At the end of May, many major forces and well-known families in Dongzhou received an invitation. The invitation was signed by Feng Shao and Lin Xiaoran, and the content of the invitation was to invite them to attend the Wuling City founding ceremony and the wedding of Feng Shao and Lin Xiaoran.
What is Wuling City? Many people don't know. If it is just a city-building ceremony, most of the big forces will just throw the invitation aside, and similar invitations in the past are basically handled in this way. It's just that the invited party can throw the invitation, but the inviting party cannot not send the invitation. This is a courtesy, and it is the respect of the new party to the old forces as a new force.
As for what the old forces do, it depends on their own status and strength.
They could not attend the Wuling City founding ceremony, but they had to attend Feng Shao and Lin Xiaoran's wedding. After all, the Yunjian Pavilion was standing behind them.
The city founding ceremony was scheduled for June 14, and the wedding was scheduled for June 16.
All the major forces and families prepared their gifts early on, and then carefully selected disciples or family members represented them to attend the city-building ceremony and the wedding.
The selection of this person is a bit particular.
In many novels, it is often described that in order to show respect to the host family, the head of a certain sect or family personally leads people to celebrate. In fact, this is a bit nonsense. It is right to show respect, but if you overdo it, you are just looking for trouble. Not only will you be looking for trouble for yourself, but also for the host family.
Since you, the head of the clan or the clan leader, can show up today to please this person, will you show up next time a similar situation occurs? If you show up, then in the eyes of outsiders, you will be seen as playing both sides and not having a strong will; if you don't show up, then you are not giving me face and not taking me seriously. The former will ruin your character, and the latter will bring disaster. People may not be able to deal with the person you are trying to please, but they will probably have no problem dealing with you.
The party being flattered can easily become the target of public criticism because of this kind of thing. If everyone is treated the same, no one will say anything. But if they flatter you specifically, that will make people unhappy. So if the head of the sect or the clan leader really goes there in person, people will often have to think: Are you unhappy with me?
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes; where there are rivers and lakes, there are struggles. Especially when your status rises to a certain level, you will find that you are becoming less and less free, and more and more afraid of making mistakes. You have to think carefully about many things, because your words and deeds not only represent yourself, but also represent the forces behind you. So no matter what you do, it will be over-interpreted by others.
Of course, there are exceptions to this. For example, some families with few people cannot find a son who can be presentable, so they have to do it themselves. Everyone can understand this, so there is no need to delve into it.
For some other forces with particularly close relationships, such as the Yunjian Pavilion and the Tianyun Lingyin Pavilion, the leaders must come. But this is a private relationship, which is also normal.
Therefore, at celebrations of the level of city-building ceremonies and weddings, it is just right to send a young man of high status and power, which shows respect without being too deliberate.
Starting from June 10, sect disciples and family heirs entered Wuling City one after another. The moment they entered Wuling City, they were all shocked.
Because they felt the surging spiritual energy in the city.
The richness of this spiritual energy is almost equivalent to the level of those thousand-year-old aristocratic families and ten-thousand-year-old sects. A Feng Shui treasure land like this has always been a brain that can beat a dog's brain. If you don't have two brushes, you are brave enough to dare to take a look. Anyone who is qualified to covet such a Feng Shui treasure land is a super power with a strong foundation and many masters.
But this is not right. Wuling City used to be just an empty land. If Feng Shao hadn't brought people here to build the city, it would have remained barren! But with such a rich spiritual energy, who could just leave it alone? But before this, no one had ever heard of this Feng Shui treasure land!
This made many people feel something was wrong, and also caused many people to put Feng Shao on their watch list.
It took a total of eight months from the beginning of Wuling City's construction to the completion of its overall layout. It must be said that with cultivation, many things have become easier. Otherwise, it would take eight years to build a city, let alone eight months.
However, since the city was just built and the population was sparse, the houses for the people had not yet been built. The children from various major forces were arranged to live in temporary manors around the city lord's mansion. They were told that before the city construction ceremony began, everyone could freely browse the facilities in the city and appreciate the scenery of the new city.
Everyone was already very curious about this new city, so they took people around the city on a tour without much rest.
