After eating and drinking their fill, Xin Dayuan warmly invited Tong Li and his clan uncle, Tong Lan, to visit the sect gates southeast of the Market Ward.
He wanted to show them around the Incense Accumulation Sect and help them learn more about this newly founded sect.
"Come, come, let me show you the sect gates over here. This is the new immortal sect established in the North Sea. An ordinary rogue cultivator could never easily build up an estate this grand."
Xin Dayuan now considered himself a member of the Incense Accumulation Sect, and pride filled his words.
Tong Li and Tong Lan exchanged smiles and followed him out of curiosity.
After all, this was where many of their kingdom's children and young clansmen would study and grow in the future. They ought to take a good look.
They set out from the Market Ward at the foot of the mountain. Its roughly square outline extended a dozen or so li across, and a bustling town was already taking shape within it. Tens of thousands lived there, and it was expected to continue expanding until its population reached several hundred thousand.
This was the realm of the mortal world, but unlike the mundane lands far away, it fell directly under the Incense Accumulation Sect's influence. Almost everything here existed for the sect.
Traveling merchants, servants and laborers whose families had served the sect for generations, visiting rogue cultivators, and regular customers would all lodge and live here.
The land here was low, an open plain. Looking up toward the southeast, they could see a floating platform surrounded by enormous rocks suspended like islands in the sky.
Pavilions and towers appeared and disappeared above it, half-hidden in the mountain mists like celestial palaces, suffused with an ethereal air.
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