Chapter 273 The Grand Feast of the Nine Provinces (3)
Qing Guanzi carried Ji Rong, and after visiting all the senior brothers, sisters, junior brothers, and junior sisters one by one, they turned back.
Ji Rong said, "Senior Brother Qing Guanzi, are you always the one responsible for the safety of all those naive senior sisters and brothers when we go out to banquets? It must be exhausting."
Qing Guanzi turned to Ji Rong and replied, "Only Guangyang Palace needs this, but the dishes at Guangyang Palace are the best."
The Jade Pool Banquet was once the most beautiful, while the Fortune and Prosperity Banquet was the most boring.
When the Heavenly Mandate Palace God Lord Jiuming was still alive, the Lianyun Banquet He hosted was the most fun, while the Yuanjun's banquet was the most dreamlike.
I haven't been to many other grotto-heavens and blessed lands for banquets.
Ji Rong was pondering how dreamlike Yuanjun's banquet was when they returned to Qingpingzi's place.
With only three hours left before the grand banquet began, Ji Rong saw that Jiao Jue was already sitting high in front. She told Qing Pingzi and then flapped her wings and flew over there.
She had only taken three steps when Ji Rong crashed into a large pillar hidden in the clouds with a loud "bang".
She rubbed her forehead, feeling that this place was really not suitable for her to walk alone, so she asked Qing Guanzi to take her to find the jade pendant and the silver plate.
Ji Rong noticed that a golden fan was missing from the head of Jiao Jue, who was sitting high on the blue silk. She asked, "Lord Jue, where is the golden fan that was hanging on your horn?"
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue's eyes immediately narrowed into slits.
He glanced at Ji Zhuang, who was already squinting and grinning with his fangs showing, and then gently flicked his tail to nudge Gu Qingqing.
Gu Qingqing immediately reacted after being pushed like that. She squinted at Ji Rong and smiled, "Thanks to you, it went to the desolate sea with Shan Zuo and Shan You to control the gales. It hasn't returned yet."
Ji Rong was truly amazed that authority could be used to control the gale, even detached from the subject.
The silver disc transformed into a silver dragon and sat cross-legged on its divine throne, which pointed its sword towards the sky, its face still bearing an arrogant expression as always.
Beside him, there were indeed no mountains to the left or right, but instead stood two beautiful women with yellow flowers whom Ji Rong had seen before.
Ji Rong sat on Qing Guanzi's neck, spun around, and greeted everyone she knew. She felt extremely powerful, using her senior brother Qing Guanzi's prestige to roam freely.
Ji Rong, secretly delighted, returned to Qing Pingzi's side with Qing Guanzi. As soon as they landed, she couldn't help but stretch her neck, bury her head under Qing Guanzi's belly, and laugh triumphantly, "Hahahaha."
The laughter caused Qingpingzi and Lenghezhong, the Ice River Lord of the Ice River Cave, to stop their conversation and turn to look at Ji Rong.
Seeing everyone looking in their direction, Qing Guanzi reached out a claw and pulled Ji Rong out, saying, "Junior sister, stop laughing, the banquet is about to begin."
Suddenly lifted into the air, Ji Rong felt the gazes of the great cultivators all directed at her. Startled, she immediately suppressed her laughter.
Then she saw a beautiful woman she had never seen before, whose entire body was covered in frost.
This cultivator was tall, about three zhang (approximately 10 meters) in height, and his entire body was ice-white, exuding a chilling aura.
Its head was covered with layers of frost flowers, like a crown or ornament, and its white hair cascaded down like a waterfall, slightly puffed up by its ears.
Its fur was entirely white, and even the color of its pupils was as white as ice with a hint of gray.
It was born with two claws and two hooves.
It has wings like a cicada and a tail like a whip.
Covered in ice armor, with ice skates as shoes.
A white chain encircles her waist, and bracelets adorn her arms.
His divine appearance left Ji Rong speechless, her feathers standing on end.
