In the evening, the Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom held a grand welcome ceremony for the Yangwei Army.
Five hundred yaks alone were slaughtered!
The people of the Eastern Women's Kingdom were incredibly enthusiastic towards the soldiers of the Yangwei Army, as if they wanted to embrace them and toast them.
How had these simple men ever experienced such a scene?
Let alone them, even Cheng Yaojin was finding it a bit overwhelming.
"Brother Cheng, here, finish this cup, and there are three more."
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom, with one arm around his, brought the wine cup to his lips.
Her service attitude was even more attentive than the women in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion in Chang'an.
Cheng Yaojin, with a greasy bull leg in one hand, had long since wrapped his other arm around the Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom's slender waist.
"Haha, Chou'er, you are too kind. Here, I'll do it myself!"
He took the golden goblet, which could hold half a jin of wine, and drained it in one gulp.
Although it was a coarse wine produced in the Eastern Women's Kingdom and not very potent, it was impossible to resist drinking it like water. Cheng Yaojin didn't know how many golden goblets he had consumed.
He’d take a bite of the bull leg and then drain a golden goblet.
One cup after another, it seemed he never stopped.
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom looked at Cheng Yaojin with a face full of flushed charm: "Brother Cheng, you are truly amazing! To be able to drink so much. I wonder if your soldiers are as formidable as you?"
Cheng Yaojin was incredibly smug. He pointed the bull leg bone in his hand towards the Yangwei Army soldiers who were being plied with wine by a group of women.
"It's not that I, Old Cheng, am bragging to you, but your Eastern Women's Kingdom's wine."
"What did my brother say? Let me think, ah, that's right!"
"If Tsingtao doesn't fall, I won't fall; if Snow Beer doesn't drift, I won't drift!"
"If Pure doesn't live up to its name, I won't be pure; if Wusu doesn't intoxicate me, I won't be drunk!"
"You ask about my capacity? I point my finger towards the sea!"
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom didn't quite understand, but she knew that the sea was bigger than a lake.
Her eyes sparkled as she looked at Cheng Yaojin.
"Brother Cheng, you are so amazing!"
"Hahahaha, this is nothing yet! I, Old Cheng, have four great strengths. Do you want to know?"
Cheng Yaojin took a bite of the bull leg and said with a smile.
"Yes, yes. Brother Cheng, please tell me quickly."
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom played along, putting on an expectant expression.
"This first strength is my great capacity for drinking!"
"This second strength is my prowess in battle!"
"This third strength is that I have a formidable brother!"
"As for the fourth strength, you'll have to wait until it gets dark and we get to the room to tell you. Hehehehe!"
"What do you say, Sister Chou'er, do you want to witness my strength, Old Cheng?"
"Then, are the soldiers under Brother Cheng also this formidable?"
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom pointed at the Yangwei Army soldiers and asked.
"That's for sure! How can a great general have weak soldiers under him?"
"Really? Then could you let your sister's people experience how formidable the soldiers under Brother Cheng are?"
"What's so difficult about that!"
"Bi Yuntao!"
Cheng Yaojin shouted loudly to someone nearby.
Bi Yuntao came running: "Your Grace, what are your orders?"
Cheng Yaojin waved his hand: "After we've eaten and drunk our fill, let the people of the Eastern Women's Kingdom witness the might of our Yangwei Army!"
Bi Yuntao was a bit confused. With such a harmonious atmosphere, wouldn't fighting be inappropriate?
"Uh, Your Grace, in what aspect?"
"Please trouble General Bi to tell his soldiers to cooperate with my people tonight."
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom delicately pointed at the women busy toasting them.
Bi Yuntao wanted to ask more questions, but Cheng Yaojin waved him away.
Bi Yuntao left, completely bewildered.
"Brother Bi, what did your Duke just order?"
A strong, bear-like woman with breasts as large as two basketballs walked over and asked in a gruff voice.
"Tsk tsk tsk, you didn't understand! His Grace said to let you witness the might of our Yangwei Army."
"I asked what aspect of might, and your Queen said to just cooperate with you."
I really couldn't figure out what was going on.
Bi Yuntao shook his head, took a sip of his wine, and sat there, pondering the meaning of these two sentences.
The sturdy woman next to him, however, was filled with excitement. She immediately stood up and shouted to the others.
"Sisters! Tonight, all restraints are off!"
"Roar, roar, roar, roar!"
Instantly, the message was passed on from one person to another, and the entire city seemed to ignite.
And when Cheng Yaojin wasn't paying attention, the Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom whispered a few words to a sturdy woman behind her.
Then, that sturdy woman, along with a team of female soldiers, rode their horses out of the city and headed in all directions.
By the end of the banquet, a large number of people and horses appeared at the city gate, eagerly flooding into the city.
This was the Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom having her sturdy women summon the nearby commoners!
That night.
The city was filled with fierce battles, and sounds of conflict were incessant.
There is a poem to prove it.
Emerging from Daliang City, the rivers and mountains clear at dawn.
The sun rising from the dragon's lair, the wind sweeping the vast sand.
Sighing at life's circumstances with a sword, relishing the journey with sails unfurled.
Lost in the boundless unknown, the sound of oars singing beyond the void.
Birds in the forest moved in and out of their nests, too afraid to sleep.
The city's battle was intense, and the nine-story stone tower was also not peaceful.
After an hour of engagement with the Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom, Cheng Yaojin's eyes widened, and he glared at her.
With a loud shout: "You damn woman!"
Then he plunged millions upon billions of hidden weapons into the Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom's body.
"Ah—!"
The Queen of the Eastern Women's Kingdom cried out with a contorted face.
Then, she fell heavily onto the couch, her whole body becoming like a pool of mud, utterly depleted of strength.
End
The next morning, the entire city was quiet.
The pilgrims Xuanzang and his three disciples sat at the entrance of the first floor of the stone tower, looking at the city, which was so different from its usual appearance, and fell into deep thought.
Xuanzang beckoned to Wukong: "Bring me the brush and paper. I have had some insights and need to record them."
"Yes, Master."
The small Wukong took out a charcoal pen and a notebook from his satchel.
The notebook was something produced by Fang Family Village.
Xuanzang then wrote his observations and insights from the night's battle stroke by stroke in the notebook:
"The secret path of the sky walker who delights in great bliss is the 'Mother of Light' from sixteen to twenty-five years old, namely the 'Mother of Lotus Seed,' the 'Mother of Beast Form,' the 'Mother of Screw Tool,' and so on."
"She is the Vajra Yoga Mother with hand seals, who embraces and copulates with eligible male practitioners like Xiluge, engaging in non-dualistic practice."
"Using the perishable to enjoy the imperishable, causing the vital essence to descend, be held, return, circulate, and grow in the central channel."
"Circling like a filial crow, assuming the postures of a lion, elephant, peacock, tigress, and tortoise, contemplating the meaning of the twelve joys of the three four joys."
"Manifesting the non-duality of co-arisen wisdom and self-nature, all existing phenomena appear as imperishable bliss."
"For the secret initiation, hand seals, and ambrosia pills, one should offer sixteen half-quarter portions of vital essence, with the remaining three-quarters circulating throughout the chakras."
"If one is distracted, indulges in desire, or is intoxicated by external forces or alcohol, one will lose the true meaning and fall back into evil realms."
"Therefore, one must extract the essence from the Vajra body, and enlightenment in this life is undoubtedly assured."