Chapter 4649 — The West Island Birthday Banquet
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Had the spirit beast clan not always kept its distance from human cultivators? How had it come to enjoy such ties with West Island? Wei Zhao and Ghost Thing were both full of doubts, but there was no one they could ask at the moment—the girls who had been with them all along were nowhere nearby.
Ning Xuefei need hardly be mentioned; she was the star of this birthday banquet and was at that moment busy with her dress and makeup. Han Jingyi and Shangguan Lan'er, as her closest friends, were naturally keeping her company throughout, so Wei Zhao was alone for the time being.
The scale of this birthday banquet far exceeded expectation; by the look of it, the elite of all five great islands of the Heaven Tier were gathering here. This was Wei Zhao's first time attending such a grand feast—at the very least, he could broaden his horizons.
Wandering about, Wei Zhao found a seat in the North Island zone and waited for the banquet to formally begin.
After about the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, the entrance of the Intercontinental Banquet Hall grew bustling as guests from the five great Cloud Tier islands finally began filing in one after another. Wei Zhao raised his head for a glance, then promptly closed his eyes again—for no other reason than that those entering now were no one of consequence, and naturally there was nothing worth seeing.
The truly great personages, bound by status and propriety, would inevitably make their grand entrance last to offer their congratulations. What rather puzzled Wei Zhao, however, was that although none of the great personages had yet appeared, people had already taken their seats in every other zone—yet the South Island zone alone stood empty and bare, without a single soul.
After another moment, a large contingent of female imperial guards suddenly surged in through the main doors, and the atmosphere in the hall turned fervent in an instant. The star had arrived!
Amid the clustered women, Wei Zhao spotted Ning Xuefei at a glance. Though this girl was a princess of West Island, her manner of dress had never differed much from anyone else's.
But today was different. Today was her great day, and willing or not, she had to be carefully dressed and made up. Even Wei Zhao, who had long since grown familiar with her, was struck dumb by the sudden sight of so ravishing and delicate a Ning Xuefei—a beauty to shame the nation was no exaggeration at all!
Han Jingyi and Shangguan Lan'er were both at Ning Xuefei's side as well, and the three women standing together, each exquisite in her own way, left the guests from every quarter stunned as though they had seen immortals. One after another they could not help sighing that such peerless beauty could exist beneath the heavens—truly this journey had been worth it!
Yet though the three women drew every eye in an instant, beside them stood another woman in no way their inferior. She had the looks and bearing of a woman of thirty, and her brows and eyes resembled Ning Xuefei's by seven parts, but the serene nobility and grandeur that clothed her far surpassed Ning Xuefei's.
She too was a peerless beauty of the mortal world. Ning Xuefei and the others left one dazzled; this woman left one shaken. In every frown and smile there was an air of commanding valor that made a person want to fall to their knees at the hem of her skirt without knowing why. At the first sight of her, Wei Zhao's mind went, of all things, to that legendary empress of the secular world, Wu Zetian!
This woman was none other than one of the handful of top-tier personages across the five great Cloud Tier islands, the island lord who held sole dominion over an entire island's power—the West Island lord, Ning Shanghe.