Elder Nine Clouds Elegant Formations, Qi Lan was informed of Nine Clouds Purple Miasma's soon visit and was preparing.
She had known Nine Clouds Purple Miasma as he used to be a part of her sect, until he grew and surpassed that. He had found a continent with spirits and was in closed cultivation for thousands of years.
Now he had a disciple somehow and was going through each district as the tradition is. The first was Sword City but next was Green Earth Paradise.
In order to welcome her old disciple and now fellow Elder, she had been preparing a fantastic display of firework formations and a bountiful feast.
As her name implies, Qi Lan was a formations master and mainly focused on creating formations in order to use her laws. In many ways it was stronger than normal external cultivation but it required time to make.
She had been preparing for the last few days, creating a formation that would let out lights of all different colours that are invited with different comprehension.
This was her gift to Nine Clouds Purple Miasma's disciple, a gift as his Aunt-Master. She had gone to different high level master of different paths and used them to create special pills.
The pills would then be used in a formation to spread them through a firework. This was a combination of alchemy and formations. Everything in cultivation was connected, one rarely only used one path.
Then she got a transmission that Nine Clouds Purple Miasma and his disciple Hou Zhigong had left Sword City.
Qi Lan let out a breath and stood in front of the teleportation gate, with an demeanor of a fairy. She waited patiently as the Master and disciple would travel to the teleportation gate.
Then on her end, the gate started to release smoke which was sucked into a vortex in the centre. The smoke shimmered and it became the rough and mountainous terrain of Cloud Sword Mountains.
Before Nine Clouds Purple Miasma and his disciple could step into the gate, QI Lan greeted them,
"Mo Huai! How is my disciple and fellow Elder!" She greeted them with a big smile and open arms.
Nine Clouds Purple Miasma tried to hold back a smirk but couldn't and he shook his head. He flew into the gateway and into Green Earth Paradise.
"I told you not to call me that, but I'll let you off." Nine Clouds Purple Miasma flew right in front of Qi Lan and hugged her.
"It is good to see you, I'm finally out..."
"About time. And I heard you have a disciple now!?"
Nine Clouds Purple Miasma grabbed Hou by the shoulders and presented him in front.
"He had a misfortune incident with turning into a rock, how do you like this look I made?" Nine Clouds Purple Miasma showed of Hou and his constructed body to QI Lan.
"Haha, he's...very inspired. This is like a miniature Mo Huai!"
"Yes I modelled it after myself, although he does look a little different, like this hair" Nine Clouds Purple Miasma took Hou's hair and showed of the red tips from his previous body.
"It is nice to meet you, think of me as your Aunt-Master. Hou Zhigong, or can I call you Zhigong" QI Lan instantly wanted to bond and call him by his first name
"Go for it, hello Aunt Elegant Formations..?"
"Don't call me that, it's so stuffy. Don't tell me that's what you call Mo Huai 'Purple Miasma'? Call me Qi Lan."
"Haha, that is what I call master... Actually I didn't know his name until you said it" Hou admitted to Qi Lan.
Instantly, Qi Lan gave a stare to Mo Huai, Nine Clouds Purple Miasma. He flicked reactively then looked away embarrassed.
"His name is Mo Huai, just call him Mo, little Zhigong" Qi Lan was already asserting her mastership over Hou since she was his master's master.
"I will, thank you Qi Lan"
"Your welcome, anyway besides all that I have a present for you little Zhigong!"
"Not for me?" Mo Huai had his cheeky side exposed as soon as he was with his master-colleague. Before Hou had only seen him serious and stately. Now he saw his human side.
"You shut up, little Zhigong just look up into the sky that all I want you to do"
Hou nodded and took a deep breath, looking into the sky. He watched in anticipation when suddenly a loud sound and bang occured!
He jumped but still looked into the sky, huge light appeared. Then they morphed into different forms like dragons or crickets, men fighting, or even a boy pouring tea.
Hundreds of forms and actions appeared, each one giving Hou ske comprehension on these laws. Now when he gets laws that are compatible he can get more power out of them and understand them more.
Finally, the final form occured and the lights fizzled out, leaving only a black smog which was quickly cleaned up.
"How was it? I call it the Hundred Form Inheritance. It's a mixture of alchemy and formations to impart knowledge with some flashy show. I made it just for you Zhigong, congratulations on becoming a member of the Nine Clouds Sovereign Sect!"
Hou started to tear up, not only from Qi Lan's warmness but from what he saw. In those 100 form's Hou had seen the lives and experiences of many, expanding his vision of the world.
Hou blinked rapidly, draining the tears. He then turned to Qi Lan and gave a deep bow,
"Thank you Aunty Qi Lan, from the bottom of my heart. I can tell you really tried just for me, thank you."
Instead of responding, Qi Lan held Hou's head and patted it. The. He stopped his bow and they all moved on, now was a feast!
Qi Lan was wearing a white flowing dress, with pink veils which made her look like a cloudy fairy. Her skin was as white as a midday cloud in the middle of summer. She had black hair which contrasted her light aesthetic, in it was various golden accessories.
She waved her hand, the whole dress flowing. Then from nowhere, the air In front of her had transformed.
A huge banquet of steaming hot food was laid out on a large table. She then rung a bell and announced,
"The feast has begun!"