“Welcome to Drunken Immortal Tower! We have wine inside, honored guest, please enter.” As soon as he arrived at the entrance, the two large wine jars in front of the door boomed a welcome.
Amidst their words, a intoxicating aroma of wine could be smelled, and any wine lover would likely find their feet rooted to the spot, unable to resist.
Zhuang Buzhou usually enjoyed a few drinks; he wasn't greedy, but he also didn't refuse.
But at this moment, standing at the entrance, he still felt as if wine worms were stirring in his stomach, compelling him to walk inside, and even the thought of leaving made his feet unwilling to move.
Stepping inside, one could immediately see that the Drunken Immortal Tower, like the Wind and Moon Tower, had an enormous space; the outside and inside were completely different.
Brand new tables and chairs were set up, and in front of each table, there was a wine-pouring maid.
All around, wine demons, transformed from wine jars, floated and moved constantly, their bodies filled with jars of rich, fragrant fine wines.
Each jar contained aged wine of at least a hundred years.
As long as there was a need, one could directly take a wine pot and pour wine from the wine jar.
Drink as you please.
As Zhuang Buzhou stepped in, he noticed that many people in the Drunken Immortal Tower were already sprawled drunkenly on the tables, clearly passed out and completely unconscious.
Some even, when drunk, continued to act wildly.
Yet, the maids and wine demons in the Drunken Immortal Tower paid no attention to these drunkards, letting them rage and revel.
It seemed as if there was a certain expectation in their eyes.
Zhuang Buzhou felt a chill in his heart, realizing that getting drunk in this Drunken Immortal Tower was absolutely extraordinary; there would certainly be some kind of harm, though he didn't know what it was yet.
“Honored guest, what kind of wine would you like to drink?”
He found an empty table and sat down, and the wine-pouring maid beside him smiled and asked.
Her voice was gentle, making one feel at home and naturally begin to relax.
“What wines does Drunken Immortal Tower have?”
Zhuang Buzhou asked with a faint smile.
“Ten-year aged wine, hundred-year fine wine, thousand-year spirit wine, and Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years.
Honored guest can first drink the ten-year aged wine; if you can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, you will receive a black Fate Tablet.
For the hundred-year fine wine, if you can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, you will receive a white Fate Tablet and an ordinary wine worm.
For the thousand-year spirit wine, if you can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, you will receive a red Fate Tablet and a rare wine worm.
For the Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years, if you can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, you will receive a golden Fate Tablet and a valuable wine worm.”
The wine-pouring maid said with a light chuckle.
In the Drunken Immortal Tower, once you enter, you must drink wine, and from the beginning, you must make a choice, and you can make multiple choices.
If you choose to drink the ten-year aged wine first and can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, you are considered to have passed the test, and you will receive a black Fate Tablet.
You can then leave the Drunken Immortal Tower and, with the Fate Tablet, go to the Treasure Tower or the Exquisite Skill Tower.
Of course, you can also choose to continue; if you can finish the hundred-year fine wine, you will receive a second Fate Tablet and a wine worm.
If you finish all of them and still don't get drunk, you will perfectly pass the Drunken Immortal Tower's test.
You will obtain four Fate Tablets and even precious wine worms.
“Bring the ten-year aged wine first.”
After a slight pause, Zhuang Buzhou spoke to the wine-pouring maid.
He wanted to try it first.
The wine-pouring maid smiled slightly upon hearing this, and directly beckoned a wooden barrel wine demon.
From the wooden barrel, she used a wine pot to draw a pot of wine, which was indeed the ten-year aged wine.
On the table, there was a white jade wine cup, which appeared to have a capacity of only about one liang.
“Please, sir!”
The wine-pouring maid smiled and gestured to Zhuang Buzhou.
“Alright!”
Zhuang Buzhou did not hesitate, picked up the wine cup, and poured it into his mouth in one gulp.
As the wine entered his throat, a mellow and pungent sensation immediately surged through his heart.
“Good wine!”
Zhuang Buzhou immediately exclaimed in praise, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
This wine was indeed very good, worthy of being a ten-year aged wine; although it wasn't any famous wine he knew, it was by no means inferior, even superior.
Drinking it left a lingering aftertaste, truly a rare fine wine.
If it were outside, it would undoubtedly be sought after by countless wine lovers.
“Pour the wine!”
He put down the wine cup and gestured to the wine-pouring maid.
“Please again!”
The wine-pouring maid, however, did not pour the wine, but instead continued to invite Zhuang Buzhou.
Zhuang Buzhou's expression tightened as he looked at the wine cup in front of him.
He saw that the wine cup, which had just been emptied, was once again full of ten-year aged wine, and yet, the wine-pouring maid had clearly not poured any more wine; the cup had refilled itself.
This was interesting.
Without hesitation, he picked up the wine cup and poured it into his mouth again.
Then he looked at the wine cup, and upon seeing it, immediately realized that the emptied wine cup had been refilled out of thin air.
“After a thousand cups, the cup will empty itself.”
The wine-pouring maid said with a smile.
“Interesting!”
Zhuang Buzhou smiled meaningfully, thinking to himself: This wine is indeed extraordinary.
The ten-year aged wine has a very strong kick.
I'm not a heavy drinker, and I can't drink a thousand cups; if I were to force myself, I'd be drunk after a hundred cups at most.
However, who says drinking wine must mean it truly enters the stomach? The wine enters my mouth, but who knows where it goes?
