The Long Journey to Immortality

In a short while, the courtyard gate was opened wide to everyone.

The second hurdle has been overcome.

After passing through a garden courtyard, the guests, best man, and Fang Lin arrived at the final challenge.

This time, the third checkpoint was guarded by a female cultivator who was on good terms with the woman.

As a close friend, this female cultivator was naturally acquainted with Fang Lin, and her test was reasonable and wouldn't cause any awkwardness between them.

However, precisely because of this, this female cultivator was much more polite to Fang Lin than the two children from before.

The female cultivator, who was also dressed in a new silk outfit, took the initiative to bow and said, "Senior Fang Lin, I will be guarding this third trial. Please be on guard and forgive my rudeness."

"No problem, no problem," Fang Lin said with a smile. "Hurry up and give me the questions."

"The third test is to see just how much betrothal gift Senior Fang Lin has prepared," the female cultivator said. "Although you and Sister Han have known each other for over three hundred years, the proper etiquette cannot be neglected."

"Now that we have fulfilled our courtesy, the third door will naturally open."

Having made prior arrangements, Fang Lin naturally did not forget to organize the prepared betrothal gifts, write them down on a gift list, and place them in his storage bag.

Although the woman's family was a merchant family three hundred years ago, over the course of those three hundred years, with Fang Lin's involvement and the woman's own improvement in cultivation, they gradually transformed into a family of cultivators.

Therefore, the betrothal gifts prepared by Fang Lin, a master of the Nascent Soul Realm, for the woman's family were closely related to his cultivation.

And since the woman is the eldest, strongest, and most accomplished elder in the family, sending out the betrothal gifts is practically like moving money from one pocket to another.

In addition, there were so many guests present.

The betrothal gifts should be as large, as rare, and as frightening as possible.

Fang Lin patted his storage bag and took out all the betrothal gifts inside. Then, he casually handed the list of gifts, which was of magical artifact quality, to the female cultivator. "Miss Ma, please take a look. These are the betrothal gifts I prepared for Xiao Han."

The betrothal gifts were laid out on the ground, and all the guests gasped in astonishment, whispering among themselves as they marveled at their preciousness.

Han Lu, this "country bumpkin," wanted to sigh, but couldn't express any feelings.

There was nothing Han Lu could do; apart from a few top-grade spirit stones used as decorations, she didn't recognize any of the other cultivation resources in the betrothal gifts, so she couldn't possibly utter any heartfelt exclamations.

Chapter 503 Dowry

However, judging from the appearance of the other guests, Han Lu could imagine that the pile of betrothal gifts in front of Fang Lin must be rare, precious, and expensive.

To broaden her horizons, she paused time, moved closer, and found a suitable angle and distance to read the gift list personally written by Fang Lin.

However, simply knowing the name of something does not necessarily mean one can understand its purpose, origin, and price.

Since it was just a gift list, it only listed the specific types and quantities of the betrothal gifts.

The gift list contains a total of eighty-one items, categorized into different types.

Of the eighty-one items, a full seventy-three were items for which Han Lu only recognized the few characters that made up the names of the gifts, making it impossible for her to find the true owner from the pile of betrothal gifts based on those few characters alone.

There was no way around it; the ancient cultivation era was a full 100,000 years apart from the era in which Han Lu lived.

Even Xiaoyaozi was only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and his vision was a hundred times less than that of a Nascent Soul realm expert.

Han Lu couldn't recognize the cultivation resources on the gift list that had long been extinct.

Han Lu couldn't recognize the resources at the Nascent Soul level or even the Divine Transformation level on the gift list.

All she could recognize were spirit stones, some common pills used by Golden Core cultivators, and ordinary gold and silver ornaments.

Han Lu felt quite helpless about this.

With the idea that participation is the most important thing, Han Lu still spent some time writing down the names of the gifts on the gift list.

She felt that these things might come in handy in the future.

The gift list was comprehensive, but it was somewhat lacking.

The gifts mainly consist of elixirs, spiritual plants, and magical artifacts, supplemented by ordinary gold, silver, and jade items.

The only missing element is magical beasts and true spirit materials, which are very important resources for human cultivators.

The reason for this is naturally to avoid suspicion.

Fang Lin couldn't guarantee that the magical beasts and true spirits present would be in a good mood after seeing their own kind's "organs" being given away as gifts.

Since there's no way to guarantee it, it's better to keep quiet and remove this important part from the gift list to avoid controversy.

Many of the gifts did not belong to Fang Lin personally, but were collected by other human cultivators.

Humans won't miss such a great opportunity to flex their muscles.

The high-ranking human cultivators had absolutely no doubt about Fang Lin's reputation.

These items that were temporarily lent out will surely return to their storage bags after the wedding.

Simply displaying betrothal gifts is not enough to make people realize their actual value.

