powers now rose and fell together. They were, for all intents and purposes, one body; only various outside circumstances prevented them from presenting themselves as a single force for the time being.
All of them would support Xiao Yan wholeheartedly. No matter how circumstances changed, they would stand on the same side as him.
Strictly speaking, there was one more such ally: the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan. Qing Lin's attitude toward Xiao Yan was known to everyone—whatever Xiao Yan chose to do, she would do. Though she now ruled the clan as its empress, her feelings toward him had never changed.
The elders who had attended the wedding had explained that their queen was still in seclusion and could not come in person.
But aside from Qing Lin, Xiao Yan could not truly trust the other elders and senior figures of the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan with his core plans. In the end, he had left them out.
The