Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Grand Tutor Wen Zhong, the reigning grand tutor of Yin Shang, sat in the main seat and hosted a grand banquet to entertain the various immortals.
There were three black-lacquered, long, low tables on each side of him.
To Wen Zhong's right sat three beautiful women: the three Xiao Maidens of Three Immortals Island—Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao.
At that moment, they had already restrained their auras, concealing their celestial light and extraordinary demeanor so that they looked just like ordinary mortals.
Kneeling and sitting to Wen Zhong's left were three more immortals.
They were Zhao Gongming, Shen Gongbao, and Su Qin respectively.
The ingredients on the tables could be considered the very best of that era, but basically, no one touched their chopsticks. Only occasionally did someone lift a cup of wine to drink, or take a sip of tea.
Everyone present was a cultivation practitioner, and they had completely outgrown any need for mortal food.
Ordinary food could provide supplementary energy to ordinary people, but it was utterly incapable of supplying any energy to an immortal's body. Instead, it was nothing more than dregs; eating it would only waste time forcing digestion, making the loss far greater than the gain.
Aside from those immortals who indulged in gluttonous desires, practically none of them would ever eat mortal food.
Amidst the continuous exchange of toasting cups, the sense of estrangement and barrier between them was finally eliminated.
Wen Zhong immediately said, "Jiang Ziya and his lot are truly despicable and shameless to the extreme. At the drop of a hat they resort to covert ambushes, succeeding one after another in plotting against dozens of our Chan Sect fellow daoists.
If not for the timely rescue by the three fairy maidens this time, Daoist Brother Zhao