Myriad Enjoyment Island, Three Fairies Ten Beauties Five Hundred Cranes Pavilion.
"Senior sister, it's like this. I really believe that if I were to take all three recovery items, I would recover best… so would it be possible for me to bath during the banquet?"
"Junior brother Fu, you are… very peculiar." Huan Jiming said after she heard Fu Xian's request.
It had been over a week since the gathering. Today was the large banquet held once a month in her pavilion, which included all of the Three Fairies, Ten Beauties and Five Hundred Swans.
The theme of this banquet was "Spirit improvement and recovery". The whole pavilion was full, every private booth booked, and you could even find third-grade cultivators on the first floor.
"Alright junior brother, do as you want. Anyways, this is my private booth, so it doesn't matter. Just make sure to keep your clothes on, or at least ensure the privacy of the bath, so as to not disturb anyone.
I will tell the maids beforehand about you, so they won't call for the guards…"
Fu Xian smiled wryly but nodded.
It couldn't be helped, who made it like this? It definitely wasn't his fault-
Fu Xian didn't care about it anymore and just took out a jade bathtub from his ring. It was a black jade bathtub with an inscribed spiritual array, which is supposed to have a spirit-gathering effect.
Pouring in second-grade Flowing Widow Water, a spiritual water supposed to aid spirit recovery, which he bought based on his senior brother Puyan's recommendation, he was basically ready.
The show was about to start, so he took out a few curtains and hung them in the air around the bathtub, even placing an illusion formation around it, before he finally took off his clothes and stepped in naked.
What a joke, the effect would be better if he absorbed it directly! He couldn't possibly lessen his own chance just because of embarrassment!
He slowly heard a soft melody coming from outside, the curtains hiding the private booth split open and he had a direct view towards the main stage.
Being on the highest third floor, he could look at the stage perfectly from above and see every detail. The others on this stage were usually fourth-grade cultivators or influential third-grade, nothing like him, a lowly newly advanced cultivator!
The melody came from a flute. It had soft sounds yet a profound meaning.
Fu Xian heard a murmur from the first stage, from a third-grade cultivator who talked to another "Oh they're directly starting with the Ten Beauties?"
"The Ten Beauties are split into three groups – three of the ten beauties assist the Three Fairies, five of the Ten beauties command the Five Hundred Cranes, and the leaders of the Ten Beauties start and end the show with their own solo performances."
"Oh, so it's like this? Have you been here before?"
"Haha, I've attended the 'Spirit Banquet' for three years now! Unfortunately, this banquet is really popular and I haven't gotten a ticket for a booth this year, only managing to get a basic entry.
They've had the same order but usually, the songs and performances change.
I heard this is the newest flute-song of the Flute Beauty, called 'Beautiful Moonshine Night'."
Just as the said so, there seemed to be an illusion on the stage.
The flute song played peacefully, and at the centre of the stage, the tones seemed to have gathered together, creating a breath-taking scene-
All light went off and a darkness formed at the ceiling, from the darkness, a soft blue-white beam of light fell down, shining over the Flute Beauty, focused on the Flute in her hand.
With each sound, moonlight seemed to spread across the whole stage, aimed at every cultivator.
It went so far that the moonlight at the top transformed directly into sound, entering the booths of the third and second stage, while the moonlight on the first floor was evenly spread.
Everyone felt a strong sensation, as if their souls were being bathed under the moonlight, gathering a unique power.
At this point, Fu Xian quickly took out the medicine sachet from his spatial ring and emptied it into the bathtub, before taking out another potion and drinking it on the spot.
He suddenly felt hot, as if his whole body was burning, then he felt an invigorating strong spiritual power entering his dantian. It felt like his whole body was about to explode, but right then, the blue moonlight entered his upper dantian where his soul resided.
Suddenly at this moment, his three dantians were being filled with their required sources – the body was healed and Essence recovered, entering the lower dantian, unique spiritual power entered his body and caused his own spiritual 'injuries' to recover at an extremely fast pace, and his soul, which was in a state of extreme exhaustion, slowly calmed down – the synergy of his three dantians suddenly created a rhythm.
With the same resources, in the same duration, he felt his origin recovering at a breathtaking speed!
As the flute song was nearing the end, five beauties entered the stage.
They all began dancing with various weapons – a sword, a spear, a fan, an umbrella and a bow.
Once the moonlight receded, instead, five shadows of weapons appeared.
These shadows manifested in the stage and reached into the sky, yet they followed a unique rhythm, as if they were dancing with each other, and not fighting.
The sword met the spear, but instead of hitting, the sword only passed the spear. The spear reached further, ignoring the sword and instead aiming at the fan – right as the fan was about to be pierced, an arrow, fired by a bow, met the tip of the spear, before it dissipated.
On the other side, the umbrella circled the sword that had passed the spear, seemingly defending itself while also dancing around the sword like a little bunny not fearing the wolf.
This fight which was actually a dance of five weapons created a unique atmosphere of martial prowess parrying and deflecting, protected and peaceful.
Fu Xian felt the incoming power transform into a silver light.
Just then he saw five hundred girls entering the stage, surrounding the five weapons. Every hundred took the same weapon as one of the five weapons, taking lower positions accompanying the five weapon beauties.
With this, the form of the weapon in the sky became real, silver light spreading across the whole landscape.