Chapter 378: Snake Wine

Chapter 378: Snake Wine

Oh? Dont you worry. Youll distill into a fine wine, too. A giant hand closed around Hui and lifted him into the air.

Hui struggled, desperately fighting against the hand, but it held him tight. His fists bounced off its flesh like stone. He dragged out a void talisman and pointed it directly at the hand, but the hand didnt flinch. Eyes still sealed shut, Hui couldnt tell if hed done any damage to the hand, but when he patted it, the skin remained intact.

Dammit! How high-realm is this senior? Is she at Chen Wuyas level? Or maybe higher?

He struggled harder. The hand shook him. Enough of that.

As soon as it shook him, Hui stopped struggling. Killing his qi, he retracted his awareness to his core. His body stopped moving, and his heart stopped beating. Introducing a tiny scrap of his soul to his death qi, he exuded an aura of death alongside an aura of soul death.

The hand stopped. Eh? Hes dead?

After a moment, the entire world lurched as the giant shrugged. Oh well. As long as hes freshly dead, the wine should still taste fine. A pity about his cultivation level, though. Fifth-realm cultivator wine isnt a delicacy you come across every day, after all.

The hand released him. Hui tumbled through the air and splashed down into thick, sweet liquid. At last, whatever force had held his eyes shut vanished, though, committed to playing dead, Hui didnt open them or exert any force whatsoever over his body. He drifted down into the wine, pretending to be no more than a corpse.

You know, Im starting to feel like maybe Fen Long locked these people up for a reason, Hui mused as he floated in alcohol. Honestly, compared to Chen Wuya, this woman might be worse. At least Chen Wuya just wants to beat people up, and mostly Fen Long, at that. This womans brewing people into alcohol!

The sound of heavy footsteps echoed off into the distance. Hui floated there for another few seconds, then opened his eyes and released his hold on his qi.

The second he released his qi, his qi began pouring out of him. The alcohol leached it out of him, sucking it hungrily out of his body. In a bare moment, all the excess energy hed gathered vanished, devoured by the alcohol.

Whoa! Hui pulled his qi back, killing it down again. His qi stopped pouring out of him. The alcohol kept lapping at his body, searching for his qi, but Hui kept a tight hold on it, desperately holding back. He stared around, searching through the alcohol. Zhubi, is Zhubi okay

Calm down, Hui. Zhubi is the master of playing dead! You are but the student! Hell also be able to kill his qi. Hell be fine, as long as I retrieve him before that crazy senior drinks him up!

Hui carefully adopted a lotus pose, mindful not to exude any extra qi. Even moving his body as a mortal would mobilized his qi enough for the liquor to sap it away. Horrified, he tightened his grip on his qi, only allowing the absolute minimum out. Even then, the liquor remained at the verge of his consciousness, desperately sucking at every drop it could reach. Hui kept drawing his qi back until it finally stopped stealing his qi, but at that point, he couldnt extend anything out of his core. He hesitated, then reached enough qi out of his dantian to circulate it to his eyes. At the very least, I need to see. Even if the alcohol is going to devour my qi, I can handle it at the level of being able to see.

So. Where am I?

A thin golden tinge colored the liquor Hui hung in, the same exact color as his life qi. Hui frowned. Is that because of my life qi that its gold? This liquor is terrifying!

If I could steal it, it would make an excellent weapon! Imagine splashing this liquor on someone in the middle of battle. It would essentially be an instantaneous cancel!

I mean I need to remove this dangerous liquor from the hands of this malicious senior before she throws someone else in here. Like Li Xiang! How terrible would it be if she tried to bottle Li Xiang?

Actually... wait. Is this giant the mysterious senior I was dealing with earlier? The cute voice is the same, but well, that mysterious senior had normal-sized legs, and her voice didnt reverberate like this ones does. Besides, Li Xiang and her vigilantes have been living in this space for a long time, and no one mentioned disappearances in the village. Maybe this is an echo of the senior, trapped in this infinite space?

Like what? Hold hands with Li Xiang? Rogue asked.

Rogue, calm down. Sectgoer, youll be more use to us outside of the liquor than inside it. But I dont suppose you could take some of that liquor with you? Healer asked.

Id love to. But where should I put it? Hui asked.

Healer paused. We could drain it into our dimensional ring.

What if it negates the enchantment, though? Peak Lord pointed out.

What about the blood qi gem? What happened to that? Healer asked.

Hui considered. What if we need blood qi for Jin Xian, though? The liquor will destroy any qi we put it in. Or absorb it.

There was silence as they all considered it.

Im generally against drunken jiangshi, Healer said.

I think were all in agreement there. But does she need the blood qi anymore? Rogue argued.

Actually, if we put the liquor in the blood qi, theres a good chance well just end up with blood-qi-flavored liquor, and no one wants that. Besides, didnt we lock someone in that gem? Hui said.

Did we?

We might have.

Uh maybe they were already inside when we got the gem?

No, we definitely put someone in there. A ghost of some sort.

Oh well. I guess he lives there now.

In any case, we should probably leave the blood qi gem alone. Can anyone buy a new spatial treasure that we can put the liquor into? Hui asked.

Give me a moment Healer said.

Hui floated in the liquor. Any second now.