The Yaochi Banquet is one of the eight most prestigious banquets in the Xuan Realm.
Even before the Fairy Palace dug up the flat peach trees from the Kunshan tribe, this banquet had already started to be held. Therefore, the subsequent flat peach banquet could become one of the three major banquets representing the top events of the human race, and the Yaochi Banquet played an important role.
Therefore, the importance the Fairy Palace attaches to the Yaochi Banquet is actually not just what outsiders in the Xuan Realm speculate, it is just because this banquet can ensure that the name of the Fairy Palace's roots in the Thirty-Sixth Sect is preserved.
Inside the Fairy Palace, the Yaochi Banquet is the foundation of the Peach Banquet.
Except for the Palace Master of the Fairy Palace and a few elders and saints who knew the stakes, others did not know that the Yaochi Banquet held by the Fairy Palace every five hundred years would actually divide the collected luck into two parts.
, part of it is used to maintain the sect's luck in the Fairy Palace from being affected, and the other part is used to water the peach trees.
After all, as long as the Peach Banquet can proceed smoothly, the luck collected from the banquet will be enough to feed the entire sect for thousands of years.
It is precisely because of this that every time the Yaochi Banquet is held, the Fairy Palace must go all out.
It can even be said that they have only one purpose.
Don't seek merit, but seek no faults.
According to the previous situation, the Fairy Palace will send invitations to the top 100 talents on the Heavenly List every year, but usually, except for the male cultivators, few female cultivators will respond to the Yaochi Banquet. However, this is not the first time for the Fairy Palace after all.
This kind of banquet is going to be held, so they will set up the arena in advance and let other monks compete for the vacant seats through competitive competition.
But the situation this time is completely different from previous ones.
The first thing that made the biggest change was the Taoist sect’s acquiescence.
You must know that Wanshilou’s previous Heavenly List has never included Taoist disciples, and even specially created a Heavenly Master List and a Skill Cultivation List for this purpose. Therefore, based on past experience, the list of invitations when the Yaochi Banquet is held will naturally be
It’s rare for a martial artist to appear
The disciples of the four major Taoist sects are not included in the list, but it does not mean that the disciples of other martial arts are not included in the list. It is just that on the premise that the disciples of the four giants of Taoism who are ranked among the 19 sects refuse to be included in the list, the ranking in the Tianbang depends on
Naturally, the former disciples seldom practiced martial arts.
Therefore, Xuanjie also has the flowing water banquet led by Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, which competes with the Yaochi Banquet.
But this time it's different.
The tacit approval of the four major Taoist sects not only caused Taoist practitioners who had never appeared on the Tianban before to spring up like mushrooms after rain, but also suddenly occupied as many as 20 seats in the top 100, and their number even exceeded
Family style.
The monk who was bored and had no time made a statistics of the top 100 talents on the Heavenly List.
Then he found out.
Among the top hundred talents, martial arts monks are the most numerous, with thirty-two of them.
Among them, Dahuang City has the largest number of disciples, with eight on the list; Tiandao Sect follows with six; Shenyuan Villa has five. The remaining thirteen places are occupied by the other thirty-six Sects and Seven
It is divided among the martial arts sects in the twelve upper sects.
There are twenty-seven people in the sword cultivator lineage on the list.
Among them, Wanjian Tower got ten places, Lingjian Villa got five, Beihai Sword Sect got four, and the remaining eight places were divided up by the five major sword cultivating sects of the Thirty-sixth Sect. There were no seven places at all.
What's going on at Twelve?
This is the first time Dao Zong Shu Cultivator has appeared on the Heavenly Ranking, and he has won twenty-three spots as soon as he was on the list.
Wandao Palace and Zhenyuan Sect each have five places, Longhushan Celestial Master has four on the list, Tianshan Sect has three, and the remaining six are divided by the other thirty-six sects.
The situation of the sword cultivator lineage is similar, no disciple of the seventy-two disciples can occupy a seat in the top of the heavenly list.
And what's interesting is that there is a disciple of the Fairy Palace who won the thirty-eighth seat on the Heavenly Ranking, but this person is not the saint of the Fairy Palace.
