Chapter 48 Eighty-one bells

 Chapter 48 Eighty-one bells

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

The Hundred Flowers Banquet will be held tomorrow. Shen Li has not seen Xingzhi since the conversation with Xingzhi that day. Even though they live under the same roof, it is very easy for two people with magical powers to avoid each other.

After that, Xingzhi still cooked and sent it to Shen Li's door, but Shen Li would not eat the food served at noon until the evening. After two days, Xingzhi stopped sending food.

However, Shen Li could not let herself go hungry. Although she did not like the immortals in heaven, she still had to go out every day. This day, she went to the venue of the Hundred Flowers Banquet and wanted to take some immortal fruits to fill her stomach. However, she did not expect that she had just taken a peach with her hand. When she turned around, the goddess Luo Tian was standing behind her and staring at her.

Shen Li cleared her throat and said, "The peaches in heaven are quite big." As she said that, she was about to throw the peach back. Youlan said, "This peach is not big. It comes from a peach tree that has been bearing fruit for a hundred years. It is not a rare thing. Your Majesty, you can try this peach and then try the peaches that have been bearing fruit for five hundred years. You will know which one is better."

Does this mean... that she can eat whatever she wants? Shen Li blinked and looked at Youlan. Youlan turned away unnaturally. She walked to Shen Li, picked up three peaches, took a pot of wine and stuffed it into Shen Li's arms, and walked away quickly with her head resting on her head.

Shen Li looked at the food in her arms and still hadn't reacted. What exactly does this goddess mean now? Does she want to choke her to death with these fairy peaches? Or does she want to frame her for stealing fairy fruit? There was a little fairy maid busy around her. Shen Li turned around and asked, "Is it not stealing if I take the things that your goddess stuffed into my mouth?"

The little fairy maid was startled: "Your Majesty, you are joking. Since it was given by the goddess, it is naturally not stealing."

Shen Li raised her eyebrows and decisively took a peach and put it in her mouth to chew.

They ate peaches and drank wine all the way back to West Garden. But when they walked into the room, Shen Li felt something was wrong. The power of the heaven was too strong. She couldn't open her eyes after falling on the bed. Shen Li pulled the quilt and buried her face in it and muttered: "I knew he had bad intentions and was waiting for me here..."

Shen Li didn't wake up again until the bell for the opening of the Hundred Flowers Banquet rang through the nine heavens the next day. It rang for a full ninety-nine and eighty-one times before waking Shen Li up. Shen Li stuck her head out of the quilt, looked at the sky outside, and woke up immediately.

She came here on behalf of the Immortal Realm world, and it would be a big joke to be late. She turned over and sat up, quickly tied up her hair, pushed open the door, and Xingzhi was gone.

That guy didn't even call her! Shen Li's heart was filled with anger, but she suppressed it helplessly. It would be better if they didn't even have the relationship of roommates... When she reached the front yard, Shen Li wanted to fly on the clouds, but suddenly a red light flashed across the sky. Shen Li frowned.

At first, she thought it was a firework from the heaven, but as the red light got closer, it actually rushed straight to Xiyuan. Shen Li frowned, still hesitating whether to stop it, and then she saw the red light suddenly speed up and fall on the roof of the lobby of Xiyuan. With a "boom", the earth trembled, the lobby of Xiyuan collapsed, and the hot flames spread instantly, burning an orange-red sky.

The heaven... was attacked? This thought flashed through her mind, and Shen Li looked up into the distance, only to see the fireball shot from nowhere and smashed towards Xiyuan again, and one of the places where it fell was the wing room where the spirit tablet was placed! The genuine smile on Xingzhi's lips passed through Shen Li's heart. She almost didn't hesitate at all, and her figure flashed and landed on the roof of the square wing.

The Immortal Realmic energy washed away in the marrow washing pool has not been recovered yet. Shen Li shouted softly and barely supported a semicircular barrier to protect the house below. However, the power of this fireball was completely beyond her imagination. It was extremely hot and carried such a huge pressure. If it weren't for the fire nature of the phoenix, it might have been burned to ashes before she took on this pressure. There was a "click" under her feet, which was the crisp sound of tiles breaking.

Shen Li gritted her teeth, and the red light in her eyes was bright. She shouted in a deep voice, and the magic power around her body turned into a wave of golden light, carrying the overwhelming force to rush straight to the fireball, shattering it from the inside, turning it into dust-like fire points, and scattering around the wing. Shen Li stood alone on the roof, and blood slowly dripped from her hanging hands. The wound on her back was broken.

