The moment this news spread, it set off a tremendous uproar among the five immortal mountains.
More than a dozen Central Region factions had followed the Yang Clan's wedding convoy to the Northwest. The instant they heard of this matter, all of them found it hard to believe.
One had to know that over two months ago, when everyone learned that the Nangong Clan's cultivator delegation attending the banquet did not include even a single Mystic Insight Venerable, they had already believed that the Nangong Clan was, nine times out of ten, Lingxiao Dao Academy's future ally.
Yet who could have expected that after the Nangong Clan's cultivators arrived at the Northwest Yang Clan, Nangong Jinghe, the Nangong Clan's foremost genius, would take the initiative to visit that reclusive Northwest cultivator and enter his sect as a registered disciple.
Only then did the cultivators of every faction realize belatedly—no wonder the Nangong Clan had not sent a Venerable along. From the very beginning, Nangong Jinghe had already planned to take a master!
And with that, would Nangong Jinghe not become Yang Yuanhong's fellow junior brother? The Nangong Clan was clearly preparing to stand in the same camp as the Northwest Yang Clan.
None of the various factions' cultivators had expected the situation to change so quickly. Yet after sorting out the chain of events, they did not rush to visit the Nangong Clan, instead choosing to wait and see for the time being.
Since the Nangong Clan had already reached a decision internally, the other major Central Region households presumably had more or less made up their minds as well.
Given the current state of affairs, they could fully wait for the other major households to arrive in the Northwest and state their positions, then weigh their own development before