Chapter 364 Madness
Ji Rong led Qing Pingzi through the empty hall to the back. She pointed to the place where Jiao Jue, Shan Shui, and Shan Wu were staying and said, "Senior brother, look, what is that?"
Looking at the giant tree, its leaves a golden hue and radiating a light of knowledge, Qingpingzi was so delighted that he quickly shook his five tails, leaving afterimages in the air like fans or blood moons.
He said, "Junior sister, it turns out you have learned a lot of new knowledge. You can rest assured that after I attained immortality, my Dao heart is stable and I will not be as easily alarmed by such trivial matters as I used to be."
Ji Rong grinned and said, "Senior brother, did you see the pool under that tree? Can you tell what it is?"
"Then?" Qingpingzi wanted to say "spiritual spring," but he saw tiny drops of pale golden liquid, imbued with spiritual energy, falling into the pool from under the drooping tree roots.
"That's... the source!" Kiyohira's pupils suddenly widened, and he exerted force with his claws, leaping to the edge of the pool and excitedly laughing wildly around it.
He would sometimes roll on the ground, and sometimes jump in the air.
Sometimes he would hug a tree and weep bitterly, and sometimes he would be overjoyed.
He appeared insane, as if possessed by a demon;
Ji Rong flapped his wings and caught up with Qing Pingzi, calling out, "Senior brother, you promised you wouldn't go crazy." But Qing Pingzi couldn't hear him at all; he continued to jump around the Source Regeneration Pool.
Jiaojue, who was lying under the giant tree, opened his eyes and said to Ji Rong, "Cainiao, just let him be. He will stop when he gets tired."
Shan Shui then said to Shan Wu, "Brother, bring me a table."
Shan Wuzi found two large jade tables in the side hall, and following Ji Rong's arrangement, put them together. Then, Jiao Jue took out some spiritual food from his storage ring and invited Ji Rong to sit down.
Unable to persuade Qingpingzi, Ji Rong sat down and ate and drank with them. She knew Qingpingzi's condition and thought that she would subdue him and make him submit when he was exhausted.
They ate, drank, and chatted. When they got tired, they would lie down and sleep by the tree. When they were thirsty or hungry, they would drink the spiritual water and food they had brought with them.
Seven days passed in this way. Seeing that Qingpingzi's eyes were starting to feel dizzy, he stopped jumping around and instead lay by the pond, staring intently at the big tree in the pond and the pale golden source at the bottom of the pond.
Jiao Jue took out a cliff wood stick from the huge storage ring hanging around his neck. With a thought, golden light flowed across the cliff wood stick, transforming it into a three-zhang-long stick. Jiao Jue grabbed the stick and held it in front of Qing Pingzi, saying, "Senior, stop looking. You're tired. Get down."
Qingpingzi swept away the wooden stick from the cliff with one paw and continued to lie on the edge of the pool, looking at it with a devout expression.
"It's no use." Ji Rong shook his head at Jiao Jue and said, "When Senior Brother Wanfa gets obsessed, he'll throw a tantrum and start a fight, but he can't do anything to me. Just watch me."
Ji Rong stood up, walked to Qing Pingzi's side, and sat down. She whispered in Qing Pingzi's ear, "Senior brother, if you continue to look like this, I will take back the tree trunk. Then the Source Regeneration Pool will be destroyed, and you won't have any new knowledge to learn."
"No!" Upon hearing this, Qingpingzi immediately turned his head and looked at Ji Rong beside him, saying, "Junior sister, in the message you gave me, you said you would stay with me for a certain period of time. Why are you going to break your promise now?"
Ji Rong stretched out his big beak and laughed: "Senior brother, so what if I don't keep my word? Do you have any proof? Do we have a contract?"
Besides, we're calling you to get something to eat and relax, so you don't become so exhausted that you plunge headfirst into the source of life and drown in the source of life.
Qingpingzi disagreed, saying, "The source of this pool is so shallow, how could a cultivator possibly drown?"
