The ninth day of the ninth month, in the 477th year of Ming.
The day Master Guangfa broke through.
Cloud Ladder Mountain, Yuyang.
Preparations for a magnificent feast were underway in urgent haste. Lanterns and colorful decorations hung everywhere, and people crowded shoulder to shoulder.
Initiated by the Haoran Alliance, hosted by Luofu Mountain, organized by the Golden Water Trading Association, and supported by Yuyang's various Daoist sects, the feast was on a scale unseen in five hundred years.
There were simply too many things for this feast to celebrate. First and foremost, naturally, was Master Guangfa's success in Plumbing the Profound. But there were also many other things worth celebrating together:
They had driven off the Southern Sea Twin Fiends and recovered the Red Furnace Archipelago. They had blunted the edge of those two great fiends, Green Robe and Sky-Supporting, bolstering the Daoist Sect's prestige. Three River Earls had also leaped through the Dragon Gate and would henceforth guard the Three Rivers, protecting the land and bringing peace to its people. All these things deserved celebration. Besides, Yuyang had fought for far too many years. Although the West River had yet to be recovered, everyone was somewhat weary. It was time to relax a little and ease their minds.
As for why they dared relax and hold a feast, three Three Rivers Dragon Earls were present today, along with a double-digit number of Fourth Realm cultivators. Most importantly, three Fifth Realm True Persons had also declared they would stay for a drink before leaving.
Thus, cheers thundered, and drums and music shook the heavens.
At cultivators' banquets, celebration was usually just a pretext. Once the festivities truly got going, the pretext ceased to matter.
For instance, it was only just past noon. The evening feast had not truly begun,