Chapter 283 There is a God
Inside the palace, Wang Yue went to the inner room and woke Shang Nu, saying, "Shang, your cat has come to see you. Do you want to see it?"
Upon hearing this, Shang Nu, who hadn't drunk blood for three years and looked weak, said, "Which one? I have plenty of cats. Let him go. If I see him, I might just eat him."
He said his name was Pan Zong and that he came specifically to find you.
"Shang Nu, he's already found our way here; we can't let him leave."
Upon hearing this, Shang Nu slowly spread her stiff wings and said in a deep voice, "I understand. Then I will go and see him."
The palace gates, sealed for many years, suddenly opened a crack, and a slender, pale phoenix, its body mottled and ashen as if its bloodstains had faded, darted out from inside.
Shang Nu looked at Pan Zong's blood claws, her eyes instantly turning bloodshot, but she said calmly, "It's you. I heard you had already climbed up to Qing Ji Zi of Yu Xu Palace and gone to Yu Xu Palace. How did you find your way here?"
Don't you know that once you enter here, you can never get out?
Upon seeing Shang Nu emerge, Pan Zong excitedly rushed to Shang Nu's feet, tears welling in his eyes, and said, "I know, Master, take me with you. I will be your blood slave, and we will die together."
The woman shook her head and said, "You don't understand. If you come, you will surely die; but I may live."
Pan Zong was stunned upon hearing this, then suddenly laughed and said, "That's fine too. I'll die before you, so you'll probably think of me often in the future."
Upon hearing this, the maiden's eyes welled up with two streams of bloody tears. She stretched out a winged claw and reached for Pan Zong's nape. She said, "Since you are prepared, come with me to serve the Queen."
Pan Zong remained calm. He turned his head and licked the claws that Shang Nu was using to grab him. His tail swished leisurely in the air as Shang Nu twisted him like this and walked into the palace.
"Crack, crack, crack," as the palace gates closed, all the roots that Ji Rong had managed to sneak into the cracks of the palace gates were broken, leaving only three small roots that had entered the palace through the source tube.
"Damn it!" Ji Rong thought to himself, "If it weren't for my quick thinking, this trip would have been in vain again."
Ji's mind followed the three roots and returned to the coffin of the Golden Mother Goddess. She touched the roots carefully and found that the tall deity who should have been lying there was gone, leaving only a head.
One by one, bizarre monsters wrapped in translucent fleshy membranes were immersed in the source stream. Each of them had a tube like an umbilical cord connected to the All Things Seal above. The All Things Seal was pulled by many tubes and was covered with cracks.
On the only remaining head, there was a tube connected to the Seal of All Things. The source flowed through this tube, continuously nourishing the Seal of All Things, allowing it to maintain its divinity and sustain the situation.
Ji Rong touched them one by one, unable to distinguish which one was the mountain and water. This caused the fleshy spheres to move towards their roots, stirring up ripples in the source flow within the coffin and causing the fleshy spheres to collide repeatedly.
"It has begun!" The divine servants outside the coffin thought to themselves upon hearing the noise.
Inside the coffin, Ji Rong pushed all the roots out of the coffin, extending them towards the other end. She thought to herself, "If it's not at this end, it should be at the other end."
As Ji Rong pushed, the fleshy spheres bumped against the source tube, as if trying to follow along. However, the tubes on their bodies held them tightly, preventing them from moving away.
Ji Rong moved forward little by little along the inner wall of the pipe. She didn't know how much time had passed when she suddenly felt that she had arrived. She put her roots in and found a clump of mud blocking the end. She touched it with her roots and saw the clump of mud suddenly move.
The words of the Mountain and Water God echoed in Ji Rong's heart: "You're here again. I remember you can repair spiritual veins. Why didn't you do it this time?"
Now that you've had your fill, go back quickly. I'll fix those holes.
Don't come here again. A new god may be born in the Temple of Fortune and Prosperity at any time. If you happen to run into it, you won't be able to escape.
