Chapter 504 Moon Lord (2)
Filling the Source Regeneration Pool with spiritual energy exhausted Ji Rong.
She slept for five months, and only when she felt her strength return did she and Jiao Jue make an appearance at the Kyushu Council meeting that year. In front of the Kyushu administrator, they formally put Xiao Hua on the table and took over the affairs previously managed by Ze Peng, before heading to the Outer Heaven once again.
Upon arriving at the Ascension Platform, Ji Rong handed Ze Peng over to Qing Zhizi, asking her to settle Ze Peng in, and then she and Jiao Jue headed towards the location of Yuan Jun.
Once Ji Rong and Jiao Jue had disappeared from sight, Qing Yangzi, who had been waiting nearby, immediately spoke up upon hearing the news: "Nephew Ze Peng, I have some materials that I can't figure out. Could you please take a look for me?"
Whether the task succeeds or fails, a generous reward will be given.
If it were Ze Peng a thousand years ago, he would have no doubts and would have gone without hesitation; if it were Ze Peng five hundred years ago, even if he knew there were some unspoken things involved, he would still feel obligated to go.
But over the past few hundred years, guided by the gentle mountains and rivers, the council members of Zepeng have seen through everything. If they don't like something, they should refuse it!
Master Gao Yang has been managing the council for thousands of years, so there's nothing he can't understand. He must be trying to get me to do some work so he can get away to do something else!
Ze Peng then cupped his hands towards Qing Yangzi and said, "Uncle-Master Gao Yang, before coming up, I told my master that I wanted to improve my puppet-making skills and create a puppet beast that could travel in the void for her."
We also need to recalculate the calendar system used in other regions and coordinate with agricultural affairs there, which is simply too much to handle.
Furthermore, Peng isn't good at managing affairs; otherwise, Master wouldn't have delegated the affairs of Kyushu to Xiaohua and brought me along instead.
Ze Peng refused decisively, and in his words, he put Ji Rong first, so Qing Yangzi had no choice but to give up his idea of conscripting men.
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Beyond the star where Yuanjun resides, the illusions are no longer there.
Ji Rong and Jiao Jue flew into this star and landed on the desolate land. The four small dragons with power on Jiao Jue's back flew away on their own.
Two days later, they returned together and reported, "Lord God, we cannot find any trace of the Moon Lord anywhere, except for a huge white palace ahead."
Jiao Jue then said to Ji Rong, "It seems we'll have to find it ourselves; it might be in that palace."
That enormous white palace was indeed the Moon Palace.
After three hundred years, it is no longer as smooth and shiny as it used to be. A thin layer of ash covers the cold jade-colored bricks, and the ground beneath them is frozen solid.
Ji Rong stepped forward, pushed open the palace gate, and entered with Jiao Jue. As soon as they entered, the palace gate closed by itself.
Inside the palace lies the Moonlit Realm, which Ji Rong and Jiao Jue had once seen.
Ji Rong and Jiao Jue remained outside the moonlight, gazing at the world within.
Although the Moon Palace is large, it is not as luxurious as one might imagine; instead, it is more like a garden.
Inside, there are only many large white jade pillars, each with a palace eave, and hanging on each eave is a round moon made of spirit jade, making it look like a place for daily shelter from the wind and rain.
The great pillars divided this space into five sections; on the eight pillars in the very center, there was a moon-hanging platform, from which hung a perfectly round, bright moon.
The bright moonlight shone down slowly, turning over the suspended moon platform and enveloping the place in a moonlit world.
Unlike the desolate and barren outside, this place is teeming with life and bustling with activity.
Various colorful flowers with large heads sway and green leaves worship around the bright moon, while vines resembling insects climb around the pillars and sway their branches upwards.
Under that moon, there was a nearly dried-up golden pool, with only a shallow bottom remaining. The golden lotuses growing in it all had their petals drooping and were wrinkled together. Countless white lights, like moths, adorned their bodies, which they impatiently chased away.
In the pool, many gray-gold sediments of the source stream are exposed. Under the moonlight, every half hour, wisps of the source stream vapor rise up to the moon from the bottom of the golden pool.
However, the moon did not absorb that much; about 20% of the source energy was rolled around by its round body and dispersed in all directions.
As soon as He disperses His energy, the flowers, trees, vines, and grasses seem to know that wealth is about to fall from the sky. They stop what they are doing, and like living beings raising their faces, they unfold their leaves and petals, waiting for the arrival of the source energy.
Ji Rong and Jiao Jue had never seen so many plants and animals before, and they felt that they must have all grown heads like the old ginseng.
Upon seeing this, the four little dragons on Jiaojue's back cried out in unison, "Lord God, where is Lord Yuanyue!"
Yes, Lord Moon, in the very center of the bright moon that hangs there, He is like a spirit living in the Pearl of the Lake, so dark that His appearance is not visible. Only through the moonlight can one barely see that He is curled up in the bright moon, snoring.
Jiao Jue turned his head and nodded to the little dragon with the power on his back to indicate that he understood. Then he said to Ji Rong, "This star is currently very cold and yin. The sun alone cannot balance the yin and yang. Perhaps this is why the Moon Lord cannot wake up on his own."
This time, we'll use the tails of Ah Bai and the other three to replenish the Moon Lord's source energy. They feed on the essence of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning in the Blue Eternal Realm; let them release some of it to the Moon Lord, dispelling his dissipated chill and helping him regain his senses.
Ji Rong nodded, took out the gourd containing the Origin Stream, transformed into a magic bird, tore a path through the Moonlit Realm, then grabbed Little White and flew towards the Suspended Moon Platform. Jiao Jue watched from the side.
As Ji Rong approached the bright moon, she discovered that it was more than 50% larger than before, and the black pits had merged very well. The pits were like sesame seeds on a sesame cake, small and numerous.
Ji Rong was very patient. She brushed carefully, and whenever she encountered those uneven black spots, she would dip Xiao Bai in the tail of the source stream and dab it on them a few times.
The source energy that Xiaobai brushed out turned white-gold. After Ji Rong used its tail to brush half of the full moon, Jiao Jue said, "Colorful Bird, switch to A Jin."
This process was repeated until all four small dragons of power had been deployed, at which point the bright full moon had transformed into a pale golden-white-red-blue hue.
The source seeps inward through the surface of the full moon's authority, constantly drilling towards the snoring life at its center.
"Ha." As if waking from a dream, the creature in the full moon finally uttered a dreamlike sound, and then exhaled a breath of cold air, freezing the nearly dried-up surface of the pool below into ice.
As the cold air arrived, the golden lotuses in the pond were so frightened that they wanted to run away, but beneath them were golden lotus roots hidden deep in the sediment of the source, so they couldn't run away at all. They could only hold up their pitiful flower faces and let the cold air freeze the mud and water layers beneath them.
Unlike the golden lotuses, the hundred or so flower, grass, vine, and tree-like spirits on the shore, upon hearing this voice, all showed joy and bowed in worship to the Moon Lord above.
As the Moon Lord was about to awaken, the remaining Moonlight Realm slowly dissipated.
Without the obstruction of the Moonlit Realm, Jiaojue immediately flew down to the side of the pool and spat some golden source water into it.
As the stream flowed in, the golden lotuses in the pool seemed to receive a warm spring, and they stretched out in competition, bowing their petals toward the horn-shaped jade pendant.
As if finding a place to rest, the wisps of moonlight surged toward the full moon along with the primordial energy, making the moon grow larger and higher.
Ji Rong saw two jet-black tails emerge from the moon, followed by a dark body, hands, and head.
As He ascended, the entire star beneath Him shone ever brighter.
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