Ji Rong bared her teeth and said, "Then, Senior Brother, watch carefully!"
Suddenly, Ji Rong's figure shrank, and she flapped her wings and flew to the top of the tree. With her mind focused, she saw the huge ancestral tree shimmering with golden light, its veins clearly visible. Six thick roots stretched out from the pool, two sweeping towards Qing Pingzi, two coiling around him, and two more waiting for an opportunity to bind Qing Pingzi's tail.
Just as Qingpingzi was about to transform his Dharma body to break free from the restraints, Ji Rong's voice came over. She said, "Senior brother still has the strength to break free from the restraints. What if it takes another seven days, a month, or even a year?"
Senior brother, greed is unacceptable. You could have given up your appetite and lived a life of simple food, eating only the wind and dew. Why are you so obsessed with knowledge? How are you any different from Senior Brother Guanshan, who can't control himself and keeps eating and drinking?
"If you're going to write a comprehensive encyclopedia of all races and compile legal texts for each ethnic group, you'd better at least live to see that time."
Then, with a "whoosh," Ji Rong plunged the roots back into the pool.
The bird flew down from under the tree, and she pulled Qingpingzi to the outer room, saying, "Senior brother, the cloud platform we built for you must be filled with incense and dew again. Let's go and have some."
Qingpingzi nodded reluctantly. It wasn't until Ji Rong led him out of the Dragon and Phoenix Palace and onto the Cloud Platform, where he inhaled several mouthfuls of rich cloud mist, that he slowly came to his senses and said with shame, "Junior Sister was right again."
Ji Rong smiled and said, "Everything has its weaknesses, that's the truth. Senior Brother Wanfa loves knowledge, and Brother Jinlong and I both love treasure. We are all the same. We are not the kind of people who only take in and never give out. As long as we take in and give out in the right way, we will be fine."
The Mountain and Water Gods love the weak, often giving without taking; those like Him need constant replenishment to prevent excessive depletion and further collapse.
Ji Rong accompanied Qing Pingzi to drink happily on the cloud platform, and after looking at the mountain scenery for a while, she said, "Senior brother, we specially set up this cloud platform outside so that you can relax and have a good time while writing. From now on, we will accompany you out every day. Please don't be like today, where you can't even answer when called."
Qingpingzi nodded to Ji Rong, and then they descended from the cloud platform and headed back into the Dragon and Phoenix Palace.
Although Shanshui, Shanwu, and Qingpingzi now live under Ji Rong's tree trunk, Ji Rong and Jiaojue have no intention of lifting the restrictions on their power.
Qingpingzi absolutely cannot be let go, for Ji Rong fears that he might do something rash and grab his own tree trunk to run away.
As for the mountains and rivers, Ji Rong and Jiao Jue both felt that if they let this guy go out, he might fulfill his wishes everywhere and soon become the size of a pea.
With the protection of authority, the scenery atop Dragon and Phoenix Mountain remained unchanged day after day. Qingpingzi's book was also officially drafted, and Jiaojue, Jirong, and Shanwu carved out beautiful jade on the spot in the Dragon and Phoenix Palace to make pages for the book.
Knowing the suffering of the weak, the little mountain spirit sat on Qingpingzi's shoulder and discussed the contents of the book with him. The mountain spirit was knowledgeable and had both innate wisdom and acquired benevolence. He saw the imperfections of heaven and earth and knew the purity of small tribes. His suggestions often made the illustrations and text in Qingpingzi's book more concise and clear. Qingpingzi found the little mountain spirit very useful and his attitude towards the gods changed a lot.
It turns out that not all the born gods treat all races as their dogs; they are like all races, some good and some bad, some poor and some rich...
With this in mind, Qingpingzi decided to include the laws of the gods in the Great Compendium of All Races. Although the gods were history and the divine way had declined, they had existed, had been glorious, and had made tremendous contributions to the perfection and structure of this world.
Upon hearing this, both the acquired deity Jiaojue and the innate deity Shanshui expressed their strong agreement.
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