You don't need to worry about me. Once the new god is born, I will go to the Queen Mother of the West, and we will meet again soon.
Ji Rong wanted to speak, but she couldn't. So, she twisted the tendril into the divine character "好" (good) and quickly retreated.
After Ji Rong left, the small mountain and water, which had become dizzy and lightheaded, struggled to slowly repair the hole in the pipe with the golden source sediment it was holding.
The authority of the sorcerer god shone faintly on His head, and the deep earth, following the light of this authority, gradually sank to the bottom of the source stream.
Before long, the water level of the source stream returned to its original position. The mountain stream, which had been repairing the hole, stretched out its long, thin tail to check the water level. After confirming that everything was alright, it went back to sleep with peace of mind.
The golden stream continuously washed over His body, making Him smaller and smaller, like a swollen soybean seed, drifting in the stream.
The shaman's authority, which was placed upside down on Shan Shui's head, seemed to have become one with the bottom of the source stream. This authority held Shan Shui's head tightly, preventing him from being pulled up.
As the mountains and rivers fell asleep again, His slender tiger tail swayed in the source stream, like a long, earthy-colored waterweed.
Ji Rong quickly gathered her roots and then nervously beckoned to Qing Pingzi, saying, "Senior brother, quickly pull me out. We can't come here again. Let me rest for a while, and then we'll leave."
Upon hearing this, Qingpingzi immediately transformed into the form of Fazheng and scooped up Ji Rong, whose feathers were so wet they could drip water.
Then, Qingpingzi took out a magic mirror, chanted incantations, and a warm aura emanated from the mirror. He hung the mirror above Ji Rong's head, and soon Ji Rong's feathers were dried.
"Good treasure! Senior brother, let me play with it for a few days." Ji Rong looked at the mirror and took it down from the air to examine it, looking like he didn't want to return it.
Qingpingzi said, "This is my master's heirloom, so I can't give it to you. But my junior brother Qingyangzi knows how to make mirrors. I'll have him make one for you, okay?"
Ji Rong nodded and said, "Okay."
Seeing that Ji Rong had recovered, Qing Pingzi put away the lotus seat and then used his claw to disperse the covering.
Then, he stepped onto the lotus throne, stood up, made a hand seal with his claws, and shrunk himself again.
Ji Rong picked up the lotus seat with her wing claws, carried it on her back, and ran towards the teleportation array in the Jade Pool.
Back at the Jade Void Palace Blood Pill Workshop, Ji Rong's heart began to race. She placed the lotus seat on the ground, spread her wings, and sat down heavily, feeling a wave of fear wash over her.
She thought to herself, "I was careless. Lord Jue only needs a few pots of source water to exercise his authority and smooth out the strong winds of such a large area of the desolate sea. But I treated that place as my private property, and I would steal it whenever it was missing half of my property."
"If it weren't for the fact that the new god of the Fortune and Prosperity Hall hasn't yet appeared, and that the Mountain and Water Gods hadn't been protecting me, my theft would certainly have aroused suspicion and investigation. This is inappropriate, extremely inappropriate."
Ji Rong sat on the ground, silently reminding herself to be more careful next time.
Then she had Qingpingzi take out the extra gourd of source water and divide it into three small bottles. Only then did she head towards the residences of Shan Zhongfeng and Shan Wu.
Ji Rong took out a bottle of Origin Stream and the new contract, and said to Erhu, "Godfather, Uncle, it won't be long before I go to Cloud Cliff to cultivate in seclusion again."
"You two carefully read this contract, then take it to my senior brother Qingqizi and ask him to quickly send some experienced medicine servants to take over the Yaochi medicine garden."
Then she pointed to the small jade bottle and said, "This is a rare treasure. I only got it when I went out with Senior Brother Qingpingzi. You two enjoy it. If there's not much, drink it in private and don't share it."
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Ji Rong gave Erhu a long, detailed explanation, feeling that she had said everything she needed to before walking out with Qing Pingzi.
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