In the mysterious flesh-and-blood wine cellar, the smell of alcohol instantly fell like rain, while eerie energy churned ominously.
What a strange feast!
But who knew which of them was the dish on the plate, and which was the wine in the cup?
Because of Loyal to Lord, Protect Master, Qin Qiong had to keep using the righteous energy of Exorcise Evil Spirits to protect Lin Chen, no matter how fiercely Yuchi Gong was fighting on the other side.
Without Door God's Protection, the blood mist corroding this place alone would have slowly claimed Lin Chen's life!
The dutiful Door God carried Lin Chen and hauled Wu Song along as he slowly escaped the area affected by God of Wine Ritual - Carnival Eternal Night.
On the other side, Yuchi Gong swung his steel whip and had already killed who knew how many tentacles. Yet even more soon grew back, wrapping around him like a wildfire that could never be burned out!
The battle was falling apart.
Black Goat's Egg seemed unable to wait any longer. Several enormous black tentacles reached out and began tearing open the fetal membrane, sending viscous black amniotic fluid spraying in all directions!
The Evil God's Progeny was about to be born!
But Lin Chen was still fast asleep...
The bizarre body of the Black Goat cub had torn through most of the fetal membrane. The Giant Grapevine bulged and writhed like a blood vessel, frantically sending it the last of its nutrients.
Two enormous goat hooves stepped out first. Another hoof could be seen gradually taking shape inside the egg.
It was only a little short of emerging completely!
The several eerie mouths on its body were drooling above Chen Xiao Diao.
The blood wine in the air occasionally dripped onto Chen Xiao Diao's face, as if she were shedding tears to mourn herself...
This time, there seemed to be no turning point left.
"Wine?! I smell it!!"
A thunderous roar suddenly rang out!
Lu Zhishen's iron-tower-like figure was actually summoned from Chen Xiao Diao's card on its own, greedily gulping down the dense alcohol mist filling the room.
Amber opening the wine barrel had intensified the smell of alcohol in the room;
Instead, it had triggered the Wine and Meat Pass Through the Bowels trait, causing Lu Zhishen, who craved wine and meat, to reveal himself!
Of course, this was also related to Chen Xiao Diao being unconscious. Her control over her card spirits was essentially nonexistent, while Lu Zhishen himself had never been a particularly obedient card spirit.
In an instant, the brawny monk's breathing grew heavy from drinking, and his eyes turned blood red—
Drunken Rampage!
While in a drunken frenzy, Lu Zhishen ignored all commands, and his power multiplied!
The drunken demon monk's bloodshot eyes locked directly onto Black Goat's Egg, the nearest target.
Watching the Black Goat cub swallow the grape nutrients from the vine like a whale;
Lu Zhishen flew into a rage. "You bastard, how dare you fight me for my wine!"
Without distinguishing right from wrong, the brawny monk pounced like a ferocious beast!
With his drunken eyes looking down on everything, the demon monk spread his huge hands and seized the junction where the Black Goat's egg and the vine met.
The Demonic Bone Buddha Heart trait granted Lu Zhishen extremely high resistance to the bizarre, so he completely ignored the several mouths inside the evil egg that opened wide, ready to bite him.
Strength to Uproot Willows activated!
"Lu Zhishen uses giant-like strength to perform a body slam, capable of destroying terrain, vegetation, and buildings."
Black Goat's Egg was still in a symbiotic phase with the Giant Grapevine. In other words—
Black Goat's Egg counted as a plant!
It was precisely countered by Lu Zhishen's skill!
"Up—!!"
The brawny monk Lu Zhishen let out a furious roar. The veins on his body bulged as he exerted his strength, and the fibrous roots of the Giant Grapevine snapped one after another!
The entire evil god's fetal egg, as huge as a small mountain, was forcibly torn away from the Giant Grapevine!
Juice sprayed from the severed opening like broken amniotic fluid, pouring out in a torrent;
Then he swung it fiercely!
The nutrient-starved Black Goat cub let out an unwilling shriek. Dragging one malformed, unfinished hoof, it was slammed out of the egg by Lu Zhishen!
In the past, Lu Zhishen had uprooted a weeping willow. Now he had gone even further—the Drunken Monk had angrily uprooted an evil god's fetal egg!
It truly could be said: "No one can restrain the murderous monster's audacious guts; by sheer fortune, the demon-subduing majesty bows!"
Who could have imagined it?
The one who would break the deadlock and save the scene in the end was actually a drunken monk who had never appeared before?!
The Black Goat cub was born in the end.
Its supply had been cut off at the final moment, and it had suffered a devastating body slam from Lu Zhishen. Thus, the Evil God's Progeny could only descend in a malformed state—
Three goat hooves, two large and one small. Its incompletely developed limbs could not support it steadily, leaving it deeply unaccustomed to its current body;
The Evil Offspring staggered and fell again as soon as it rose, crushing several of its own little tentacles. The countless mouths growing across its enormous fleshly body roared in fury as one!
