The Wine God Smiles, and the Feast Ends / Creating a Location Card: Happy Forest's Crossroads Slope Butcher Shop!

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Chapter 42: A Smile from the God of Wine, the Feast's Finale

Those square-pupiled sheep's eyes made Lin Chen's heart clench once more.

Chen Xiao Diao's corruption had not been completely eliminated! There still wasn't enough blood wine!

But the Holy Grail's wine was no longer spilling out. As Resurrection Ritual - Drunken Rebirth activated, the liquid in the cup began evaporating into thin air, drop by drop.

It was as if some invisible being were truly raising the cup to its lips and taking a sip!

If someone else finished drinking it, what would happen to Chen Xiao Diao?

When killing, you had to see blood; when saving someone, you had to save them to the very end!

Yuchi Gong made his move! Tang Palace Martial Display: Single Whip Seizes Spear activated!

This was a divine power skill specifically targeting equipment, drawing the Holy Grail hanging in midair toward him.

Although most of its force was dissolved by the ritual, it still made the Holy Grail tremble slightly, spilling several more drops of blood wine.

Lin Chen hurriedly had Chen Xiao Diao catch them, then pried open her eyes to look. The sheep's pupils gradually changed from square to round, becoming normal human pupils.

Lin Chen finally relaxed. He had managed to snatch Chen Xiao Diao back from the jaws of death.

Hopefully there won't be another twist this time!

Although only a few drops of wine had spilled out, the blood wine containing the Evil God's Progeny was incomparably pure. It was still enough for the God of Wine Godhead to revive.

Immense spiritual power began to surge. One divine being had only just died—was another about to arrive?

Lin Chen certainly would not stand by and watch. He immediately gave an order!

The two Door Gods flew out, steel whip and golden mace striking with all their might!

But their target was not Amber. It was the Holy Grail in the middle of the ritual.

Only by destroying the ritual's core could they stop the divine descent!

The twin gods raged, their divine might blazing! Whip and mace clashed, seeking to cut down the evil!

But in the end, the two divine weapons struck Amber instead!

The priest had actually disregarded his own life and used his flesh to block the attack.

The Door Gods' combined might at this moment was something even the Black Goat cub's regenerative ability could not withstand.

Though Amber had the Holy Grail as his innate card protecting him, he still could not withstand this combined strike.

His chest had been utterly shattered. He was vomiting mouthful after mouthful of blood, while the Holy Grail Card in his heart was swaying precariously, seemingly about to tear free of his body.

Yet Amber still laughed wildly with ecstasy. His hoarse laughter was like a snapped string on a broken zither.

Because his god had descended!

Every sacrifice had been worth it.

The eerie soil that had originally been corrupted by the Black Goat cub suddenly transformed into a land of green vines, seeping amber-colored nectar.

The grapevines that had just been contaminated and grown flesh once more also regained their vitality, bearing pure, bright-red fruit.

A hazy, drunken sweetness drifted through the air. Every breath made his lungs and entrails tingle.

Then, from somewhere unknown at the scene, a soft laugh suddenly rang out. It was utterly bewitching, rippling through the heart~

Lin Chen could not help feeling delighted upon hearing it. He wanted to find the owner of that laughter at once and prostrate himself devoutly at their feet.

Even Amber himself was somewhat intoxicated, as though he saw a languid phantom reclining against a throne of grapevines and inviting him to dance.

His body grew feverish, desire surging to his head.

That was the God of Wine laughing!

Unlike the eerie pressure of the Black Goat Mother Goddess, the divine power of the God of Wine made you willingly drown in His breath!

But this powerful mental influence lasted only an instant before transforming into crystalline Godhead fragments shaped like grapes, which fell into the Holy Grail.

The atmosphere on the battlefield immediately returned to normal.

After undergoing divine tempering, Lin Chen recovered his clarity extremely quickly. This time, he was utterly decisive: when killing, you had to see blood; when uprooting weeds, you had to remove the roots!

Move, quickly! Amber had to be killed, and the Holy Grail seized!

Unexpectedly, Amber made a desperate grab. The God of Wine Staff, which had originally been controlled by Yuchi Gong, was about to break free and return to his hand!

Yuchi Gong reacted extremely quickly and immediately activated Tang Palace Martial Display: Single Whip Seizes Spear again, pinning the divine artifact in midair.

