“Good wine!” Zhuang Buzhou’s eyes lit up after a small taste. He couldn’t help but exclaim that this was indeed good wine. Compared to the ten-year-old aged wine, it was not only a level higher, but the fiery taste in the wine had almost completely disappeared. After years of precipitation, it had a rich, mellow taste. The astringency was almost nonexistent. The taste had improved more than tenfold.
After one sip, people couldn’t help but want to continue drinking, without even time to think.
It was truly a peerless vintage.
However, he only took a sip. The rest of the wine was sent back into the Other Shore Space.
This time, a brand new silver wine pool was cast in the Other Shore Space to store this hundred-year vintage.
“What a capacity for alcohol!”
Xiao Feng witnessed it and praised again.
He felt a slight pressure from this hundred-year vintage, and now seeing Zhuang Buzhou also begin to taste it, and still as bold as ever, he immediately appreciated him more, feeling that their temperaments matched. He raised his glass again and drank with him.
Zhuang Buzhou smiled and continued to drink heartily. He almost drank every glass to the bottom, seemingly into his stomach, but in reality, it all went into the wine pool. He drank at a surprisingly fast pace, making the surrounding group of drinkers tremble.
“He’s not human, is this a drunkard?”
One Spirit Master after another secretly thought.
Looking at Zhuang Buzhou and Xiao Feng, and then at themselves, they felt that this fine wine was already bland. Those two were real men, while they seemed like women. They felt incredibly uncomfortable.
“I’m not drinking anymore, I’ll just watch how much they can drink today.”
A rough man put down his wine glass, his two bell-like eyes fixed on Zhuang Buzhou and the others, determined to see how much they could drink first.
“Want to make a bet to see how much they can drink? I, Di Qing, will be the banker.”
A young man’s eyes darted around. He also put down his wine glass and said loudly, arranging to open a betting game.
“Okay, count me in. I bet Zhuang Buzhou finishes a thousand cups of hundred-year vintage. Ten silver talisman coins.”
“I bet they both tie, three silver talisman coins.”
“I bet…”
The previously dull Drunken Immortal Tower suddenly became lively.
Zhuang Buzhou saw it but paid no attention. How could these things be more important than him fleecing the Drunken Immortal Tower? A hundred-year vintage! Normally, you couldn’t find even a drop of it in the entire Qingyun City. If put out for sale, people would flock to it even for a thousand gold. Wine lovers would cherish it as a treasure.
Cup after cup.
His bold drinking style astonished the pouring maid beside him. She had never seen anyone drink like this before. This was a hundred-year vintage!
Before long, a thousand cups were emptied.
“Esteemed guest, what a capacity! This is your Fate Tablet, and also, this contains a wine worm.”
The pouring maid smiled and presented another Fate Tablet. This time, it was a white Fate Tablet. There was also a palm-sized wine urn, clear as jade, so much so that one could see inside it: a plump, white-jade-like worm swimming within, swallowing wine, looking incredibly content and enjoying itself.
This was precisely a wine worm.
Wine worms are a type of exotic insect, a priceless treasure for wine lovers. For Spirit Masters with the Drunken Immortal profession, having a wine worm is essential. By refining a wine worm within their body, not only can they taste various fine wines through it, but they can also refine the wine’s power into their own True Qi and magical power, increasing their cultivation. At that point, in a word, drinking makes them stronger. Of course, the higher the grade of the wine worm, the greater the benefits to oneself.
Even Spirit Masters not on a wine-related professional path can gain benefits after refining one, such as detoxification and sobering up. There are also many other wonderful uses, making it a rare exotic treasure.
Zhuang Buzhou was also very happy to see this. It was so easy to fleece the Drunken Immortal Tower.
Both a Fate Tablet and a wine worm.
When pie falls from the sky, of course, one should be happy.
“I want to continue. Let me try your thousand-year spiritual wine.”
Zhuang Buzhou said with a smile. Such a good Opportunity to fleece was rare; how could he miss it? It would be too regrettable to stop. He must continue, absolutely must not stop. He had to fleece them enough.
“Guest, please.”
The pouring maid looked at Zhuang Buzhou with a slightly strange expression but did not stop him, continuing to pour the wine.
This time, Zhuang Buzhou did not taste it directly. He was afraid that if he drank a mouthful of the thousand-year spiritual wine, he might get drunk and pass out, which would be truly terrible. Therefore, after pouring it into his mouth, it instantly entered a brand new wine pool in the Other Shore Space.
As for its taste, he didn’t taste it at all.
As long as he could pass this hurdle, he could drink and taste it anytime he wanted after leaving.
Right now, it was all about fleecing them as much as possible. Seizing the Opportunity was key.
