"I will not allow this marriage!" Yuan Feng shouted and everyone turned to look at him, including Shang Gu once he saw her, his hopes and the love that had died with him in the mortal realm all came back to life. In a blink, he was in front of her.
The minute that he heard her name, he was giddy with hope but it couldn't beat the moment that he laid eyes on her in the banquet hall.
"Who are you, know your-" Shang Gu was about to say but Qing Mu cut in
"Yuan Feng, I see you finally decided to come to the banquet. Come take a seat." Qing Mu said to him but Yuan Feng ignore him as he looked Shang Gu up in down with love and care for someone that he has not seen in a long time, ignoring the others if it was just the two of them.
".....Do we know each other? Please let go." Shang Gu said to him as she took another step away from him but he took hold of her again, pulling her in closer than before
"It's me, I'm Yu Chen." Yuan Feng said to her and she pushed him away as if it was instinct. Shang Gu turned toward the other two true gods
"Please grant the marriage to the Spring Palace." Shang Gu said as she bow to them but Yuan Feng yanked her toward him
"I will not allow this! And Whoever allows this" Yuan Feng said as he turned to look at his brothers
"Will face me." Yuan Feng said but Qing Mu chuckled as if he wanted to challenge Yuan Feng
"I will allow this marriage to the Spring Palace." Qing Mu said and was glared at by Yuan Feng
"Qing Mu!" Yuan Feng said but his brother wasn't scared of Yuan Feng who has been doing nothing but got drowned in alcohol since his return to the nine-heaven realm.
"Thank you, Shang Gu does not feel well. Please excuse me." Shang Gu said as she turned away from the two true gods that were sitting on their thrones and walked away from Yuan Feng. Yuan Feng tried to grab her wrist but she moved her arm and teleported back to her Spring palace.
"Shang Gu! Shang Gu! Wait!" Yuan Feng said but she was already gone, Yuan Feng turned to look at his brothers, ignoring the hundreds of gods and goddesses in the banquet hall.
"Why did you have to agree with her wedding request?!" Yuan Feng asked but Qing Mu only smiled at him
"Say something!" Yuan Feng demanded from his older brother
"It seems like you didn't want to talk to me at all before this. It's been 7000 years since I even hear a word out of you and now you only seem to be demanding things from me. So let me ask you this too. Why can't I bless the spring palace this marriage?" Qing Mu asked and Tian Qi nodded
"Right, why can't we bless the spring palace this marriage?" Tian Qi echoed his brother
"Because she was the person I was looking for! You can't just promise her to someone else because I want to marry her! So you can't grant her this marriage!" Yuan Feng said and the two of them looked at each other, they knew that what their brother was going through was related to something from his mortal trial and that he was heartbroken but he drown himself in alcohol instead of talking to them; how could they've known that the person who he was looking for was Shang Gu.
"Marriage? To Shang Gu?" Qing Mu asked him and he nodded
"I spent a million years looking for her in between the dead realm and spirit realm looking for her but with no results in my search, I thought that I would give it up and get reincarnated so I let go, and when I woke up. I found out that I am a true god but I didn't know who she was." Yuan Feng said but as he was about to go on about his sentence someone appeared by his side
"Chi Wu thank the true gods for blessing my marriage to the Spring Palace." Chi Wu said but in just seconds he was seized by Yuan Feng
"So it was you!" Yuan Feng said to him as he recognized the young demon but the young demon doesn't know his true god form because he only knew his human form
"You came back to the nine heavens with Shang Gu and now you want to marry her? Over my dead body!" Yuan Feng said to him since his return to the nine-heaven realm he had gone through many stages of grief and one of them was blaming others; which was mainly Chi Wu. Yuan Feng thought that if only they didn't meet Yuan Feng then Shang Gu wouldn't have left him in the mortal realm, it was to the point that he wanted to find the young demon and kill him.
It only took that one sentence for Chi Wu to know that it was the man from the mortal realm, even though he look different from the mortal man but the core that he sense from that time was indeed from this man.
"You! It was you, Yu Chen." the young demon said and he smiled
"If you know then you can't go on with this marriage!" Yuan Feng said but the demon was confused
"Why can't I go on with this marriage?" Chi Wu asked him and he glared at the young demon
"Shang Gu will marry me, not you." Yuan Chen said to the young demon but he smile at Yuan Feng as if he was being challenged Yuan Feng wanted to take hold of his neck and wring him dry.
"Did she say that she will marry you?" Chi Wu asked him and he held onto his shirt tighter
"You-!" Yuan Feng said but the young man sighs
"I'm not marrying her." Chi Wu said, Yuan Feng stopped and stared at him for a long time.
"You're not? Then who is the marriage for?" Yuan Feng asked him
"The marriage to the Spring Palace is for the spring palace's spirit bond Zhu Zi and me." Chi Wu said to him and he slowly let go of Chi Wu's collar, he turned around to face his brothers
"Then, I ask for a marriage between me and Spring Goddess Shang Gu." Yuan Feng said to his brothers but the two shook their head
"Marriage should be from both parties." Qing Mu said
"So you should have her agreement don't you think?" Tain Qi asked him teasingly at him
"Fine!" Yuan Feng said and vanished into thin air, leaving the banquet hall in an uproar and gossip. The banquet was left to the lower gods and goddesses to enjoy by themselves as the two true gods and Er'Xi head to where Yuan Feng should be; the four-season palace.
