Chapter 263 Engagement Banquet
Three days passed in a flash.
On the 25th day of the first lunar month, Dongshan Academy, located in Dongcheng, is the ancestral home of the Zuoqiu clan.
Night falls and the lights come on.
The vast and majestic nine-story ancient house, which is filled with the scent of books, is decorated with lights and red silks hanging high, creating a festive and peaceful atmosphere.
In the courtyard, some of the direct descendants of the Zuoqiu clan, as well as the Jiuli clan members summoned by Yinjun to help support the occasion, all dressed in gorgeous clothes, gathered together, chatting and laughing.
Yin Jun’s identity tonight is the head of the Cangli tribe - Li Songgu.
Although everything has been kept simple, it is still very lively, and the ceremony is complicated and very formal.
Zuo Qiumen governed his family with Confucianism and attached great importance to etiquette.
Li Songgu prepared a betrothal gift of 81 pieces, on which were placed the insignias of the nine major tribes, in order to tell the world openly that this engagement was a marriage between the Jiuli tribe and the Zuoqiu clan.
"Snow Sword Tang Ting, I sent two boxes of thousand-year-old snow marrow to congratulate you."
"Wanyan clan of Yingzhou sends a pair of Gu King Jinling."
"Lei Xiao Sect, give us a precious coral tree from the East China Sea."
"Lingxiao Palace...give me a copy of the Taoist spell "Great Compassion Heart Sutra"!"
In addition to Ge Xiantong and other young people of the younger generation, there were also two masters of the imperial palace who were over a hundred years old who came on behalf of the imperial court.
Li Weiyi was wearing a white brocade robe with a cloud pattern and a Qilin design embroidered on the chest, and a gauze blouse of the same color on the outside. Unlike his usual simple attire, he actually had a sense of elegance.
Yin Twenty-four and Yao Yin, who followed beside him, both had pure immortal bodies and were extremely beautiful, but they were made to look like two little maids.
They were busy running around, but they had no complaints.
Know that this is just a show!
"Brother Weiyi, I picked this Great Compassion Mantra for you specially for Jiang Ning." The handsome young man Ge Xiantong stepped forward with a smile.
The force of the field around him was overwhelming, and his eyes were unfathomable, he had actually already reached the state of breaking through.
The invisible aura revealed is like ascending to a higher level.
In martial arts practice, each realm is a different world, and this is absolutely not an exaggeration.
When facing Qi Xiao, Li Weiyi felt that he had the strength to fight. The gap in realm was not so untouchable.
But facing Ge Xiantong today, Li Weiyi felt a strong sense of urgency in his heart. The four words "if you don't advance, you will retreat" were deeply engraved in his mind at this moment.
Li Weiyi was not overwhelmed by the other party's Daozhong realm. He was calm and said, "Don't make trouble. Lord Jiang and I have already drawn a clear line. You are talking nonsense and acting recklessly. Aren't you afraid that my fiancée will pick a fight with you?"
Ge Xiantong thought of the ancient lamp between Zuoqiu Hongting's eyebrows and quickly stopped smiling: "Who dares to cause trouble in Qiuzhou? Taoism is not cheap, and this "Great Compassion Mantra" is definitely priceless. If you have time to come to Lingxiao City with Li Jiao, I will host you!"
After seeing off the court officials, Tang Wanqiu came forward to greet them.
Looking at Ge Xiantong's back, he first congratulated him, and then whispered: "Brother Weiyi, don't go to Lingxiao City. No one is perfect under Xiaotian's command."
Accompanying Tang Wanqiu was an extremely handsome young man with a pure immortal body.
Li Weiyi couldn't see his facial features clearly, only had a feeling of "handsomeness". He was surrounded by mist, as if he was standing in an independent time and space created by himself.
The young man had no interest in communicating with the younger generation and walked straight towards Yin Jun and Zuo Qiu Ling. The space distorted as he moved.
What the three were talking about could not be heard by outsiders.
Li Weiyi sensed an unusual aura: "Who is this?"
"My sister, Tang Wanzhou." Tang Wanqiu said.
Li Weiyi said: "What a terrifying cultivation level."
