Yang Musheng

At 1:15 PM on the 15th day of the 9th month of the 4041st year of the New Immortal Calendar, 400 li Huai'an City, Pingyang Commandery, at the Golden Crow Square on Moonlight Peak Wu Household.

The group of cultivators watched with reverence as the Azure Origin Sect disciples boarded a giant flying boat, laden with spiritual rice and heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and flew south.

As the spaceship gradually disappeared into the horizon, the cultivators collected their gifts, stood at attention, and dispersed.

The vast majority of cultivators walked down the mountain in groups of three or five, while many others headed towards the Gathering Friends Market in the northeast corner of the square, hoping to buy or sell desirable treasures and medicinal herbs.

Tang Tiandong found Wu Qi, the manager of Gathering Friends Market, handed over three Spirit Stone and a handwritten letter from Wu Changgeng, explaining his purpose, "I would like to post a notice in Gathering Friends Market announcing my elder brother's engagement banquet next month—on the ninth day of the tenth lunar month."

Wu Qi stroked his white beard. "Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. I'll prepare some tools for posting notices for you..."

... In less than fifteen minutes, Tang Tiandong was already seated at a square table in Gathering Friends Market, with his elder brother's engagement banquet notice neatly pasted on a wooden board behind him in red paper with black characters.

Watching the cultivators passing by, occasionally stopping to point and whisper among themselves, Tang Tiandong smiled wryly, "Isn't this just like ordinary beggars setting up a stall to beg?"

"Gazing Dragon Lake, Tang Household Dangwu Town, North Slope of Tang Tiansong?"

"Never heard of it?"

"Didn't you see? This Tang Tiandong is only at the Qi Refining First Layer?"

"Hehe, Qi Refining First Layer cultivation, that's quite impressive."

But even on just one floor, they're all posting notices here, hoping to collect some money through their engagement parties.

I think he's gone crazy for money.

The sarcasm from many cultivators, though not loud, made Tang Tiandong blush.

But thinking about it, it's precisely because they're poor and have no Spirit Stone that they're "begging" here.

Only if the family has a lot of Spirit Stone will the grandson come.

However, after sitting awkwardly and shyly for less than fifteen minutes, Tang Tiandong became more at ease: because his Tang Household wasn't the only one posting notices.

There were eleven families who posted notices and held banquets under the guise of various weddings and funerals.

There were even people who posted notices under the guise of celebrating their ordinary mother's 90th birthday.

My older brother is only twenty-one years old, and he's still a Qi Refining Stage cultivator. In Gazing Dragon Lake, where Spiritual Qi is scarce, he can be considered a significant figure.

It's said that Cui Xueyong's family is a century-old Lineage cultivators.

However, apart from the Cui Household patriarch who was at the Qi Refinement Great Perfection Refining, the highest-ranking member of the Cui Household was Cui Mingfei's father, Cui Lihai, who was almost sixty years old and had only Meridian Opening Seventh Layer, at the Linking Vessel Gathering Stage Realm.

The Tang Household is a thriving Lineage, and in the future, it will definitely be one of the top cultivation Lineage.

Tang Tiandong kept encouraging himself, but after half an hour, not a single family came to ask for an invitation or pay a gift.

Are we really going to have to pay three Spirit Stone today?

Looking at the Yun Household in Dragon Breath Valley next door, who had already received about ten Spirit Stone, Tang Tiansong couldn't help but curl his lips and say sourly, "This fellow Daoist from the Yun Household, you don't look very old."

If you receive a lot of monetary gifts Spirit Stone, carrying them around might be inconvenient.

Hmph, look at this Yun Household cultivator, he's only eleven or twelve years old, all alone.

They collected a lot of Spirit Stone, but on their way back, they were robbed.

"I am not a cultivator from the Yun Household."

"My Yang Musheng, and I come from the Yang family of Gazing Dragon Lake Dragon Peace Mountain in Yang Household." The young man cupped his hands in greeting.

"I'm here on behalf of the Yun Household to collect the gift money."

In Gathering Friends Market, the Rong Household of Dragon Tranquility Mountain were also collecting gifts on behalf of the Yun Household of Dragon Breath Valley.

As for the Yun Household, they went to Danyang City in Pingyang Commandery to set up a stall and collect gifts.

