Zha Gong's evolutionary path

The Hundred Flowers Feast stretches for hundreds of miles, surrounded by a variety of exotic flowers and plants as a natural barrier, and you can see a field of colorful flowers from a distance, like a colorful curtain, floating in the air, and you can see as far as you can see. colorful.There is an intoxicating fragrance floating in the air, the fragrance is elegant but not greasy, and they do not invade each other, occupying their respective territories in a restrained and polite manner.

The long water mirror stretches from the entrance of the Flower Banquet to the bottom of the main venue. Under the crystal clear mirror are swimming colorful koi carp, green water plants dancing with the waves, and colorful jade stones against the colors of the flowers.

The banquet hall is a circular shape surrounded by Hunyuan, with a total of ninety-nine and eighty-one seats of various sizes and shapes.

Arranged according to the level of respect from the entrance to the master/seat, they are located on both sides of the water mirror, and each seat is filled with delicacies.Fairies in seven-color woven clothes shuttled between the banquets, delivering food; Jade Rabbits carrying wine gourds hopped and hopped under their feet, diligently delivering jar after jar of fine wine.

Some immortal officials had already entered the table in advance, chatting softly with their colleagues in their respective seats; all the horses they brought were tied outside the banquet hall, lying lazily on the ground, or roaring excitedly.

When Lin Gongru entered the arena, Fairy Yaolian caused a commotion.

The two of them came here in a carriage pulled by a golden phoenix. The feathers of the phoenix were as blazing as flames. Attract all the fairy eyes at the banquet.

I saw a pair of Bi people standing shoulder to shoulder in the golden car, obviously well-dressed, with stone blue satin embroidery as the bottom, and snow-colored cloud robes on the outside, with distinct layers, and the sun, moon, and stars are embroidered on the cuffs and skirts The exquisite twelve coats of arms, such as , mountain, 軼, 軻, dragon, etc., are full of style.Whether it is the mount or the attire, it seems to be the posture of the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven.

Fairy Yaolian's black silk is tied into a delicate bun, fixed behind her head with a golden step shaker, and the fragrant wind blows as the lotus steps move lightly.

Lin Gongru next to her simply tied up her snow-colored long hair with a green headband, her posture was casual, but she was still coquettish.

He clasped fingers with Fairy Yaolian, and walked into the Hundred Flowers Feast as if no one else was there.

Most of the immortal officials present were seniors with profound qualifications and cultivation. They had heard about the past events between General Tianhu and Fairy Yaolian, so naturally they would not mistake their identities.

At this time, seeing that the two of them came together after many years, which confirmed the rumors that have been circulating in recent months, they couldn't help whispering.

"If Lin Gongruo has returned to the Heavenly Court, I thought it was just a rumor before."

"When did he become so close to Yaolian?"

"He lost his memory and rebuilt it. Yao Lian still seems to have the memory. If he pushed her down the refining pool, how could she still practice with him without any grievances?"

"I heard from people in the underworld that the newly appointed Yan Jun seems to be Ying Moyan from Qinghe Academy..."

"What? Then why didn't he go to Ying Moyan, instead—"

"Shh, they're coming, keep your voice down."

Lin Gongru had excellent hearing. When he led Fairy Yaolian through the water mirror, he not only felt strange gazes from both sides, but also heard a few whispers.The faces of those immortal officials were blurred, and they tried their best to keep their voices down so that he could not hear them, but a few words still flowed into his ears deliberately caught.

Without squinting, he passed by those immortal officials as if he had never heard of them, and only collected the scattered words he heard in his heart.

Yao Lian beside him also heard some discussions, the fairy still had a smile on her face, but she cast a faint glance at the gossiping fairy officials as if inadvertently, and immediately suppressed the whispers.

As far as Yao Lian herself is concerned, there is no deterrence; the one who can suppress these immortals is the Lord of the Nine Heavens behind her.

The two of them went straight to the west side closest to the main/seat, and sat down in front of a bar-shaped table, which had already prepared pastries and snacks.

Yao Lian picked up the jug on the side, filled Lin Gongru's wine cup with fine wine, and smiled slightly at him, "I haven't participated in the Hundred Flowers Banquet for a long time, and I feel very kind. This seat is because I have asked the emperor for a long time, so I can get him." The old man agreed to exchange it, you have to respect him for a while."

Lin Gongru looked at the amber-glowing wine in the wine cup, his mind wandered somewhere, so he hummed.

