Chapter 194 Reporting Back
Ji Rong said solemnly, "Fellow Daoist Shi, do you still remember your promise?"
Zhan Shi cupped his paws and said, "Of course I remember. From now on, Shi will be your bear."
Ji Rong nodded and said, "Uncle, take all those skinned snakes back to Fellow Daoist Shi to report."
Shan Wu then gave all the skinned snakes to Zhan Shi. Shan Wu disliked eating the snake meat and didn't want to, and Ji Rong didn't like it either.
Zhan Shi happily accepted it.
Then Ji Rong said, "My brother and sister work in the Dragon and Phoenix Palace. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Shi has time to go and tell them that I have returned to the Jade Void Palace and they can come to me to get the pills."
Zhan Shi replied in a deep voice, "Of course."
Zhan Shi thanked Ji Rong, Gu Lin, and Shan Wu. Gu Lin then had Shan Zhongfeng escort him down the mountain.
Zhan Shi then led Yue Tu and sped towards the Temple of the God of War.
Zhan Shi arrived outside the Temple of War God and knelt loudly outside the temple with Yue Tu.
Before long, a divine attendant named Feng Lan led him into the hall. Zhan Shi handed the battle spear to Yue Tu and said, "Keep kneeling here and wait for me to come out."
Then, he lowered his head and followed Feng Lan into the hall without looking to the side. After entering the hall, he knelt down again in front of the main seat.
After bowing, Zhan Shi raised his upper body and lifted the storage ring, which was filled with the bodies of eagles and snakes, with both claws.
After the divine attendant Yu Nu picked it up, he cupped his hands towards Di Rong on the divine throne and bowed, saying, "My Lord God, I have not failed in my battle command and have been fortunate enough to kill two emperors and seventeen kings, a total of nineteen heads!"
Emperor Rong remembered this bear that he loved. He had felt quite sorry when he heard from the divine servant that the bear was trapped in Liangzhou, its soldiers were exhausted, and it was about to die.
Upon hearing this, He immediately sensed that something had gone wrong. His gaze darkened, and He said, "You have rendered meritorious service and deserve a reward. Is there anything you desire?"
Zhan Shi raised his head, grinned, and said in a simple and honest manner, "Lord God, although Liangzhou is bitterly cold and only has sand to eat, the soldiers are old and weak, and we lack the food and supplies for cultivation there."
However, the rebellious Jin clan has not been completely eliminated. This humble general and the last soldier of the Western Expeditionary Army are willing to continue to guard Liangzhou for the Temple of the God of War!
The fact that I and the soldiers were able to survive this ordeal is entirely thanks to the servants sent by Gu Lin, the Alchemist Saint of Jade Void Palace, who were sent out to administer elixirs and rescued me.
The Ancient Alchemist was very generous; he fed me a handful of Nine-Turn Spirit Pills, which saved my life.
If you wish to reward me, please give me to the servant of the Ancient Lin Dan Saint. You can even give me to that bird servant; my survival this time is entirely due to her righteous assistance!
Di Rong did not immediately agree. He sat on his throne, propped his head up with one hand, and said, "You have great talent, which I greatly admire. Let me think about it." Then he instructed the Yi Nu to temporarily place Zhan Shi and Yue Tu in the Temple of the God of War.
As Yi Nu led Zhan Shi and Yue Tu out of the main hall, Di Rong's gaze gradually turned cold. He called out, "Feng Lan, have Qi Yang, Gui Ya, Si Tao, and Yan Hui come quickly."
After the four divine servants, all transformed into celestial beings, bowed and stood in the hall, Di Rong looked at them and said coldly, "I remember that the message he handed over before said that Zhan Shi had advanced recklessly, his soldiers had been wiped out, and he was trapped in Liangzhou. How come he can now produce nineteen corpses of cultivators to report back?"
You tell me yourselves.
