"Your Highness, have a little."
In an inn within Equal Heaven City, Li Su woke with his head spinning and his vision swimming.
At his side, Hongjin held out a bowl of medicine to him.
He reluctantly reached out, drained the medicinal broth in one gulp, then took a deep breath and circulated the Seven Sage Physique, absorbing the last of the alcohol's lingering potency.
He had never expected that one monkey banquet would leave him drunk for nearly half a month.
The ten-thousand-year monkey brew was an essence of heaven and earth, containing an intoxicating effect that went straight to one's head. It was even more brutal than the Erguotou from his previous life. That fierce kick was its medicinal efficacy; to absorb the wonders within it, one had to get drunk first. And the harder one got drunk, the better the absorption.
Thus, Li Su—at the Heavenly Immortal realm, possessing nine Heavenly Palaces and the Seven Supreme Sages—had gotten so drunk that heaven and earth turned dark in his first bout of drunkenness since coming to this world.
His absorption had been simply too effective. The Seven Supreme Sages within him had not wasted even the slightest bit, absorbing every scrap of the medicinal power. As a result, the alcohol rushed straight to his head, leaving him dead drunk for over ten days before he barely recovered from that muddled state.
Because of that, although the monkey banquet lasted ten days, Li Su had only attended the first. After that, it had basically had nothing to do with him.
The main reason was that the monkeys of Flower-Fruit Mountain had been far too hospitable. Though what they brought out was supposedly only ten-thousand-year monkey brew, the batch they gave him was clearly old cellar stock—the treasured kind.
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