If we collect a lot of Spirit Stone, we can exchange them for escort tickets from the Wu Household.

Dragon Peace Mountain is located east of Dragon Creek Mountain, belonging to Cui Mingfei's Cui Household, while Dragon Tranquility Mountain is located southeast of Dragon Creek Mountain, bordering the Liu Household.

Indeed, I've heard that the Yang Household of Dragon Peace Mountain and the Rong Household of Dragon Tranquility Mountain are both junior members of the Yun Household of Dragon Breath Valley.

The Yun Household of Dragon Breath Valley are utterly shameless! They're using the death of their mortal mother as an excuse to send invitations to two different places and collect gifts from three families.

"Escort tickets?" Tang Tiandong looked bewildered.

Yang Musheng smiled and explained to Tang Tiandong.

In Gathering Friends Market, whether it's Spirit Stone obtained from selling items or Spirit Stone received as gifts, if the amount exceeds thirty, and you find it inconvenient to carry them back, or are afraid of encountering murder, robbery, or highway robbery, you can directly find Wu Qi in Gathering Friends Market and exchange them for escort tickets.

The so-called escort ticket is just a ticket for escort.

To put it bluntly, it's the Wu Household's escort service.

A certain number of Spirit Stone were paid to the Wu Household as an escort fee. The Wu Household was responsible for safely delivering the Spirit Stone to the designated location at a specified time...

"The Yun Household of Dragon Breath Valley is really prestigious. Your Yang Household alone helped them collect ten Spirit Stone in just a short while," Tang Tiandong said sourly.

"Heh, what is the Yun Household?"

"Look how much money the Chu Household across the street has received in gifts!" Yang Musheng sneered.

Frowning, I saw that the Chu Household had already collected about thirty Spirit Stone.

The notice board of the Chu Household read: Congratulations to Chu Household Chu Zhiyu, a member of the Chu family, on becoming a disciple of the Cold Water Peak of the Azure Origin Sect. The Chu Household will hold a grand banquet on October 13th...

The Tong, Shen, and Chu families, the three most famous cultivation Lineage in the southern Gazing Dragon Lake and even the entire Gazing Dragon Lake, are the only Lineage with Foundation Establishment cultivators.

This year, the Chu Household came to collect gifts, so it seems I won't be able to get many Spirit Stone stones this time.

Thinking of this, Tang Tiandong smiled helplessly.

"Brother Tang, don't worry, the Wu Household hasn't come to pay their betrothal gifts yet." Yang Musheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Every time the Azure Origin Sect comes to collect spirit rice, many cultivator Lineage set up stalls here."

They wanted to collect Spirit Stone as gifts under the guise of holding a banquet.

The Wu Household always gives a gift of money, but they only give it to one family each time.

Wu Household gives betrothal gifts to a particular family, then many other Lineage will follow suit and give betrothal gifts as well.

I just don't know if your family, Brother Tang, has any connection with the Wu Household.

Tang Tiandong shook his head enviously: If Tianya becomes Wu Changgeng's junior brother, then they will indeed have some kind of relationship.

However, Ping An hasn't joined the Azure Origin Sect yet.

Furthermore, Ping An is a promising candidate to become a sword immortal. If he joins the Azure Origin Sect, he might end up being refined into a "Human Pill"...

Wu Changgeng had also reminded that the usual gift money was one to five Spirit Stone.

As long as they don't happen to run into the Tong, Shen, and Chu families setting up stalls to collect gifts at the southern foot of Gazing Dragon Lake, the Wu Household will definitely take the lead in giving gifts to the Tang Household after seeing Wu Changgeng's letter, and will give them five Spirit Stone.

Unfortunately, they were really unlucky, as they encountered the Chu Household accepting gifts, and it was to celebrate Chu Zhiyu of the Chu Household joining the Azure Origin Sect.

It seems that, let alone two hundred Spirit Stone, receiving even ten Spirit Stone as a gift today is already a blessing.

Since no one wanted an invitation from the Tang Household, Tang Tiandong was bored and chatted idly with Yang Musheng.

Although it was just casual conversation, one could still glean from Yang Musheng's few words that he had his own unique insights into cultivating immortality and seeking the Dao.

Tang Tiandong, a young scholar, had encountered a great Confucian scholar and listened intently to every word Yang Musheng spoke...