Chapter 44: The Kunlun Alliance
Kunlun Mountain is 5,000 miles long and 800 miles wide, and it is the first sacred mountain in the Great Wilderness. The residence of the Queen Mother of the West is the Yao Pond of Kunlun Mountain, and it is also the place where the peach feast is held.
Thousands of snowy peaks hug Miao Miaotian Lake. Yao Chi is dozens of miles longitudinal and horizontal, green and transparent like jasper in the sunshine! Reflecting the surrounding ice peaks and snow cliffs, blue sky and white clouds, it feels pure and clear. The breeze is coming, the waves are not rising, and the waves are adjacent to each other, blowing the beautiful scenery of a lake. The surrounding snow peaks are close to the Yao Pond, the green grass is continuous, the green trees are like clouds, and the colorful wildflowers are blooming in large areas, like a brocade.
Yaochi Palace is located in the middle of Miao Miao Yao Pond, which is composed of 136 palace pavilions and 300 corridors, which zigzag and shuttle with each other. Intrigue and ingenuity, like a mirage. Between the palace pavilions, dense planting of exotic flowers and plants, competing for beauty. Eighteen miles of Yaochi Palace, crystal window railing, exquisitely clear, glazed flying tiles, golden splendor, in the Yaochi Snow Mountain, green grass and wild flowers against the background, more magnificent and wonderful, poetic and picturesque.
There is a proverb in the Great Wilderness: "The Crystal Palace under the Sea, the Yaochi Palace in the Heavens", Tuoba Ye has heard of it for a long time, and I can see it today!
Overlooking from the sky, vermilion and emerald green, dotted with dots, jade ribbons, brilliant and shining. On the white jade floating platform of the central Bahe hall, hundreds of beauties sing and dance, colorful and pleasing to the eye. Silk and bamboo drum music, human language singing, very lively. The light boat travels through the horizons, and can reach all corners of the Yaochi Palace. Everywhere the white boat passes, the waves drag and drag! Like scissors cutting out the pictures. The welcoming envoy surrounded Wang Xiaoran and his entourage and slowly landed on the coral platform, and then eight beauties in official costumes led them through the long crystal corridor and walked towards the main hall of the center.
The white clouds are long, the breeze is slow, and the dust is clean. People are in the corridor, and every step is like walking in a painting.
Someone from afar blew a horn to announce: "[Taiyi Palace] Pope, the East China Sea Dragon Clan Crown Prince Wang Xiaoran and the Holy Maiden Xian Xian have arrived with the elder general!"
Wang Xiaoran and Xian Xian have the highest position in the group, so their names are listed separately, and the objects of the report are naturally the White Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, who are equal in status.
The Bahe Palace, also known as the Qunxian Palace, is the center of the eighteen miles of Yaochi Palace, it is a hundred years ago, the White Emperor invited the world's four famous craftsmen, ten changes its draft, led six thousand skillful workers, spent three years, expanded and transformed on the basis of the original "Linglong Palace". The momentum is majestic, extending in all directions, the style is magnificent and changeable, and it is known as the first palace in the world.
The Qunxian Palace consists of eight columns of water palace buildings, which are enclosed in a huge octagonal shape layer by layer, and in the middle is a rippling clear wave and a delicate floating platform. The eight-sided hall group is divided into platinum, green wood, black water, red fire, loess, heavenly realm, eight wilderness, and eight regions of the four seas, the main hall is the "heavenly palace", and the other seven halls are partial halls, in order to show that the guests are united and all races are equal.
At this moment, the most noble Bai Emperor Bai Zhaozhi and Bai Shuixiang, the Queen Mother of the West, were waiting in the platinum hall on behalf of the Jin clan, and all the elders, generals and immortal nobles of the Jin clan who stayed in Kunlun Mountain also gathered in the main hall, adding up to two or three hundred people.
Wang Xiaoran was able to lead the [Taiyi Palace] and the Dragon Clan to repeatedly gain the upper hand in the battle with the Water Clan, and was faintly the leader of the largest force in the world. The nobles of the Jin clan naturally want to see Wang Xiaoran's peerless demeanor.
Each row of palaces in the Qunxian Palace is supported by 999 huge sea jade pillars, suspended above the Yao Pond; or majestic, or beautiful, or exquisite...... The architectural styles of the five ethnic groups are perfectly blended in one place, and there is no sense of abruptness. From a distance, it is like all kinds of clouds suspended above the clear waves of Yaochi Pond.
Wang Xiaoran and his entourage soon came to the Platinum Palace, passing through a jade road with a length of 100 zhang, and the jade road was lined with fountains of various colors of gold, silver, copper, iron, birds and beasts.
Wang Xiaoran first saw a beautiful woman in white with leopard spots standing above the main hall, her skin was white and snowy, her eyebrows were like paintings, the golden hairpin fell, the jade sheng swayed, dignified and elegant with a momentum of not being angry and self-assured, it was the Queen Mother of the West.