Therefore, a presentation segment was introduced.

Fengyang read out the gift list, while another best man monk picked out the corresponding gift from the betrothal gifts and displayed it in front of everyone.

However, it was still just a name without any specific description, so Han Lu was still completely clueless about what made these undoubtedly precious things so special.

She could actually offer some critique of those ordinary pieces of jewelry, analyzing what made them beautiful.

In particular, a pair of yellow jade earrings made Han Lu want to take them home.

With ample preparation, valuable gifts, and everything arranged perfectly, it naturally won thunderous applause.

Many monster tribes that originally did not believe that humans were capable of fighting against dragons have come to truly appreciate the wealth and power that humans now possess through this gift list.

At this point, the saying "the economic base determines the superstructure" is no longer applicable.

However, the vast majority of magical beasts and true spirits still understand the significance of the quantity of cultivation resources for a race.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to seize territory and exploit the various resources on the land.

A betrothal gift that could impress even Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation Realm demonic beasts, and True Spirits would naturally have no reason not to open this third door.

The gift list had just been read aloud when the third door opened.

This third door isn't one that just anyone can enter.

Not to mention the guests who were just acquaintances, even Feng Jiao could only wait in the courtyard and watch the four best men and Fang Lin walk into the third door.

Han Lu had no idea what was going on inside the third door.

But she was certain that Fang Lin had probably not faced any further trials inside this third door.

Five minutes later, Fang Lin returned with his four groomsmen.

A red carriage followed behind them.

There were no animals pulling in front of the carriage.

This carriage floats and moves forward using spiritual power.

Needless to say, the bride-to-be at this wedding was sitting in this car.

Although everyone was polite and did not use magic or divine sense to investigate the situation inside the carriage.

However, in order to make Fang Lin's wedding a grand affair, the carriage responsible for transporting the bride was actually a flying magical artifact of the spiritual level, fully equipped with all kinds of protection.

Even if some reckless person were to use their divine sense to probe the situation inside the carriage in order to satisfy their curiosity, they would only return empty-handed.

The guests invited to participate in the morning's wedding procession returned along the same route, accompanied by the four best men, Fang Lin, and the red carriage.

On the way back, ordinary people stood along the street, shouting auspicious words to the wedding procession.

Each of the four groomsmen holds a storage bag and casually throws out the gold and silver inside as a form of lucky money.

These meager amounts of ordinary gold and silver are worthless to cultivators.

One can imagine that the gold and silver given away at Fang Lin's wedding alone would be enough to allow the mortals living in Chaoquan City to live a life of luxury for several years.

During the time his spiritual power was sealed, Fang Lin was well aware of the hardships that mortals endured in this chaotic world.

Naturally, I'd like to be a good person on my special day.

The morning's public events concluded only after the wedding procession escorted the bride and groom back to the banquet hall where the wedding banquet would be held that evening.

After all, it was Fang Lin's wedding, and the human cultivators who planned the wedding ceremony gave Fang Lin sufficient autonomy.

Many activities that are better suited to having fun with friends and brothers are done privately.

Unfortunately, since the Moon Pearl was worn by Feng Jiao, she had no chance to participate in these private activities.

Slightly disappointed, Fengjiao could only leave with the crowd, hoping that after the wedding, her father could tell her in private about the interesting things she hadn't seen, satisfying her curiosity.

Back in her room, Feng Jiao quickly entered a meditative state to cultivate the "True Phoenix Manual," hoping to pass through this anxious waiting time as soon as possible and begin the banquet she was looking forward to.

Han Lu also fast-forwarded decisively, making time flow faster, looking forward to seeing the precious gifts from other ethnic groups at the banquet.

In the blink of an eye, three hours had passed.

Feng Jiao opened her eyes and woke up from her meditative state. Han Lu immediately changed the time flow back to double speed.

Holding invitations, Fengjiao and Xiaomei went to the banquet together.

Although Xiaomei is nominally Fengjiao's servant, she is, after all, a true spirit in the Transformation Realm.

Her name was on the invitation sent to Fengyang.

As the best man, Feng Yang needed to stay close to Fang Lin and help him.

Naturally, Xiaomei was arranged to sit next to Fengjiao at the table and help Fengyang take care of her daughter.

After handing in their invitations in front of the banquet hall, Feng Jiao and Xiao Mei were led to their seats by a human female cultivator.

There were a total of ninety-nine tables in the hall.

There are eight seats at one table.

In other words, at least seven hundred people, including true spirits, magical beasts, and human cultivators from various wild races, were invited to Fang Lin's wedding.

This scene couldn't be any bigger.

Chapter 504 The Ceremony Ends

With eight people per table, Feng Jiao and Xiao Mei naturally had to sit with the other, less familiar True Spirits or Demonic Beasts.