Starting from the second day after the grand sacrificial rite ended, forces from all sides within the two towns began arriving one after another.
The Yang Family's grand rite had been an affair of tremendous spectacle, and they had received word long ago.
Ordinarily, they had no excuse to associate with the Yang Family, so this was the perfect chance to pay them a visit.
Mortal families that came calling were received by the Yang Family at the foot of the mountain.
If cultivators arrived, Zhao Qi and Liang Yi would lead them up Mist Mountain.
Yang Lingqing issued the Patriarch's Order: all who came were guests, and the proper courtesies of hospitality had to be observed. No one was to be neglected.
However, none of the various items brought by those families would be accepted, regardless of the reason given.
When the Yang Family had struggled through every hardship in Willow Leaf Town in its early years, no one had come. Now that they had established themselves, these people thought they could curry favor and latch onto them with a smiling face and a few gifts?
How could there be such a good thing in the world?
The Yang Family truly did not lack the trifling scraps they had brought.
After the Yang Family handled matters this way, those people understood the message. Once the bustle of the next two or three days passed, things quieted down.
Knowing that the Yang Family needed to deal with all those visitors, Gao Hui did not come calling until the fourth day after the grand rite ended.
He had come to deliver this month's Spirit Crystals granted by the Dynasty, and he also brought important news.
The once-every-ten-years "Golden Scale Dharma Assembly," hosted by Wangyue City, would begin in half a year.