The melodious sounds of string and wind instruments filled the air, and cups were raised in toasts.
The Jade Pond Grand Gathering appeared peaceful on the surface, but undercurrents were swirling beneath.
The Queen Mother of the West maintained a dignified smile, holding a wine cup in her hand, but her eyes never left Qin Feng's lazy face.
After several attempts to probe her words, she felt utterly helpless.
Qin Feng is like a slippery eel.
You talk about the east, he talks about the west; you discuss grand principles, he talks about living off women; you ask about origins, he says he learned from the wind and clouds.
He seemed to be spouting nonsense, but in reality, he was perfectly tactful, not letting her gain the slightest advantage. Instead, he made himself blush and his Dao Heart tremble.
"He's a cunning old fox."
The Queen Mother of the West felt a chill run down her spine.
Since the soft approach isn't working, let's try the hard approach—or rather, the direct one.
Her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and she stopped engaging in any pretense or pretense. A subtle yet powerful Spiritual Sense bypassed the noisy crowd and entered Qin Feng's sea of consciousness.
" Alliance Leader Qin."
The voice was no longer charming, but instead carried the majesty and chilling aura of someone who had ruled the West Kunlun for millions of years.
"Let's not beat around the bush."
Qin Feng, who was enjoying the tea service from Chang'e, raised an eyebrow slightly, his smile unchanged, and responded with a wisp of his Spiritual Sense:
"What advice does Your Empress have? If you wish to discuss matters of the heart, I would be happy to oblige."
"A great calamity is imminent."
The Queen Mother of the West spoke in a deep voice, uttering these four words that were enough to make all living beings in the Primordial World tremble.
"Now the Sage sits high in the Ninth Heaven, using Heaven and Earth as a chessboard and all living beings as chess pieces. Although my West Kunlun is a primordial Daoist center with some foundation, in the eyes of the Sage, it is nothing more than a slightly larger ant."
"I do not want to be an ant, nor do I want to be manipulated at will."
Qin Feng didn't even lift his eyelids, but simply opened his mouth to take a piece of spirit cake that Yun Xiao handed him, and lazily replied with his Spiritual Sense:
"So what? What does this have to do with me, a gigolo?"
"Why be so modest, Alliance Leader Qin?"
The Queen Mother of the West's Spiritual Sense carried a hint of urgency.
"You were able to force Haotian to retreat and make Zhen Yuanzi bow down. Your methods and resources are unmatched in the entire Primordial World, below the level of a sage."
"I intend for West Kunlun to form an alliance with your Goddess Immortal Alliance."
"If our two families join forces, we will be able to become the third power in this Primordial World world after the Lich Kings, and we will be qualified to Saintly Gambit!"
If others heard these words, they would probably be so frightened that they would go mad on the spot.
Saintly Gambit?
What ambition! What arrogance!
But in the eyes of the Queen Mother of the West, this was the only way out.
To increase her persuasiveness, she directly offered the bargaining chips she had prepared beforehand, going all out.
"As long as an alliance is formed, my Peach Garden in West Kunlun will be fully open to the Immortal Alliance. Alliance Leader Qin can freely take any Flat Peach that are three thousand, six thousand, or nine thousand years old."
"The innate spiritual materials within my West Kunlun treasure vault will be shared with the Immortal Alliance."
"More importantly..."
The Queen Mother of the West paused, her gaze sweeping over the graceful goddesses of Yaochi below, her tone carrying a hint of determination:
"All 100,000 female immortals under my command in the West Kunlun Sect are at the Alliance Leader's disposal."
"Didn't the Alliance Leader swear to protect all the goddesses under heaven? These 100,000 female immortals are my gift to the Alliance Leader."
"The two entities merging into one will complement each other's resources and be linked by destiny. For the Alliance Leader's grand ambition, this will be entirely beneficial."
Tempting.
Quite tempting.
The peaches of Flat Peach were one thing, but the command of 100,000 female immortals was an irresistible temptation for any leader of any faction.
This is equivalent to directly moving all the assets of the West Kunlun Mountains over here.
If it were the former King Father of the East, he would probably have knelt down and cried out for the Empress's wisdom upon hearing this.
But Qin Feng is not the King Father of the East.
He is Qin Feng.
A man who owns a system, who not only lives off a woman but also eats his food while standing up.
Faced with the generous olive branch extended by the Queen Mother of the West, Qin Feng remained expressionless.
