Chapter 158: The Great Feast
At that moment, watching Chen Yumo leave again, I was stunned for a moment, and after a few seconds, I came to my senses, smiled bitterly, took the elixir, and returned to the bedside.
Seriously, when I heard Chen Yumo talk about the banquet just now, I was still a little moved, such a big banquet, if I missed it, it seemed a pity.
But after thinking about it, it's just a banquet, and besides, in my current situation, my strength has not completely recovered, so instead of participating in the banquet, it is better to spend a little more time and cultivate and recover.
Besides, although I swept the whole audience in the finals of the palace examination, and those sects at that time were impressed by me, but in the end, I still didn't get the first place.
So if you think about it, you still don't go.
With my mind set up to pay attention, I sat there cross-legged, began to lift the dantian, and meditated and cultivated.
On the other side of the moment.
Around the palace of Bliss, before night, it was already lit up, and many eunuchs and palace maids were busy decorating the already majestic and magnificent Bliss Palace even more magnificently.
Thousands of seats, arranged in an orderly manner, are all covered with silk brocade, and even the dining utensils are all made of pure gold, which is extremely luxurious!
In the side hall next to the Elysian Palace, there is a royal exclusive court band, beating melodious music.
And on the periphery of the Bliss Palace, the number of Praetorian Guards has doubled, although it is a grand banquet, but after all, the banquet is for all the sects of the Seven Continents, there are a large number of people, and they are all cultivators, so the royal family does not dare to relax the safety of the palace at all.
When night fell, the heads of various sects entered the main hall of the Bliss Palace with the participating disciples of each faction, and entered their respective seats in an orderly manner according to the order.
After a while, I heard the court musicians in the side halls on both sides begin to play in unison. With bursts of clear and pleasant music, I saw that the male emperor, under the initial embrace of many concubines, queens, and honor guards, stepped on the red silk carpet in the middle of the Bliss Palace, slowly came, and walked towards the dragon chair due north.
"Wait, welcome to Your Majesty!" At that moment, the moment the emperor entered the main hall, the civil and military officials who had already entered the seat, as well as those princes and princesses, as well as the Praetorian Guards and imperial guards who were standing outside to maintain order, instantly knelt down to the ground in anger!
At the same time, the heads and disciples of various sects also stood up one after another and saluted the emperor in unison.
"Zhongqing is flat!" Hearing the compliments of the entire Bliss Palace, the emperor smiled slightly, and after sitting on the throne, he raised his hand and said lightly.
After everyone sat down, the emperor looked around, glanced at Gongsun Lingyu who was sitting in the front row, and then said with a smile: "I am very pleased that you can participate in the banquet I set up, and at the same time, I also congratulate the disciples who have achieved good results in this Xuanzi Sword Discussion, you have worked very hard, and the process of the competition is also exciting, not bad, very good!"
As he spoke, the emperor's tone changed sharply, and his tone revealed a bit of encouragement: "And those disciples who are strong in the competition, don't be discouraged, you lose this competition, you still have a chance in the next Xuanzi Sword in three years." ”
At the end, the emperor smiled faintly, held the gold cup on the jade table in front of him, stood up, faced the audience, held the cup remotely, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's not talk about the competition, everyone has worked hard and is very tired in the past few days, so at tonight's banquet, let's only talk about interesting things about the wind and moon, not about the event!"
Then, as soon as the emperor's words fell, he raised his glass and drank it all!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Suddenly, in the entire hall of the Bliss Palace, everyone stood up, raised the cup in their hands, raised their heads and drank it, and they all spoke respectfully.
Immediately after, the banquet officially began. The ministers of civil and military affairs, the princes and princesses, as well as the heads of various sects, were all looking for opportunities to toast to the emperor.
After toasting the emperor's wine, some officials with good relations and heads of various sects laughed with each other, and for a while, on the top of the main hall, there was a lot of excitement