The jade drum was beaten eight times, and the chirping of the Luan bird lingered and echoed in the colorful sky from time to time.
The Queen Mother of the West is dressed in luxury, beautiful and dignified, sitting at the top of the table. The thin veil covers half of her face. Although it cannot conceal her peerless appearance, it can cover up the evil spirit on her face to some extent, and the left and right sides The gods and immortals on the side sometimes stared at the immortal grass on the tray in front of them, salivating, and sometimes looked around and whispered to each other, talking about it.
He didn't completely take the mood of the owner of this room into consideration.
Three Fengming times have passed since the agreed time to use the Immortal Immortal Grass.
Taking Immortal Grass has 'resonant' properties.
Only when a large number of qualified gods and immortals take it together can the properties of this immortal grass be brought out to the greatest extent possible.
At this moment, all the gods knew who they were waiting for. .
But because of Cao Zhe's delay in arriving, some gods and immortals looked at the Queen Mother of the West with sarcasm and amusement in their eyes.
Although they are guests at the banquet hosted by Queen Mother of the West, they may not have good intentions.
The cause lies in the 'battle' between the Queen Mother of the West and the Emperor of Heaven.
The Queen Mother of the West and the Emperor of Heaven, at least in current Eastern mythology, are not husband and wife or partners.
In this era, their positions are very opposite.
The Queen Mother of the West is a symbol of the "matriarchal society" and an ancient and powerful goddess. In the more ancient times, the Queen Mother of the West once exercised all the power of the current emperor, even more than the emperor.
The Shang Dynasty was not a period that completely reduced the status of women.
Men and women are actually becoming equal.
What differentiates status is only one's own identity and has nothing to do with gender.
Just like Fu Hao, she is a queen, a noble, and a commander in charge of the army, not a vassal or accessory of the Shang King.
As for the Emperor of Heaven, after the rise of the 'patrilineal society', the increasingly powerful God-King would naturally choose to oppress the power of the Queen Mother of the West.
Therefore, not only did the Emperor of Heaven not arrive for the Queen Mother of the West's feast, but even the gods and immortals who were friendly to the Emperor of Heaven also did not arrive.
Even so, some of the immortals and gods who were invited to the banquet belonged to the Celestial Emperor's Party who secretly poked fun at them.
They were happy to see Queen Mother Xi deflated.
Not to mention that Cao Zhe, the newly rising powerful god-king, would have any friendship with the Queen Mother of the West and become her ally.
Step, step, step...!
The sound of footsteps comes from far away!
Under the guidance of the female officer, Cao Zhe, dressed in a green Taoist robe, stepped into the hall with his sleeves waving and a cloth bag in his hand.
The dense atmosphere in the hall seemed to be diluted a lot by the evil spirit that had not dissipated from Cao Zhe's body.
The gods and immortals, who originally looked particularly ethereal and free in the clouds and mist, were washed away by this evil spirit, as if they had fallen from the clouds into the mortal world.
Looking at the Queen Mother of the West, who looked serious and slightly unhappy, Cao Zhe smiled and said, "I am a little late, but it is my fault."
"But luckily it's not too late, and I've prepared a gift for the Queen Mother of the West, so please don't blame Pindao for his negligence."
Cao Zhe's posture was neither high nor low, at least not domineering.
It is very different from what many gods and immortals expected.
Those gods who also have status in the West felt a vague sense of "violation" when looking at the kind-faced Cao Zhe, but they never dared to question him.
The Queen Mother of the West reached the steps and stood up from the jade sacred tree. The sacred tree behind her was lying on the ancient and sacred hall. On one side, it was rooted in the five-color sacred soil, and on the other side, it stretched its emerald-like branches and leaves into the hot spring. In the spiritual pool, misty spiritual light emitted, spreading lively vitality.
With gentle steps, the Queen Mother of the West fell from the height, quickly walked to Cao Zhe's side, and then naturally took Cao Zhe's free right hand.
"Yao Qiong can't help but be happy that the God King can come today, so why should she say anything wrong?"
After saying that, he took Cao Zhe and wanted to go to a higher place and sit together on the sacred tree.
Many gods and immortals around who admired Queen Mother of the West expressed their envy, but they all took it for granted.
The Western Empire follows a matrilineal social structure, with mothers as the mainstay of families and clans.
In other words, for children born in the same family, it is not clear who their father is, but the mother knows it very well.
It is also their custom and habit for women to seek out men they recognize to 'associate' and obtain better quality offspring.
As the king of the Western Empire and an ancient goddess, the Queen Mother of the West naturally has a similar understanding.
Once Cao Zhe and the Queen Mother of the West sit on the sacred tree together, their breaths will intersect.
A thousand years later, the divine tree bore a divine fruit, and the embryo conceived in the divine fruit could be regarded as the daughter of the two.
Gods and immortals use all kinds of weird and varied methods to reproduce offspring, which is nothing.
Cao Zhe saw through the purpose of the sacred tree at a glance. Naturally, he did not want to be a close friend of the Queen Mother of the West, so he wanted to be his father.
So she let go of Queen Mother Xi's hand, held the bag in her right hand and said, "Queen Mother Xi should take a look at the gift Pindao brought first!"
Queen Mother Xi was rejected by Cao Zhe. Although she was not happy, she did not force it. She nodded and shifted her gaze to the cloth bag that she originally didn't care about.
She originally thought that Cao Zhe was just looking for an excuse when he took the cloth bag and said it contained gifts.
Now it seems that this may not be the case.
At this moment, all eyes were basically focused on the cloth bag in Cao Zhe's hand.
But Cao Zhe stretched out his hand and shook it.
The bag squirmed twice, but a half-stiffened long worm fell out of it.
This snake is covered in green ink, but it is shining with countless star points. It has an extraordinary charm, and even the naked eye can detect that it is anything but ordinary.
Among the gods, someone who looked familiar couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's Shesha!"
"It's actually him!"
As soon as these words came out, more gods and immortals suddenly realized.
Then, the look in Cao Zhe's eyes showed even more horror.
They had known that Cao Zhe was cruel before, but now they felt more real emotion about Cao Zhe's cruelty.
Shesha!
In the world of mythology, one of the four demonic dragons that can be called the world-destroying demonic dragon.
It is also called Ananda Dragon. It is a god of the Onifa pantheon. It is the king of Nagas with a thousand snake heads. It is also the first snake born in Onifa mythology. It is also an important follower of Vishnu.
It is recorded in the ghost mythology that Shesha's many heads dominate all the stars in the universe and support the earth, representing "infinity", "eternal existence" and "the eternal one". When the world comes to an end and is about to be destroyed, Shesha will spit out the flames of destruction to destroy the universe, but it can still maintain its original form.
He is the destroyer created by Vishnu.
Symbolizing part of the doomsday myth.
When Cao Zhe took out Shesha and threw it to the ground.
In the sky above our heads, the phoenixes and phoenixes circling around began to sing excitedly.
Even the Queen Mother of the West swallowed her saliva secretly and looked away from Shesha with difficulty.
Shesha is a snake and a dragon in ghost mythology.
It is also the favorite food of the Queen Mother of the West and the goddesses under her command.
They feed on dragons, but they have never eaten such an ancient, powerful, symbolic and important demon dragon king.
