Chapter 221

Tonight was destined to be extremely lively...

"Ahead is the Flower-Calyx Intertwined Brilliance Pavilion! Today's Thousand-Autumn Grand Banquet is held in this pavilion!"

Si Si Qingguo pointed far away toward the vermilion gate. Among the few, only she, in the identity of Princess Princess Yuzhen, had entered and exited Xingqinggong.

Brother Qian Chen looked forward. The first thing that came into view was a large lake; this was the Dragon Pool, where he had written "Wine is bestowed at the Dragon Pool, the cloud screen is opened wide" when he mocked the Shou Prince.

The pool water rippled with clear waves, and two fish-dragons emitting jade light from their entire bodies swam in the pool. They emitted a soft light, reflecting the lake surface brightly.

Beside the lake were many pavilions and towers, and various palace lanterns illuminated the Dragon Pool.

Each of those palace lanterns was a magic tool of good quality. Today, at the Thousand-Autumn Grand Banquet, the entire Dragon Pool was brightly lit, with fish and dragons dancing together.

The Flower-Calyx Intertwined Brilliance Pavilion was located on the southwest bank of the Dragon Pool, an eight-cornered, flying-eaved, magnificent building.

The palace had eaves of glazed blue and vermilion tiles, each containing clear spiritual light like lapis lazuli, walls of vermilion gold bricks fired from true yang divine gold, corner rafters of thousand-year Langya wood like green jade, and pillars of crimson phoenix-perching paulownia wood.

The steps in front of the hall were paved with milky white spirit jade, and the divine beast patterns on the flying eaves and painted dougong all harbored spirits, ready to manifest as divine beasts at any time...

At this moment, a Liao Chaofeng beast crouching on an inconspicuous corner of the eight-cornered flying eaves was curiously peering at the crowd below. When it saw Brother Qian Chen's group, it was startled, quietly hiding its figure behind, shrinking its head to peek secretly.

A Chiwen with a thick aura and Core Formation cultivation walked over from the roof ridge, looking at the shrinking Liao Chaofeng, tilting its head and asking, "Cousin, are you peeking at the Imperial Consort again?"

Liao Chaofeng whispered, "Shh! Cousin, that is the killing god I mentioned to you last night!"

"He really treats gods like dogs to be slaughtered!" Liao Chaofeng said with lingering fear.

Who would have thought! It had asked its cousin to help find a new job, and they weren't even working at the Big and Small Wild Goose Pagodas anymore! And they still ran into this killing god!

Truly... bad luck.

The magnificence and grandeur of the Flower-Calyx Intertwined Brilliance Pavilion, even for Si Si Qingguo, who had seen much and had an extraordinary family background, was not without praise as she pointed to this building.

Ning Ning Qingchen, a country girl who had never seen the extravagance of the Central Lands dynasty, widened her delicate eyes, speechless.

Yan Shu was rarely silent for a moment, sighing, "How were these glazed tiles fired? Why do they emit the clear light that only the relics of the Buddha's golden body, having attained the Sun and Moon Light Lapis Lazuli Body, would have?"

He pondered for a moment and said, "This kind of glazed tile covering a building has hundreds of thousands of pieces. If my Daoist sect were to build it, we would have to burn seven or eight Buddhist bald donkeys who had attained the golden body dharma image!"

Ning Ning Qingchen heard Yan Shu's special quantifier and was speechless. She had already seen the few monks from Qinglong Temple walking in front turn their heads fiercely, glaring at Yan Shu. If it weren't for the fact that it was truly inappropriate to take action at this time, they would have definitely given this person with the loose tongue a good lesson.

But was Yan Shu the kind of person to fear them?

He acted as if those gazes didn't exist... looking left and right, trying to find where An Lushan was.

But he heard someone in front shout, "The Imperial Consort, the Imperial Consort and His Majesty are at the Chenxiang Pavilion!"

Everyone looked toward the Dragon Pool. Even the few monks from Qinglong Temple in front could not help but walk toward the edge of the Dragon Pool. Yan Shu saw this and sneered, "Heh... the Buddhist sect still has this virtue, saying they don't rely on the sovereign and don't establish dharma affairs, yet doing things that cling to the powerful!"