Finally, there are the children of aristocratic families.
As the most arrogant group in the Xuan Realm, they occupy the fewest seats on the Heavenly Ranking: a total of eighteen people.
The Dongfang Family, the Nangong Family, and the Ximen Family, as one of the nineteen sects, are the three most powerful families in the entire Xuan Realm. Especially the Dongfang Family, which is known as the leader of all the families in the Xuan Realm, has only won three places. Compared with
The Nangong Family and the Ximen Family have one less quota among the four. Among the eight great families, only the Ji Family of Xizhou, the Huang Family, the Ji Family, and the Wang Family of Zhongzhou have quotas.
The last two places as representatives of aristocratic families were taken away by seventy-two noble families who came to visit.
Moreover, they are from two prominent families in Beizhou: the Tuoba family and the Yuwen family.
When many monks in the Xuan Realm looked at this list of the top 100 in the Heavenly Ranking, some of them with dark hearts had even begun to prepare to watch the Fairy Palace joke.
After all, this ranking on the Heavenly List, not to mention that Taoism broke the tacit understanding with Buddhism and Confucianism in the past, and began to appear on the list, which strengthened the momentum of martial arts cultivators. Let’s just talk about the competitive relationship between these people on the list, and the representatives behind them.
The various interest chains and feuding relationships formed by the forces are enough to give the Fairy Palace a huge headache.
For example, the Huang family, Wang family, and Chen family in Zhongzhou have always looked down on the Ji family in Zhongzhou, but this time the Chen family did not enter the top 100. The two disciples of the Huang family and the Wang family ranked on the list were ranked 47th and 87th respectively.
The disciples of the Ji family ranked forty-nine.
So how to arrange the seats for the banquet?
Should they be arranged according to ranking, or according to proximity?
If arranged according to ranking, according to rumors in the grapevine, Dongfang Yue, ranked fourteenth, and Ximen'e, ranked eighteenth, are both competing for Ji Si's marriage. So if these two people are sitting so close, will they just turn over the table and start a fight?
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And if the seating arrangement is based on close relationships, Shen Yuan Villa is famous for being isolated in the human camp. Then if there are only five lonely people there, will Shen Yuan Villa think that Fairy Palace is deliberately humiliating them?
As a result, they held a grudge against their Fairy Palace?
Fairy Palace is really one head and two big ones.
Other than that.
There is another issue that makes Fairy Palace’s scalp tingle just thinking about it.
Where should the banquet location be placed for this Yaochi Banquet?
As we all know.
In the past, when the Yaochi Banquet was held, the Fairy Palace would arrange the venue in several secret areas under their control that were famous for their beautiful scenery.
But it is also well known.
Su Anran's reputation as a natural disaster is not in vain.
Every secret realm he has ever entered, no one has survived.
So here comes the question.
Which secret realm will be sacrificed in the Fairy Palace?
It is said that the person in charge of the Fairy Palace, who was in charge of this matter, got a clear answer that the one hundred talented people who had received the invitation would participate in this grand event.
Strange bed sickness.
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"This Fairy Palace is too stingy."
In a luxuriously decorated carriage, a young girl with fair skin, tall figure, dignified temperament and beautiful appearance pouted with dissatisfaction.
Her voice is delicate.
But listening to her words and watching her actions will not make people feel artificial, but will make people feel that this woman is frank.
"Be careful what you say." A man with an extraordinary appearance and a sense of majesty shouted in a deep voice.
The young woman was startled, and then she shrank into the arms of another woman next to her.
"Brother Xing." Another young female cultivator, whose appearance was especially superior to that of the delicate girl, glanced at the young man with an angry look, "Xiaoting is right... This time, the Fairy Palace is indeed not grand enough.
Besides, there are no outsiders here."
"You can do whatever you want without outsiders?" The young man glanced at his two sisters and frowned slightly, "You should understand even if I don't tell you."
