Ji Ye led Xu Qing and Sikong Xue through the White Pagoda District's bustling quarter in grand procession, giving them a proper welcome and washing away the dust of travel.
Ye Xiu himself did not care much for these so-called formalities.
The reason he had agreed to let Ji Ye welcome him before the spatial rift was, at its core, for the Alliance's future development.
Xu Qing's hometown, which had been elevated into the Inner City, had gathered a vast population. These cultivators had yet to find relatively stable means of supporting their families, while they wandered about all day long. The pressure this placed on public security management was plain for all to see.
With such pressures in mind, the Alliance was exceedingly eager and interested in any cooperation that could send some of these cultivators elsewhere.
Even before this, they had already discussed related construction projects with quite a few sects.
As Heyang City's sphere of influence continued to expand, its influence over the sects of Yu Prefecture also grew by the day.
The impact wrought by a colossal entity was reflected in every aspect of life.
Take this latest round of construction abroad, for instance.
Originally, the overwhelming majority of cultivator sects favored towering high-rises and jade palaces in the clouds.
They believed that only sufficiently vast, empty, and desolate architectural complexes could display the glory of their immortal sects' supreme status.
That was also why, in the past, whenever cultivation sects were mentioned, most mortals would gaze with shining eyes and lose themselves in fantasy.
But now, the times had changed.
After the tidal surge of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, those qualified to cultivate were no longer rare. Instead, those unable to cultivate were the ones who, like the cultivator children of old, would