A banquet was underway at the Great Sun Celestial Pool.
Friends from across the years drank deeply and ate heartily, talking about the past and everything that had happened since.
The banquet was extravagantly lavish.
One main dish was jade-fleshed demon dragon: a choice piece of meat taken from beneath the reverse scale of a wood-aspected demon dragon with True Dragon blood, steeped in ninth-tier rejuvenation dew, simmered over a low flame for forty-nine years, then cooked with all manner of heavenly treasures using the world-shaping methods of alchemy.
There was also chilled Green Luan marrow crystal. Marrow drawn from a Southern Pole Li-Fire Green Luan was mixed with dawn dew from the Jianmu tree, crystallized, and garnished with a tear from Gushe Immortal Maiden. The dish took a thousand years to prepare.
Then there was black tortoise scroll-bearing soup. A Hetu Jade Tablet was cut from the belly of a five-hundred-thousand-year-old spirit tortoise and simmered with jade paste from a dragon lair in the Luo River. The soup possessed an innate power to help deduce the Great Dao to completion, greatly benefiting cultivators seeking to perfect their Dao foundations at the Dao Integration stage. One serving took ten thousand years...
The main dishes and side dishes numbered over a hundred altogether. Every one was a rare opportunity and an exquisite delicacy. A single bite made one feel on the verge of sprouting wings and ascending, nourishing and delicious beyond compare.
The thunder-tribulation nectar, enlightenment tea, calming dew, and everything else served alongside them had illustrious origins too.
When had the old brothers of the Immortal Sect ever seen anything like this?
They were dumbstruck.
"Eat first."
"You've all slept for many years. You need to build yourselves back up."
Jiang Ding smiled as he spoke.
"Incredible."
"This is decadence