Tang Wanqiu showed a proud smile: "My sister is just over 30 years old, and her cultivation is too high, so she didn't catch up. If she participated in the Qianlong Lantern Festival, Xuejian Tang Ting would never lose. It's hard for a phoenix to give birth to a unicorn when it's young."
Tang Wanqiu's talent is second only to Luansheng Linyou, Ge Xiantong and Zuoqiu Hongting. He is so confident in his sister, which shows that Tang Wanzhou must be a man of real talent.
Li Weiyi remembered this person.
"The north wind doesn't know that spring is late, and snow covers the fourteen states in the southern border. Tang Wanzhou, the youngest peak in the Jiazi Book, is not Changsheng, but he can tie Changsheng. He is the first person in a thousand years, which is indeed intimidating. Li boy, let's ask for a glass of wedding wine too!"
Shi Liuyu, Shi Jiuzhai, Shi Shishi, Bai Shu and other members of the Wolf King's army came together.
…
"when!"
With the sound of a crisp gong, the engagement ceremony officially began.
Zuoqiu Hongting showed up, not in men's clothing, nor in a Taoist robe.
For the first time, she appeared in front of everyone in a gorgeous woman's attire.
She wore a scarlet gown, her long hair tied up in a high bun, with a jewel-studded gold hairpin in her hair, her waist slender and her skirt trailing on the ground, and her steps were like lotus flowers.
Although she is wearing a veil, one can still see her peerless beauty, with eyebrows like distant ink and eyes like autumn water.
Zuoqiu Hongting and Li Weiyi walked towards the center of the courtyard under the gaze of many people.
There were endless exclamations! Many people did not expect that Zuoqiu Hongting not only had an unparalleled talent for cultivation, but also had a beauty that was unrivaled in the world.
"I'm so envious. I was just a peasant, but I had to watch him grow famous step by step and marry the noble lady from the Zuoqiu family. It hurts more than killing me!" Shi Liuyu drank the whole cup.
Ge Xiantong sighed: "Zuoqiu Hongting is even more stunning than that night. Her appearance is not inferior at all. Lord Jiang has no competitiveness. No wonder someone else became the son-in-law of Zuoqiu Menting."
…
The discussions gradually died down, leaving only the melodious sounds of stringed instruments echoing.
Li Songgu and Zuoqiu Ling each held a red silk in their hands, and one end of the red silk was tied around the wrists of Li Weiyi and Zuoqiu Hongting respectively.
At the host's loud shout, the two sides exchanged tokens.
Li Weiyi naturally did not prepare any token of trust, but Li Ling brought it up with a tray in her hand, which was prepared by Li Songgu a long time ago.
Seeing the treasure on the tray, someone exclaimed: "It's the Wind-Fire Dragon-Phoenix Pendant! When separated into the Wind Dragon Pendant and the Fire Phoenix Pendant, both are first-grade Thousand-Character Artifacts. When put together, it's a third-grade Thousand-Character Artifact."
Li Weiyi took off the Fire Phoenix Pendant and handed it to Zuoqiu Hongting with both hands.
Both of them knew that this was just a formality and didn't take it seriously.
But since we are in the public eye, we still have to perform well.
Zuoqiu Hongting's eyes were full of affection. After taking the phoenix pendant, she took out the token prepared by Zuoqiu Menting with her slender jade fingers.
These two letters were written personally by Chaoran, a member of the Confucian and Taoist school of Zuoqiu. One of the letters was handed to Li Weiyi.
There are blessings on the book sticker.
Each word contains powerful telekinetic energy.
"If you wear this sticker, you can ward off a fatal disaster even if you encounter a powerful enemy in the realm of immortality." Zuoqiu Ling transmitted the message to Li Weiyi.
"The ceremony is over!"
the MC shouted.
"boom!"
Sparks flew into the sky and the atmosphere became lively again.
Zuoqiu Hongting retreated, but Li Weiyi was held back. They all came forward to toast him, and they drank the thousand-year-old wine produced by Zuoqiu Menting.
After drinking dozens of cups, Li Weiyi, who never drinks alcohol before, felt a little tipsy.
Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Shishi rescued him and dragged him to the table of the Earth Wolf King’s army warriors.
Li Weiyi was still in shock and quickly clasped his fists in thanks. He then looked at Shi Shishi and asked, "Where's Lao Qi? Why can't I see him?"
