"You said the one who plucked the seven gourds was the Jade Emperor. Then tell me what kind of person the Jade Emperor is. If you get it right, I'll believe you and let this matter rest. If you get it wrong..." Lin Shen did not finish, but his meaning was clear enough.
The Wine Gourd's features immediately scrunched into a knot, and it said gloomily, "If you asked me what kind of person Little Wine Emperor is, I could tell you everything in perfect detail. I could even tell you exactly how many spots he had on his face. But if you ask me what the Jade Emperor looked like, I truly don't know where to begin."
"So you don't know?" Lin Shen's expression turned cold.
The Wine Gourd sighed softly. "It wouldn't be right to say I don't know. The Jade Emperor who took the Seven Treasures Gourd out of the furnace looked like an old man. The Jade Emperor who took out my sisters and gave them away looked like a middle-aged man. I saw him a total of seven times. Sometimes he looked old, sometimes middle-aged. I truly don't know which one was really him."
"Later, Little Wine Emperor entered the Immortal Court and stole me from Divine Firmament Palace. After that, I never saw him again. I only heard of his various exploits." After a pause, the Wine Gourd continued, "But I heard Little Wine Emperor say that the Jade Emperor was the lord of the Immortal Court, someone one could not easily meet. Perhaps all the ones I saw were merely his avatars. Maybe I never met the true Jade Emperor at all."
Lin Shen had only wanted to obtain some intelligence about the Jade Emperor from the Wine Gourd. He had not expected