He absolutely could not let this treacherous, venomous snake Amber equip himself with his fangs again!

Amber was equally decisive. He immediately split the God of Wine Staff into two, taking only the pinecone mounted at the top and leaving the bare staff shaft to Yuchi Gong.

Yuchi Gong, unable to halt his momentum in time, staggered back several steps, leaving Amber an opening.

Qin Qiong had only just broken free of the influence of the God of Wine's smile when he hurried over and reached straight for Amber!

However, Amber completely ignored the Door God rushing toward him. He swiftly threw the pinecone from the tip of the God of Wine Staff into the Holy Grail.

Then he thrust a hand into his own chest, tore through countless blood vessels, and dug out his entire heart along with the original card of God of Wine Ritual Tool: Blood-Meat Holy Grail!

He had dug out his heart and card?!

That meant Amber had voluntarily removed the protection of his innate card!

Then he was certainly going to die!

What was he trying to do?

Amber produced another card and summoned a strange lump of flesh.

It was the Item Card he had used to communicate remotely with that mysterious person!

Card Name: Blood-Meat Beacon - Gestation

Type: Item/Blood-Meat

Quality: Rare Grade · Light Blue Border · Two-Star

Equipment Effect:

Beacon Synchronization: Blood-Meat Beacon - Gestation and Blood-Meat Beacon - Nurturing enter a symbiotic state. If either beacon is damaged, the other immediately synchronizes its condition.

Blood-Meat Regeneration: The Blood-Meat Beacon possesses powerful regenerative abilities and extremely high negative-effect resistance. Only physical damage such as strikes and lacerations is effective against it.

Blood Palace Shared Gestation: Blood-Meat Beacon - Gestation and Blood-Meat Beacon - Nurturing are flesh dissected from the same womb. Blood-Meat Beacon - Gestation can swallow objects and synchronously transmit them to the location of Blood-Meat Beacon - Nurturing. This is effective only once; after transmission, the beacon is ruined and perishes.

It actually had such a bizarre teleportation effect?!

Amber intended to teleport the Holy Grail away!

By the time Qin Qiong restrained Amber, Amber had already driven the Blood-Meat Beacon toward the Holy Grail.

The lump of flesh opened an inner wall like a womb and swallowed the Holy Grail containing the God of Wine Godhead, the pinecone, and the original Holy Grail Card still attached to Amber's heart—all at once.

Then it began twisting and throbbing, rotting and decaying, completely losing its spirituality.

Amber had actually been willing to scrap a Rare Grade blue card!

But this was clearly an Item Card from the flesh sequence of the Black Goat Mother Goddess's cult. It should have been something the cult had provided.

The cult beneath the Black Goat Mother Goddess really was generous!

Even the Item Card used to communicate with Amber was blue-grade.

The Godhead fragments and divine artifact of the God of Wine had both been teleported away.

What remained for Amber himself was death.

Lin Chen did not even need to finish him off. Without a heart, he would slowly wither and die anyway.

Lin Chen was somewhat shaken by Amber's decisiveness. As a priest of a cult, Amber had truly taken things to the extreme.

Now that the dust had settled, Lin Chen did not feel like taunting Amber any further. He merely pronounced in a flat tone:

"Amber, the feast is over."

Amber had one final breath left. Panting, he smiled at Lin Chen and said:

"You said it yourself—cough, cough—the world has no feast that does not end, cough, right?

"But here, in the Cult of the God of Wine—cough, cough—the feast never ends!"

Lin Chen merely took it as stubborn bravado.

Amber exhaled the last breath from his lungs and forced out:

"We'll meet again, cough, cough, Lin Chen!

"Because I smelled something on you, cough, that was the same as the God of Wine's—

"The scent of a Reborn Person!"

Lin Chen's pupils instantly widened!

He said I'm a "Reborn Person"!

Could my identity as a transmigrator have been exposed?!

Lin Chen instinctively grabbed Amber's body, wanting to question him about what he meant.

But the handsome priest had already fallen into Lin Chen's arms and died, like a splendid summer flower.

And with its host's death, this feast was also declared over.

I'll post an end-of-volume summary later~

Chapter 43: Creating a Field Card: Happy Forest Crossroads Slope Meat Shop!

Lin Chen's heart churned like a storm-tossed sea:

"Could my identity as a transmigrator have been discovered?"