Three days later, once cultivators from all sides had all arrived and gathered atop Clear Sky Peak, Heaven-Clearing Academy's Founding Ceremony officially began.
The Yang Clan cultivators responsible for presiding over the ceremony were, as before, Historian Elder Yang Yuanliu and Chengzuo Peak's Grand Elder Yang Yuanwen.
In the expectations of the various powers of the Central Region, this Founding Ceremony for a subordinate sect was a signal the Yang Clan was sending to the outside world. Much could be gleaned about the clan's internal affairs merely from the identities and standing of the Yang Clan cultivators in attendance.
For instance, in these people's eyes, Yang Yuanliu and Yang Yuanwen, who were overseeing the ceremony, were clearly the result of two internal Yang Clan factions keeping each other in check.
Though both were cultivators of the Yuan generation, strictly speaking, Yang Yuanliu and Yang Yuanwen were not truly cultivators of the "same generation."
Not only were they more than a decade apart in age, they had not begun cultivating the Dao during the same period either.
Looking at the Yang Clan's course of development, its departure from the Tiger Chasing Dynasty to establish itself independently could serve as a dividing line.
The Yang Clan's current Historian Elder, Yang Yuanliu, and the Vaulting Dragon Lord, Yang Yuanhong, had both begun cultivating the Dao under the Dynasty's rule. Within today's Yang Clan, they could be considered founding elders.
Meanwhile, the new patriarch Yang Yuanxing and Grand Elder Yang Yuanwen were representative figures among the first generation of Yang Clan cultivators after the clan relocated to the Barbarian Land and established itself independently.
They could be considered of the same generation in seniority, but the environments in which they grew up, the resources and treatment they could obtain while cultivating the Dao, and