Drunk

Lin Yuan returned to his small estate and pushed open the gate to the courtyard.

As soon as Lin Yuan entered the courtyard, a protective shield activated automatically.

A steward and twenty male and female servants stood in the courtyard, waiting respectfully.

The steward was an elderly Star Level man, while all the other servants were Planet Level. These attendants came standard with the small estates sold in the main city.

The old man stepped forward, bowed to Lin Yuan, and said:

"My lord, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm the steward of this estate."

"These people are responsible for taking care of your daily needs."

The old steward gestured toward the young men and women, who bowed:

"Greetings, my lord."

Lin Yuan felt a little uncomfortable. He supposed that after being a slave for so long, he still wasn't used to this kind of life.

Lin Yuan said:

"Raise your heads. I don't have any particular demands of you. Just carry out your duties as usual. But without my permission, you're not to go near the main villa where I live or the cultivation room."

"Yes, my lord."

The male and female servants raised their heads, then bowed again.

All the estates in the main city of Red Flame Planet came with cultivation rooms, whose walls were made of at least D-Grade Alloy.

Lin Yuan paid them no mind and headed straight for the cultivation room, filled with anticipation.

Inside the cultivation room, Lin Yuan sat cross-legged and took the bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine out of the System Space.

Even before he opened the bottle, its rich aroma had already begun to spread.

Lin Yuan uncorked the bottle and poured himself a cup, about a quarter of the bottle.

The wine in the cup was bright red, flecked with tiny points of starlight. Lin Yuan brought it to his nose and took a sniff. He immediately felt a little tipsy.

"Now that's good wine. A bottle costs 80 billion Hunyuan, so this cup must be worth almost 20 billion Hunyuan. Tsk, tsk, tsk."

"Bottoms up!"

Lin Yuan tipped his head back and drained the entire cup.

As soon as the wine touched his tongue, a rich fruity aroma burst through his mouth. Once he swallowed, he felt a gentle energy circulate through his body. The experience was magical, as if his soul itself had been cleansed.

Lin Yuan's head suddenly grew heavy, and his thoughts began to blur.

"No... I can't... This wine's too strong..."

"I've got to... put away the rest..."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. Clinging to his last shred of consciousness, he put the half-full bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine into the System Space, just in case someone broke in and found it. Then he collapsed and lost consciousness...

Anyone who drank Purple Fire Ape Wine was bound to get drunk. That was why the powerful loved it. Even a Universe Venerable would pass out after one cup unless he actively purged the wine from his body.

For super-powerful beings, their Divine Bodies were incredibly strong, making it extremely difficult to get them drunk. A single chance to get drunk was worth a fortune. That was why one cup of Purple Fire Ape Wine could be worth the lives of thousands upon thousands of undying beings. As for its ability to improve one's affinity with the Law of Fire Origin? That was just a bonus. The powerful didn't care about that at all.

The next day at noon, Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, looking content, as though all his worries and troubles had vanished.

[You have comprehended a trace of the Law of Fire Origin and gained one draw. Would you like to draw?]

Lin Yuan jolted, finally coming back to his senses.

"Draw!"

...The ball stopped on the number 37.

[Congratulations! You have won the No. 37 Common Reward: the Fifth-Order Force Weapon, "Void-Slicing Blade." Would you like to claim it?]

"Void-Slicing Blade? Claim it."

A broad-bladed longsword appeared in Lin Yuan's hand. It was black, and strange Secret Patterns flowed across its surface.

Lin Yuan recalled that the Void-Slicing Blade wasn't worth much. Of course, that was because he had several thousand Hunyuan Units in his account and didn't think much of the sword. Take it outside, though, and ordinary World Lords would scramble to get their hands on it.

The Secret Patterns on the blade were rather crude. Studying the few Secret Patterns of space law on it would be less useful than simply comprehending the Golden Leaf. Besides, Lin Yuan used an axe, so he had no use for the Void-Slicing Blade at all.

Lin Yuan frowned.

[Your comprehension of the Law of Fire Origin has crossed the threshold of the Origin Law. You have gained one draw. Would you like to draw?]

"There's another one! Draw."

Lin Yuan was delighted. Just one cup of Purple Fire Ape Wine had improved him so much.

...The ball stopped on the number 29.

[Congratulations! You have won the No. 29 Common Reward: an E-Grade Peak Spaceship. Would you like to claim it?]

"Claim it."

Lin Yuan's cultivation room was spacious, measuring five kilometers in length, width, and height. It could easily fit a spaceship.

Whoosh.

A brand-new, deep-blue spaceship appeared inside the cultivation room.

Lin Yuan ran his hand over the metal hull. Information about the ship automatically surfaced in his mind:

E-Grade Peak Spaceship, 900 meters in diameter, built entirely from E9-Grade Alloy. The spaceship can activate a protective shield that ordinary World Lords cannot break through. It is equipped with two E6-Grade Laser Cannons. Its powerful engines can propel it through the Dark Universe at a maximum speed of 7.5 times the speed of light.

Lin Yuan entered the Virtual Universe and checked the prices of similar spaceships. E-Grade Peak Spaceships usually cost between 200 and 800 Hunyuan Units and were used by those at the Immortal Level.

Lin Yuan recalled that the Machine Race spaceship Luo Feng had obtained on Earth had cost somewhere between one and two thousand Hunyuan Units.

After exiting the Virtual Universe, Lin Yuan wasn't in a very good mood.

"What a rip-off. I spent 20 billion Hunyuan on that fine wine, and all I got were these two things?"

Lin Yuan grumbled to himself.

Of course, Lin Yuan understood that it wasn't so simple to calculate its value.

He had gone from knowing nothing about the Law of Fire Origin to crossing its threshold. He might have advanced even further than that. He could now clearly feel that his affinity with the Law of Fire Origin had improved tremendously, far surpassing how clearly he sensed the Law of Earth Origin.

By continuing to comprehend the Law of Fire Origin, he could keep earning rewards.

Lin Yuan figured he'd drink another cup in a few days and see if it improved him further.

He began to wonder if he could draw more treasures that would help him comprehend Origin Laws, so he could keep drawing and reap the system's rewards.

Putting those thoughts aside, Lin Yuan stored the spaceship in the System Space.

He would definitely need the spaceship in the future, but for now, he couldn't take it out and use it casually.

Lin Yuan remembered the dark yellow strange stone his teacher, Marquis Yuankun, had given him. He took it out of his Space Ring.

Holding the dark yellow stone, Lin Yuan tried to comprehend the Law of Earth Origin and found that his speed had at least doubled.

It wasn't as effective as the Purple Fire Ape Wine, but the improvement was still tremendous. After all, the Law of Earth Origin had been the one he was most attuned to.

Lin Yuan smiled, filled with anticipation for the road of cultivation ahead.