Jade Pool

Facts proved that pies did not fall from the sky. What fell might be hailstones.

Bai Yujun had barely arrived at Cloud Tower Palace and had not yet followed her instincts to familiarize herself with the terrain around her nest when an immortal official suddenly summoned all immortal maidens and Lishi to gather before the main hall of Cloud Tower Palace. Not just a few—every immortal maiden in Cloud Tower Palace, along with numerous Lishi, had to go. Something major was bound to happen in the Heavenly Court soon.

Once the immortal maidens and Lishi had assembled, an immortal official in brocade robes stood high upon the jade steps.

He proclaimed the decree.

"Boundless Jade Pool, where the spirit roams the Langyuan Gardens~"

"Dragon Flower Grand Assembly, peaches bestowed upon the multitude~"

"Layer upon layer of jade towers, twelve supreme immortal palaces, emerald waters folding upon emerald waters, peaches ripening every three thousand years~"

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Newly arrived Bai knew nothing of the rules of the high-ranking immortal mountains and floating islands, but the moment she heard the words "peaches of immortality," she understood everything. The Queen Mother, foremost among female immortals, was holding a grand banquet for her birthday, treating the immortals to peaches of immortality. This was the Peach Banquet that countless mortals dreamed of—the kind where eating a single immortal peach could grant one the Dao and immortality.

It was said that the Peach Garden contained three thousand six hundred Peach Trees.

The first twelve hundred bore small blossoms and fruits, ripening once every three thousand years. Mortals who ate them could attain the Dao. The middle twelve hundred ripened once every six thousand years; mortals who ate them could rise on rosy clouds, ascend to immortality, live forever, and become immortals. The last twelve hundred had