When the three of them arrived in front of the Four Seasons Palace, Yuan Feng was outside making a ruckus because he couldn't get into the four-season palace.
"Shang Gu! Shang Gu, let me in! Shang Gu!" Yuan Feng said, but the barrier was strong and showed no signs of weakening.
"Shang Gu!" Yuan Feng called out one last time before his brothers stopped him and that was when Zhu Zi walked out from the four-season palace main gate, making her way towards the three true gods.
"Zhu Zi, greet the true gods." Zhu Zi said and bow to them as she turned to look at Yuan Feng
"My master said that she is not well and will not be receiving any visitors, please be on your way." Zhu Zi said to him and he took hold of her
"You! I know you, I am Yu Chen! Please let me see her." Yuan Feng said but Zhu Zi stepped back from him
"Forgive me but as I am the spiritual bond of the spring goddess, I can only do as my master instructs me to do. What she had asked me to do is to send you off on your way." Zhu Zi said to him but he refused to leave
"No! I won't leave until I've talked to her!" Yuan Feng said to her as he make his way to the barrier and pounded away at the barrier with all his might but it didn't even leave a scratch on the barrier.
"Stop trying, Yuan Feng." Qing Mu said and Yuan Feng turned to look at him
"Why?" Yuan Feng asked and Qing Mu shook his head
"This barrier is made of the power of the four-season palace which came from our forefather and his wife, it's as strong as the barrier of the true gods' palace and maybe even stronger. Even if the three of us combine our power, the most we could do is scratch it." Tian Qi explains to him but Yuan Feng pounds on the barrier even more.
"Shang Gu! Please don't do this to me! I'm sorry, alright!? Please!" Yuan Feng said but there was nothing from within the four-season palace to indicate that she was going to come out as he began to pound on the barrier even more, her voice echoed from within the barrier
"While in the mortal realm, you thought that you were not good enough for me but now that we are in the nine-heaven realm, it is me who is not good enough for you." Shang Gu's voice echoed and tears ran down his face
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Please! Please let me just have the chance to be with you." He said to her but again there was nothing but silence from within the four-season palace.
He could hear her slow and steady footsteps out of the palace, he lookup with a smile when he saw her. She looked the same as she did when he first laid eyes on her in the mortal realm.
Shang Gu walked over to him and stood in front of him but within the barrier with an indifferent face as she bow to him
"Spring Goddess, Shang Gu greets true god Yuan Feng." Shang Gu said to him but he couldn't do much as she stayed right behind the barrier line, even if he wanted to hold onto her or even if wanted to just be near her; he couldn't. Again she was within reach but he still couldn't reach her almost like the time when they were in the mortal realm.
"Shang Gu, please don't do this to me." he begged her
"Please forgive me for not being able to properly welcome you into my palace, from this day onward, I, the spring goddess shall go into retreat and cultivate within my spring palace. It's my honor to be able to welcome true god Yuan Feng's return before my retreat." Shang Gu said to him and turned away from him as she walked back to her palace
"SHANG GU! SHANG GU!" Yuan Feng called out to her, he knew what this mean; she doesn't want to see him and he can't go inside to see her. If she just stay inside and refused to come out, he might never see her again. Yet she still turned away from him
The moment that she walked away from him again, it felt like that day that he found himself all alone in that abandoned temple.
Luckily as long as a season goddess allows it, any gods and goddess can enter the four-season palace but not the specific season palace since each season has a different owner, unlike the main four-season palace that belongs to all of the season goddesses.
To enter the Spring Palace, he'll need permission directly from Shang Gu. Instead, Yuan Feng sat outside of her gates every single day talking to her even though she refused to answer him.
79 thousand years later
When Shang Gu stepped out of the Spring Palace, Yuan Feng has been sitting outside of her palace in his own seat. When he heard the gate open he got up from his seat and looked toward the gate in anticipation.
He was waiting for her when she stepped outside of the palace gate but she said nothing to him as if she doesn't acknowledge him
"You're finally out, are you forgiving me?" Yuan Feng asked her, Shang Gu said nothing as she made her way toward the main four-season palace. He quickly followed behind her, and he followed behind her quietly.
"Shang Gu, you're finally out." Er'Xi said to her and she nodded
"You can feel it too, couldn't you?" Shang Gu asked her and she nodded
"The Fall goddess is ascending to the nine heavens." Er'Xi said and the two nodded to each other as they quickly rushed to welcome the Fall goddess at the Heaven platform, when they got there the other true gods were waiting with other gods and goddesses as well.
As Shang Gu reached the base of the platform as if the Fall goddess was waiting for them, she appeared on the platform. As she appear on the base of the platform her true form was shown to them all as the rule to the heaven platform as well.
Many gossips about her true form and looked down on her even though she ascended as a season goddess; even though she has the same blue eye and silver hair as Shang Gu and Er'Xi do but because the two of them came from humble beings, she was looked down on.
The two Season goddesses still rushed to welcome their sister with open arms and smiles.