"He is now the overlord of the human world in the Dao Seed Realm. A few days ago, he notified me to attend his Dao Seed Banquet. It is indeed a bit abnormal. Today is your big day, how could he not come?" Shi Shi said.
Bai Shu smiled and said, "Who knows, he may have already gone to Fuzhou."
Li Weiyi did not think about Yang Qingxi. After all, finding someone was such a small matter. With the power of the Qi family in Qiuzhou City, they could just send a subordinate to get it done.
However, Li Weiyi did not expect that, because he and Zuoqiu Hongting were about to get engaged, Qi Xiao was worried that the news would leak out and be detrimental to him, so he went there in person.
Li Weiyi recalled the enthusiasm and excitement when Qi Xiao learned about the underground news in Fuzhou a few days ago, and nodded gently: "It's really possible! He is a person who is extremely desperate and adventurous for immortality. By the way, what is the situation in Fuzhou now?"
Shi Liuyu chuckled: "Fuzhou is the territory of the Jiang family. Why don't you go ask Fairy Yu? The Jiang family knows more about the underground conditions of Fuzhou than anyone else."
Because Jiang Ning was able to control seven phoenix-winged moth kings, and because Li Weiyi fought against all four directions with two swords during the Lantern Festival, the two were tied together by gossipers, and many true and false love stories were spread.
Shi Jiuzhai said: "The exact news has been reported back. There is indeed an underground entrance there. However, the so-called underground immortal palace seems to have been opened tens of thousands of years ago and built into a maze-like ancient sect's ancestral home for cultivation."
"We have only explored a dozen miles from the entrance, and we have discovered a large number of buildings built by the ancients, hundreds of passages, caves, sculptures, stone beasts, martial arts training grounds, altars..."
"If we go deeper, there will be extremely terrible dangers."
"Countless Five Sea Realm masters were killed or injured, and even Dao Seed Realm masters of the older generation fell."
"It is said that someone has found ancient relics and Taoist stone walls, which belonged to a great sect tens of thousands of years ago. Someone also dug up a thousand-year-old medicine, which is five thousand years old. It is rare in the world and its value is inestimable."
Bai Shu was moved and said in surprise, "A thousand-year-old fine medicine is already very rare. Apart from the medicinal fields of the major families, you can only go to the realm of the dead and some dangerous secret places to find it. A five-thousand-year-old fine medicine, there must be no family in the world, right?"
Shi Liuyu was very interested and eager to try: "The church was built in a Fengfu world as huge as a prefecture, and because of some unknown disaster, the church sank into the ground and was buried for tens of thousands of years. Now it has finally seen the light of day. The treasures inside are simply unimaginable."
Li Weiyi asked, "What kind of great sect is it? Is there any explanation?"
Shi Jiuzhai said: "It's hard to say. That happened tens of thousands of years ago. I don't know how many rulers of this land have changed. We can only wait for more exploration news to be reported back, so that we can verify it with the records in ancient books and then make inferences. It must be related to the great sect that gave birth to the ancient immortals..."
"boom!"
Outside the ancestral home, thunder and lightning burst out, and the earth shook.
More than a dozen gold-lacquered boxes containing gifts exploded, and energy overflowed, which turned out to be the mysterious ice of thunder.
The sudden change alarmed all the masters in the courtyard, and they all used their skills to rush out the door.
"Who is so bold as to come to Zuo Qiu's residence and cause trouble?"
Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Liuyu just stood up and wanted to go out to watch the fun.
Suddenly...
A dangerous force that froze both of them to numbness erupted several feet away on the right.
An invisible man in black appeared out of nowhere, moved forward, and swung his sword at Li Weiyi's head.
The garden was filled with murderous aura, the atmosphere was strong and terrifying.
“Boom!”
Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Liuyu, who were both strong enough to be listed in the "Jia Zi Ce", released the external manifestations of their Tao hearts, with the sound of wolves howling loudly in their bodies. They broke through the suppression of each other's thoughts and attacked with their palms.
But it's too slow!
The two of them seemed to be fixed in mid-air and could only watch as the sword hit Li Weiyi's head.
The two were so frightened that their souls left their bodies, their pupils shrank, and they realized that the assassin's cultivation was extremely terrifying, and he might be an immortal.
(End of this chapter)
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