Because it had not descended in a perfect form, the Evil Offspring was not only physically incomplete; the Eerie Rhyme and evil power within it had also been greatly weakened.
But it was still a mythical-grade bizarre creature, its entire body shrouded in eerie energy and crushing pressure!
Yuchi Gong seized the opportunity to haul the unconscious Chen Xiao Diao onto his shoulder, then grabbed Lu Zhishen with his other hand as the latter collapsed into a seated position after exhausting himself from the outburst;
They had to get away from this writhing source of contamination!
Chen Xiao Diao was finally saved!
Lord, come look! We did it!
Lord is still sleeping? Then never mind.
The two Door Gods, each carrying their own deadweight, finally reunited.
The next question was whether they should leave or stay.
But unfortunately, there was not a single person present who could make the decision!
Chen Xiao Diao had been closest to Black Goat's Egg all along, so her sanity had been contaminated by it for a long time. She could not wake up at all—perhaps she would never wake up again!
Lin Chen, meanwhile, had been fighting bitterly while burdened with card spirits, then had taken Amber's God of Wine Ritual - Carnival Eternal Night Ultimate Move right in the face and fallen into a dead sleep.
As a result, there was not a single card creator on the field capable of giving orders.
Normally, once a card creator fell unconscious and the card's spiritual power was cut off, the card spirit should immediately disperse back into the card;
Fortunately, although the wine mist filled the cellar and corroded their sanity, the strange spirituality mixed within it was abundant.
Lu Zhishen had absorbed a great deal of alcohol mist and now had enough spiritual power in reserve.
Wu Song was the same. Although he had fallen into a drunken dream, he instinctively reacted to the smell of alcohol and gulped it down.
Both of them possessed resistance to eerie attributes, so they feared no contamination despite absorbing it.
The Door Gods and the spirit rat both possessed the Gather Spiritual Energy trait, automatically absorbing the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth while expending very little.
Thus, an extremely rare scene in the history of card creators had come to pass—
With the card creator absent, several card spirits were replenishing their own spiritual power and holding the line!
But now... what exactly should they decide?!
The two Door Gods exchanged glances. The hot-tempered Yuchi Gong spoke first:
"The enemy is weak! If we do not strike now, when will we?!"
Qin Qiong held his twin maces at the ready and rejected him in a deep voice. "The Lord's safety comes first. We must withdraw and regroup!"
The timid spirit rat raised its paw in support of retreat;
Lu Zhishen's idea was very simple: "I want to drink wine!"
While they were deadlocked—
Several vines suddenly grew out, wrapping thickly around the wine cellar's exit and blocking it completely!
Amber appeared covered in bloodstains, half her head not yet fully restored. She pointed the God of Wine Staff at them and sneered:
"The feast isn't over. How can honored guests leave first?"
The author had brought Lu Zhishen along to ask for votes and follows!
"Monthly votes?! I smell them!!"
Lu Zhishen's iron-tower-like figure was actually summoned automatically, greedily reaching for the dense monthly votes filling the room.
The next chapter isn't part of the main story. It is the author's report on the book's performance~ I will share the book's current results with everyone who has followed and supported it all the way, because we have reached a fairly meaningful milestone and I need to give special thanks~
Thanks to Hun Dun Xu Wu s for 1 monthly vote, the Passerby Nearby for 1 monthly vote, Xiao Feixiang for 5 monthly votes, ET Jehovah for 1 monthly vote, and Youfu Chen for 1 monthly vote. I will thank everyone again in the next chapter~ Come in and accept my thanks!
Section 37: A Report on the Book's Performance, and Thanks for Your Support Along the Way
Hello everyone, I am the author, Ping Ouzi.
First, let me share a report on the book's performance. Today marks a small milestone.
The reason is that the book has won the recommendation-slot PK in the first round of the Popular Serialization rankings!
Today, I received a private message about getting a recommendation slot in the second-round New Book Selection, so the second round of PK is about to begin.
Also, the book entered the top 100 of the New Book Overall Ranking today. It is currently holding steady somewhere in the nineties.
Making it onto the New Book Overall Ranking is practically equivalent to achieving Success in the Imperial Examination as a new book!
That means this book's performance is among the top one hundred of all the new books currently on Qidian!
As the saying goes, the four great joys of life are: "Rain after a long drought, meeting an old friend in a foreign land, the wedding night, and Success in the Imperial Examination."
The book's ability to achieve Success in the Imperial Examination is also thanks to the affection and support of all you readers. Is that not another kind of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land" on the internet?
So, with two joys arriving at once, let us celebrate together with all of you.
Before you continue