Chapter 505 - 503: Bottomless Tea

Chapter 505: Chapter 503: Bottomless Tea

"This tea... it’s actually loosened the bottleneck in my Cultivation Technique by a lot."

Luo Yu was incredibly surprised.

Luo Qing felt much the same.

They each quickly finished their cup of tea.

Su Qing then refilled their cups.

This was the tea Su Qing used to serve guests.

It was synthesized from a gentle type of Spirit Tea.

Even for a Tier Twelve Spirit Tea, its effects were quite weak.

Its main feature was its gentleness.

The lower one’s strength, the slower they would absorb the tea.

However, just one cup could grant Longevity, even immortality, to any mortal creature.

This was because the Spirit Tea was incredibly gentle.

Any living being could consume it.

Its effect was to allow the drinker to continuously absorb the tea’s benefits.

Zhu Yuan also began drinking it with abandon.

The tea felt exceptionally good to her.

’If I could drink ten pots of this every day,’ she thought, ’I feel like I could break through to the Eleventh Realm within a single Star Sea Era.’

Su Qing watched the four of them drink cup after cup, but he didn’t mind.

However, Su Qing had only brewed two pots of tea.

After the four of them had finished it all...

Su Qing chuckled. "Everyone, the tea is gone."

"If there’s no other official business, then please head back. As for the Candle Dragon Race, we still hope you won’t make a move."

"We’re all friends here. Harmony brings wealth, after all."

"If you act this way, it puts me in a difficult position. And you already know the choice I would make."

"Right?"

Su Qing’s words carried a clear implication: ’I’m standing with the Candle Dragon Race. If you make a move, then we’re no longer friends.’

"Farewell, and thank you for your hospitality. The Time Royal Family naturally prefers harmony and wealth. The Candle Dragon Race and our Time Royal Family share a common origin."

"Of course, we will get along well." As soon as the World Master finished speaking, he was gone.

"Goodbye," Su Qing said to the distant streak of Escape Light.

"The same goes for our Star King Race. We have never been involved in matters concerning the Candle Dragon Race, and we hope this conflict will not affect us," Luo Yu stated their position, and Luo Qing nodded beside her.

"Our Star King Race loves peace. We are all members of the Star Sea, and more importantly, the Star King Race is actually descended from the Star Race, so we dislike conflict."

"I’m clarifying this now to avoid being caught in the crossfire later."

Su Qing chuckled. "This is a message from your elders, isn’t it?"

"I understand. We are all civilized beings. Harmony brings wealth."

"Oh, and please pass a message to the Ancestral Dragon Race as well. Tell them we all seek peace. All this fighting... it’s just not good, is it?"

Luo Yu and Luo Qing nodded.

But everyone knew the truth.

It wasn’t that all the fighting was "not good," but simply that Su Qing didn’t want to fight.

Only the strong have the right to speak. That was the long and short of it.

The decision to fight or not to fight had always been in Su Qing’s hands.

Su Qing was willing to give them an out.

And they were happy to take it.

"We’re leaving now."

"Take care."

After saying his goodbyes, Su Qing turned to Zhu Yuan.

Zhu Yuan pointed to herself in surprise. "Do I have to leave too?"

"If you don’t leave, what are you planning to do, freeload here?" Su Qing said with a helpless tone.

"I don’t care. I’m going to rest here for a bit."

"Don’t you know? I was the one who started this whole thing."

"I know."

Zhu Yuan froze. The words she had prepared were swallowed back down.

"I’ve suddenly realized that having a friend who is so good at Inference isn’t such a great thing. It really kills the desire to share anything."

"..." This time, it was Su Qing who was left speechless.

"I just hope you won’t act on impulse."

"You did the right thing this time, but you also made mistakes."

"Your mistake was that you weren’t strong enough."

"Dragging your entire race into the fight."

Zhu Yuan was also helpless. "What choice did I have?"

"..." Su Qing didn’t want to lecture her.

Because more words would be useless.

Experience teaches lessons that are learned in an instant; people teach lessons that are never learned.

’If it were me,’ Su Qing thought, ’I would have definitely endured it.’

’As long as it didn’t harm me directly.’

’Then I’d go to the Star Sea Tree and cultivate nonstop.’

’Cultivate to the absolute peak, and then return for revenge.’

’A gentleman’s revenge is never too late, even after ten years.’

But he wasn’t saying that what Zhu Yuan did was wrong.

What Zhu Yuan did was absolutely right.

From her perspective, it was perfectly right.

The only mistake was not having the overwhelming power to suppress her enemies.

Once a Cultivator loses their backbone, their will to advance in their Cultivation will weaken.

"Do you have any more tea? I have a feeling you must have a lot of tea leaves," Zhu Yuan asked in a low voice, leaning closer to Su Qing.

Su Qing couldn’t help but laugh.

"Of course. You can drink your fill here, but no take-out."

"Huh?" Zhu Yuan was surprised.

"In that case, I’m moving in! I’ll leave when I don’t feel like drinking anymore," Zhu Yuan said, half-joking.

Su Qing helplessly took out a few more tea leaves and started brewing a new pot.

"Once it’s ready, you can pour it yourself."

Su Qing smiled.

Then, he took out a wine jar.

He chugged the Poisoned Wine from the jar in one go.

"What kind of wine is that?"

Zhu Yuan was curious. It clearly smelled of wine.

But it also gave her a bone-chilling feeling.

"Don’t get any funny ideas. This is Poisoned Wine."

"Even a Twelfth Realm expert would risk their life just by touching it."

Su Qing described just how dangerous the Poisoned Wine was.

But Zhu Yuan’s gaze turned a little strange.

"It’s that dangerous, and you drank it?"

"Mhm," Su Qing nodded.

He sat on the ground to the side and began to silently absorb the toxins.

"You’re crazy! Drinking Poisoned Wine... don’t tell me you’re a Cultivator of the Poison Dao Path?"

"I’m not."

"Once you’ve had enough tea, you should go back. I need to cultivate."

"Hmph!"

Zhu Yuan huffed in annoyance. ’Isn’t this just Su Qing’s way of saying he doesn’t want me here?’

Feeling sulky...

Zhu Yuan finished the entire pot of tea in one go.

"I’m done. Another pot."

Su Qing had no choice but to split off an ordinary body.

It put tea leaves in the pot and brewed tea for Zhu Yuan.

’Drink.’

’Let’s see if you can drink until you puke.’

Su Qing didn’t believe she could out-drink his tea supply; he had more than enough.

The "no take-out" rule was actually because he was afraid of the tea leaves appearing in the outside world and affecting the karma of the Star Sea.

Su Qing didn’t want to disrupt even the slightest bit of karma.

So, Zhu Yuan sat to the side, drinking madly.

As long as she could drink, she kept drinking.

This could be considered a form of Cultivation for her, couldn’t it?

In any case, Su Qing let her go on like this for several months.

Finally, after one particular cup of tea, she threw up.

She had been drinking tea day and night without stopping.

Su Qing felt she must have drunk no less than ten thousand cups.

Zhu Yuan finally couldn’t stand the taste of the tea anymore.

He laughed inwardly.

"No more, no more," Zhu Yuan said, shaking her head.

"BURP!"

Zhu Yuan let out a full burp.

She really couldn’t drink anymore.

Her stomach felt bloated.

She felt completely full.

This was a perfectly normal phenomenon.

Zhu Yuan hadn’t been focusing on refining the energy, so of course the feeling of fullness grew stronger and stronger.

Until she drank so much she threw up.

No, that wasn’t right. She was just stuffed.

Zhu Yuan felt she would need some time to digest.

At least a month.

Su Qing’s clone stopped moving as well.

It just sat there blankly.

Because Su Qing’s main body was absorbing the toxins.

He didn’t want to be distracted by anything else.

The most important thing was the current state of Su Qing’s poison resistance.

It was almost zero.

This meant he could only strengthen his own power to increase his poison resistance.

Besides, an increase in poison resistance wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

His Poison Absorption Body had to absorb toxins.

Another month passed.

After Zhu Yuan finished digesting...

"Su Qing, hurry up and pour me some tea!"

she said to the clone.

Immediately, the clone actually poured her tea.

It was like an artificial idiot. ℴ

It could only perform basic actions.

But soon...

Su Qing directly manifested a giant teapot.

He brewed several cubic meters of tea right away.

"Go on, drink. I’ll make more when you’re done," Su Qing said helplessly.

Zhu Yuan showed no courtesy at all. She opened her mouth, and all the tea flowed down into her small mouth.

It was all gone in an instant.

Su Qing watched helplessly as she didn’t even spare the tea leaves.

In the end...

Su Qing could only say, "There are no more tea leaves. You can go now."

Zhu Yuan’s eyes glinted as she teased, "No way. Didn’t you say there was an endless supply?"

"It’s all gone."

"Hmph." Knowing she had fleeced Su Qing, Zhu Yuan was delighted. ’That’s what you get for bragging. See? The tea leaves are all gone now. And he had the nerve to say there was an endless supply.’

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