Before long, Feng Mingzhu, You Renzhi, Fu Wei, and the others had also signed Guest Adviser contracts.
Even Qi Yuetian, who was not present, was awarded the title of Guest Adviser by the Yunshan Council of Elders on its own initiative.
Regional powers were already obliged to watch over and assist one another, and serving as one another's Guest Advisers was commonplace. Unlike someone such as Li Chen, who had actually signed a contract, however, a unilateral appointment amounted to an honorary title in name only. Whether Qi Yuetian acknowledged it depended on his own inclination.
Since Qi Yuetian had not come, he would ordinarily have been unlikely to receive a resource site as well. But now was the time to win hearts, and the newly established Council of Elders generously assigned a tract of woodland near Qishan Valley to him.
It had originally been a site producing low-grade medicinal herbs under the control of Yunshan Gate's disciples. It did not border Yunshan Valley, however, and lay near Qishan Valley instead. Joining it to the surrounding wilderness forest stretching over two hundred li formed a new territory for Qishan Valley.
Qi Yuetian was not the only one to benefit. Everyone else who attended the gathering, or who was in Suyang and intended to settle there, such as Li Chen, received a share without exception.
The Council of Elders strove not to overlook a single Foundation Establishment cultivator. In any case, the Yunshan lineage possessed vast holdings, with dozens of resource sites around the inner valley alone. Even if each person received one, they would only be handing out a dozen or so, far short of the number stipulated by the City-State Alliance.
For some time to come, the Council of Elders might continue handing out generous gifts and scattering wealth