Taibai Jinxing snatched me from my remote island and dragged me all the way to the Jade Pool while I still had half a roasted fish clamped in my teeth.
"Immortal boy," the old deity said with a look of profound heartbreak, yanking the fish from my mouth, "is this the state of your three centuries of spiritual cultivation?"
I wiped the grease from my chin, opening my mouth to talk back, but the sight before me instantly stunned me into silence. The Jade Pool was even more magnificent than I had imagined—tiers of ninefold lotus platforms floated in a sea of clouds, with armored heavenly generals standing on every single petal. In front of the central jade platform, the Queen Mother of the West’s phoenix chariot flickered in and out of view amidst glowing rosy mists. Even more astonishing was Ao Ling. She was wearing the trendiest off-the-shoulder wedding dress from the mortal world, and her dragon horns were wrapped in blinking LED fairy lights.
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