Chapter 241 The Jade Pool Feast (1)
Having subdued the Xiefang workshop, Ji Rong felt smug.
She flapped her wings and flew towards the cloud cliff.
Over the years, Ji Rong's life force had been largely depleted. Although it could still sustain her for a while, Ji Rong, accustomed to poverty, could no longer tolerate living a life of idleness and depletion.
Now Ji Rong wants to strike while the iron is hot and use the opportunity of taking over the Xiefang to ask Qingpingzi for some treasures.
When Ji Rong arrived, Qing Pingzi was looking at a complex, overlapping, and constantly twisting divine script. Ji Rong called out "Senior Brother" and saw Qing Pingzi nod at her, so she also went over to look and saw the words "Banquet" on it.
Ji Rong pointed to the golden, invitation-shaped divine script and asked, "Senior brother, what kind of banquet is this? Why is it written in such a complicated way? And I've never seen this script before."
Qingpingzi said gently, "Junior sister, this is divine script, which is why you cannot recognize it. Once your senior brother uses the Hundred Skills Seal to demonstrate it for you, you will be able to see it."
Qingpingzi drew a whisk from the cloud-covered cliff and gently touched the divine inscription. The characters, which had been stacked together, twisted and began to separate one by one in mid-air.
A small, exquisite seal of a hundred skills slowly appeared between his brows, then lit up in the air and grew to a gigantic size. Qingpingzi pointed at the seal and whispered urgently, "Go!"
Then the gigantic seal flew over the disassembled divine runes and rolled over them like a wheel. The divine runes that Ji Rong had seen as writhing earth dragons gradually stopped moving and turned into the common language of the demon race.
Ji Rong exclaimed in delight, "Senior brother, what a skill!" Then, she read the text on it word by word.
It turns out that this divine inscription was indeed an invitation.
The Golden Cauldron Palace is going to hold a grand banquet called the Jade Pool Feast. The banquet will be held in six months. Ji Rong looked at the long guest list and soon found her name among the many names at the end.
She immediately pointed to the three characters "Qing Ji Zi" and happily called out to Qing Ping Zi, "Senior brother, isn't this me? Did you invite me to this banquet too?"
Qingpingzi nodded with a smile and said, "Of course, you will always have a seat reserved for me at future grand banquets in the palace."
Ji Rong immediately flapped her wings happily and flew halfway in the air, saying, "Senior brother, banquets are rarely held in the Canglan Mountains, and I have never participated in any banquets held by the various palaces. Please tell me about them so that I don't embarrass myself when there are many cultivators around."
Qingpingzi nodded with a smile, then pointed his whisk at the cloud-covered cliff. The cliff transformed into the blurry shape of a high platform and palace. Using this cloud palace as a guide, Qingpingzi began to explain the scale of the grand banquet to Ji Rong.
Ji Rong learned from Qing Pingzi that banquets like the Yaochi Feast were extremely grand.
This grand banquet will be held at the Jade Pool Villa. They will sit around a high platform and the surrounding stream. At that time, celestial maidens will dance with their arms around each other on the high platform, phoenixes will sing, and true dragons will churn the mist. There will also be countless delicacies such as Yin Hua Water and Jade Dew for the cultivators to enjoy.
They would invite the main gods to sit at the head of the table, with other gods in secondary positions, and the fifteen divine races that survived several great wars to sit at the lower positions. This was the inner banquet.
However, there is one exception: powerful figures like Qingpingzi, who have not fully attained enlightenment but still hold power and control over a palace, naturally sit at the head of the table.
In addition to the inner banquet, they would also hold a banquet in the outer room. The outer banquet only had seating arrangements, without any distinction of rank. At that time, the chieftains of the various vassal tribes and the prominent divine servants of the various palaces would be invited.
Furthermore, cultivators with at least two of the following qualities—status, position, and cultivation level—would also be invited to banquets, which were known as external banquets.
The seats for the outdoor banquet will be arranged around the indoor banquet like stars surrounding the moon.
