Chapter 434 - 432: Zhu Yuan Drinks with Su Qing, Out Cold After One Cup

Chapter 434: Chapter 432: Zhu Yuan Drinks with Su Qing, Out Cold After One Cup

"What brings you here?"

"Where are Yu Hu and Bai Di?"

Su Qing couldn’t help but ask.

"One is cultivating, and the other is taking care of the newborn."

"Wahahaha, those kids are so mischievous, especially Yu Hu’s boys. Each one is more mischievous than the last."

"I still prefer the girls. Several of them are quite quiet and adorable."

"I reckon Yu Hu will need more than a decade to raise his children."

"He’s been in the Desolate Upper World recently,"

Zhu Yuan said with a smile.

Su Qing took out a wine jug, opened the Upper Bell Joy, and gave Zhu Yuan a cup. "I don’t think I’ve gone to see Yu Hu’s children either."

"Yu Hu really is a father to dozens of kids now."

Zhu Yuan smelled the wine’s fragrance. It was incredibly sweet and had a refreshing aroma.

She picked up a cup and downed it in one gulp.

"Ah, refreshing! It’s cool and sweet. Is this really wine?" Zhu Yuan asked after downing the whole cup.

Su Qing was exasperated.

"This is the wine from Yu Hu. You can only hear the beautiful music when you’re drunk. I’ve modified it a bit."

Su Qing poured himself a cup.

Then he pushed a wine jug over to Zhu Yuan.

Zhu Yuan said exasperatedly, "No way, is this avatar of yours so weak?"

"You even have to push the jug over to me?"

"I’ve had Yu Hu’s Luhua Wine before, but it wasn’t as good as this modified version of yours."

"And it doesn’t feel very strong."

"With Yu Hu’s wine, if I don’t actively dispel the alcohol’s effects, it would take at least a thousand jugs to even get me tipsy."

"Looks like I’m just here to help you satisfy your craving for a drink."

"Heh, one cup is enough to knock me out. This avatar of mine exists specifically to experience being drunk," Su Qing smirked at her.

He downed it in one go.

It was incredibly refreshing and very sweet.

’Is this Upper Bell Joy?’

Not long after he finished drinking, Su Qing felt the whole world spinning around him.

He collapsed to the ground once more.

As for Zhu Yuan, Su Qing wasn’t worried at all.

This was just an avatar.

His main body was still right here.

"No way, this avatar’s really that weak?"

"How is one jug of wine supposed to be enough for me!" Zhu Yuan grumbled indignantly. She had originally come to keep him company while he drank.

She hadn’t expected Su Qing to be a one-cup-knockout, and in a mortal body at that.

She shot a dissatisfied glare at Su Qing’s main body, which was busy with its Cultivation nearby.

’So now I have to drink all alone.’

She had originally thought Su Qing was the one drinking to drown his sorrows.

And had wanted to keep him company.

She never thought he was just trying to experience the Luhua Wine.

The indignant Zhu Yuan thought for a moment.

She decided to use Su Qing’s method and create an avatar of herself.

To try the feeling of being drunk.

After all, she wanted to hear the music from Su Qing’s improved Luhua Wine.

If she drank it normally, she probably wouldn’t get drunk.

Even the Immortal Transformation Luhua Wine that Su Qing had created—a single jug of Upper Bell Joy—couldn’t possibly get a Candle Dragon drunk.

’I’ll just use an avatar to have a listen.’

Zhu Yuan chuckled slyly.

She looked at the sprawled-out Su Qing.

His avatar’s face had no Flame Mark.

His face was exceptionally clean, flushed a deep red from the drink.

Zhu Yuan reached out and pinched Su Qing’s cheek.

After amusing herself for a moment,

she felt quite satisfied.

’I’m getting to play with the cheeks of the number one expert in the Daoist Initial Realm. The sense of accomplishment is so satisfying!’

Of course, she wouldn’t dare do this to his main body.

Although Su Qing’s main body was off to the side, repeating some sort of motion,

that didn’t mean the guy couldn’t wake up.

"Let me see what this improved wine is like."

Creating an avatar with the constitution of a normal living being was a difficult task, even for Zhu Yuan, the Time Dragon.

But it wasn’t impossible.

She just had to replicate the physical constitution of Su Qing’s avatar.

The avatar appeared.

Zhu Yuan then took a sip of the wine Su Qing had mixed.

"Haaa~"

"I didn’t expect this wine to have such a kick for a normal being."

