After his daughter Liu Futing and daughter-in-law Wu Xian'er successfully formed their cores, Liu Changxu finally set his worries aside for the time being and began attending to his own affairs.
First, honoring a promise he had made long ago, Liu Changxu took Lian'er, Chunlan, Qiuyue, and Dongxue as secondary wives and held a Secondary Wife Banquet for the four women.
With that, Liu Changxu now had four principal wives-Yang Qingxue, Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Li Zhenxin-and five secondary wives-Wu Yunyue, Lian'er, Chunlan, Qiuyue, and Dongxue.
For Liu Changxu alone to have nine Dao companions, one at Nascent Soul and eight at Core Formation, was exceedingly rare even throughout the Azure Cloud Sect.
However, only Liu Household cultivators in the Southern Sea and their allied households by marriage were invited to the Secondary Wife Banquet. It was an extremely low-key affair!
Meanwhile, to avoid arousing the envy of the other great households in the Southern Sea, Liu Changxu discussed matters with his son Liu Fuyue and decided not to hold any more Golden Core Celebrations.
Of course, once someone became a Golden Core cultivator, reporting it to the sect was still mandatory.
Through Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue's arrangements, however, the Liu Household's ten new Golden Core cultivators all became Inner Sect Stewards of the Azure Cloud Sect, charged with guarding Peach Blossom Island and New Peach City.
As the Liu Household's strength swelled, the full-scale development and construction of New Peach City was officially put on the agenda.
Liu Changxu decided to convene a meeting of the entire clan to discuss the matter. Meanwhile, with the growing number of Golden Core cultivators in the Liu Household, its old organizational structure had become outdated, and new changes would also have to be discussed at this clan meeting.
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