He dared to enter the Drunken Immortal Tower, naturally, because he had something to rely on.
He wasn't a true heavy drinker; if he drank it all, he'd get drunk sooner or later.
However, he could cheat.
No, this was absolutely not cheating; he was drinking by his own ability, who could say it was cheating?
“Continue!”
Zhuang Buzhou chuckled to himself, and then, the third cup of wine was poured into his mouth.
However, just as it was poured out, in the next second, with a thought, that cup of fine wine had vanished into thin air.
The wine-pouring maid could see that the wine went into his mouth, but she didn't know that the wine hadn't touched any part of his mouth at all.
It disappeared instantly.
And in the Other Shore Space, inside the pavilion, a wine pool directly appeared.
The wine pool was made of silver from within the space, and he could instantly change things within the space with a single thought.
After forming a small wine pool, he immediately saw a transparent liquid appear out of thin air in the wine pool, falling into the pool.
Immediately, an additional mass of liquid appeared in the wine pool, and a burst of wine aroma diffused.
That was precisely the ten-year aged wine that had just been poured into his mouth.
It didn't go down his throat at all; the moment it was poured, it went directly into this wine pool.
During this process, the wine-pouring maid, one could say, didn't detect any abnormality at all.
She just watched Zhuang Buzhou continue to drink with a beaming smile.
One cup!
Two cups!
Three cups!
Zhuang Buzhou was seen pouring wine into his mouth cup after cup, drinking as if it were water.
He didn't even need to pause to breathe, drinking like a whale or an ox.
He drank with an air of grandiosity.
“Good man, good drinking capacity, I, Xiao Feng, admire you.”
At the next table, a man in a tight-fitting outfit with a rugged face and an inherent heroic aura, who in the Jianghu would be considered a chivalrous hero, looked at Zhuang Buzhou with admiration.
Before him, there was also a wine cup and a black Fate Tablet.
The wine in his cup had a different color, more viscous, and as clear and sparkling as jade; at a glance, its quality was superior to Zhuang Buzhou's ten-year aged wine.
“Zhuang Buzhou greets Brother Xiao, let's drink together!”
Zhuang Buzhou smiled and raised his cup to Xiao Feng.
“Let's drink together!”
Xiao Feng also smiled and raised his cup.
One's drinking character reflects their character, and one's drinking capacity reflects their magnanimity; Xiao Feng most enjoyed making friends like this.
“Amazing.”
Zhuang Buzhou secretly praised him.
He himself relied on cheating to drink, but Xiao Feng's drinking was genuine.
Looking at the Fate Tablet, it was clear that he had already finished a thousand cups of ten-year aged wine and was now starting on the hundred-year fine wine.
There was no sign of drunkenness on his face; this was truly drinking as if it were water, becoming more energetic with each drink, a born drinker.
However, in the next second, he continued to drink large gulps.
This was drinking by his own ability; who could say the wine didn't enter his own stomach?
“Who exactly is this Zhuang Buzhou? He drinks like water, why have I never heard of him before?
Looking at him, the ten-year aged wine certainly won't stop him; a black Fate Tablet is already securely in his hands.
I just don't know if he will continue drinking.”
“We can't compare, truly we can't.
We have to rely on our cultivation to dissolve the alcohol and drink slowly, fearing getting drunk.
They drink as if it's plain water.
How can we compare?
I've long heard that some people are born able to drink.
Xiao Feng isn't unknown; I've long heard he can drink and loves wine.
But where did Zhuang Buzhou come from?”
Around them, some still-drinking people couldn't help but whisper among themselves.
Most of those who hadn't gotten drunk yet were Spirit Masters.
The reason Spirit Masters could persist was by using the True Qi in their bodies to dissolve and refine the alcohol Qi.
During this process, the speed and frequency of drinking were quite slow; they would drink one cup and then wait a while.
The Drunken Immortal Tower did not prohibit this behavior; as long as you truly drank a thousand cups, you passed the test.
You were free to come and go.
Time passed quietly.
Cup after cup of fine wine went down, appearing in the Other Shore Space and falling into the silver wine pool.
A large mass of wine liquid had already accumulated in the wine pool.
One cup was one liang, ten cups was one jin.
After a thousand cups, the wine pool had accumulated no less than a hundred jin of ten-year aged wine.
When a thousand cups had passed, Zhuang Buzhou put down his wine cup, only to see that the cup was completely empty and no new wine emerged.
“A thousand cups have passed, here is your Fate Tablet.
Would you like to continue tasting the upcoming hundred-year fine wine?”
The wine-pouring maid took out a black Fate Tablet, placed it on the table, and asked Zhuang Buzhou.
With a wave of her hand, a porcelain jar wine demon floated over.
The rich aroma of wine from the jar wafted into his nostrils, surpassing the ten-year aged wine by an immeasurable amount.
“The wine is good, the intent is slightly strong, continue!”
Zhuang Buzhou nodded in agreement.
Since he could cheat, what was there to fear about hundred-year fine wine? The more, the better.
“Honored guest, please drink.”
The wine-pouring maid picked up the wine pot, drew a pot from the porcelain wine jar, and elegantly filled a cup.
The wine liquid was like white jade, crystal clear.
The wine aroma was like the scent of rice, fresh and natural.
Observing its color and smelling its aroma, one could already tell that this was an exceptionally rare fine wine.
Time was the best winemaker.
He picked up the wine cup, brought it to his lips, and took a small sip; it was a hundred-year fine wine, and he dared not drink a whole cup directly.