"I pay my respects to Special Envoy Yu. I did not know you would be coming today and failed to come out to welcome you. Please forgive me!"
When the female cultivator from the Golden Sun Gate appeared at the Wu Household's entrance and announced her identity, the household head was still discussing the younger generation's schooling with the clan elders. On hearing the news, he hurried out to welcome the envoy.
The envoy dispatched by the Golden Sun Gate was surnamed Yu, and her name was Yu Youxian.
She was a newly promoted Master Artisan of the Golden Sun Gate, a highly alluring woman who looked around thirty, her charm ripened beyond youthful greenness without yet reaching full maturity.
Yet no one in the Wu Household dared slight her on account of her youth, for they knew that behind Special Envoy Yu Youxian stood an elder lineage within the Golden Sun Gate with nearly a thousand years of history.
In earlier years, the Yu Household's ancestors had struggled and fought alongside Golden Sun True Person's predecessors, growing together. Only when Golden Sun True Person's lineage inherited their predecessors' legacy and soared into the heavens had their relationship as masters and followers been established.
But that connection had also made them a powerful, distinguished household within the sect, with former disciples and retainers spread throughout its ranks. Now, with an ancestor at or above the Core Formation Realm presiding over them, their power was at its height.
It stood to reason that if they could help Golden Sun True Person advance to Grandmaster Artisan and successfully establish himself in Sky City, the Yu Household would likewise be among those who benefited most.
As the water rose, their boat would rise with it, allowing them to produce a Nascent Soul elder,