Sighing softly, the young female cultivator stretched out her hand to rub her forehead, her voice a little helpless: "Yes, I know. This time in the battle for luck, our Dongfang family has been at a disadvantage. Only you and I
, Xiaoting and three others are on the list, Bi Zhinan
The two great families of Palace and Ximen are missing one person. But so what? Brother Xing, you are ranked 12th on the list, I am ranked 14th, and there are only two people in the top 20, Nangong Wu and Ximen'e.…
In terms of quality, we are better than these two companies.”
"Not to mention Ximen'e, Nangong Wu is ranked thirteenth, one place ahead of you." Dongfang Xing said in a solemn tone, with a serious expression, "And let's talk about quality. Nangong Qianying's two sisters are ranked twenty-fifth and twenty-eighth respectively. The Ximen family
In addition to Ximen'e, there are also two other people in the top 30, ranking 21st and 30th respectively."
Dongfang Yue sneered.
The sarcasm on her face was very obvious: "Outsiders often say that there is a dividing line between the eleventh and the thirtieth place on the Heavenly Ranking, and the strength of each other is about the same. But what is actually going on, others don't know, we are in
People on the list still don’t know? The rankings from 11 to 20 and 21 to 30 have a huge gap in level, but they are not inferior to the top five and bottom five of the top ten.”
"You are too arrogant." Dongfang Xing said calmly.
"Geniuses always have some privileges." Dongfang Yue was noncommittal.
"Genius?" For the first time, a hint of ridicule appeared on Dongfang Xing's face, "When will you be among the top ten, then will you be qualified to call yourself a 'genius'?"
"Those in the top ten are monsters!" Dongfang Yue said with an ugly face, "In the past, Taoist practitioners were not included in the Heavenly Ranking, but this time I don't know why I went crazy, and I actually broke the old rules... If you want to break it, just break it.
, but look at Zhenyuan Sect and Longhu Mountain, what are Ge Liang and Yang Xin doing? Compared with these two people, Dugu Yuan's improvement of the formation and his attempt to seal the Five Elements spells into the formation disk are considered trivial matters.
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"Not to mention Ye Qing, who is known as an all-rounder in magic, Zhuge Wu, a humanoid weapon, Nai Yue from Wanjian Tower, Ji Xiaoqi from Xizhou, these people all have the shadow of those monsters in Taiyi Valley...
...Especially the natural disaster, he..."
"That's enough!" Dongfang Xing shouted.
Dongfang Yue also knew that her emotions were somewhat out of control, so she pursed her lips and remained silent.
Dongfang Pingting, who was held in her arms, looked at her two brothers and sisters at a loss, trembling.
"You can complain about these words here, but if you dare to say it outside, don't resent that when the clan tortures you, others will not dare to intercede for you." Dongfang Xing said coldly, "Also
Yes…don’t forget our biggest mission during this trip.”
"Oh."
The sarcasm on Dongfang Yue's face became even more apparent. She stretched out her hand and gently touched the back of Dongfang Pingting's neck, and Dongfang Pingting fell asleep.
"It's not enough to send me out, but you actually want to send Pingting out too. What a disgusting tactic."
"If you agreed and were willing to get close to Su Anran when the clan was discussing it, why would the clan bother Pingting again?" Dongfang Xing's voice was indifferent, "I have said that you will only be able to get close to Su Anran if you are in the top ten.
You are qualified to become a genius who negotiates terms with the clan... If you don't make it into the top ten, you are nothing."
Dongfang Yue laughed at herself.
Born in an Oriental family, she knew early on that her family had devoted all their efforts to nurture her and that she would definitely have aspirations for the future.
And she was indeed ready to make sacrifices.
So she worked hard to learn how to be a child of a noble family, not only in terms of cultivation, but also in words, deeds, conversation, temperament, knowledge, etc. She learned everything, and every subject was assessed within the family.
All evaluations have achieved top grades.
But since a year ago, after she had several brief contacts with and heard about Su Anran in the clan, she understood that sometimes things like sex cannot be distorted by human will alone - looking at herself most
After the revered Dongfang Jasmine was beaten to the point of dying, and even Dongfang Shuang, her closest friend, "changed her expression when talking about Anran", Dongfang Yue knew that she could no longer like Su Anran.