At present, Wuling City is still deserted, with few shops. Only some traveling merchants rent temporary stalls to sell things. However, since they are traveling merchants, the things they can sell are naturally worthless, and the children of major forces naturally look down on them. However, these traveling merchants have added a little bit of fireworks to the new city, making Wuling City not so deserted as a ghost town.
The young men who were assigned to attend the city-building ceremony and the wedding naturally had good vision. After just a walk, they saw that although the city was sparsely populated, the overall layout and framework had been built, and it looked very reasonable. In addition, the basic livelihood construction was also very complete, not only taking into account the drinking water problem of the residents, but also setting up drainage channels in a particularly considerate manner. It can be imagined that when the city's residents gradually increase, the city will not be full of sewage and garbage.
After the rich spiritual energy, the second impression Wuling City gave them was its cleanliness and tidiness.
After touring the entire Wuling City and feeling its grandeur, they felt the third impression: ambition.
Before coming here, most people came here just for the sake of Yunjian Pavilion. Although Feng Shao had initially gained fame by entertaining the East Continent’s geniuses in Qingdi City, not many people actually paid attention to Feng Shao. However, after feeling the difference in Wuling City, their mentality quietly changed.
It seems that Feng Shao is really capable and is not just a son-in-law who curries favor with the powerful.
After a few days of browsing, everyone observed a lot of details and gained some preliminary understanding of Feng Shao. Some people have already started to assign people to collect Feng Shao's past and information. They really want to know where such a person came from.
On the day before the city-building ceremony, Du Yuanxi led almost all the inner disciples of Taiwei Sect to Wuling City.
After becoming the Grand Elder, Du Yuanxi's life did not change much, except that she shifted her focus from cultivation to teaching her disciples. The incident with Ye Chen made her realize that it is the teacher's fault if a person does not teach his/her children. If she had taught Ye Chen more about his/her moral character, so many things would not have happened.
However, after Qing Yangzi's death, Taiwei Sect had too many things to do. In order to rebuild the sect, everyone in the sect had almost no time to rest these days. Therefore, it was not until today that Du Yuanxi led all the disciples to Wuling City.
Except for Han Biyun, who needed to stay in Taiwei Sect as the head of the sect, all other inner disciples came to Wuling City this time. After all, to them, Feng Shao was still their eldest senior brother and their head of the family. How could they, the junior brothers and sisters who were almost completely raised by Feng Shao, not come when their eldest senior brother got married?
Many of them even decided not to leave after arriving here and settle down here. In this way, if the eldest brother has any instructions, they can help him immediately.
To their surprise, when they stepped into Wuling City, the first thing they felt was the rich spiritual energy that hit them, which made them feel clear-minded and enlightened. Many disciples who were already facing the threshold of promotion felt that the bottleneck was loosening.
Everyone was shocked.
Taiwei Mountain is also a treasure land with abundant spiritual energy. Although it is not as good as those big sects, it is definitely much stronger than the secular world. But the spiritual energy in Wuling City is more than ten times stronger than that in Taiwei Mountain?
Many people feel that if they can practice here for one day, it is equivalent to practicing in Taiwei Mountain for ten days!
Everyone showed joy on their faces, feeling that their luck had turned.
For a second-rate sect like Taiwei Sect to become first-rate, in addition to lacking foundation, there is another more important limiting factor, which is that the sect's spiritual energy is not rich enough and the quality is not high enough. Therefore, even if a top-notch genius comes to Taiwei Sect, it is often difficult to achieve the great way.
There are many reasons for the struggle in the cultivation world, and the fight for the sacred mountain is the most important and inevitable reason. When the Taiwei Sect was in decline, it was because of its lack of strength and the abundant spiritual energy in Taiwei Mountain that it was targeted by the Blood Demon Sect.
However, it is also fortunate that the spiritual energy in Taiwei Mountain is not too strong, otherwise it would have been targeted by forces that are more difficult to provoke.
Although they knew that it was easy to cause trouble if their strength did not match that of their ancestral land, who would not want to cultivate in a place with rich spiritual energy? The disciples of Taiwei Sect had longed for such a treasure land for too long. Now that the city of the eldest brother was such a treasure land, how could they not be excited?
It seems that this time, Taiwei Sect finally has a chance to rise!