Chapter 255 (1/2)
Zhang Liena was walking through one of the corridors in her mansion. It had been about a week since her son was born. Normally it would take at least a month to get back to full health. With the technology that her husband supplied the sect with the time required went down dramatically.
She was just returning from one of the better sect doctors. The man didn't hold a candle to her husband but he was the next best thing. She was given the seal of approval, now was the time to get ready to move out. Her husband had sent her a message that he had arrived at the Divine Fist Sect headquarters and that he would be setting up a teleportation gate.
He also sent another message that worried her. Previously the plan was for only the nascent soul elders to move out. Now on the other hand she was supposed to bring over more people. He gave her instructions to take the formation masters as well as the healers that were proficient with holy energies.
Zhang Dong had set up various branches of his own original dao. There were special sections that trained people in his advanced heavenly lightning skills. The other one was for his healing dao with the holy spiritual energy. Even with those two created there was no one who was proficient in both as him. Even his two current disciples had a hard time in adding a second dao to their repertoire.
Both of them tried with limited success, Liena even let her younger sister try one of them out but she failed miserably with both. Nuana her sister was handed the wind cultivation method that she herself was cultivating instead. She already knew that Zhang Dong was the person that made him and not his so-called master, Wei Hung.
While she continued to walk she thought back to the time the two got married. She had been quite eager to be accepted as Zhang Dong's bride. Who wouldn't be? He was a young nascent soul master, any woman in her position would have given herself to someone like him. He was handsome, strong, and still young with a bright future ahead. There wasn't really anyone that could match him in his age bracket.
She might have gone through with the wedding with superficial reasoning. At that time she thought that she was in love, there was a sense of longing to be together with that man. In time she realized that it wasn't that easy.
It was more due to her upbringing that this sense of wanting originated. He was just the perfect partner for any young lady at her age. He was just the right business choice with the best future prospect out of them all.
She came to a stop and glanced to the side. There she could see her young daughter running around along with some of the maids, her grandfather was also there. Liena started smiling as her little boy was also out there. He was sleeping in a special protective crib that would keep him warm even in cold weather.
'That might have been then… but now I see that the choice was the only right one.'
After some time passed she noticed that her stone-faced husband wasn't quite the man that she thought he was. The word that she would describe him the most would be 'quirky'. He would put up a facade to keep people out but after it melted, his true character surfaced.
Zhang Dong the Patriarch that everyone loved was just a face that he used. In reality, he was very awkward and even shy. He had trouble in expressing his emotions at first but the two had crossed that bridge with time.
Even now Liena remembered one of the times that he prepared a surprise for her. It was exactly a year after they got married. He called it an 'anniversary', it was quite the novel experience. There was a surprise dinner party with only the two of them at a faraway location. A nice moonlight dinner with just the two of them. The way that he blushed that time was something that she would remember fondly to this day.
'Think it was since then…'
”Matriarch Liena, we are ready for your inspection. Lord Qiang has been informed and he will be arriving shortly.”
Her train of thought got interrupted after she arrived at her destination. This was a hidden gathering room with enough space for over a thousand people to fit in. This would be also close to the number of sect brothers and sisters that would be attending in this expedition. Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click for visiting.
”Ah yes, tell him to hurry up, we can't have the Patriarch wait after he activates the teleportation gate.”
She covered her face with one of her battle fans while speaking. These weapons were brand new and of the heaven grading, specially made by her husband. It was also one of the anniversary gifts that he had offered her.
Actually, after the two had started doing these anniversary events the sect people picked up on the trend. It started to be popular for couples to do things such as this. Both of them would give each other some kind of gift each year.
This left Liena in a bit of a bind. She wasn't that good at making items and could only spend spirit stones on buying them from other people. She tried making up that gap in other fields that her husband greatly appreciated.
She blushed a bit after thinking about that last part. The person that called out to her was still there but couldn't see her face that was behind that large jade green fan. She decided to move forward to inspect her troops.
She could see many people in various robes. There were about a hundred sect elders here that were above the core formation level. After five years of cultivating most of the elders that were stuck at the foundation establishment realm made a breakthrough. With the spirit vein in place and Zhang Dong's improved cultivation manuals, everyone soared.
The United Element Sect was slowly making up for the time. They now had a similar number of core formation seniors to similar-sized sects. With the better cultivation methods, they were also of higher quality.
”Yes, like that. Please make sure to form a line towards the teleportation gate, the moment the Patriarch activates the beacon we will move through. We aren't sure what will be on the other side so be ready for battle!”