The monk from Qinglong Temple was shocked when he heard this, staring at Yan Shu for a long time, not understanding how he had the face to say that?

Clearly, he was a big black-faced man who had mixed into the Thousand-Autumn Banquet relying on the princess's ceremonial guard.

It seemed his stomach was not good, and he couldn't eat hard rice!

The few young and handsome monks looked at Si Si Qingguo with regret. Princess Princess Yuzhen was good in every way, quiet and inactive, a person of cultivation, and she was born with a good appearance, but her taste was too heavy!

Brother Qian Chen tugged at Yan Shu's sleeve, telling him to endure for a while. Even if they couldn't unite with the Buddhist sect to eradicate An Lushan today, it was not good to fall out with the Buddhist sect!

Brother Qian Chen and the others stopped before the Dragon Pool. Yan Shu's face showed no self-awareness that he, like the monks, was crowding to the Dragon Pool to cling to the powerful. He looked righteous, frowned slightly, and lowered his head to look at the Dragon Pool water.

"Is this Wine Spring Jade Liquid?"

Yan Shu revealed a look of envy for the first time in his life, whispering, "Western Western Kunlun has Dan water, water like spirit medicine, which can prolong life. Legend has it that the Chixianshenzhou has a Wine Spring, the spring water is like fine wine, sweet and intoxicating, yet it does not lose any of its water nature."

"This Dragon Pool, however, has a Wine Spring eye moved from who knows where!"

Brother Qian Chen was also silent. He stared at the two white jade fish-dragons swimming in the Dragon Pool and sighed slightly. Ning Ning Qingchen did not understand and whispered, "Yan Yan Shixiong Yan loves wine and feels sorry for this Wine Spring being cast aside, but why does Yan Yan Shixiong also sigh for it?"

Brother Qian Chen whispered, "The fish-dragons in the pool are a magic treasure!"

Ning Ning Qingchen widened her eyes, staring for a long time at the two fish-dragons swinging their dragon tails and swimming in the Dragon Pool jade liquid, her expression revealing longing—as if she wanted them!

Brother Qian Chen used a voice that only Ning Ning Qingchen and Yan Shu beside him could hear, "Wasteful thing..." He was sour again!

A magic treasure!

He had worked hard to enter a dream once, risking the danger of falling into the devil, to comply with the thoughts of the Chang'an commoners and give birth to a magic treasure from his own demonic nature. It was the only magic treasure besides his natal flying sword and the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Tianmo Tianmo Sheli that he could look at but not use.

And the Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor raised an ancient magic treasure in the Dragon Pool for amusement.

He would not be surnamed Li if he didn't empty the Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor's inner treasury!

"I have quite a few magic tools with magic treasure potential on me, but the gap to rebuild the foundation of the Supreme Louguan Dao is even bigger!" Brother Qian Chen was a bit jealous, constantly muttering in his heart, "His is mine, and mine is still mine!"

Among the few, only Si Si Qingguo didn't care, and kindly introduced them, "The fish-dragons in the pool are indeed transformed from a pair of magic treasures. When the Empress summoned the imperial grandsons that year, she tested their cultivation, and only Li Li Longji was the most extraordinary, so she bestowed a magic treasure from her side upon him."

"This is the Jade Dragon Child!"

Yan Shu was a bit skeptical, "The Empress had such a domineering personality; would she hand over such a significant magic treasure to her grandson?"

"It is precisely because the Empress was too domineering that she handed this magic treasure to her descendants. Because the Jade Dragon Child is a divine magic treasure that can manipulate weather, but it is not good at killing. At that time, the Empress was preparing to support Li Dan to replace Li Han Xian, and bestowing this magic treasure, which symbolized power but had no killing ability, upon Li Dan's son meant everything."

Brother Qian Chen smiled slightly.

Yan Shu understood after a little thought.

"Isn't this a symbol of a puppet emperor? No wonder the Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor doesn't like it."

Si Si Qingguo continued, "This treasure can affect the weather. In the early years of the Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor's reign, in order to show a peaceful atmosphere, he used this treasure to forcibly reverse natural disasters, damaging its spirituality after decades, and it had no divine response. Later, during a severe drought in Shu, the Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor wanted to use this treasure again, but was persuaded by the Daoist Master Luo Gongyuan at the time that if this treasure were used again, it would be completely destroyed, and it should be nourished with secret methods."

