Drunken Collapse

Lin Yuan returned to his small manor and pushed the door open to enter the courtyard.

As soon as Lin Yuan stepped into the courtyard, a protective barrier automatically activated.

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

The butler was an elderly man at the Star Level, while the rest of the servants were at the Planet Level. These attendants were the standard configuration for small manors sold in the main city.

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

"My lord, it is a pleasure to meet you. I am the butler of this manor, and I am honored to serve you."

"These individuals are responsible for attending to your daily needs."

The old butler gestured to introduce the young men and women, who all bowed in unison:

"Greetings, my lord."

Lin Yuan felt slightly unaccustomed to this; he figured it was because he had been a slave for so long and had yet to adapt to this kind of life.

Lin Yuan spoke up:

"You may all raise your heads. I don't have any specific requirements for you; just carry on with your usual duties. However, without my permission, you are not allowed to approach the main villa where I reside or the cultivation room."

"Yes, my lord."

The group of servants had just raised their heads before bowing once more.

The manors in the main city of Red Flame Planet were all equipped with cultivation rooms, with walls constructed from at least D-Grade Alloy.

Ignoring them, Lin Yuan walked straight toward the cultivation room, his heart filled with anticipation.

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

Before the cap was even removed, a rich, intoxicating aroma had already begun to drift through the air.

Lin Yuan opened the bottle and poured a glass, roughly a quarter of the total volume.

The wine in the glass was a fiery red, shimmering with tiny specks of starlight. Lin Yuan brought the glass to his nose and sniffed, immediately feeling a sense of impending intoxication.

"Truly fine wine. One bottle costs 80 billion Hunyuan, so this single glass is worth nearly 20 billion Hunyuan. Tsk, tsk, tsk."

"Bottoms up!"

Lin Yuan tilted his head back, poured the entire glass down his throat, and finished it in one gulp.

As it first touched his palate, Lin Yuan felt a rich, fruity fragrance explode in his mouth. As he swallowed, he could feel a gentle energy circulating through his body. The experience was incredibly wondrous, as if his soul had undergone a baptism.

Lin Yuan's head suddenly began to feel heavy, and his consciousness started to blur.

"No... this won't do, the potency is too high..."

"I must quickly... put the remaining wine away..."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. Relying on his final shred of consciousness, he stored the half-empty bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine into his System Space just in case someone broke in and discovered it. Immediately after, he collapsed and lost consciousness...

Purple Fire Ape Wine: one drink, and you are guaranteed to be drunk. This was exactly why those powerhouses loved it. Even a powerhouse at the Venerable level would drink themselves into a stupor after one glass if they didn't actively purge the alcohol from their system.

For those super-powerhouses, their divine bodies were incredibly strong, making it very difficult to get drunk; one could say that a moment of intoxication was worth more than gold. This was why a single glass of Purple Fire Ape Wine was worth the lives of thousands of Immortals. As for its ability to improve one's affinity with the Law of Fire Origin? That was merely a side effect; the powerhouses didn't care about that at all.

At noon the next day, Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes with a satisfied expression, as if all his worries and troubles had vanished.

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

Lin Yuan gave a start, finally snapping back to reality.

"Draw!"

...The small ball stopped on the number 37.

[Congratulations! You have obtained the No. 37 common reward, the Tier 5 Force Weapon "Void-Slicing Blade". Would you like to claim it?]

"Void-Slicing Blade? Claim."

A broad-bladed long saber appeared in Lin Yuan's hand. The blade was black, with strange, mysterious patterns flowing across its surface.

In Lin Yuan's impression, this Void-Slicing Blade shouldn't be worth much. Of course, this was because Lin Yuan had thousands of Hunyuan in his account and didn't think much of this weapon. If taken outside, this blade would actually be fought over frantically by ordinary World Lords.

The mysterious patterns on the blade were slightly crude; using the spatial law patterns on it as a reference would be less effective than simply contemplating the Golden Leaf. Besides, Lin Yuan used an axe; it could be said that he had no use for this Void-Slicing Blade at all.

Lin Yuan frowned.

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

"There's even more! Draw."

Lin Yuan was pleasantly surprised; a single glass of Purple Fire Ape Wine had brought him so much improvement.

...The small ball stopped on the number 29.

[Congratulations! You have obtained the No. 29 common reward, an E-Grade Peak Spaceship. Would you like to claim it?]

"Claim."

The space in Lin Yuan's cultivation room was quite large, measuring five thousand meters in length, width, and height, so accommodating a spaceship was not a problem at all.

Whoosh.

A brand-new dark blue spaceship appeared within the training room.

Lin Yuan ran his hand over the metal surface of the ship, and its information automatically surfaced in his mind:

E-Grade Peak Spaceship, 900 meters in diameter, crafted entirely from E9-Grade Alloy. The ship can activate a protective shield that ordinary World Lords cannot break. It is equipped with two E6-Grade Laser Cannons. With a powerful propulsion system, its maximum speed in the Dark Universe can reach 7.5 times the speed of light.

Lin Yuan entered the Virtual Universe to check the market price for spaceships of the same class and discovered that this type of E-Grade Peak Spaceship generally costs between 200 and 800 Hunyuan Units, making it a vessel used by Immortals.

Lin Yuan remembered that the Machine Race ship Luo Feng obtained on Earth was priced at roughly one or two thousand Hunyuan Units.

Exiting the Virtual Universe, Lin Yuan was not in a very good mood.

"What a rip-off. My glass of fine wine worth 20 billion Hunyuan Units only got me these two things?"

Lin Yuan muttered to himself.

Of course, Lin Yuan also understood that value could not be calculated that way.

He had gone from knowing nothing about the Law of Fire Origin to stepping directly across its threshold—perhaps even further than just the threshold. Now, Lin Yuan could clearly feel that his affinity for the Law of Fire Origin had improved tremendously, far exceeding the clarity of his perception regarding the Law of Earth Origin.

Continuing to comprehend the Law of Fire Origin in the future would also yield further rewards.

Lin Yuan decided to drink another glass in a few days to see if the effects would continue to improve.

Lin Yuan began to fantasize about whether he could draw more treasures that helped with comprehending Laws of Origin, allowing him to go on a wild drawing spree and ruthlessly milk the system for rewards.

Pulling back his thoughts, Lin Yuan stored the spaceship into his System Space.

Lin Yuan would definitely need this spaceship in the future, but he could not easily take it out for use at this stage.

Lin Yuan remembered the Dark Yellow Strange Stone that his teacher, Marquis Yuankun, had given him, and he took it out from his Space Ring.

Holding the dark yellow stone in his hand, Lin Yuan attempted to comprehend the Law of Earth Origin and discovered that his speed of comprehension had increased by at least twofold.

Although it did not have as significant an effect as the Purple Fire Ape Wine, it was still a massive improvement, especially since the Law of Earth Origin was the one he originally had the highest affinity for.

The corners of Lin Yuan's mouth curled upward, filled with anticipation for his future path of cultivation.