Fairy Yaolian showed a bit of displeasure.

Seeing that his eyes were downcast, he seemed to be worried, but he didn't look for someone in the banquet, so his displeasure was temporarily suppressed.

"What's wrong with you?" She approached him intimately, "Did you remember something?"

Lin Gongru suddenly woke up, he raised his eyes, took the cup from Yaolian, and said with a smile: "I just feel the noble status of the fairy, and after sitting for a while, I felt the admiring eyes from all directions in the banquet. To na."

After finishing speaking, he drank the wine in one gulp, and raised his head to hide a trace of confusion in his eyes.

He did remember something, though not quite clearly.

It seems that he once sat at the same banquet, reached out to take the wine glass from those slender hands, accepted her blessings and words of admiration, and after drinking the wine...

After that, I felt uncomfortable all over, and the palms of my hands were so hot that they seemed to be burning...

And after that—he seemed to have done something extraordinary?

Yao Lian smiled and said: "You and I are fellow cultivators. It's only natural for us to go in and out together, so what are those idlers doing?" She filled his wine glass again and pushed it to him with a smile.

Lin Gongru didn't refuse, she handed it over, and he drank it quickly.

Before the banquet officially started, the two of them drank a lot of wine in their seats as if no one else was there, and the jade rabbits on the soles of their feet bounced back and forth to deliver the new wine, which made the eyes of many immortal officials sitting next to them feel hot.

But because of Yaolian's intimidation, he dared not talk openly, so he could only secretly communicate with his close friends.

"Hey, it's really a good day--"

"Relying on his status as a fairy, he can indeed avoid many detours."

"If I had known that I would obey Yao Lian today, why did he bother to shame the Emperor in public at the Hundred Flowers Banquet?"

"It's also unpredictable."

"Speaking of which, the Underworld should have also received the invitation to the Hundred Flowers Banquet? Why hasn't Yan Jun been seen for so long?"

Lin Gongru pretended to be happy to deal with Yao Lian, while using the movement of drinking, his eyes wandered slightly around the Baihua Banquet Hall.

In order to show their identities, he and Yao Lian had already arrived late, and they expected to see the figure in the black cloak at the banquet.

However, passing by along the way, he didn't see the pale-faced Lord Yan of the underworld in any seat.

Until the Hundred Flowers Banquet was about to start, even the emperor appeared at the entrance of the Hundred Flowers Banquet, surrounded by many concubines and strode towards the main banquet seat, but Ying Moyan was still not seen.

About four seats to the west of where he and Yaolian were, there was a desk made of pure black stone that was empty, and the entire Hundred Flowers Banquet was full of immortals and officials, only that desk was almost lonely and empty.

That should be Ying Moyan's seat.

Why hasn't he arrived yet?

Lin Gongru involuntarily stared at that position several times, feeling strangely anxious for some unknown reason.

When the emperor passed by him and Yaolian, he glanced at them with a smile on his face, showing a satisfied expression.

That expression made Lin Gongru unhappy, but Yao Lian next to her pursed her lips and laughed softly as Tong Dijun's response.

The emperor took his seat, and the rest of the concubines sat down in their respective seats. All the officials of the Hundred Flowers Banquet stopped talking with other officials at once, and the banquet gradually became quiet.

Dijun's eyes swept away, and the pure black table that was empty in the full house was particularly eye-catching.

He immediately withdrew his smile and frowned slightly.

"Huh? Where is the Lord of the Ten Halls of the Underworld?"

At the table, you look at me, I look at you, all in silence.

Many immortal officials projected their gazes towards Lin Gongru on the seat intentionally or unintentionally, and then hastily withdrew their gazes before he looked back.

The emperor lowered his face and said, "Hasn't the underworld received the invitation for the Hundred Flowers Banquet? How dare he be absent from this grand event in the heavenly court every five years?"

No one answered.

It's okay to refuse to come to the Heavenly Court to meet with three reminders and four invitations before, but now he dares to refuse to show up for such an important banquet, which is a blatant slap in the face of his emperor.Even if he knew why Ying Moyan didn't want to attend the Hundred Flowers Banquet, he couldn't help resisting him so unscrupulously.

If he is allowed to go on, Ying Moyan is afraid that the sky will be turned upside down.

Dijun's heart was gradually filled with anger, and he was about to call out to call people, when suddenly a gloomy cold wind blew past, from the entrance of the Hundred Flowers Banquet, all the way to the banquet.

