Chapter 257 The Jade Pool Banquet Begins (3)
The guests at the banquet had already lost their appetite when Long Yan led a group of celestial maidens in to capture the remaining gods and their vassals.
Although the cultivators of Guiyuan withdrew after capturing all the gods and their subordinates.
But the unrest had already begun and would not stop. Races with old and new grudges took this opportunity to fight each other, and in a short time, blood flowed like a river on the jade bricks of the banquet hall.
The cultivators of Yuxu Palace responded relatively quickly, and few were injured, except for Qinghezi.
As soon as chaos began to emerge, they quickly set up an offensive formation at Qing Dongzi's instruction. Therefore, apart from the initial danger, in the subsequent waves of fighting, no cultivators dared to step forward from their side.
At the very beginning of this chaos, Qing Hezi was kidnapped by a group of bird cultivators. When the situation became clear and Qing Zhizi found him, Qing Hezi, whose intestines were ripped out, was no longer able to speak. All the cultivators of Yuxu Palace knew who killed him, but none of them had any intention of seeking revenge.
Because when Qinghezi was young, he often relied on the reputation of Yuxu Palace and Lingxiaozi to take on alchemy jobs outside.
His alchemy skills were decent, but he didn't do it properly. He often skimped on the precious ingredients, so the pills he made looked pretty, but in reality, they were only half as potent.
Back then, magical duels were very popular. Those who commissioned him to refine pills often suffered misfortune after consuming his under-weighted pills. It was common for one or two cultivators to die during magical duels.
Back then, Lingxiaozi was still around, and those cultivators would often chase Qinghezi to the gates of Yuxu Palace, where they would not dare to go any further.
So the cultivators outside who had been deceived swallowed their tears and blood and digested it themselves.
Knowing that she had gotten herself into a life-threatening situation, Kiyoko wisely kept to herself and rarely went out after that.
After Ling Xiaozi's death, he hid in the Jade Void Palace and never went out again, leaving his enemies with no chance to take revenge.
But when the Golden Mother started the banquet, he couldn't sit still. He went to Qingpingzi and said, "Senior brother, since my nephew Gulin isn't going to the banquet, let me go instead."
"Senior brother, my death is near. Let me have one last good meal before I die. Since Master's death, my life has become harder every day. I often dream of eating meat pills."
Seeing that Kiyokazu had already accepted his fate, Kiyohirako stopped trying to persuade him.
Kiyoko brought Kiyoko back to the center of the cultivators in the Jade Void Palace. At this time, Kiyoko was exhaling more than inhaling, but his eyes were still wide open and he refused to close them. His four claws were also constantly waving wildly in the air.
Qing Guangzi stepped forward and forcefully wiped Qing Hezi's eyes downwards. He gritted his teeth and said to Qing Hezi, "Qing Hezi, you rely on being Master's disciple and have spent the first half of your life disgracing Danlou. If Master hadn't forbade it, I would have swallowed you long ago!"
You can't become a virtuous fox; give up on that idea and rest in peace.
Upon hearing Hiroko's words, Kiyokazu stopped struggling, straightened his neck, and breathed his last.
After the guests at the banquet had eaten and drunk their fill, Long Jun flew down, pulled over the Golden Mother's carriage, and then deactivated the great formation.
At this moment, the fighting at the banquet was coming to an end. Sticky black and red blood clots covered the ground, tables, walls, and even the bodies of the surviving cultivators. A strong smell of blood permeated the banquet hall.
Standing before the blood-soaked table, the wine-drinking woman smelled the blood and laughed maniacally. She floated in the air like a large piece of blood-red silk, chasing after the blood-soaked scent and swallowing it greedily.
After the gods' banquet concluded, the Goddess of Wine's final feast began.
Ji Rong peeked out from under Qing Guanzi's belly and looked at the blood-soaked scene outside. She couldn't help but tremble. She sincerely said to Qing Guanzi and Qing Pingzi, "I thank you both for your care."
As the great formation opened layer by layer, and all the cultivators scattered and fled, Qing Qizi and his group of Jade Void Palace cultivators quickly rushed to Qing Pingzi's back.
The Fire Fox Clan Chief, Gu Chan, led her husband to Wang Yue and knelt down, crying, "Great Sage, save us!"
Wang Yue used her tail to lift them up and said, "The procession is about to begin, accompany the emperor."
Long Jun pulled the palanquin in, and Wang Yue leaped onto the palanquin as a cushion. The maidservant, who had been drinking in the blood, rushed over and cried out, "Let me pull the palanquin for Your Majesty!" She then put the rope around her neck and took the lead. The other attendants lined up in turn and put the rope around their necks one by one.
The Golden Mother ascended her chariot, and a resounding voice emanated from her lips as she spoke in divine language: "Follow me to the Golden Summit."
Then, five golden divine characters materialized out of thin air. The characters had only been formed for a moment when they transformed into strands of golden light that scattered in all directions, merging into the scattered cultivators like rain and mist.
The cultivators were startled and immediately stopped in their tracks, bowing down before the Golden Mother's carriage and saying, "We will obey Your Majesty's command."
Then the wine-drinking maid called out, "The parade begins!"
Long Jun shouted, "Raise the carriage!"
The attendants cried out, "Please, Your Highness, tour the four directions!"
Hidden beneath Qing Guanzi's belly, Ji Rong cried out, "Please, Your Majesty, tour the four directions!"
Her bird-like body swayed back and forth like a wildly writhing hairy snake. She longed to bow down, but the tree within her body supported her, preventing her from doing so.
Seeing this, Qing Guanzi said to Qing Pingzi, "Junior Sister has excellent composure!" Then he and the other cultivators from Yuxu Palace prostrated themselves on the ground and shouted, "Please, Your Highness, make your procession!"
Then, Qing Guanzi transformed into a Dharma Dragon and lay on the ground, allowing the cultivators of Yuxu Palace to sit on his back.
Qingpingzi stood up, holding the Hundred Skills Seal, which shone with golden light, under one claw, protecting all the cultivators beneath it. He grabbed Qingguanzi's mane with the other claw and shouted, "Qingpingzi of Yuxu Palace, along with my fellow disciples, will accompany the Empress on her tour."
Jiao Jue was already sitting on the ribbon formed from the power of thunder and lightning. Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang lay like two quails under its claws. It said, "Jue is willing to accompany the Empress on her tour."
...One by one, the great cultivators paid their respects to the ancient gods atop the chariot, while the gods themselves accompanied the Golden Mother Goddess, keeping her company in the festivities.
Looking at the gods and cultivators displaying their supernatural powers, the Golden Mother laughed heartily and said, "Good!" Then she transformed into a hundred hands and a hundred claws, and those hundred claws shot out, grabbing at the gods and cultivators from a distance.
The naturally born gods such as Xi Zhu and Di Rong easily blocked with their bodies, while Jiao Jue, Qing Ping Zi, and a few others resisted with their authority. Their bodies remained unchanged, but when they reached Si Yuan, they cracked inch by inch like clay. There were also more than a dozen minor gods from Guangyang Palace who looked like them.
They were all created by the Lord of the Sun, and now they shattered, revealing their powers. The Queen Mother, riding her chariot, scooped up these powers floating in the air one by one, holding them in her claws. She said, "How delightful!" Then she pressed the powers in her claws onto all things.
The sun and moon, hidden above the divine seal, were slowly revealed. Upon seeing this, the Lord of the Sun straightened up.
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