"But..."

"So dizzy."

Zhu Yuan subconsciously used her power to purge the alcohol’s effects.

This made her avatar sober up instantly.

’Wait, I’m doing this to hear the beautiful music,’

Zhu Yuan realized.

She took another gulp of the Upper Bell Joy.

And began to succumb to the intoxication.

This time, Zhu Yuan didn’t resist the drunken feeling.

"DING~"

"RING~"

"DING-A-LING~ RING~ RING~..."

A beautiful melody, like the chiming of bells, drifted up. It played the score of the Bell Court within the souls of the two beings who were lost in the fine wine.

The two avatars, in their ordinary state, both had flushed faces and a somewhat foolish smile.

Or perhaps, it was a smile of pure bliss.

This was a kind of music that could bring people joy.

...

After only a day, Zhu Yuan’s consciousness returned to her main body.

She dissipated her avatar.

"What a foolish smile. This guy’s wine even made me grin so foolishly."

"But the music really was quite good."

"Was it the sound of bells? It didn’t quite sound like it, but it was very pleasant."

Zhu Yuan gave a very objective evaluation. For a being who didn’t understand music, the only criteria for judgment were "pleasant" or "unpleasant," and "enduring" or "grating."

Clearly,

the beautiful music one heard while intoxicated was both pleasant and enduring, a rare melody that was hard to come by.

If she wanted to hear it again,

her only option was to create an avatar of a normal being and try again.

That state wasn’t a very pleasant experience.

It was clear that

a certain genius had no intention of waking up.

He was still lost in his drunken stupor.

He was even drooling.

’Looks like he’s really enjoying himself.’

Zhu Yuan sighed.

But soon, she created another ordinary version of herself.

She took out Yu Hu’s Luhua Wine to taste what it was like to be drunk on it.

After all, drinking it normally had no effect; it was difficult for Zhu Yuan to get drunk.

"The Luhua Wine... doesn’t seem to taste very good."

After Zhu Yuan swallowed a mouthful, the burning sensation in her throat was obvious.

But she quickly collapsed in a drunken stupor.

She heard the beautiful music.

...

Zhu Yuan woke up again.

She saw that Su Qing still hadn’t woken up.

Then she looked over at Su Qing’s main body, which was operating mechanically,

occasionally pausing its motions and not eating.

It gave off a strange feeling.

As if it had no soul.

But it was obvious that the main body was immensely powerful.

Not only that,

Su Qing’s avatar

was slowly being enveloped by a cluster of flowers.

Eventually, the flowers willingly formed a soft bed for Su Qing to lie on.

The flowers here were acting quite strangely.

To think they would take care of an ordinary avatar.

"Huh, there’s even a swing here. Isn’t that a bit childish?" Zhu Yuan spotted a swing hanging from an ordinary tree in the distance.

It was a toy humans used in their leisure time.

It was surrounded by a Flower Sea.

A path led to it.

The scenery was breathtakingly beautiful.

Although Su Qing had never been over there.

After all, just because Su Qing had built it didn’t mean he had to go play on it.

It was enough just to look at the comforting scene.

It was just empty.

Zhu Yuan snuck over to play.

She started swinging by herself on the swing set.

"Wow, so this is a swing?"

"Human toys are so much fun," Zhu Yuan said, giggling as she swung.

This was much more fun than the Mountain and Sea World.

After all, in the Mountain and Sea World,

things were very dull. It was a place that ran on faith and the law of the jungle.

It followed the system of the Star Sea.

It also followed the principle of constant self-improvement.

Otherwise, Zhu Yuan would never have been able to become a member of the Immortal Palace.

The Immortal Palace has Cultivation Techniques, but the Dao Path only has Cultivation Methods.

Their essence was quite distinct.

As a natural-born Time Dragon,

and with the clan elders having instilled in her the nobility of the Time Dragons,

Zhu Yuan had basically taken it all to heart, paying mind to civility and etiquette.

In the end, it was only after receiving an invitation from the Taichu Daoist Palace that Zhu Yuan left the Mountain Sea Realm

and came to the Taichu Daoist Palace.

Only then did her personality slowly start to open up. Of course, she also encountered her fair share of scoundrels with ill intentions.

Unfortunately for them, they were too weak to be harboring such ill intentions.

If you want to hit on a Candle Dragon, you’d better be strong enough to back it up.

Some beings are born with the instinct to discern one’s true heart, and the Candle Dragon is one such existence.

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