"So he moved a spirit spring from somewhere and put the Jade Dragon Child into the pool to nourish it."

"That's why this pond in Xingqinggong is called the Dragon Pool!"

Brother Qian Chen sneered slightly upon hearing this, "Forcibly covering up the peace, it really has the Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor's flavor!"

In the Dragon Pool, a pavilion was built on Jade Mountain, carved with railings and jade, with spiritual energy gathering on it, almost condensing into white smoke; this was the Chenxiang Pavilion.

In the pavilion, a man with a majestic face held a woman's hand, standing side by side. The woman had her back to the crowd, but just a back view made the monks from Qinglong Temple beside them stare blankly!

An old monk had a dry mouth and tongue, constantly looking left and right, not daring to look directly at that back view. His heart was beating like a drum, making the young monk who was obsessed with looking at the woman's back view frown in dissatisfaction, "Why is there the sound of a drum?"

"What a high-level Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Charm!" Yan Shu said solemnly.

It seemed that the temptation of Yang Yang Taizhen's back view was not as great as the Dragon Pool's Wine Spring to him.

It was even more impossible for Brother Qian Chen to be confused by it. To talk about Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Charm, with Brother Qian Chen's demonic attainments, he might be even higher than Yang Yang Taizhen. With a little practice, he could surpass Yang Yang Taizhen and approach the generation of demon concubine Su Su Daji of the Heavenly Merchant Divine Dynasty!

He was just subconsciously thinking, what kind of demonic magic treasure would it be better to refine such good talent and quality into?

The crowd heard a very pleasant voice, as if scratching the heart, "Has the 'Three Absolutes' that Your Majesty mentioned come? Today, Concubine Mei's dance is very good, and I really want to see that Grand Lady Lady Gongsun! And Li Taibai, the poem he wrote for Concubine Mei is also very good."

"Let him write one for me too!"

The Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor laughed heartily, "Gao Gao Lishi, has Princess Princess Yuzhen arrived?"

A beardless man in ordinary clothes beside him lowered his head, "I just saw the princess's carriage enter from the gate, and I will go and announce it now!"

"Yang Taizhen, I will invite them for you!" The Xiao Xie Xuan Emperor's laughter was hearty.

The beauty, who had her back to the crowd, finally turned around to admire the lake light of the Dragon Pool. Brother Qian Chen and the others heard the Zen hearts of the monks from Qinglong Temple shatter. An old monk did not hesitate to channel his mindfulness to grow hair, shattering the Buddha light behind his head.

He shouted, "I'm returning to secular life! I'm returning to secular life! I'm not being this broken monk anymore!" He turned and ran away.

Brother Qian Chen looked at the crowd again, all of them forgetting to breathe, and some even fainted to the ground due to disordered qi.

Si Si Qingguo whispered, "It's a life-taker! It's a life-taker! How can there be such a beautiful woman? Even I am stunned!"

"She didn't seem so beautiful before?"

Brother Qian Chen's expression was solemn, "Yang Yang Taizhen's cultivation is much higher than Yang Yang Guozhong's! It's just that this charm is at least at the Yin Spirit level. And today she has no restraint... It seems she wants to suppress Concubine Mei, who was outstanding before."

Yan Shu stared at a fat body in the pavilion, his hand already on the sword box.

Brother Qian Chen shook his head slightly, "It's not time yet!"

At this time, Gao Gao Lishi trotted all the way to Si Si Qingguo, complaining, "Princess, you finally arrived!"

Seeing Brother Qian Chen, Gao Gao Lishi's expression instantly became somewhat solemn, and he whispered, "You are Li Bai?"

"Li Taibai, tonight is not like last night. Sword light three thousand zhang in Ci'en Temple; don't do it again in Xingqinggong. Zhong Kui can't control this place!"

Brother Qian Chen sighed in his heart, "I'm sorry! Today it's no longer such a small matter..."

"And Grand Lady Lady Gongsun!" Gao Gao Lishi enthusiastically greeted Ning Ning Qingchen, "The Jinghong Dance choreographed by Grand Lady Lady Gongsun is good; His Majesty has many praises! Concubine Mei has an invitation, and His Majesty also has an invitation..."