Seeing Ji Rong staring blankly at it, Mei Xiu grinned, revealing three rows of clean, bright canine teeth, and laughed, "Old Zheng, is this the junior sister you took in for your master?"
Mei Xiu opened her mouth, her image shattered, and Ji Rong immediately drooped her wings.
Kiyohei used his tail to catch Ji Rong from Kiyoshi's claws and said, "It is indeed her, Kiyohime. Quickly greet Hyoga-kun."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong immediately stopped, grasped her wing claws, and bowed to Binghe Jun. Binghe Jun then grinned and smiled.
Ji Rong's fantasy about Hyoga-kun's beauty lasted only a moment before it was shattered.
"Damn it! It has so many more teeth than I do, and they're so shiny! It must be able to eat rare delicacies very quickly!"
Ji Rong thought angrily to herself, never imagining that she had once been so uncomfortable with her bird body, but now she was proud of it.
She bowed and received a piece of ice crystal from Ice River Lord's body. Then she retreated back under Qing Guanzi's belly and asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, is it a deity?"
Qing Guanzi shook his head and said, "Jun Binghe is not a god. He is a spirit born from the ice soul beneath the glacier, and is a naturally unique species."
It is born from the Ice Soul, raised by the previous Ice River Lord, and returns to the Ice Soul upon death to nourish the emergence of the next alien species.
It is born naturally, has no gender, and is born with the ability to freeze thousands of miles of glaciers, but it also has great limitations, as it needs to travel in cold and gloomy places.
Therefore, it doesn't often attend banquets; it didn't come to the last Jade Pool Divine Banquet.
"It seems there is indeed more than one path in this world." Ji Rong thought to herself. For a moment, she didn't know whether the naturally born strange species or her acquired strange species were more peculiar, but she also accepted in her heart that this Ice River Lord was not a god and had no authority.
Just as they were lost in thought, they saw a group of cultivators of various races rush onto the high platform in the middle. They began to dance a sun-worshiping dance in the direction of Guangyang Palace.
Another dragon transformed into a celestial being with two horns on its head and covered in blue armor, singing a hymn of praise to the Lord of the Sun.
Ji Rong listened for a while, then wanted to go to sleep.
Perhaps to avoid disturbing the conversation among the cultivators, the dragon's voice, though grand, was very deep. Moreover, the words he uttered were all praising the Lord of the Sun and recounting His glorious past deeds, which made Ji Rong, a bird cultivator who preferred a clear and bright tone, increasingly drowsy as he listened.
The dragon sang for nearly an hour, during which four groups of cultivators performed different sun-worshiping dances, until the gates of Guangyang Palace opened, at which point it stopped.
As soon as the gates of Guangyang Palace opened, the Yuntai Terrace was bathed in golden light, and gradually it became warm.
Ji Rong emerged from under Qing Guanzi's belly and saw that the mist on the cloud platform was gradually dissipating, revealing banana leaves fluttering in the breeze.
Upon seeing this scene, all the cultivators bowed and bid farewell.
Hyoga-kun took out a piece of black fabric from his ice armor, covered his head with it, got up to bid farewell to Seihei-ko, and then headed towards the thick, lingering clouds in the distance.
Ji Rong's eyes followed the beautiful shadow, and she saw it stop and sit down near the tip of a banana leaf in the distance.
In front of Qingpingzi, the gods of Yueyin Palace, War God Hall, and Dragon and Phoenix Hall sat upright, while a few gods of the mountain and water veins, such as Yinpan, sat behind him.
Behind them were the gods of various palaces and temples, and the local administrators.
To the right of Guangyang Palace sat a group of minor gods created by Xi Zhu. They had no particular thoughts and sat there motionless, like clay sculptures.
Below these minor deities sat, in order, powerful figures from various blessed lands and grotto-heavens across the Nine Provinces.
As Ji Rong was looking around, she suddenly heard Qing Guanzi whisper, "Junior sister, stand up straight quickly."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong immediately stopped looking around and stood attentively to Qing Pingzi's left.
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