"Master Hongqing, why are you here?" Song Ci asked Fang Jian in surprise.
Ke Mengqing stepped forward and slapped Fang Jian on the shoulder, asking, "I heard you've made another great contribution and got promoted?"
Fang Jian chuckled and said, "It was all thanks to the Grand Master that I was promoted to the rank of Fourth Rank Official of the Taixuan Province, and concurrently served as the Judicial God of the Heavenly Court."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Master Shu Ting shook his head and said, "It's good to be capable. You can easily achieve great merits and get promoted. We, for example, have been hanging around in the Heavenly Court for over a hundred thousand years, but we're still just a mere fifth-rank official."
Ke Mengqing grabbed Fang Jian and said, "Since you've been promoted, you have to treat us. How about a small dragon and phoenix banquet at Penglai Tianjie?"
"Dragon and Phoenix Banquet?" Fang Jian was shocked when he heard that. Is there really something to eat like dragons and phoenixes?
Seeing Fang Jian's surprised expression, Chang Xia Zhenren beside him laughed and said, "They are all demonic beasts bred with the blood of dragons and phoenixes. Their appearance and flesh are no different from dragons and phoenixes, but they have no intelligence and are no different from wild beasts. The Great Celestial Venerable issued an imperial decree a million years ago that no immortal or god is allowed to slaughter or eat dragons and phoenixes at will, otherwise they will be killed and their forms destroyed."
Zhenren Quan Jing said, "Many of the dragon and phoenix meat sold on Tian Street are actually raised by the Four Seas Dragon Palace and Four Directions Phoenix Mountain. After all, no one else can get that much blood."
Good boy, now Fang Jian finally understood.
It is said that a million years ago, there were gods who specialized in hunting dragons and phoenixes for their meat. The Jade Emperor would sometimes eat some of the dragon livers and phoenix marrows offered as tribute. But soon everyone realized something was wrong, because there were fewer and fewer dragons and phoenixes in the world, especially the phoenix, which was almost becoming an endangered species.
So the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas and the Phoenix Ancestors of the Four Mountains came to the Heavenly Palace together to cry and plead with the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor then issued an edict, forbidding any immortal or god to hunt purebred dragons and phoenixes.
At that time, this decree made two people very unhappy for a while. One was Nezha who loved killing dragons, and the other was Erlang Shen who loved hunting.
Seventy percent of the dragon liver and phoenix marrow that the Jade Emperor ate back then were tributes from these two people.
However, who would dare to disobey the Jade Emperor's decree? Over the past one million years, the number of dragons and phoenixes in the world has increased. Not to mention the dragon clan, the phoenix clan has been protected by the Heavenly Court for a million years, and now the number of purebred phoenixes has reached nearly ten million.
However, the phoenix is not like the dragon. Most phoenixes like to hide in uninhabited places and rarely show up. It can be said that they are very low-key, so low-key that almost no one has seen a phoenix, and any major events in the world have nothing to do with them.
Moreover, the Phoenix rarely intermarries with outsiders. All marriages are within the tribe, with the Phoenix being male and the Huang being female, so the internal circulation can be perfectly achieved.
However, although no one hunts dragons and phoenixes, the "market demand" is still huge.
As long as there is demand, there will naturally be killing, even if it is poaching?
In order to deal with this situation, the dragon and phoenix tribes came up with a solution. They used their own dragon and phoenix bloodlines to breed some dragons and phoenixes specifically for human consumption.
However, these 'dragons and phoenixes' will not be born with any intelligence at all, and are completely monsters without any wisdom.
Of course, there are exceptions. Some bred "dragons and phoenixes" are born with intelligence, but such things are one in a million. Moreover, once such an "outlier" appears, the dragon and phoenix clans will value it extremely.
Because they can be born with intelligence under such circumstances, their talent must be extraordinary and they will be immediately accepted into the tribe and given the same status as the same clan.
These bred 'dragon and phoenix' are called 'little dragon and phoenix'.
However, facing Ke Mengqing's fiery gaze, Fang Jian said helplessly, "How much merit does it take to have a meal at this little dragon and phoenix banquet?"
Ke Mengqing smiled and said, "Not much, not much. One meal only gives you 500,000 merits."
Although the little dragon and phoenix cannot be born with intelligence, their cultivation is real, and their flesh and blood are no different from those of real dragons and phoenixes. Moreover, raising little dragons and phoenixes requires a large amount of the blood of real dragons and phoenixes, so the price is of course more expensive.
"That's not much." Fang Jian was shocked, and then said, "But I'm penniless now, and I don't have any merit at all."
Upon hearing this, Ke Mengqing's face was filled with disbelief. He asked, "Didn't the Grand Envoy reward you for your merits?"
Fang Jian nodded and said, "I did give you a little as a reward, but I've already spent it all."
"Spend it all?" Ke Mengqing asked with a look of suspicion on his face, "You're not saying this just because I asked you to treat us, are you? Are you so stingy?"
Fang Jian spread his hands and said, "Indeed, I have spent it all. Why would I lie to you? Because I asked someone to help me refine a Taiyi Jinxian magic weapon, so I spent it all."
"A Taiyi Golden Immortal artifact?!" Ke Mengqing and the other four were horrified upon hearing this. They looked at each other, then stared at Fang Jian and said, "A Taiyi Golden Immortal artifact would cost nearly eight million merits to buy at Laojun Pavilion in Penglai Tianjie. How could the Grand Envoy reward you with so much?"
"Yeah." Fang Jian nodded, and at the same time felt in his heart that compared to this, the Hongmeng Editor is really conscientious!
Ke Mengqing was immediately shocked. "Is this what you call a little?"
Master Shu Ting sighed, "At my current rate, it would take me a hundred years to earn eight million merits."
"The magic weapon of Taiyi Golden Immortal." When Master Changxia said this, he immediately felt that the Golden Immortal-level 'Shenhong Sword' that he had accumulated merits for a long time was not up to standard.
The five people sighed for a while. Fang Jian was both envious and helpless. There was nothing they could do. Who told him that his starting point was higher than theirs?
"Huh?" Fang Jian asked, "Where's Master Shao?"
"Hey." Ke Mengqing waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about him. He has been drinking every day since he came to Jambudvīpa."
Fang Jian was a little puzzled when he heard this and asked, "Didn't the Grand Master send you here to investigate the destruction of Buddhism by the Tang Empire in Southern Continent?"
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