“Amazing. He dares to drink thousand-year spiritual wine like that.”
Xiao Feng was truly shocked this time. The previous ten-year aged wine and hundred-year vintage were nothing; he could drink them all. But this thousand-year spiritual wine was not something that could be easily consumed. This was no longer within the scope of ordinary alcohol. Even a Spirit Master with True Qi and magical power could not easily dissolve it. If he couldn’t drink it, he would truly get drunk and pass out.
“Cheating feels great, and continuous cheating feels continuously great. However, one shouldn’t get too lost in such shortcuts.”
A thought flashed through Zhuang Buzhou’s mind.
Regardless of anything else, he was currently having a blast fleecing them.
Feeling the constant increase in the amount of thousand-year spiritual wine in the new wine pool within the Other Shore Space, he became even more delighted.
Still at the same frequency, before long, a thousand cups of thousand-year spiritual wine were all drunk.
“Mr. Zhuang has an excellent capacity for alcohol. This is a red Fate Tablet, and a rare-grade wine worm. Would Mr. Zhuang like to continue tasting the Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years?”
The pouring maid said with a hint of reverence.
“Naturally, I will continue.”
Zhuang Buzhou said without hesitation upon hearing this.
“Serve Mr. Zhuang the finest Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years.”
At this moment, on the third floor, a woman in a light blue palace dress appeared at some unknown time. She carried an unusual aura, an air of authority from long holding a high position. In her hair bun, a golden hairpin was tucked, shaped like an epiphyllum, an epiphyllum that blooms for a moment, dreaming for a thousand years.
Her voice carried a dreamlike quality, captivating and enchanting, making one feel as if they were in a dream.
“Yes, Mr. Zhuang, please taste.”
This time, the pouring maid poured wine from a jade-quality wine jar. This wine was even more mystical; the liquid was viscous, like jade nectar, amber in form, and golden in color. Yet, there was no scent of wine, as if it were a liquefied precious jade. When it settled in the cup, it was a perfect work of art. It made people reluctant to drink it after seeing it.
“Even such a Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years exists. The Red Tower is truly mysteriously terrifying.”
He sighed inwardly, but his hand did not hesitate. He raised it and brought it to his mouth again. The next second, it appeared in the Other Shore Space. The Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years was even more precious.
For this Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years, Zhuang Buzhou still behaved as before. Cup after cup. The people around him watched, their mouths twitching.
This was Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years! Could he not show it some respect? This was an immortal treasure that even top Spirit Masters couldn’t drink. Drinking it like this was simply like a cow chewing on peonies, a complete waste. Countless people wished to taste it but couldn’t.
But if they were truly asked to drink it, they would absolutely not dare. Drunken Immortal Wine of Ten Thousand Years, if drunk, would definitely knock one out with just one cup.
No discounts at all.
But what was Zhuang Buzhou doing?
Immortal wine should be savored, not gulped down!
At this moment, within the Red Tower, in the Hundred Flower Tower.
On the upper floor, at a jade table, two figures sat facing each other. A pot of clear tea, its fragrance wafting gently. One of them, seated at the head, wore a red palace dress, with a vermillion dot between her brows and lips like fire. Yet, her face exuded a hint of charm and a touch of aloofness, her temperament ever-changing, making her difficult to fathom.
Across from her sat a White-robed Woman. A Mysterious haziness enveloped her, as if she existed neither in the present, past, nor future, elusive and hard to grasp. Her face was indistinct, making it difficult to discern her features.
“Meng Xianliu, with your status, why are you interested in this person? Even when he broke my Red Tower’s rules, you still intervened to stop it.”
The woman in red said with a faint smile.
In front of them, a mirror floated in mid-air. Within the mirror, the scene of Zhuang Buzhou drinking immortal wine in the Drunken Immortal Tower was clearly displayed.
“In the Wind and Moon Tower, he remained unswayed despite the allure of beauty, his Heart-Nature is indeed good. In the Drunken Immortal Tower, he drank a thousand cups heartily, his capacity for alcohol is somewhat extraordinary. However, with just these, he shouldn’t be able to attract your attention. It seems he has other special qualities yet to be revealed.”
She looked at the White-robed Woman again, saying meaningfully.
“Red Moon, in short, you cannot touch him.”
Meng Xianliu calmly looked at the woman in red and slowly said.
“Then let’s see.”
Red Moon chuckled, then looked at the image in the mirror without a care, and suddenly said, “Guess which Legacy Zhuang Buzhou will choose in the Exquisite Skill Tower. He has a Spiritual Root within him, and it’s a self-Awakening Spiritual Root. I just don’t know what kind of Spiritual Root he Awakened. I’m quite curious. Which Dao will he choose to walk?”