Obviously, he saw Wang Xiaoran coming in, so he got up to greet him to show his closeness.
The man in white standing beside her had a plain crown and a silver belt, a long beard fluttering, and smiled slightly at Wang Xiaoran and his party, his aura was elegant and indifferent, straight like a fairy, and he was undoubtedly the White Emperor of the Jin Clan.
Emperor Ming Ming has the highest status, and his position is also in the center of the main hall, but he does not have the strong sense of presence of the Queen Mother of the West. The two are juxtaposed, and most of people's attention will unconsciously be on the Queen Mother of the West.
Shao Hao, the crown prince of the Jin clan, Lu Wu, the nine-tailed tiger god, the white horse god Yingzhao, the Fengyun god Jiang Su and others were impressively on both sides of the column. There are hundreds of jade tables in the main hall, on which there are all kinds of wine and fruits, and there are nobles of the Jin clan sitting.
"Wang Xiaoran greeted His Majesty the White Emperor and the Queen Mother, and wished His Majesty and the Queen Mother eternal eternity!" Wang Xiaoran hugged his fists and bowed.
Bai Zhaoji smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is polite! You can come to Yaochi, it is really a blessing for the Hidden Clan, the Prince, please take a seat!"
On this occasion, even if the Queen Mother of the West is usually strong and domineering in the Jin Clan, it must be the White Emperor who speaks on behalf of the Jin Clan.
The Great Wilderness respects the left, so its own maid stepped forward to lead Wang Xiaoran and his party to sit under the White Emperor, and Wang Xiaoran and Xianxian were only three feet away from the Queen Mother of the West who was seated on the left side of the White Emperor.
Since coming to the palace, Xian Xian has a formatted smile, and she has followed Wang Xiaoran's footsteps with full etiquette, showing everyone's demeanor.
At this time, even if he was close to the Queen Mother of the West, he did not have the slightest abnormal emotion.
Compared with Xian Xian, the Tao is thousands of times higher than the white water fragrance of the Queen Mother of the West, needless to say, she has been staring at Wang Xiaoran with a smile on her face.
After everyone sat down, Bai Emperor Bai Zhaoji asked again: "You stated in your letter that you want to form an alliance with the Jin clan, I don't know what the charter is?"
"Since two years ago, our [Taiyi Palace] and the Dragon Clan Haijiang officially bordered the Jin Clan, and the two sides began exchanges in many aspects. Nowadays, a large number of treasures from the sea flow into the Jin clan every year, and we have become the largest purchaser of the gold clan weapons manufacturing. ”
"Therefore, I hope that you and I can strengthen communication and exchanges in all aspects and increase the volume of trade. At the same time, there is no restriction on the movement of clansmen, no tariffs, and military cooperation is carried out at the same time, such as jointly encircling and suppressing fierce beasts and bandits in the West Sea. ”
"Most importantly, I hope that we can form a strategic alliance and stand on a unified position in dealing with the situation of the Great Wilderness, and jointly deal with the increasingly severe situation of the Great Wilderness. Wang Xiaoran stood up and stated his wishes aloud.
In fact, the two sides have been negotiating about these things in the past two years, including the distribution of the interests of all parties. Wang Xiaoran This is just a formality and signing a formal covenant.
For the Jin family, the treaty mentioned by Wang Xiaoran is also extremely beneficial to themselves, which can be called a win-win situation.
For a long time, due to the mountainous terrain in the territory, the Jin clan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can overlook the wilderness more detachedly, and now it has become the second largest force after the water tribe.
However, whether it is in the mountains and forests or in the harsh West Sea, all kinds of fierce beasts are abundant, which seriously restricts the development and population growth of the Jin people. More than half of the White Emperors of the past dynasties died in battles with fierce beasts.
Bai Zhaoji and Bai Shuixiang's parents are like this, so the two depend on each other, and their relationship is so deep, which is very different from the situation of other wealthy families.
According to the principle of long-distance friendship and close attack, the [Taiyi Palace] and the Dragon Alliance and the Jin Clan basically do not have any conflict of interest, even if they fight with the entire Great Wilderness, the Jin Clan will be affected in the end. This created objective conditions for the Jin clan to become a potential excellent ally of Wang Xiaoran's side.
In addition, there has been a lot of peace among the Jin clan recently, and various accidents have occurred frequently. The arrival of Wang Xiaoran's powerful ally can be called a relief in the snow, which can greatly stabilize the situation of the Jin clan and consolidate its position in the Great Wilderness.
In particular, the core interests of Wang Xiaoran's side are at sea, and they are very similar to being able to maintain a more detached posture than the Jin family.
After the scene, the two sides signed a covenant and made a blood oath under the witness of the Pangu God, and the ceremony was completed, followed by a grand celebration banquet.
During the banquet, Wang Xiaoran talked very happily with the White Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, and the nobles of the Jin family came forward to toast, and the guests and hosts were happy.