"Drink as you ride the wind—how exhilarating! How exhilarating!"
Jiang Mu Ming was also fond of drinking, and some of the impetuous spirit of youth still remained in his heart.
He had traveled a thousand miles.
At last, he arrived in Tianqi.
Today, he ought to drink and sing wildly!
But just then, a gale fiercer than a raging storm swept toward him.
In a fleeting glimpse.
An old man with a head of snow-white hair came rushing over with peerless qinggong.
He tried to snatch the wine jug from Jiang Mu Ming's hand.
"You want to steal my wine?"
Jiang Mu Ming's figure flashed, and he dodged to the side.
He pulled out the stopper.
Bringing the jug to his lips, he smiled and said, "That won't do."
Across from him.
The white-haired old man gave an embarrassed smile.
He said, "Young brother, what marvelous footwork."
"But fine wine like this can't be enjoyed alone. How about giving me half?"
Before he had even finished speaking.
A flash of radiant light passed.
The man vanished as though he had disappeared completely.
When he appeared again.
He was already beside Jiang Mu Ming! He reached out to grab the wine jug, trying to snatch this jug of Peach Blossom Moon Fall!
"You're not bad either."
Yet at the critical moment, Jiang Mu Ming's figure gradually faded from where he stood.
The other man reached out and grabbed.
But it was only an afterimage!
The next moment, Jiang Mu Ming's voice came from the highest point in Tian Qi City: "But old man, isn't your skin a little too thick?"
"Oh?" The white-haired man across from him looked at Jiang Mu Ming in surprise.
He smiled and said, "Interesting."
Then, at the highest point of Tian Qi City, the two figures seemed to transform into streaks of light, chasing one another.
Leaving afterimages all over the place.
The human eye could not distinguish where the two of them actually were!
"Stop fooling around!"
Seeing that the two had become so engrossed in playing, Miss Yue Luo, mistress of the Thirty-Two Pavilions of the Brothel Directorate, grew frantic.
She called out loudly, "Young man, you just said that he would come to Tianqi City to take me away before long."
"Is that true?!"
Miss Yue Luo had never been as flustered as she was now.
She was worried that he was deceiving her.
Yet she also hoped that he was not!
"Of course it's true."
Jiang Mu Ming helplessly glanced at the old man beside him, who had taken advantage of his distraction to seize the Peach Blossom Moon Fall.
"Miss, I lost a jug of Peach Blossom Moon Fall just to answer your question."
"When you meet the Confucian Immortal in the future."
"Be sure to make him compensate me with three jugs... No, ten!"
At that moment.
The old man beside them, who had impatiently poured a mouthful of wine into his own mouth, also spoke:
"Don't worry. The one in your heart is still alive."
"You may not trust this youngster, but surely you trust me, Li Changsheng?"
"Fine wine! What fine wine!"
This white-haired old man before them.
Was none other than Li Changsheng, the renowned Academy Libationer, undefeated beneath the heavens!
Hearing Li Changsheng say this.
Only then did the worry in Miss Yue Luo's heart completely settle.
Otherwise, Jiang Mu Ming's words alone would always have left her somewhat uneasy, even though the wine he had brought really was Peach Blossom Moon Fall.
That was something her eyes could not mistake.
At that moment, Li Changsheng drank more than half a jug of wine in one gulp.
His otherworldly eyes turned toward Jiang Mu Ming.
He asked curiously, "Boy, when you heard that I was Li Changsheng, why didn't you react?"
"Most ordinary people would probably be kneeling by now, begging me to take them as disciples."
Jiang Mu Ming smiled calmly.
From the very beginning, he had known that the other man was Li Changsheng, but... so what?
He was Li Changsheng.
But he was Jiang Mu Ming!
Jiang Mu Ming, who was destined to surpass Li Changsheng and become the new Number One Under Heaven!
"Old man, even if your name is Li Changsheng, this remaining half-jug of wine..."
"Still belongs to me!"
Jiang Mu Ming's expression suddenly turned serious.
Miss Yue Luo did not even have time to blink.
The next moment.
The half-jug of Peach Blossom Moon Fall that had been in Li Changsheng's hand was suddenly in Jiang Mu Ming's.
Standing atop the Mysterious Bird, the highest point in Tianqi City.
The bright moon hung high overhead.
The long wind howled.
The blue-robed youth drank to his heart's content!
What an unrestrained sight!
Li Changsheng glanced at his empty hand.
Then he looked at Jiang Mu Ming, who stood even higher up.
Suddenly, he laughed.
"To snatch this jug of wine from my hand without me noticing—just that one move alone puts you among the top five beneath the heavens!"
Even if Li Changsheng had been somewhat careless just now.
The fact that he could snatch this jug of wine...
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