Meanwhile, the wedding ceremony in Capital City was still proceeding in full swing.
At the end of Vermilion Bird Great Dao, the Dragon Scales wedding carriage and the Phoenix-Pattern Jade Carriage slowly approached the Imperial Ceremony Platform specially erected at the foot of Jade Capital Mountain, one behind the other.
The platform's foundation was built from third-tier supreme-grade white jade spirit stones. Scarlet gold cloud pillars stood at its four corners, carved with dragons, phoenixes, mountains, and rivers, faintly linked to Jade Capital Mountain's fortune.
This also proclaimed one thing.
Qing Chen and Tie Qingyao's grand wedding was neither a ceremony arranged solely by the Iron Household nor a case of Qing Chen marrying into her family to climb its branches. It was a grand Dao Companion ceremony recognized under the rites of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty.
Beside the platform, managers from the Clan Court held the Golden Register and Jade Register. Ministry of Rites officials stood in their assigned positions, while female officials of the Imperial Household Department carried the Phoenix-Patterned Bridal Cape, United Hearts Jade Pendant, and Joined-Cup Golden Goblet.
The Junior Director of Ceremonial held the emperor's private decree, his expression solemn.
On the Iron Household's side, Tie Zhan, Tie Ce, and the others stood to the left; on Qing Chen's side, several cultivators from the Origin-Initial Devil Sect stood to the right, Yan Moyou among them.
Yan Moyou was still dressed in black, his expression cold, like a frigid sword yet to leave its sheath. Qiu Qiansha, however, had not appeared.
Yet the longer he remained absent, the more people privately wondered. No one knew where the Branch Master of the Primordial Magnetism Devil Branch was watching from at that moment.
Qing Chen and Tie Qingyao stepped onto the platform together. Countless eyes watched