In terms of ingredients, there is little difference between the selection of ingredients for the inner banquet and the outer banquet, but the meat used in the inner banquet is of a higher grade and is more exotic.
The banquet is divided into four stages: song and dance performances, the meal, following the Golden Cauldron Goddess around Kunlun Avenue to enjoy the scenery of the Golden Summit, and then going to the Immortal Spring to cleanse the body.
Ji Rong was overjoyed to hear that the Jade Pool Feast would take place at the Immortal Spring.
Her eyes and mouth were wide open. She immediately spread her wings towards Qingpingzi, stretched her neck and came close to his eyes, and exclaimed happily, "Senior brother, this tour can even take us to the fairy spring. Since it's for washing our bodies, can we go to the center of the pool and soak for a while?"
Qingpingzi looked lovingly at Ji Rong, who had made many great contributions to Yuxu Palace since she arrived, and said, "Junior sister, I know you have always loved excitement."
With so many cultivators, it's impossible for everyone to participate in the tour and bathe in the immortal spring. Generally speaking, cultivators attending banquets don't go.
If you wish to go, you can join me on the parade after the banquet, but you will only be able to admire the scenery of the Golden Summit and will not be able to enter the Fairy Spring.”
Even if she goes to a banquet, she can't go to the Immortal Spring, so what's the point of her going? Is it really just to eat and drink to her heart's content? Now she no longer lacks a good meal.
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong immediately said with disappointment, "So that's how it is. I thought that Lady Jin Ding was so generous that she could enjoy rare and precious materials like the Immortal Spring at will, Senior Brother."
Qingpingzi smiled and shook his head, saying, "That's impossible, but the Golden Cauldron Goddess is holding this grand banquet to dispel our doubts about her. If there is immortal spring water in the return gift, then I'll give you this one too."
Ji Rong then asked, "Senior brother, will you give out Origin Streams at the banquet? I want Origin Streams, lots of Origin Streams. The Origin Streams you gave me last time, after I drank them, I felt really good."
"Jade Lord said that the Origin Stream can cleanse the marrow and transcend the mortal realm. I am of ordinary talent, but if I could drink more Origin Stream, I might just become an emperor!"
Qingpingzi shook his head and said, "Everything else is fine, but even the main gods wouldn't easily enjoy this source. Junior sister, this senior brother can't do it."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong gained a new understanding of the preciousness of the source. She smiled at Qing Pingzi and said, "Senior brother, I understand. It's getting late, I should go back to the unloading workshop."
After that, Ji Rong took her leave.
Knowing that Yaochi was going to hold a banquet, Ji Rong couldn't sit still. She told Shan Wu and then summoned the cultivators in the unloading workshop. She said with feigned worry, "Sigh, another big banquet is going to be held. We're going to be busy again."
Hearing that there was something interesting, everyone immediately looked at Ji Rong and asked, "Lord Ji, who is hosting this banquet?"
Ji Rong looked at them and sighed, "The Golden Cauldron Goddess is going to hold a grand banquet. I just lament that you all slaughter living beings here every day. You are the ones who suffer, but there is never a place for you at the banquet."
Upon hearing this, Li Ke, who was preening his feathers, turned around and said, "Lord Ji, we butchers need to know what positions we need. We have to work."
"Yes, we have to work." Ji Rong sighed, then changed the subject, "I wonder how many lives we'll have to slaughter."
"We already have few butchers here. Although you've cultivated the methods of my Jade Void Palace and your killing skills have greatly increased, killing more won't be difficult for you, but we can't let them know."
Ji Rong turned her head to Shan Wu, who was skinning meat, and said, "Uncle, we need to go and ask for more cultivators now, so that we don't run out of manpower and ruin our butchers." Shan Wu immediately understood and nodded as he tidied up the meat on the table.
Then, Shan Wu and Ji Rong took the meat and boarded the teleportation array to head to the Treasure Pavilion.
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