As the council said that, the crowd dispersed to search for materials to create their houses; they had been informed of the resources around the area and where to locate them, also not to venture beyond one hundred miles into the forest if they didn't want to die.

Several weeks passed. The soon-to-be city was quite busy with the clans settling in. Damian was walking around the city.

In the Violet Sky clan, the council was a decision-making organism and a power showcase for the family. However, most of the administrative work had been delegated to several clansmen more adept at planning.

So Damian could enjoy his walk. He was going to meet the Lambert clan; he had already gone to the Markov and the Li clans; he had created a bag of holding for the patriarch of the Li and the council members of the Markov and Lambert clan.

As he reached the Lambert clan state, a member of the Lambert clan approached, and said, "Lord Damian, you are being expected. Please follow me".

Damian was a little taken aback, but then he remembered they were diviners. As such, they should have been able to divine his coming here.

Damian observed the state of the Lambert clan, they indeed had some capable constructors, and the houses were small but beautifully decorated even on the outside, Damian could only wonder what the outside would look like, what prevailed through the state was vegetation and gardens as well as communal areas, no doubt the Lambert's were quite social humans.

They soon entered a wooden arch that had a stair leading downwards. Small Qi-made flames illuminated their path. Damian continued following the Lambert clansmen. As they went in deeper, Damian began to notice the Qi was becoming thicker and purer.

After a few minutes, they arrived at a large room. Damian could not help but feel mesmerized by the beauty of it. It was a giant Quartz cave; the floor was made of quartz tiles, the natural quartz columns were there and at the far end four quartz seats stood, and four people were sitting on them. He had met them before; they were the council of the Lambert clan whom he had come to meet.

When Damian was around five meters in front of the council of the Lambert clan, the guard came to a halt and said, "Elders of the council as requested I have escorted lord Damian of the Violet Sky clan, with your permission this clansman will take his leave."

Charlotte motioned for the guard to leave. He turned and walked away. Once the guard was gone, she spoke, "Elder Damian, it is a pleasure to see you are doing well. We understand you come bringing gifts for us"

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Damian was once more taken aback but didn't let it be shown on his face, but he wondered just how much could they divine into the future. No doubt they could become an invaluable ally in the future.

Damian calmly spoke, "Indeed Elder Charlotte, I come bearing a gift for the council of the Lambert hoping to strengthen our relationship and work together to achieve common goals," as he said that he produced the four bags of holding and handed one to each of them.

Then Damian continued "These are bags of holding I have created with my meager skills, however, I hope these will come to serve your needs, to use bind them to you, you will need to put a drop of blood, then no one but you will be able to open it as long as you are alive or the other party spends arduous time breaking the binding, to use it you just insert a little QI in the bag of holding and the space available and its contents will become available to you and with a thought you can guard or reiterative anything as long as is not alive and it's not insanely stronger than the bag itself, that bag should hold anything in the middle stages of the Golden Core realm and below." As he explained the uses of the bag of holding that Damian had a passionate face. After all, he enjoyed his craft.

All the council members bind their bags of holding and said gave their thanks to Damian for such a useful gift.

Damian exchanged a few more pleasantries and talked praising their divination skills and how impressed he was, while doing so, several glances were exchanged between Damian and Cedric.

As Damian was about to say his goodbyes Cedric spoke: "Elder Damian, we would like to give you a token of our gratitude for the gift you bought us. Please follow me" as he said so he stood from his seat and began walking towards the exit. Damian followed behind him.

They emerged from the underground quartz cave and went towards an above-average house when compared with the rest of the Lambert clan.

Cedric and Damian went inside the house there Damian was led toward a small room with a small table and two chairs.

On the table, a tea set was neatly put.

Cedric offered Damian a seat and waited for him. Damian sat and saw Cedric leave the room. He observed the unique design of the room it seemed more like inside a tree than a house. Several spiritual plants were in pots and to the right a door frame that leads towards a garden that similarly has several spiritual plants. As Damian took in the unique beauty of natural harmony Cedric returned with a pot and a few spirit herbs.

Cedric sat opposite to Damian and began to prepare the herbs cutting the leaves, then put the leaves on the table and began to fold them using his hands. After a few minutes, several leaves were folded on the table.

Then Cedric proceeded to put the leaves in the teapot. Several breaths later, he slowly pours hot water into the pot.

Damian paid close attention to the beauty of a master at work. Cedric's movements were precise and swift with a certain beauty to them. Damian could feel dense Qi swirling around the process almost like it was dancing along Cedric's movements as it was directed into the teapot.

After several more breaths, Cedric put served a tall vessel. After letting the tea rest for a few more breaths, Cedric poured the tea from the vessel into the tea bowl.