Incense smoke drifted before Tie Kuangren's Clothing Mound at Mi Family Manor.
It was the day after Xiushui City fell. Several thousand core members of the Iron Banner Gang had gathered here to pay homage to their former banner chief Tie Kuangren's spirit in heaven.
Four days earlier, Chu Xisheng had ordered Lu Luanli and Lu Pingyuan to bring a thousand Iron Banner Gang members and five thousand captive Commandery Troops to Mi Family Manor to build this Clothing Mound.
It stood east of Mi Family Manor, built against a hill.
With limited time, the Clothing Mound had been constructed in great haste.
Still, it had been personally designed by Lu Luanli, that "expert in spell arts," with Lu Pingyuan assisting in supervising construction. Several thousand martial cultivators had spent three days and nights building it, and its overall scale was magnificent.
Its imposing grandeur rivaled the tombs of princes and marquises, lacking only the mausoleum halls and decorations reserved for such noble houses.
According to Lu Luanli, she had worked her fingers to the bone over it. She had even used a long-distance projection rune array worth tens of thousands of taels of demon silver to consult a second-rank spellcaster in her family who specialized in arrays.
The Clothing Mound faced south with its back to the north, with all Four Symbols present and a stream encircling it. Nearby lay shallow channels and deep ravines, while a stretch of flat country spread before it. Its feng shui was superb. Lu Luanli had even arranged spirit stones underground to draw in a so-called python vein.
Lu Luanli had proudly declared that even ordinary princes' and marquises' tombs might not match this Clothing Mound in feng shui. If Tie Kuangren had descendants, they would certainly produce high officials in the future.