"What?"
At this sight, every immortal in the venue, from top to bottom, wore a strange look in their eyes.
Even White Dust, who had always been dignified and proper, could not help rubbing his eyes, as if he thought he had seen wrong.
When he looked up at the other True Immortal companions and found their expressions equally strange, he finally confirmed that he had not misseen it. Fang Shu, among them, immediately let his imagination run wild, recalling what had happened in the Iron Clan long ago.
That can't be right. He has become a genuine True Immortal, and rumors say this Immortal Elder Pei is one of Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture's foremost Dao-seed prodigies of the past thousand years.
Such a genius, already successful in forming a Golden Core, was actually going to marry into another family as a son-in-law?
To Fang Shu's left and right, Ming Jianxi and the others also looked equally strange.
Everyone could see that something was amiss, especially the lofty, superior attitude of the Jade Lake visitors.
Yet some hesitantly murmured in low voices:
"Could it be that today's Golden Core ceremony is also because Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture is marrying into Jade Lake... Are they showing off their strength to us?" Someone immediately refuted him. "If that were so, why has no one from Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture come out to preside over it? Instead, it looks as though the Jade Lake people are about to steal all the limelight."
True Immortal White Dust heard his disciples' discussions, and hesitation filled his face as well.
Fortunately, before everyone could remain bewildered for long, the situation soon became clear.
After the Jade Lake visitors descended, no one from Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture came to greet them. Instead, Ji Rong of Jade Lake