Chapter 169: Wedding ritual

“I was initially a little confused as to why you would suddenly out of nowhere introduce me to take in a male cultivator that you have no close relationship with as my direct disciple.”

“But from the looks of things, you seem to be aware of the combat capabilities that Sebastian possesses, which is why you introduced him to me and seemed to be rather hell-bent on having me accept him as my direct disciple.”

“Now… this is what I’m curious about…”

“Why wouldn’t you just tell me straight up about Sebastian’s combat capabilities?”

“Instead, you actually went in such a roundabout way of trying to get me to accept him as my direct disciple by judging his talisman crafting skills?”

“I mean, you are aware that my criteria for taking in direct disciples isn’t just solely based on their talisman crafting skills, otherwise, I wouldn’t have taken in Feng Xue as my direct disciple.”

Right after Ning Zhi finished speaking, Ning Zhi began looking closely into Veronica’s eyes as she waited for Veronica’s answer.

Meanwhile, upon hearing what Ning Zhi said, Veronica couldn’t but think to herself.

“This arrogant and dumb woman, she actually thinks that I introduced Sebastian to her because I was aware of Sebastian’s combat capabilities.”

“Tsk, I only just learned of that myself a while ago.”

“Trying to see if I’m hiding any more secrets about Sebastian that you are unaware of? You can keep trying, but you won’t learn anything from me!”

Upon thinking up to here, Veronica ignored Ning Zhi as she picked up the bottle of wine that was on the table, then began pouring wine into her wine glass.

Right after, Veronica picked up her wine glass and began taking small sips from time to time while watching the first performance that was currently being performed at the front of the wedding venue.

For the wedding, there were going to be a various number of performances being performed, and the first performance was a sword dance performance that was being performed by a few beautiful looking female cultivators.

Meanwhile, upon seeing that Veronica was purposely ignoring her…

This time, it was Ning Zhi’s turn to become annoyed.

However, Ning Zhi’s annoyance disappeared quickly when she remembered that Sebastian was currently already her direct disciple, thus, even if Sebastian indeed possesses other secrets, it was just a matter of time that she would be able to find out and become aware of what those secrets were.

“Tsk, ignoring me on purpose?”

“This woman is definitely aware of something that I’m unaware of; she has been acting rather unlikely of herself whenever Sebastian is involved in our conversations.”

“No matter. In any case, Sebastian is already my direct disciple, therefore, it’s just a matter of time I will find out just what she is actually trying to hide from me.”

Upon thinking up to here, Ning Zhi finally turned her gaze away from Veronica, then looked over to the front of the wedding venue and began watching the sword dance performance.

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After what seemed like 2 hours had passed, the last performance finally came to an end, and it was time for the wedding ritual to commence.

Normally, right after all of the performances had come to an end, the next stage of the wedding would be for the bride and groom to exchange their vows, followed by the final stage where the groom will remain at the wedding venue to greet the guests and accompany the guests to a few drinks.

Something such as a wedding ritual wasn’t something that was normally held unless it was a wedding between high realm cultivators who were truly in love with each other.

After all, not only did a wedding ritual cost a huge amount of resources, but more importantly, the wedding ritual was pointless most of the time.

There was a reason why Sebastian’s previous wedding didn’t have a wedding ritual at all, and all of the grooms and brides merely took turns in exchanging their vows at the same wedding venue right after the wedding’s performances had ended.

Right as the last performance had come to an end, Coril stood up from his seat, then clapped his hands loudly and shouted out.

“Clap! Clap!”

“Alright, bring out the ritual goods, it’s time to begin the wedding ritual!”

Right as Coril was done shouting out, a bunch of servants could be seen hurriedly carrying a bunch of huge sacks over to the open field that was situated by the right side of the wedding venue.

Right after, Coril looked over to everyone in the wedding venue, then said, “Everyone, come, follow me to the open field.”

At the open field, a huge cloth could be seen covering onto something that was over 20 meters tall, and right in front of the cloth was what seemed to be a ritual circle that had been set up beforehand.

At the front of the ritual circle, there was a huge incense copper incense burner, and 3 rather tall unlit incense sticks that were about 3 meters tall could be seen stuck into the incense burner.

After what seemed like 5 minutes had passed, whereby over 100 huge sacks had been carried over to the ritual circle…

Coril began flying over to the top of the cloth, then unveiled the cloth, revealing the objects that were hidden beneath the cloth.

Immediately, a dragon statue and a phoenix statue that were each over 20 meters tall and carved out of wood appeared before everyone’s eyes.

Right after, Coril used his spiritual sense to control onto the over 100 huge sacks and began unloading the contents within the huge sacks around the dragon and phoenix statues.

The moment the contents within the huge sacks were unloaded, all of the foundation establishment realm and energy refining realm cultivators that were present immediately opened their eyes wide as they stared blankly at the scene before their eyes.

Energy stones and medicinal herbs, those were what that were contained within all of the huge sacks!

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