Meanwhile!
Yaoji had recently been arranging her niece Long Ji's marriage. Both Nezha and Lei Zhenzi were fine young lads, but now it seemed that Nezha and Long Ji had taken a liking to each other.
Yang Jian and Deng Chanyu lived each day in the harmony of zither and lute, making Nezha and Lei Zhenzi envious and slowly awakening them to romance.
Nezha was Xiao Tian's disciple, and Lei Zhenzi was his adopted son. As their master's wife and adoptive mother, Yaoji did not want either of them to end up alone. Besides, Xiao Tian had said that the red luan of romance had stirred in Long Ji's destiny. If she did not marry into a good family, she might well face the danger of death.
Long Ji was the daughter of Heavenly Emperor Hao Tian, born to the Queen Mother of the West. She yearned for the mortal world and had once lived in the Heavenly Palace, but after breaching etiquette at a Peach of Immortality banquet, she had been banished to Azure Phoenix Palace on Phoenix Mountain.
Thus, with Kong Xuan gone and the battle at Golden Rooster Ridge won, many soldiers and generals from Zhaoge joined Xiqi's army outright.
Jiang Shang, the reincarnated incarnation of Xiao Tian's Essence Gourd Vine, officiated at the wedding. Yaoji, Long Ji's aunt, secretly contacted her and witnessed the marriage as well.
In the original plot, Long Ji married Hong Jin, a second-generation disciple of Jiejiao.
Hong Jin was proficient in the banner-based Five Elements Daoist arts of Qimen Dunjia. His divine beast mount was a Whale Dragon, which could roam rivers, lakes, and seas and carry people across waterways, and his weapon was a crescent-bladed saber.
He would soon become the commander of Yin Shang's Three Mountain Pass, then be