Chapter 1337: Chapter 502: Fengliu Opera
Holding a flowing banquet and opening a hall, today’s East Market Street is bustling with excitement.
The street isn’t wide, but the east end has an open space originally intended for a park, though it’s not completed yet, giving off a somewhat primitive feel.
However, this area is spacious enough to host a flowing feast, making it quite suitable.
As a result, hundreds of tables were set up in this area.
The people from the God Traveling Department each had their own roles.
The Music Masters went to invite renowned artists, Gu Ling was in charge of setting up the stage, and the Painters invited the top chefs from the best restaurants in Mingjiang Prefecture to cook.
Those master chefs brought their own coal stoves, pots, and pans. However, the fire from the coal stoves wasn’t strong enough, and they were cooking large pot meals, so relying on the small stove flames would mean cooking for ages.
Fortunately, Sister Cui possessed the Earth Law of the Fourth Realm, and building a towering pill furnace for Zhou Xuan was nothing for her. In this open space, conjuring up a hundred large stoves was a simple task.
After her technique was applied, those stoves sprouted up from the ground like bamboo shoots after a rain.
With the stoves in place, a large amount of firewood was needed, so Li Chengfeng, the Heavenly God Scholar from the Bone Elder Association, organized teams to bring firewood to East Market Street.
In an instant, East Market Street was bustling like an ant colony, everyone busy with their duties.
"Mr., too many guests have arrived, and the tables can’t accommodate everyone."
Li Changxun took on the role of welcoming guests. He observed the swarming guests with a worried expression.
"All the tables are full?"
Zhou Xuan pointed at the hundreds of tables in the open space and asked.
"All full, there’s really no more room."
Zhou Xuan thought for a moment and said, "From now on, turn away any guests still on their way, and also find Old Hua to set up another two hundred tables in the open space for the Fox Clan."
After all, he had promised King Xishan in advance that the fox descendants could come to greet Mu Hua.
The promise had been made, so the foxes had to be accommodated.
"Got it."
Li Changxun listened to Zhou Xuan’s instructions and set about arranging it.
Everyone was busy, and Zhou Xuan was also occupied with coordinating, but in his spare moments, he found time to inquire with the Eternal Life Sect Leader about the Heavenly Fire Clan.
"Sect Leader, you say the Heavenly Fire Clan are essentially bugs born from eggs."
"Yes."
"Then tell me, where do these eggs come from?" Zhou Xuan asked. "The eggs can’t just pop out from the cracks in a rock, can they?"
"You’re stumping me there." The Eternal Life Sect Leader said, "I truly don’t know where those bugs come from."
"Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?" Zhou Xuan said with a sly smile.
"I truly don’t know." The Eternal Life Sect Leader almost wanted to swear. He raised his hand to his chest and confidently stated, "Those at the God-level on the Heavenly Dome, people think their status is exalted."
"Aren’t they?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"We are, at most, the caretakers for the Heavenly Fire Clan." The Eternal Life Sect Leader said, "To us, the Heavenly Dome is also a cage, many places are forbidden zones for us."
Zhou Xuan asked, "When can you leave the cage?"
"When there’s a task to complete." The Eternal Life Sect Leader said, "If we receive a mission from above, we go to the stone house on the Heavenly Dome to get a lantern, and with its guidance, we can go where we want."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan understood why Li Changxun no longer wished to return to the Heavenly Dome—it was a place of extreme cold.
The Eternal Life Sect Leader continued, "Coldness is for us outsiders. For the Heavenly Fire Clan, it’s a warm place."
Talking about the Heavenly Fire Clan,
The Eternal Life Sect Leader earnestly advised Zhou Xuan, "Mr., you act efficiently, with etiquette and propriety. Regardless of our past grievances, now, I must warn you."
"Please speak."
"In Jing Country, you can kill anyone, from the nine sticks of incense, God-level, even up to the Heavenly God Level, kill if you must, given your current status, you needn’t be overly worried."
The Eternal Life Sect Leader said, "With Bai Yujing’s appointment, you are like an extension of the Heavenly Dome, they rely on you for tasks, naturally giving you some privileges... any trouble you cause, others will come to your aid without you having to lift a finger.
However, there’s one thing you absolutely must not do."
"What is it?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"You cannot kill someone from the Heavenly Fire Clan."
The Eternal Life Sect Leader said, "Despite appearing as one bug after another, they reincarnate and cultivate immensely, but they possess a clan loyalty hundreds of times stronger than in the human world,
if you kill a member of the Heavenly Fire Clan, no one on the Heavenly Dome can save you."
"They are not Jing Country people, they consider themselves an extraordinary Divine Clan."
The Eternal Life Sect Leader said sadly.
People say humans are the spirit of all things, and with this belief, he cultivated, achieved Tao, ascended... yet, in the end, became a slave, a retainer to a bunch of bugs,
such a truth, how could it not damage the Taoist heart he had cultivated over the years?
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan neither nodded nor shook his head, leaving it unknown whether he took the Eternal Life Sect Leader’s advice to heart.
"The Young Master Lin Ming of the Heavenly Fire Clan is an example. Wuwen Mountain killed him, and no one could protect Wuwen Mountain,
regardless of the divine entity ’Sixteen Stances’ behind Wuwen Mountain, or the mountain spirit of Wuwen Mountain that had reached the Heavenly God Level—the Butcher,
