The founding ceremony, together with the banquet afterward, lasted a full three days.
After those three days, cultivators from every side departed in high spirits, all sighing that the trip had truly been worthwhile.
To be honest, before attending the academy's founding ceremony, they had all gone to the Yang Family Sacred Land intending merely to join in the excitement—or even to watch a joke unfold.
But after personally witnessing the grand spectacle of Clear Sky Academy's head, Yang Lingshu, attaining the Dao, those initially impure intentions vanished like smoke in the wind, leaving not the slightest trace behind.
Compared to witnessing a great undertaking that blazed a new Dao path across Canglan, the Yang Clan's domestic squabbles were hardly worth mentioning and could no longer stir even a shred of interest in those who had come to observe the ceremony.
And as the cultivators who had attended Clear Sky Academy's founding ceremony returned to the Central Region, everything they had seen, heard, and felt during their journey to the northwest spread through the Central Region like wildfire swept by the wind.
Like those cultivators who had traveled to the northwest, many cultivators of the Central Region had originally been waiting for them to bring back the latest intelligence on the Yang Clan's internal strife. They had intended to use that information to gauge the future course of this great northwest clan's development, then decide how they should deal with the Yang Clan going forward.
Yet, to their surprise, those cultivators returning from the northwest mentioned the Yang Clan's internal conflict only in passing, offering no profound insights at all. Instead, they lavishly praised Clear Sky Academy's head, Yang Lingshu, for his attainment of the Dao.
This left many Central Region cultivators utterly puzzled. A Spiritual Connection cultivator attaining True