Three months later, on a day in August of the year 3540 of the Great Tang Calendar, Liu Changxu held a grand wedding for his son, Liu Fuyu!
As a marriage alliance between the Liu and Ma lineages, the wedding drew a great many guests. Even Jin Yinan, the lord of Golden Firmament City, sent someone with wedding gifts. The entire celebration was lively and magnificent!
The Azure Cloud Sect and the Ma Household also grew much closer through this opportunity, a result that benefited both sides.
What Liu Changxu did not know was that Ma Yongbo, the head of the Ma Household, had been so accommodating mainly because Liu Changxu was powerful enough. Without the formidable reputation he had earned in the war against the Giant Race, Ma Yongbo would never have been so agreeable.
After the wedding, life finally returned to peace for Liu Changxu and his family!
Three years later, one morning in September of the year 3543 of the Great Tang Calendar, a faint fragrance resembling sandalwood suddenly drifted from Feather Transformation Peak on Rosy Cloud Mountain, where Liu Qingying was cultivating in seclusion!
At first, the fragrance attracted little attention. But many cultivators who kept spirit beasts discovered that their beasts had suddenly gone mad, trying to charge toward Feather Transformation Peak no matter how hard they tried to restrain them.
Not only that, even the low-tier demon beasts hiding on Rosy Cloud Mountain charged toward Feather Transformation Peak as though possessed!
By then, most cultivators quickly realized what was happening and put their rampaging spirit beasts into Spirit Beast Bags.
The high-level cultivators of the Azure Cloud Sect also emerged to maintain order within the sect, directing the disciples under their command to resist the onslaught of the beast tide.
Meanwhile, the low-tier demon