Dissolving Spirit Liquid

Early the next morning, just as dawn was breaking.

"Holy crap! My wine!"

With a loud shout, Chu He abruptly threw off the covers and sat up.

His consciousness quickly sank into his Sea of Consciousness. Inside the White Jade Wine Pot, the heart of the One-horned Iron Rhino and several supplementary ingredients were dissolving in an orderly fashion, gradually but swiftly.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness. It was just a nightmare." Chu He let out a long breath.

Inside the White Jade Wine Pot, the several kinds of spirit liquid formed as the ingredients dissolved were still merging, their color gradually transforming to crimson.

At this rate, the wine would probably be ready in another two or three days.

It was able to ferment so quickly because the White Jade Wine Pot had generated Dissolving Spirit Liquid on its own during the process.

If Chu He had been making wine outside the White Jade Wine Pot, he would have had a long wait ahead of him!

According to the Wine God Inheritance, under normal circumstances, Dissolving Spirit Liquid was slowly brewed from the supplementary ingredients in a Wine Recipe, excluding the few primary ingredients.

Its purpose was to help dissolve the primary ingredients into spirit liquid, which would then be merged together.

Before he encountered the Wine God Inheritance, the wine Chu He had made was broken down and transformed by various microorganisms. There was no such thing as Spirit Machine or spirit liquid.

So, since Chu He was now designing each Wine Recipe based on the Wine God Inheritance, the supplementary ingredients he needed to select naturally varied according to the primary ingredients used.

When making wine outside the White Jade Wine Pot, the supplementary ingredients had to dissolve first and mix into Dissolving Spirit Liquid. Only then would the primary ingredients steeped in it dissolve into spirit liquid.

These spirit liquids, which contained Spirit Machine, would merge with one another, finally brewing the Spirit Wine Chu He needed.

Feeling the spirit liquids formed by several primary ingredients inside the White Jade Wine Pot continuously merging, Chu He couldn't help praising it aloud:

"As expected of a treasure from the Wine God Inheritance. Staying up late to speed things along was worth it."

"Bang!"

Just then, Chu He's bedroom door was kicked open.

"Chu He! You woke me up again!" Chu Xi stood outside his bedroom, wearing tiny pajamas and looking thoroughly grumpy.

The pajamas were simply too cute, though. Two long rabbit ears dangled down, just covering the little girl's face.

Unable to see the little girl's expression, Chu He, as usual, laughed and played around with Little Shuili.

"You! Are! Still! Laughing!" Little Chu Xi swept the long ears aside with her right hand, gritted her teeth, and charged forward. Her left fist shot out, landing squarely in Chu He's stomach.

"Ah! What strength! I'm dead!" Chu He obligingly fell onto his back.

"Do you know how long I waited for you last night?" Little Chu Xi, still not satisfied, punched him twice more. She ground her teeth, looking like she wanted to bite him.

"Hahahaha, all right, all right, I was wrong." Hearing that, Chu He sat up again, a little guilt-ridden. He scratched the back of his head with one hand and caught the little girl's fist with the other.

"Wait a second. Your big brother's going to apologize. Let me find something..." He let go, got out of bed, dragged over his backpack, and started rummaging through it.

"Here, this is for you."

He held out a bag of Popping Candy to Little Shuili.

"Popping... Hmph! Who's your little sister?" Chu Xi suppressed a cheer and turned away awkwardly.

"Ptooey, ptooey!" The little girl realized she'd misspoken and quickly slapped her mouth twice. "Who's your big sister?"

Then she secretly turned back, blinking at the several bags of Popping Candy in Chu He's hand.

Chu He watched the little girl's exaggerated expressions with amusement.

The reluctance was practically spilling out of her eyes.

"You can't eat that much candy right now."

As a gentle but firm voice spoke, a graceful hand suddenly appeared and swept all the Popping Candy out of Chu He's hands.

Chu Xi's eyes unconsciously followed the snacks until she saw who the hand belonged to.

"Ah! Mom!" Chu Xi's eyes began darting about. "No! Chu He gave those to me as an apology!"

Chu He looked up and saw his parents, who had just walked into the room.

"Dad, Mom, you're here too."

"Mm, good. At least you weren't hurt." Chu Tianxiong nodded, seemingly satisfied.

"All right, all right. You can have one bag at most, no more." Xu Qingqing was bargaining with Chu Xi.

The father and son walked around to the doorway.

"Old Hu told me everything. You won't be with his Jackal Squad from now on?" Chu Tianxiong asked.

"Yeah. It's better if we go our separate ways." Chu He nodded, hesitating over whether to tell him about the Wine God Inheritance.

Back in his previous life, while reading all kinds of novels, he had come across plenty of similar stories. The protagonist would gain all sorts of fortuitous encounters and grow stronger quickly, yet keep it from his parents and closest companions.

Only when their family faced one crisis after another, and the protagonist could no longer keep it secret, would they find out—and realize things could have been much simpler.

But now that Chu He was in that position himself, he understood how hard it was to talk about something so secret.

In the end, Chu He only hinted, "My strength is going to increase really quickly from now on. It wouldn't be very suitable for me to stay with them."

"Wow, even an elite-level Warrior Squad can't keep you? Are you planning to become a War God?" Chu Tianxiong teased.

"Yeah, maybe I'll become even stronger than that." Chu He looked completely serious.

"Even stronger than that?" Chu Tianxiong scoffed. "Why not say you're going to fly to the sky?"

Fly to the sky?

Chu He thought it over. Once he reached Planetary Level, he really would be going to the sky.

He was about to nod when Chu Tianxiong said, "All right, if you're not going to be with them, having a few secrets of your own is fine too."

"Mm." Chu He silently nodded, thinking he'd brew his dad a different kind of wine later and show him.

As it happened, the tiger penis of the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger was still in that backpack full of spoils.

"Dad, I'll... brew some wine for you using the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger's tiger penis. Once it's ready in about a month, you'll see."

"Tiger Penis Wine..." Chu Tianxiong, who was fond of health remedies, immediately found himself unable to stay still.

"Why will it take a month or so? Don't you have a winery? Can't you speed things up by using the equipment there?"

Chu Tianxiong swallowed and seemingly casually unscrewed the thermos he carried with him.

"That won't work! It's not the same system." Chu He smiled and rejected his dad's suggestion.

"Oh, I see."

"By the way, what are you planning to do with your winery?"

"The winery..."

Chu He thought it over carefully and decided to keep it. At worst, he could personally adjust the brewing process later.

"Fine. If you want it later, come talk to your old man."

After the meal, it was time to get down to business.

Chu Tianxiong continued teaching Chu He the Seven Star Blade Technique. During breaks in his training, Chu He also gathered the ingredients for the Tiger Penis Wine, picked a new wine jar, and placed the primary and supplementary ingredients inside one by one.

Finally, he filled the wine jar halfway with water and cast the Spirit Sealing Technique on it, completing the preparations.

After that, all they had to do was wait for the supplementary ingredients in the jar to dissolve into Dissolving Spirit Liquid first. Then the tiger penis of the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger, along with Polygonatum, Angelica Sinensis, Codonopsis, and the other primary ingredients, would dissolve into spirit liquid and merge together.

Three days passed in a flash.

That evening, Chu He went to the Martial Arts Hall on the second floor of the villa. He was about to drink the Red Blood Wine and find out exactly how it accelerated Vital Energy circulation and improved training efficiency.