However, there was no time for people to rest, and the fireball came towards them again. Shen Li's face was solemn, he didn't dodge or avoid, his fists were clenched, his eyes were full of determination not to retreat.

After the eighty-one bells rang, the Heavenly Lord bowed slightly and said to Xingzhi: "God, please take the seat." In such an occasion, even the Heavenly Lord couldn't sit in the highest position, but no one knew that Xingzhi hated to sit in that position the most.

The white jade seat on the steps was too cold... A red light passed through the sky, and the eyes of the immortals followed it. One immortal smiled and said: "Whose car is that? It looks so majestic and beautiful." Before he finished speaking, there was a loud noise, and the sky in the west turned bright red. The top of the cloud surrounded by fairy mist trembled, and the cups and plates fell over, making a mess. The fairy maidens couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice.

However, after the panic, there was a terrible silence. In the comfortable heaven, no one reacted to what happened at this time. Xingzhi didn't sit on the white jade seat. He looked up and saw several fireballs chasing the previous red light in the distance.

His brows sank, and he felt a little panic in his heart. "Report!" The guard's drawn-out voice sounded particularly harsh in the silent Hundred Flowers Banquet. He ran all the way in a gorgeous and cumbersome armor, which made a crisp ding-dong sound. The immortals liked music, but no one had the heart to appreciate the sound of jade at this time.

They only heard the guard shouting in panic: "There is... there is a fire attack! It's going to the West Garden!" The immortals were shocked. The guard's voice was hoarse and trembling: "It's burning!" After the breeze passed, no one saw when the person in the seat disappeared. When everyone came to their senses, there was no trace of Xingzhi Shenjun at the Hundred Flowers Banquet. The Heavenly Lord came to his senses and hurriedly summoned the generals to assign tasks. He personally led a team of people to the West Garden at a rapid speed. Lord BiCang attended the banquet on behalf of the Immortal Realm Realm, but he had not arrived yet and should still be in the West Garden. If she was attacked in the Heaven Realm, it would be difficult to explain to the Immortal Realm Realm.

Moreover, the West Garden also enshrined the spirit tablets of the ancient gods...

Looking at the anxious look of Lord Xingzhi, we know that those spirit tablets are extremely important to him and none of them can be lost. If the guards are not in time, and Lord Xingzhi gets angry, it will be bad. Fireballs fell one after another, and the tiles under Shen Li's feet were all shattered. She cursed Xingzhi and the idiots in the Heaven Realm more than once in her heart. Such an important place didn't know to set up a barrier to guard it, and it has been so long since the incident, didn't anyone see that something was wrong here!

Such a high-profile attack with fireballs in the air, no one went to find the attacker and kill him! The idle people in the Heaven Realm have really been comfortable for too long, and their brains have been used to grow fat! If the Immortal Realm Realm wants to attack the Heaven Realm one day, Shen Li feels that she can make these drunkards surrender in one day! Another fireball fell, this time with even greater force than before. Shen Li heard the roof beams creaking under her feet.

Obviously, this room could not hold out for much longer, and these attacks were not over yet... Shen Li gritted her teeth, feeling extremely aggrieved in her heart. She had always been good at attacking but not at defending, and she liked to fight quickly. It would be better to let her be chopped by the enemy directly than to let her hold up the barrier for such a long time today.

The wound on her back kept splitting, and the blood had soaked her clothes. Shen Li could no longer hold on due to excessive blood loss and lack of mana. Her body seemed to be hollowed out. Fireballs hit the barrier she had set up, and the huge pressure made her knees slightly bent. What was more troublesome was the burning flames. Without mana, the fragments of the fireballs pierced into Shen Li's thin barrier, leaving a red mark on her cheek.

However, Shen Li never cared about skin injuries, but was afraid that the sparks would burn into her eyes... As she was thinking, a spark whistled towards her pupils. Shen Li subconsciously closed her eyes and lowered her head to avoid it.

However, at this moment of trance, another fireball hit the place where Shen Li was standing. The huge impact caused Shen Li's feet to soften, and one knee knelt hard on the beam. With a "click", the beam broke and a dent was made where Shen Li was kneeling.