Unexpectedly, many immortal officials here shuddered, secretly thinking that the dark wind in this area is making people feel cold all over their bodies.

A figure wearing a black cloak appeared at the entrance of the Hundred Flowers Banquet, and the biting cold air spread from his body. The flowers near the door seemed to be frozen, and suddenly shrank and wilted by more than half, and the color of the petals was not as good as before. So bright.

Under the watchful eyes of many immortal officials, the pale Ying Moyan walked past the crystal clear water mirror in silence.

His footsteps are very light, and he can't stir up any waves when he steps on the water mirror. Under the water mirror, the colorful koi and floating aquatic plants froze when he passed by, as if he was afraid that the cold air on his body would pass through the mirror. , to reach the water.

Ying Moyan walked to his desk without saying a word, lifted the hem of his clothes and sat down calmly.

Under many staring salutes, he kept his eyes down without saying a word, with no expression on his face, and he didn't seem to want to make any explanation for his lateness.

"..." The man had already arrived, and getting angry at him again seemed to be out of nowhere.

The emperor stared at Yan Jun of the underworld without a word of explanation for a long while, afraid of the hundred thousand ghosts and monsters in his hands, finally held back and did not attack.

He raised his hand to signal, and the attendant who had been waiting for the order immediately said: "The auspicious time has come! The emperor, the holy family, Long En, sent the Nine Heavens Goddess, and the Immortals of Hundred Flowers to carefully prepare this Hundred Flowers Banquet. Many of the fruits and wines are century-old The ultimate product of hard life, we specially invite all the immortals who have come from afar to enjoy this feast together!"

Fairies holding pipas, guqin, jade flutes and flutes filed in, and the fairy music was everywhere.

Dozens of dancers separated from the east, west, south, and north sides of the banquet, facing the fairies and dancing to the music, with graceful postures and graceful appearance.

The sound of toasting and toasting gradually increased, and the banquet gradually became lively and lively.

There were so many empty seats between the seats of the Hundred Flowers Banquet, even though there were only four seats between them, Lin Gongru and Ying Moyan couldn't see each other clearly.

Lin Gongru could only vaguely see the profile of the man through the few immortal officials in front of him.

He lowered his eyes, his expression was as bad as the last time he saw him, and his handsome eyebrows were slightly frowning.

Although his body was extremely cold, Lin Gongru could judge from the slightly flimsy details of the soles of his feet when he stepped into the Hundred Flowers Feast that he was actually already at the end of his strength, but he was only maintaining the illusion of aloofness.

In order to diagnose and treat Lin Gongru, he exhausted all his efforts and lost his cultivation, and now his body has long been weak.

I'm afraid that when he received the invitation for the Hundred Flowers Banquet, he would have difficulty even getting off the bed, but he had to force himself to attend the banquet.

And Lin Gongru, who said to him that day, "I'll come as soon as I go", is sitting in the top table at the moment, accepting the toasts from other people, beside her is the soft and fragrant soft jade, so charming.

Lin Gongru stared at his side face, slightly dazed, wondering what this man was thinking at the moment?

Will he lament that his name shouldn't be listed alongside him in the damn marriage book, or would he wish to tear him apart?

Ying Moyan, Ying Moyan, today you can feel the deep pain of being hurt by the one you love.

He stared at Ying Moyan, with anxiety and fanaticism that he didn't know about in his eyes.

Fairy Yaolian came back after toasting the emperor, and found that Lin Gongru was holding a cup and was staring at a corner in a daze.

Following his gaze, as expected, the figure sitting there was very familiar.

A few strands of gloom passed over Fairy's pretty face, and the corners of her originally smiling mouth relaxed.

"Lin Gongru." She stretched out her hand unhappily to grab the cup in his hand, interrupting his gaze on Ying Moyan, and forcibly turned him to face her.

Lin Gongru turned around, Fairy Yaolian approached him, touched his ear lightly with her delicate lips, and said in a tired voice: "Lin Gongru, go and toast the emperor, it is thanks to the emperor that I have two Today is the day when people and cultivators live together."

Lin Gongru's mind and attention were all on Ying Moyan who was not far away, so she didn't have the heart to deal with the emperor.

Just about to refuse, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed that Ying Moyan raised his head and took a deep look at him.

There was a sudden movement in his heart, and he pulled Fairy Yaolian closer.

Deliberately leaning into her ear, pretending to be rubbing hands with others, he smiled and said to her: "What the fairy said is true, then, does the fairy want to toast with me?"