"The lecture's results were even better than expected?"
Heyang City changed with each passing day, yet the tallest structure in the city remained the Heaven-Piercing White Pagoda within the Inner City.
It was not that the cultivators drawn here by the winds lacked the ability to build taller structures. Rather, out of respect and fear for the Alliance's existence, even though the major sects had already met their needs in every respect, no one wished to take the initiative to stir up trouble by raising a taller building and challenging it.
Those who established order were themselves those who benefited from it. Thus, compared to those who possessed nothing, they valued the preservation of certain rules that appeared to hold only symbolic meaning all the more.
At the same time, the Alliance itself also existed by relying on rules.
The highest floor of this white pagoda had always been reserved for Ye Xiu.
Looking down from the heights, aided by the superior vision granted by his cultivation, Ye Xiu could clearly see torrents formed by streams of people gathering throughout the Inner City.
"I never knew Mother possessed such a talent."
As Heyang City's hottest rising star, An Dongcheng had spent these past days honestly concealing his whereabouts and focusing on establishing his own internal department.
This operation had been carried out in secret.
With all outside contact cut off, even cultivators within the Alliance rarely caught sight of him coming and going.
Likewise, it was only today, after his own plans had reached a preliminary conclusion, that An Dongcheng learned what kind of spectacle his mother had created.
With the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's promotion and the fervent support of countless Inner City cultivators seeking to change their social standing, Meng Huai'an had risen steadily.
Considering the influence Inner City