The morning of February 22, Great Han Year 199, was the auspicious date chosen for Liu Changxu and Yang Yuxuan's dual cultivation ceremony.
Cloud Sky Immortal City was enveloped in festive music and color. Colorful banners fluttered everywhere, streaming in the wind like dancing ribbons. Melodious immortal music drifted on without end, seemingly descending from the heavens and lingering in every corner. The entire city was steeped in joyous celebration.
The magnificent Cloud Sky Immortal Palace was even livelier. Inside and outside its walls, lanterns and streamers adorned every corner, and red carpets covered the ground. Crimson lanterns hung high overhead, and characters for "double happiness" were everywhere. Every detail radiated a rich festive spirit.
As this marriage united the human race's strongest cultivator with its second-largest cultivation power, nearly every major human cultivation faction on Sea God Star, along with the factions subordinate to the Great Han Immortal Dynasty, attached great importance to the wedding. All had dispatched prominent representatives bearing lavish gifts to offer their congratulations.
With so many guests gathered at Cloud Sky Immortal Palace, crowds filled its grounds, and cheerful voices and laughter rose in an unending chorus.
Liu Changxu stood before the hall's entrance, dressed in a red wedding robe embroidered with lifelike golden auspicious dragons. Tall and straight-backed, with sword-like brows and star-bright eyes, his face shone with happiness and delight.
Yang Yuxuan wore a phoenix crown and embroidered bridal cape, her incomparable beauty that of an immortal maiden descended to earth. Holding the red silk that linked her to Liu Changxu, she leaned gently against his side, her eyes full of bashfulness and sweetness as they received everyone's blessings.
When the auspicious hour arrived, the master of ceremonies called out in a powerful voice, its resonant, lingering tones ringing like a great bell