Chapter 45: Annual Meeting (Seeking Recommendations)

  Update next chapter during the day, seeking recommendations and collections.

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  Yang Tianwen re-forged his flying knife symbol and specially forged two more spare ones. Another new year has passed. The Spring Festival is a custom of the Chinese people, but there's no way to celebrate it here. However, at the beginning of each year, it's definitely the most lively time of the year.

  Yang Tianwen woke up from his meditation, it was early in the morning. Yang Tianwen opened the door and walked out of the house. Xiao Bi'er and Xiao Bai were playing in the courtyard, when they saw Yang Tianwen coming out, they hurriedly welcomed him and said with a smile: "Brother Yang, you got up so early today?"

  Yang Tianwen rubbed his nose and chuckled: "You make it sound like I'm always sleeping in late, geez."

  Xiao Bi'er laughed, laughing very happily and youthfully. Xiao Bai also covered her mouth and smiled lightly, but she was smiling a bit mischievously.

  Yang Tian stretched his body and looked at Xiao Bi's happy appearance, feeling very happy in his heart. It seemed that everything had returned to normal. "Where is your sister You Lan? Why didn't you find her to play with you together?" Speaking of which, it seemed like a long time since he last saw Shui Xinlan, and he didn't know what she was busy with either.

  Bi'er blinked her eyes and said coquettishly: "I won't tell you, Brother Yang, guess it yourself!"

  "Uh..." Yang Tian was speechless.

  Yu Qinghong walked in from outside and said excitedly, "Tianwen, is there anything fun today? Are you going or not? It's super lively."

  Yang Tian asked, "What's wrong?"

  "All the big families in Southern Shu have arrived, it's the annual Dragon Platform Conference, hmm, actually it's just a ranking of the families. The scene is quite lively, and there are many beautiful women too~~ hehe~~" Yu Qinghong whispered to Yang Tianwen with a lewd tone.

  Yang Tian asked dully for a moment, nodded and replied: "I said you little devil today's spirit is so good, it turns out that there are beautiful women to see."

  "Hehe~~ Are you going?" Yu Qinghong said.

  "Hmm~~" Yang Tianwen turned his head and asked: "Xiao Bi'er, are you going to join in the fun?"

  "I won't go, Brother Yang, you go instead." Bi'er replied.

  "Xiao Bai?" Yang Tian asked, looking at Xiao Bai, but who knew that Xiao Bai, who usually liked to join in on the fun, actually shook his head and indicated that he wasn't going. Yang Tian asked found it strange, but with Xiao Bai staying here to keep him company, there was no need to worry about safety.

  Yang Tianwen turned around and went with Yu Qinghong to the venue of the Longtai Conference, which was between the west wing and the main hall. However, he didn't notice that behind him, Xiao Bai's small body was being held by Xiao Bi'er, whose mouth was slightly raised, and her eyes were shining with a kind of wisdom that couldn't be expressed in words, watching Yang Tianwen leave with the corner of her eye.

  At this time, the preparations had already been made, and all that was left was for the various aristocratic families to arrive.

  On the mainland, the most famous and top-ranking family is undoubtedly the Donglong Song Family, Jiang Family, Zhao Family, South Shu Yu Family, Qin Family, Liu Family, North Ming Chen Family, Wang Family, and Zhu Family. These nine great families are not the only ones, perhaps they are the most famous in this era, but absolutely not the longest-standing family in history.

  Compared to the more ancient history, it's like the last imperial family that ruled the mainland, the Li family! Li Chengfeng is just one of its representatives, but these aristocratic families seem to have disappeared in the long river of history.

  Yang Tianwen has been familiar with the secular world of this continent for more than a year, but according to Luo Pan, there are superior cultivators in this world, and they are the ones Yang Tianwen is truly interested in. Where is the cultivation world? From Tianji Old Man, Yang Tianwen indirectly learned that the cultivators had disappeared for nearly 10,000 years! Except for a few rare Taoist books, not even a single cultivator's cave was left behind. Over the years, it seemed that only Li Chengfeng's Qingming Sword Pill had the legacy of the cultivators, but is this the only sign? It can be initially confirmed that the Li family was able to unify the continent because their ancestors obtained the legacy of the cultivators.

  The various spiritual medicines, spiritual materials, magical treasures and flying swords recorded in the "Purple Mansion Treasure Record" are all real, but where are they? Yang Tianwen spent a lot of time on his way from a small village to Wan City, and naturally not all of this time was wasted on traveling. A large part of it was spent searching for various spiritual mountains, spiritual medicines and materials. Almost every famous mountain and river he passed through or heard about, Yang Tianwen went to search for them, but he didn't gain anything. Not to mention the true immortal caves, he couldn't even find real spiritual materials or medicines.

  The Li family was able to obtain the inheritance of a cultivator more than 3,000 years ago. Wouldn't there be other historical families with even longer histories that also possess the inheritance of a cultivator?

  The nine major families are naturally very powerful, but according to Yu Qinghong's words, there are at least three families on the mainland whose strength is such that even the nine major families cannot see through and do not want to provoke. They are the Nan Gong family who has been hiding in South Shu, the Dong Fang family of East Dragon, and the Bei Chen family of North Ming.

  Although they are not well-known on the mainland, they are actually an extremely powerful hidden world family.

  This time, the Dragon Platform Conference of the Southern Shu aristocratic families is not only a ranking of the aristocratic families and a resolution of conflicts, but also a distribution of resources, competing for better and more resources. For example, the jade mine occupied by the Jade Family has been coveted by many aristocratic families. There's no way around it; with three countries standing together, everyone has formed a balance, and no one wants to break this balance. As the saying goes, the strongest destruction doesn't come from outside, but from within. The major aristocratic families of Southern Shu can't all coexist peacefully, with too many grudges and conflicts between them. However, private struggles would only deplete the overall strength of Southern Shu, so the Dragon Platform Conference was formed in this way.

  "This time, there are quite a few powerful people coming, or they have come to take revenge. At least twenty aristocratic families have arrived, and Father has also invited the Tianjian Sect's Senior Tianjian as a witness." Yu Qinghong and Yang Tianwen introduced while walking. "Oh, right, the Nan Gong family is also here, they are also here to bear witness."

  "Oh?" Yang Tian asked with some interest. The Nangong family, huh? Let's probe them and see if they have the skills of Li Chengfeng.

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