He slowly picked up the teacup, gently blew on the floating tea leaves, his movements as elegant as if he were admiring a work of art.
And within the sea of consciousness.
His Spiritual Sense, however, took on a playful tone, tinged with a condescending mockery:
"An alliance?"
"That sounds really good."
" Flat Peach galore, beauties everywhere, and the chance to even arm-wrestle with a sage—tsk tsk, what a pipe dream!"
The Queen Mother of the West was overjoyed, thinking that Qin Feng had fallen for her.
However.
The next second.
Qin Feng's tone suddenly shifted, like a sharp knife tempered with ice, instantly piercing through the carefully constructed atmosphere of equality.
"However, Your Empress seems to have forgotten something."
"Every alliance has a primary and secondary element."
Qin Feng put down his teacup, his gaze fixed on the expectant phoenix eyes of the Queen Mother of the West, a wicked and arrogant smile curving his lips.
"Two tigers cannot share one mountain, unless one is male and the other female."
"But there can only be one head of the household."
" The Queen Mother wants to be on equal footing with me, some kind of dual-power model..."
Or perhaps...
Qin Feng leaned forward slightly, and the invisible pressure he felt pressed down with his Spiritual Sense, making even the Queen Mother of the West, who was at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm, feel a sense of suffocation.
"Does Your Empress intend to take this dowry from West Kunlun and serve me as your master?"
boom!
The Queen Mother of the West's pupils suddenly contracted.
Do you serve as my master?
She, the Head of Female Immortals, personally appointed by the Dao Ancestor as the Queen Mother of the West, had already shown great respect by proposing an alliance. And this guy actually wants to annex West Kunlun and make her his subordinate?
Even... what about that "dowry"?
" Alliance Leader Qin, isn't your appetite a bit too big?"
The Queen Mother of the West's Spiritual Sense instantly turned cold, tinged with anger.
"I have treated you with sincerity, yet you expect me to submit and become your subject?"
"You underestimate my West Kunlun!"
Faced with the Queen Mother of the West's wrath, Qin Feng not only did not restrain himself, but laughed even more happily.
He reached out and picked up a glistening grape, popped it into his mouth, and mumbled indistinctly as he chewed:
"Sincerity?"
"If Your Empress were truly sincere, you wouldn't try to fool me with such a trick of getting something for nothing."
" Flat Peach? I have a Chaos Spiritual Root, I wouldn't even consider them."
"Resources? I have Zhen Yuanzi as my scapegoat... cough, good brother, I don't lack them."
"As for those 100,000 female immortals..."
Qin Feng glanced at the dancing fairies in the distance and curled his lip.
"The quality is inconsistent, and I have to spend resources to maintain it. This is clearly a burden, not a gift."
So that's why.
Qin Feng patted the crumbs off his hands, his tone becoming extremely domineering and leaving no room for argument:
"If you want to board my ship, you have to follow my rules."
"My Immortal Alliance doesn't need allies, it only needs..."
"An obedient person."
These last four words struck the Queen Mother of the West's heart like a heavy hammer blow.
An obedient person.
This is Qin Feng's attitude.
Arrogance to the extreme, yet utterly irrefutable.
Because at this moment, Qin Feng, sitting there surrounded by people, and whom even the Heavenly Emperor had to avoid, certainly had the right to be arrogant.
The Queen Mother of the West remained silent.
She stared intently at Qin Feng, her chest heaving violently, her magnificent phoenix robe trembling with each breath, outlining a breathtaking silhouette.
She was weighing her options.
Is this where they're going to turn hostile and defend their dignity Quasi-Saint Great Powers?
still...
Just as the two were exchanging Spiritual Sense and the atmosphere became tense,
Sitting in the corner of the second seat, Haotian watched the two of them "gazing deeply into each other's eyes" and remaining silent for a long time, and felt that the green hat on his head was getting brighter and brighter.
"Taibai!"
Haotian gritted his teeth, the sound squeezed out from between them.
"Has it still not been found out?"
"What kind of bewitching potion did Qin Feng give the Queen Mother of the West?"
"They've been staring at each other for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn! Their eyes are practically glued together!"
Taibai Jinxing huddled to one side, holding a small notebook, his face full of bitterness.
"Your Majesty, is there any possibility...?"
"Are they discussing how to divide up the Heavenly Court?"
Haotian: "..."
Click.
The fifth Glazed Goblet shattered into powder.