Then Guiya and Sitao, who were in charge of intelligence transmission, immediately knelt down and prostrated themselves on the ground, saying, "Lord God, we dare not deceive you. This is the message that the spies brought back at that time."
Di Rong sneered, "I remember I gave him double the rations, so why does he still have to rely on passing alchemist servants to survive!"
You know in your hearts what you have done behind my back.
If you speak now, you will not implicate your tribes. But if I find out, you should know what will happen to you.
I wouldn't mind spending a few more precious treasures to host a feast for the gods.
When the divine attendant Yan Hui, who was in charge of rewards and punishments, heard the words "grain and provisions," he knew something was wrong.
This is because in the past, the Divine Lord never cared about such trivial matters. The Western Expeditionary Army was always sent out to be worn down. The generals who fought there knew this and never dared to bring up these matters to confront the Emperor Rong.
Seeing that the lord had allocated double the provisions to the bear, they resorted to their old tricks, embezzling some every now and then.
Sometimes it will be delivered a little later.
This time, the Western Expeditionary Army was completely wiped out, and the supplies were only briefly placed on the backs of the Crane Palace cultivators before being transferred into their storage rings.
Thinking of the past, Yan Hui felt bitter. He immediately knelt down and prostrated himself on the ground, saying, "Lord God, I am guilty. I was recommended by Qi Yang to be a divine servant. Every year he asked me to give him a huge amount of treasure. I couldn't afford it, so I had crooked ideas about the food supplies of the Western Expeditionary Army and the Northern Expeditionary Army."
"Qi Yang, what do you have to say?"
Qi Yang, the divine servant, looked up at the deity seated high on the throne, his eyes filled with fear. He said, "My Lord, Qi Yang has followed you since childhood, and we have faced life and death together..."
"So you can turn your back on me and trample on my face!"
If that's the case, wouldn't Fenglan and Yu Nu want to cut off a piece of my flesh to taste it? They've been with me for much longer!
Upon hearing this, Feng Lan and Yu Nu lowered their eyes and made no move.
Di Rong's hands suddenly grew larger, one hand holding Qi Yang and the other holding Yan Hui, and then he uttered divine words: "Sin".
Then two enormous "sin" characters, flowing with gold and containing streaks of blood, bound Qiyang and Yanhui together.
Before long, Qi Yang transformed into a golden toad, and Yan Hui transformed into a swift deer.
He threw the two to the ground, then withdrew his giant hand and said, "Feng Lan, Yu Nu, from today onwards, their affairs will be handled by you. Go."
Feng Lan and Yu Nu each took one end and then took their leave.
As they walked outside the palace, they happened to run into the girl returning to report. Feng Lan stopped and waved the golden toad, whose claws were tightly bound by the word "sin," at the girl before walking away again.
Inside the Temple of the God of War, where two divine servants were being dealt with in a rare occurrence, outside the temple, Zhan Shi, having arrived, bowed respectfully to Yi Nu and said, "Divine Servant, I have been entrusted by the one who bestowed this favor to deliver a message to her brother on duty at the Dragon and Phoenix Hall."
"Could I go out and deliver this message, and then return to Zhuyun Mountain to retrieve some things?"
The girl nodded and said, "Fifteen days. You must return here in fifteen days."
Zhan Shi nodded, and Chao Yi Nu said with great joy, "Thank you."
Then he said to Yue Tu, "You stay here with the Divine Servant. I will come to pick you up in fifteen days." He then slung the war spear that Yue Tu handed him over his back and flew towards the Dragon and Phoenix Palace above the Danxue Mountains.
As Zhan Shi arrived outside the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, staring blankly at the deserted entrance, inside the palace, Jiao Jue was watching Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang fight in the vast training ground behind the palace.
Zhan Shi stood outside the hall for a long time, but no servant from the Dragon and Phoenix Hall came out to take a look. So he had no choice but to put his gun outside the hall and then walk into the hall.
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