Suffering from this sudden attack, Shen Li's already unstable breath became even more chaotic, and her blood was surging. Even though she tried her best to suppress it, blood still flowed from the corner of her mouth. However, she didn't know if it was an illusion at this critical moment, as if a cool air jumped out from the broken beams, wrapped around her body, and relieved the burning pain.

But at this time, Shen Li had no mind to feel this coolness.

She just felt that this was the first time in her life that she was forced into such a situation without even seeing the enemy. It was really aggrieved! Shen Li was angry, and when she looked up, she saw a fireball bigger than before coming quickly. The word "bad" flashed through her mind, and suddenly she felt a chill in her breath, and the huge pressure was removed in an instant. The white hem passed in front of her eyes, and Shen Li, who was kneeling on one knee, only saw a back figure in the backlight. Because he had to attend the Hundred Flowers Banquet, his bun on his head was more formal than usual, but he still looked lazy. When the hot wind blew, his clothes and long hair flew together, which was very chic. His figure blocked all the heat waves and pressure. Shen Li covered his chest with one hand, feeling that the heart that was still beating rapidly due to the battle just now was soothed and relaxed.

This back figure... can bring too much sense of security. For Lord BiCang, it was a sense of security that he rarely experienced...

The heat wave was approaching, and the huge fireball rushed over with the force that seemed to turn everything into ashes. Xingzhi's face was calm, and he just stretched out his hand lightly, and the fireball suddenly stopped, like a vicious dog with a noose around its neck, struggling to the limit of the rope, and could no longer move forward.

"Get out!" Xingzhi shouted in a low voice, and waved his sleeves, and saw that the huge fireball was easily thrown back at the speed and trajectory it came from... thrown... back. Shen Li roughly understood why the way of heaven does not allow gods to have emotions.

If such a powerful force is used for private affairs at will, wouldn't the world be disrupted? The side where the fireball flew back was ignited with blazing flames, and sure enough, no more fireballs came. Thinking of the other party's flustered appearance at this time, Shen Li felt funny in her heart, but as soon as her heart relaxed, she felt more tired all over. She lost too much blood and could no longer control her body.

She leaned back and rolled down from the dilapidated roof. But before she fell to the ground, she was grabbed by someone as expected, and unexpectedly, the person who grabbed her did more than just grab her. The warm palm was placed on her back, which had long been soaked, and the wound on her cheek was gently stroked by someone with a cool hand. Xingzhi's face enlarged in front of her eyes. Even though Shen Li was too distracted to see anything else at this time, she understood Xingzhi's eyes. He was angry.

He was saying, "Shen Li, don't you want to live?"

"I can't die."

She heard her own unclear voice, "I'm just a little tired."

"For this house, you force yourself to be like this..." He seemed to be trying his best to suppress his emotions, "How heartless you are."

"I can't..." Shen Li's eyes were about to close. Her tired muscles couldn't support her head. She fell forward, her forehead against Xingzhi's shoulder, and her voice was small and vague, "I can't... let you have no thoughts at all."

Xingzhi's shining eyes and warm smile when he saw those spirit tablets made Shen Li remember them deeply in her heart after just one glance, and she could never forget them. Xingzhi's fingertips trembled slightly, as if he had been struggling for a long time. He wrapped one hand around Shen Li's quilt and pressed the back of her head with the other hand, pressing her into his arms.

The force was sometimes tight and sometimes loose. He... couldn't control himself. It turns out that there really is such a person, who can't even control the strength in front of her... His fingers gently touched her hair, and his lips fell right beside Shen Li's ear.

Xingzhi lowered his eyes and lowered his voice. He was three parts helpless and seven parts bitter. He only said to Shen Li: "My lord, are you really helping me control it..." The Heavenly Lord led the guards and hurried over. Except for the wing room that Shen Li was desperately protecting, other places had been burned to ashes.

Xingzhi God Lord held Lord BiCang in front of a pile of broken walls and tiles. He turned his back to everyone, and no one could see the expression on his face. The Heavenly Lord was slightly surprised: "Xingzhi God Lord..."

"Don't come over." Xingzhi said lightly, "I'm helping Lord BiCang heal his injuries."

He said, "No one is allowed to come over." Sure enough, no one dared to step forward. Xingzhi held Shen Li in front of everyone, holding the normally-looLord BiCang King. Everyone then saw that, compared to the Godly Lord, Lord Bicang was actually so petite...

By the way, Lord Bicang was also a woman, she was supposed to be slender and petite...

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