Even the sense of mission forced upon her by her family cannot eliminate this gap.
That's why she was arranged to get close to Ji Si.
The mission of getting close to Su Anran was entrusted to the more innocent Dongfang Pingting.
Because according to the profile research of Su Anran by the Dongfang Family, they found that Su Anran has the lowest resistance to this type of women, which Huang Zi calls "natural type". And it just so happens that she is Dongfang Yue's half-sister.
, because she has been well protected by the very capable Dongfang Yue since she was a child, her heart is as pure as a piece of paper, and her natural ability is actually not inferior to that of Dongfang Yue, so she was assigned the task of getting close to Su Anran.
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However, the elders of the Dongfang family know very well that given Dongfang Pingting's situation, if she is directly told to approach Su Anran, she will definitely reveal her secret, so they let Dongfang Xing and Dongfang Yue accompany them to escort them and create things for Dongfang Pingting.
Chance.
This is another advantage of the Oriental Family.
Because of the Nangong family, only the Nangong Qianying sisters among the four people on the list this time are women, but they were used by the Nangong family to win over Ji Si.
In addition to Ximen'e, the Ximen Family also has a female cultivator who is ranked among the top 100 in the Heavenly Ranking. However, in terms of character, talent, and appearance, she is not as good as Dongfang Pingting, so the Dongfang Family is not afraid at all.
The only thing to worry about is the Fairy Palace.
After all, the Fairy Palace is famous for letting a hundred flowers bloom, and what kind of woman doesn’t?
Especially according to rumors, Su Yanran, who is ranked thirty-eight on the Heavenly List, seems to have a good relationship with Su Anran, so she is also regarded as a strong rival by the Oriental Family.
"That's it for now, don't think too much." Dongfang Xing shook his head, "While we have a bit of a romantic relationship with Su Anran, we can just take Pingting to walk around in front of him... After all, the clan elders don't like Su Anran.
Enron’s observations and profiles are not necessarily accurate, are they?”
Dongfang Yue's eyes lit up, and she somewhat understood what Dongfang Xing meant.
"As long as you keep a low profile this time, curb your hostility, and don't do anything unnecessary, it won't be easy to cause trouble." Dongfang Xing looked at Dongfang Yue and reminded him again, "But if you are too high-profile...
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"I know how to do it." Dongfang Yue nodded, and then suddenly changed the topic: "However, the Fairy Palace is indeed too stingy this time. It is rare that this Yaochi banquet has invited so many monsters and geniuses, but it is not
Rather than holding it in a secret realm, we chose to hold it at Chunxiu Lake in the Mysterious Realm. I originally wanted to see if the four-season secret realm in the Fairy Palace is really as beautiful as the rumors say."
"After all, Su Anran is also called a natural disaster. As long as the Fairy Palace is not stupid, it will definitely not hold the Yaochi Banquet in a secret realm."
"So..." Dongfang Yue said in a faint tone, "I have one more reason to hate Su Anran."
"Be careful what you say."
Dongfang Yue glanced at Dongfang Xing, and then sighed softly: "Alas."
…
Similar exchanges are not unique to Eastern aristocratic families.
The abnormality in the rankings of this year's Heavenly Ranking made many sects smell something unusual. This is why after it was confirmed that Su Anran would attend the Yaochi Banquet, all the monks who received the invitation letter from the Fairy Palace chose to participate.
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Almost everyone came here for Su Anran.
However, some people are hostile, some are kind, and some are flattering.
They didn't dare to bring the idea of marriage to Su Anran and the senior sisters, but they thought of starting from Su Anran, which became the consensus of everyone.
After all, today's Taiyi Valley is no longer what it was like back then.
Being one of the nineteen sects is enough for many monks to give it a try.
Even if Su Anran is not number one on the heavenly list, just because of his dignity and the love of thousands of people in Taiyi Valley, even if he is a waste or an ugly monster, there are still countless sects who are willing to support him. After all, as long as they can marry Taiyi Valley, they
You will have endless bonuses.
Therefore, even if they are not invited by the Fairy Palace, there are still many monks from the sect who come uninvited.
