In the latter half of the night, the moon had passed its zenith, and the starlight gradually dimmed.
Su Bai summoned the most steady and dependable Foundation Establishment Late Stage steward in the residence and ordered him to personally lead men to safely escort the two Deity Transformation Cultivators, drunk beyond consciousness, back to their respective estates.
Yan Yun was the Ninth Prince, so sending him back to the prince's residence posed no problem.
Xiao Xiao served in the Night Watch Palace, but the situation there was delicate at the moment. Su Bai specifically instructed the steward that if the Night Watch Palace's security was tight or the atmosphere seemed wrong, he would rather have Xiao Xiao settled first in his private residence in the capital than rashly venture into danger.
Once the two men had been helped away, the residence returned to silence.
Su Bai returned to his quiet chamber, and the trace of laziness on his face vanished completely.
He took out a jade bottle and poured out three longan-sized spirit pills that glimmered with faint golden light, then tipped back his head and swallowed them.
These were high-grade Mind-Cleansing Essence-Purifying Pills, specially made to counter all manner of strange poisons, foreign energies, and even the assaults of drunkenness upon the Primordial Spirit.
After drinking too much on previous occasions, Su Bai had refined several batches of these spirit pills to keep on hand.
They could be considered a one-of-a-kind hangover cure.
The pills entered his stomach and transformed into several streams of cool air that rushed straight into his sea of consciousness, rapidly breaking down the strange wine poison left behind by Immortal Drunkenness, which had coiled around the power of his Primordial Spirit.
In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea,