Chapter 303: The Most Luxurious Wedding Dress
In the coming days, Du Qian Jue was immersed in preparations. The far north was quite a distance from his sect, and for the wedding, he planned to rip open a vast spatial rift, similar to his return to the sect, to fetch the bride from the far north. He intended to hold the wedding in the traditional Chinese style.
To solve the issue of Xue Linglong's wedding gown, Du Qian Jue ventured to the Star Dou Great Forest to shave the fur off the Emperor Beast, Tri-Eyed Golden Ni. This fur was used as the primary material for the gown, woven with golden threads made from Phoenix Blood Gold, used in creating ninth-level core formations, and embroidered with phoenix patterns.
He also brought out long-stored Extreme Ice God Crystals, not only crafting earrings, necklaces, and rings but also using these crystals, imbued with the essence of ice spirits, to convert Xue Linglong's gown from attributes of light and fire to light and ice.
Even that wasn't enough for him; using Life God Power combined with the metal of life spirits, he added several ice-attribute soul bones, turning the gown almost into a defensive treasure. Electrolux wasn't spared either. He was grudgingly recruited by Du Qian Jue to match the gown with jewelry that depicted the eighth-level defensive magic of the Holy Demon Continent.
Even with her nearly seven hundred thousand years of experience, Xue Linglong was astounded by Du Qian Jue's craftsmanship when she saw the gown. (You can refer to the shimmering warmth of the Red Dawn Phoenix Song for the gown's appearance, and the image will be published in the bonus chapter!)
Frankly, this wedding dress could already be considered an artifact, with a potential to become a super artifact in the future. The only thing missing was nourishing it with divine power.
Not just Xue Linglong, even the female soul beasts in the Sea of Spirits, upon seeing this incredibly luxurious gown, unique in the entire Douluo Continent, began to daydream about marriage. For the first time, they felt that the complex human rituals and customs might not be so bad after all. Even the Ice Emperor couldn't help but look at Xue Linglong with envy.
Du Qian Jue was nonchalant; he had once promised to create an artifact for Xue Linglong, and he indeed did it. Though his cultivation wasn't yet at the god level, he was the successor of Electrolux, who could craft super artifacts with his demi-god cultivation. With such a powerhouse, creating an artifact was a simple task for Du Qian Jue, especially since the materials he used for the wedding gown were outrageously extravagant.
Of course, gratitude was due to the Tri-Eyed Golden Ni, especially for the ring of mane around its neck, which made up most of the fabric of the dress. The Golden Ni's reaction? "Really? Am I really?"
Du Qian Jue spent most of the month making Xue Linglong's wedding gown. He was indifferent about his own attire, quickly creating a bright red groom's robe using a mix of chaos soul power with life and destruction divine powers. This robe, formed from condensed soul power, would disappear once the power was withdrawn, but with divine power woven in, the simple folk of Douluo Continent wouldn't notice.
Du Qian Jue remembered asking Du Busi what the five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on the robe represented, a soul beast he had never seen before. Du Qian Jue simply replied, "Divine beast."
As for other arrangements, Du Qian Jue delegated everything to the people of his sect, decorating the entire sect with festive but not garish red decorations. A red carpet extended from the main peak of the sect all the way down to the foothills, spanning several kilometers.
Du Qian Jue's preparations were nearly complete; now it was up to Xue Linglong. If Du Qian Jue were to visit the Ice Emperor's Palace now, he would be in for a shock. Not only was his sect busy preparing for the wedding, but the soul beasts of the far north were also voluntarily preparing for Xue Linglong's wedding.
These beasts did not want their vast northern territory to be overshadowed by a human force. At the moment, the area around the Ice Emperor's Palace was crowded with various soul beasts, each with at least ten thousand years of age, some of them natural enemies, but all staying within a designated area.
In front of the main entrance of the Ice Emperor's Palace stood a magnificent carriage carved from ice, nearly twelve meters tall and twenty meters long and wide, decorated with exquisite carvings and inlaid with rare precious stones.
Even more extraordinary was that the carriage was pulled by seven soul beasts, each of a hundred thousand years! Two hundred thousand-year Ice Winged Hawks and two Ice Phoenixes even volunteered to accompany the carriage in flight.
Eleven hundred thousand-year soul beasts! This was the prestige Xue Linglong commanded in the far north; she was the supreme ruler and the faith of all soul beasts there.
The carriage and the selection of soul beasts to pull and accompany it were all voluntary; Xue Linglong had made no demands. Their rationale was simple: as soul beasts that had been protected by the Ice Emperor for hundreds of thousands of years, they wanted to offer a token of their strength for their ruler's grand wedding.
"She would like this, wouldn't she?" Xue Linglong thought, looking down at the carriage from the highest point of the Ice Emperor's Palace, her eyes filled with tenderness.
"Only three days left…"
On this day, the number of visitors to the sect had multiplied several times over, previously only disciples of the sect had brought their friends and family. Now, those arriving were representatives of many influential forces invited to the wedding.
The emperors of the four great empires… or rather, three, as the Sun Moon Empire had no emperor. None of the emperors came, only royal representatives from each empire, including the Sun Moon Empire.
It's worth noting that a month ago, when Du Qian Jue announced his marriage to the supreme ruler of the far north, the Sun Moon Empire and the three kingdoms of Douluo unanimously ceased their wars. No one wanted to be fighting when a god-level powerhouse could emerge and annihilate them with a wave of his hand.
So, there were no wars, not even minor skirmishes, a harmony that belied the recent fierce battles.
This was the status Du Qian Jue now commanded in the Douluo Continent: with power came dignity and everything else. (End of chapter)