Chapter 333 Nighttime Banquet (A Dream Within a Dream)
The moon rises from the pool and shines brightly on the earth.
As Ji Rong was carried by Qing Guanzi, the moonlight grew brighter and the air grew colder as they walked up the lotus leaves.
Yes, cold, a bone-chilling cold that rushed through the air currents and seeped into Ji Rong's feathers.
Since she began cultivating, Ji Rong had rarely felt cold, but now she felt extremely cold.
Ji Rong grew increasingly cold, and his speed in clearing the lotus stems slowed down. Fortunately, the claws beneath him had not yet melted away, allowing him to barely manage to climb the lotus stem and gather water mist.
At the very center of the Jade Liquid Pool, the Primordial Sovereign had already flown high into the sky to dance with the moon. The golden lotus beneath her seat gradually closed and sank into the water, while the golden lotus leaf where the horned jade was located also steadily descended.
The luster of the cold gold faded, and the cultivators, bathed in moonlight, transformed once again into various strange shapes.
Before the small moons on the water had all merged into the large moon in the center, Kiyoshi used his long beak to send Ji Rong up onto the lotus leaf where Jiao Jue was, following the increasingly lower lotus leaf stem. He shouted, "Jue-kun, Kiyoshi is now in your hands."
The moment Jiao Jue stretched out its tail and scooped up Ji Rong, Ji Rong saw a hint of clarity and bewilderment appear in Qing Guanzi's eyes.
Like a small animal, he tilted his head and sized up Ji Rong, then "slipped" into the water and chased after the giant moon in the center of the water.
It wasn't just Qing Guanzi; all the cultivators and elves below swam toward the huge full moon in the water.
As Ji Rong gazed at the full moon, her curiosity grew with each glance. Her blood and mind were urging her to jump down and wander around the center of the moon.
Ji Rong's eyes glazed over for a moment before she immediately turned and rammed into Jiao Jue's belly.
The horned beast used its two hind claws to grab Ji Rong and pin her under its belly.
His four powers were no longer in the shape of a small dragon, but transformed into four colored halos that surrounded his entire body.
As soon as Ji Rong entered the halo of the horn jade, she felt completely awake. She asked, "Big brother, where is my senior brother who transformed into a giant insect?"
Jiao Jue looked at her, squinted, and said, "He went to Xiyue."
Ji Rong then poked her head out and excitedly exclaimed, "Let's go see a play!"
She looked around and saw that Yuanjun was sitting on the round moon belly, which was very beautiful. She said, "Beautiful", and then flapped her wings and claws.
As the first group of cultivators swam into the light and shadow of the giant moon, Yuanjun's tongue drooped down.
He rolled up the moonlight on the water, like a pie, and then stuffed it into his mouth.
Then, His six hands danced in the air like blooming lotus flowers, and a full moon reappeared on the water.
Those cultivators who hadn't had time to enter the Water Moon and looked bewildered, upon seeing the full moon reappear on the water, were overjoyed and swam back into the giant moon as if they had found their way.
Yuanjun ate one scroll after another.
Sometimes, He would be picky about food, using His tongue to sweep away those monks who didn't look very appetizing.
Those as large and slippery as Qing Guan Zi were swept by Yuan Jun's tongue again and again; those as excessively large as You He were often picked out by Yuan Jun and thrown aside.
The giant red worm that Qing Guanzi transformed into swam towards the moon in the water more than ten times, only to be swept away by Yuan Jun more than ten times.
Suddenly, as if angered, the creature swam back into the moon, stirring the water with its tail as if it wanted to shatter the moon-like water.
Many of the insects that had been swept away like him saw him doing this and their eyes lit up. They rushed back into the moonlit water, swirling their tails and stirring up the moon.
Yuanjun watched quietly as they stirred things up. Once they had shattered the moon in the water, Yuanjun reached out her cold, pale hand and scooped the ashamed insects aside.
He drew a circle on the water with his tongue, encircling the insects within it, and then used his tongue to dab at the tiny specks of water, elegantly eating the encircled creatures with longing expressions on their faces.
After eating until frost covered the surroundings and ice appeared in the pool, Yuanjun swallowed the last cultivator in her mouth and sighed with satisfaction, "I'm so full."
Then, He looked down at the jade pendant and asked, "Jade Lord, are you bored?"
Jiao Jue narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Fresh and fantastical, unheard of before. I hope you don't find me an eyesore here."
Yuanjun nodded, extended a hand holding a jade bottle, and presented it to Jiaojue, saying, "You and Qingjizi, please clean the cracks on Yue's body and remove the source flow. Don't be shy."
Jiao Jue accepted the jade bottle, then smiled again, his eyes narrowing, and said, "I am happy to serve you."
Upon hearing Jiao Jue's words, Yuan Jun nodded slightly, her divine body merging into the full moon.
"Thump!" The huge, cracked full moon crashed into the pool, undulating in the water. A massive amount of cold air seeped out from the cracks on the moon, freezing the pool water into ice flowers.
Ji Rong peeked out from under Jiao Jue's belly, looking at the moon so close at hand.
She exclaimed excitedly, "Big brother, big brother, can I touch this full moon?"
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue opened its large mouth and spat out a small bottle. It placed the small bottle, along with the large bottle given to it by Yuan Jun, into Ji Rong's hand. It narrowed its eyes at Ji Rong and said, "Then you hold onto this authority and use the source flow to repair the cracks for Yuan Jun."
Ji Rong exclaimed happily, "Great!"
Jiaojue then used its tail to curl Ji Rong against the moon, and the water-like power transformed back into the shape of a little white dragon, which Ji Rong held in its claws.
As Ji Rong approached the chilling moon, she felt cold from her feathers to her very soul. Fortunately, the little white dragon would occasionally inhale a breath of cold air from in front of her, which made Ji Rong feel a little better.
She opened the jade bottle, took the little white dragon's tail as a brush, dipped it in the source water, and began to carefully draw the moon.
With each crack filled, the moon seemed to receive warm nourishment, and a dark gray shadow would emerge with a hissing sound, before falling into the pool with a thud.
After Ji Rong finished repairing the moon, there was still some source water left in the pot, and the bottle given by Jiao Jue had not yet been used.
Ji Rong thought for a moment, then used the remaining source stream to carefully refresh the moon again.
"Haha, you two are really generous." Yuanjun, hidden in the moon, laughed. Suddenly, she turned yellow and bright, and had a little warmth.
He sank into the water, then leaped up again.
He placed Jiao Jue and Ji Rong on the moon's belly, and then a hand reached out from the moon, grasped them, lifted them up, and placed them back on the golden lotus leaf.
The hand stroked upwards along the stem of the golden lotus leaf, and the golden lotus leaf rose straight up.
A golden lotus bud emerged from the bottom of the lotus leaf. When it was level with the lotus leaf, the bud quickly swelled and bloomed, supporting the large moon.
The voice of the Primordial Lord came from the moon. He said, "Qing Ji Zi, Jue Jun, let's continue watching this upside-down dream play together."
Jiao Jue and Ji Rong bowed to the moon together and said, "Thank you, Yuanjun." Then they lay down in front of the lotus leaves to look at it.
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