Chapter 309 Storage (1)
Late at night, Ji Rong, Ji Zhuang, and Gu Qingqing were all fast asleep in their respective rooms, while Jiao Jue hung alone in the corridor, not having left.
Feng Qing walked out of the room with a limp and asked softly, "You were looking for me?"
Jiaojue nodded to it and said, "Do you know when the Mountain and Water God will appear in the world?"
Feng Qing immediately shook his head, pointing to his own head, and said, "You saw it that day, all the remnants of my will went to compete to become new gods, but I can't know now."
Before long, I'll know even less, since I'm not very bright. You can't take advantage of me then just because I'm stupid.
Jiao Jue thought for a moment, thinking that if the Mountain and Water God were to appear, he would probably come to find Ji Rong first, so he asked, "Then what are you now?"
Feng Qing tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "It is naturally a variegated fox fur puppet."
Jiao Jue squinted and laughed loudly, "Since you are just a puppet, what more do you want?"
"If you expect me to respect you, why don't you just become a god yourself? If you did, you'd surely grow a brain."
Upon hearing this, Feng Qing mimicked Jiao Jue's manner, narrowing his eyes and saying, "Then why don't you want to be a god now? Why don't you cultivate the path of faith as well?"
"Hmph!" Jiao Jue shook his head and said, "You've already dug out the source of your authority. What's the point of being a god who's all high and mighty but has no real power?"
If one cultivates the path of faith, one will have to scatter the thoughts of sentient beings after a period of time, and one's own memories will likely be erased as well.
What's the difference between that and the ancient gods cutting off their own flesh to resist the erosion of time? In the end, they'll just become a puppet even more lifeless than you.
Seeing the sudden surge of power in Jiao Jue, and recalling how Ji Rong and the others praised Jiao Jue, Feng Qing nodded and imitated them, saying, "Big brother is mighty, big brother is heroic!" This made Jiao Jue's lips curl into a big smile and his eyes narrow into slits.
Jiaojue nodded to Feng Qing. He watched Feng Qing walk back to his room again, his hands and feet clasped together, and then he went back to his room and peacefully hung his head on the main beam to sleep.
The horned creature's belly was too full, and over the years, when it slept curled up, it would feel uncomfortable. Hanging it up was more comfortable.
Before going to sleep, Jiao Jue thought about the storage ring under Ji Rong's wings, which was still full, and thought to himself, "It's not a good idea to keep this source of energy in my stomach like this. Ji Rong is still very rich. I have to ask her to buy me a large container to store the source of energy."
The next day, Jiao Jue knocked on Ji Rong's door. He pulled Ji Rong to a corner and then cast several soundproof barriers around her. He then stroked his round belly, squinted his eyes, and said arrogantly, "Colorful Bird, you took my storage ring, so you must give me a fine storage container."
Ji Rong looked at Jiao Jue's round belly and asked, "How big do you want it to be?"
Jiao Jue said, "It should be at least half the size of Shoudao Mountain."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong swallowed hard. She pointed at Jiao Jue's belly with her wing claws and said, "Important source material?"
Jiao Jue nodded and said, "Install the source."
Ji Rong immediately laughed and said, "Big brother, you actually got so much!"
The storage container isn't difficult to find. When my senior brother and I went to steal the source last time, I saw that he had several extremely large gourds, but unfortunately, I couldn't bring them in then.
"Brother, you wait at home. I'll go to Senior Brother Qingpingzi's place on Shangyun Cliff and whine for him. I'll definitely get one for you."
After saying that, Ji Rong flapped her wings and headed up to the cloud cliff. At this time, Qing Pingzi was receiving the reclusive great cultivator, the Thousand-Faced Great Sage, from the Youhe Valley of Buzhou.
The Thousand-Faced Great Sage is a fish with a monkey's face. It originally had a monkey's head and a fish's body, with two claws, and was a rare species of heaven and earth.
These ape-faced fish are born with the ability to connect with other things. They are gentle and kind by nature and were one of the best materials used by the gods in the past to carve out flesh and create other things.
These monkey-faced fish appear ferocious, but they have no teeth. They are also very trustworthy, easily deceived, and live in groups.
Because the ape-faced fish was so easy to catch, during the period when the ancient barbaric era ended and the primitive era began, the ape-faced fish population was almost completely lured out and captured by the powerful ancient gods using food, magical artifacts, and ancient texts.
When it was the turn of the Thousand-Faced Great Sage, it suddenly became fierce and swallowed the god who had lured and captured it whole, merging into its body. Then it jumped into the sea and hid in the deep ravine, living a life of hiding.
No cultivator remembers its original name anymore, because it devoured and merged with too many living beings, so everyone started calling it Thousand Faces.
Normally, it lives a life of waiting for rabbits to run into the tree stump in the secluded ravine, and has not come out for nearly two hundred years.
It came out this time to seek answers from Qingpingzi. Gu Lin said that the Thousand-Faced Great Sage had been staying in Cloud Room Number Ten for nine days.
Led by Gu Lin, Ji Rong arrived at the core of the lotus platform. She lay down behind a cloud-mist lotus seed and saw the reclusive sage she had just heard about from Gu Lin.
This great monkey was indeed strange-looking; it had no hair on its head, and hundreds of protrusions ran from its face to the back of its head.
Upon closer inspection, each protrusion resembled a face, so densely packed that Ji Rong felt a chill run down her spine.
It now has more than two claws; it has a multi-headed fish tail and seventeen claws on its body, making it even stranger than the lich lineage.
Seeing that Qingpingzi did not speak to the Thousand-Faced Great Sage, Gu Lin lowered his head and stepped forward, saying to Qingpingzi, "Palace Master, Martial Aunt Qing Jizi has arrived."
Upon hearing this, Qingpingzi's eyes lit up. With a wave of his hands, the cloud-shaped table in front of him doubled in size.
He said happily to the Thousand-Faced Great Sage, "Youhe, you haven't been here long, but you've come at the right time. My junior sister is very clever and may be able to resolve your doubts."
Then, Qingpingzi said to Gulin, "Let Qingji come and sit down."
Then he said to Jin Xi, "Xi, bring some sweet fruit juice, Qing Ji Zi loves to eat it."
When Ji Rong heard Pingzi tell her to come over, she immediately stopped tilting her head.
She held her head high and walked forward with small, quick steps, not looking to the side. After taking only one step, she thought to herself that she was now a great cultivator of the Jade Void Palace at the Emperor Realm, how could she act like a servant!
Ji Rong immediately tucked her wings back and strode forward with great strides.
Upon reaching the cloud-shaped table, she expressionlessly bowed slightly to Qingpingzi and Qianmian, which was considered a gesture of respect.
Then, she plopped down to sit to the left of Kiyohirako.
As soon as Ji Rong sat down, Qing Pingzi immediately and enthusiastically moved many of the rare delicacies on the table to her, his smiling old face even showing a hint of ingratiation.
That's how Qianmian met Qing Jizi, the beautiful bird cultivator who was privately jokingly called the Jade Void Palace's Servile Uncle by the other cultivators.
With just one glance, it sighed inwardly at the power of rumors. It was said that Qingpingzi had driven his magical artifacts day and night to accompany this mediocre bird cultivator on her journeys through the heavens.
But judging from his expression now, it's no surprise that Qingpingzi dotes on this junior sister.
But if we're talking about being a servant, look at Kiyohime's radiant aura and calm demeanor; she exudes a revered status in the Jade Void Palace, far surpassing any mere servant.
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