Chapter 329: Chapter 63: Golden Sand Xu Family! I Shall Rise Too
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Changning Huangfu Family, a family with a history of five hundred years.
Back when the Changning Guard was first established, the Changning Huangfu Family migrated from Southern Desert County. During the early days of development, they made numerous contributions and accomplishments.
Of course, those who migrated were a branch of the famous Southern Desert Huangfu Family, not the main family.
The Southern Desert Huangfu Family relied on beast taming and breeding on the great grasslands as their main industry.
Because of this,
This branch of the Changning Huangfu Family also possesses remarkable breeding techniques.
This is also quite normal.
In this world, many family relationships are deeply entangled and extremely complex.
There are very few families that arise from loose cultivators starting from scratch, and they usually have low status.
Sometimes, even a seemingly insignificant small family, if traced back, could be linked to a Purple Mansion Family.
The Daqian Kingdom has been established for over seven thousand years.
The migration of family branches is an extraordinarily complex and epic story.
Today.
The Changning Huangfu Family is hosting a night banquet, and now it is nearing dusk, with the sky gradually darkening. However, the lights on both sides of the street have already been lit, making it as bright as day.
This is also the Huangfu Family displaying their financial power, as even these burning lights represent a large expenditure.
The Huangfu Family’s main residence is high gated and heavily guarded, so ordinary people cannot even reach the entrance without permission.
The walls surrounding the main residence are comparable to city walls, resembling a city within a city.
The towering courtyard walls are built with bluestone, bearing the marks of five hundred years of weathering, and the bluestone bricks are already mottled with traces. It seems as if one can faintly witness the storms and the journey of the Changning Huangfu Family over these five hundred years through those bricks.
At the four corners of the courtyard walls stand tall watchtowers, with exquisite copper bells hanging under the flying eaves.
These copper bells have eight sides, they do not ring with the wind, and their surfaces are carved with intricate patterns, appearing quite unique.
The Southern Desert Huangfu Family originally established themselves on the great grasslands with their superb Beast Taming Techniques, and their clan treasure, the Octagonal Dragon Soul Bell, is well-known throughout the Daqian.
These copper bells are imitated from the Octagonal Dragon Soul Bell, signifying that the Changning Huangfu Family never forgets the protection of their ancestors.
Inside the main residence, it is already brightly lit. Numerous servants and stewards are busily making final preparations, repeatedly checking various details of the arrangements.
In their backdrop, even the buildings with a long history seem to have gained a bit of vitality, radiating new energy.
There is no endless stream of carriages at the entrance of the main residence, it is rather quiet.
After all, this time the Huangfu Family has only invited Eighth-Grade Noble Families, and some key figures of the Changning Guard.
Such as Lord City Lord of the City Chief’s Mansion, Shopkeeper Qiaan of Qiaan’s Trading Company, or some heads of large commercial organizations, etc.
Only a dozen or so people are qualified to be invited.
"Lady Jii, Younger Brother An Bang, Younger Brother Shouzhe," Huangfu Jinhuan dressed formally to personally welcome the distinguished guests, seeing Wang Shouzhe, Xu Anbang, and Lady Jii alighting together from the carriage, with no signs of displeasure.
Instead, his face was full of smiles, with the etiquette being very proper.
Wang Shouzhe and Xu Anbang naturally exchanged cordial pleasantries with Huangfu Jinhuan, as if they were longtime friends, friendly and warm.
As the invitees, they also presented gifts that matched the status of the family.
As if there had never been any animosity before, neither side had ever engaged in deadly business competition.
This is the facade of harmony among the Daqian Kingdom’s noble families.
No matter how fierce the competition behind the scenes may be due to some matter,
As long as no face has been publicly torn, the surface etiquette must still be maintained.
This differs from the situation between the Wang Family and the Liu Family and the Zhao Family back then, as the Wang Family had already completely broken ties with them, leaving no room for reconciliation.
The venue for the Huangfu Family’s night banquet is in the front hall.
With rounds of cordial greetings and discreet probing for information among each other,
The guests arrived one after another.
Among them, Lord City Lord Xiahou Hongde, and Purple Mansion’s Direct Disciple Faang You’an, were personally received and hosted by the Huangfu Family’s ancestor, Ancestor Hua Ye.
This is the set rule and etiquette applicable everywhere—cultivation level and status determine the difference in identity. It was appropriate for Ancestor Hua Ye to personally greet and host them.
As for those core disciples from the Purple Mansion Academy, they all sat at the head seats with Faang You’an.
After all, they are core disciples, with a great possibility of becoming Celestial Human Realm cultivators and guarding a region for the Purple Mansion Academy in the future.
While Wang Shouzhe and representatives of the Eighth-Grade Noble Families were arranged at the secondary seats, accompanied by Huangfu Jinhuan himself.
It was the first time Wang Shouzhe had met Ancestor Hua Ye.
Due to cultivating the "Red Dragon True Technique" to a profound level, Ancestor Hua Ye’s hair was as red as fire, giving him an energetic and naturally imposing aura of arrogance.
Not surprising,
Ancestor Hua Ye is the third-generation Celestial Human Ancestor of the Celestial Person Huangfu Family, once having reached a talent level of Middle Grade B. It is said that he ascended to the Celestial Human Realm around the age of one hundred and forty.
Compared to the celestial pride like Faang You’an in the academy, naturally it was not on par. But among the core disciples, he would be among the leading ranks.
Because of his rapid ascension back then, the Celestial Person Huangfu Family had a period of about sixty years when they had two peak Celestial Human Realm ancestors in the family.