The Heretical Path to Immortality
Chapter 73

A Fortunate Connection After Wine and Food

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Before long, the sky was fully bright.

The drunken monster revelers shook their heads one after another and staggered to their feet.

Belching wine, they cupped their hands to the Ganoderma Mountain Lord, then departed by all manner of means. Some rode in sedan chairs, some flapped their wings, and some drew handkerchiefs from their sleeves, seeming to ride away upon clouds.

By the end, Fang Shu was the only one still sprawled asleep atop Ganoderma Terrace.

He slept straight through until noon, when the little thin monkeys sweeping nearby startled him awake.

The rustling continued. Fang Shu jerked his head up and stared at his surroundings in a daze for a long while before finally coming back to himself. He realized that last night's drinking and merrymaking had not been a dream—he had truly been lucky enough to join the Mountain Lord's banquet.

He narrowed his eyes. Several Sleepy Insects circled before him once, then peacefully burrowed back into his hair.

The Sleepy Insects, used by Fang Shu himself, could not only make people drowsy, but also bite them, leaving them desperate to sleep yet unable to do so.

Seeing that the insects showed no abnormalities—that they had neither warned him last night nor bitten him awake—Fang Shu greatly relaxed.

Then, when he checked the changes to his Dao Register, realm, and innate constitution, he found them all entirely real!

Especially the realm entry. After that bout of sleep, much more of the spiritual energy and medicinal power within his body had dissolved. The original [Complete] text had transformed again into [Can Undergo Tribulation (63%)].

This "63%" did not refer to Fang Shu's cultivation progress. Rather, after his cultivation had met the requirement, it was the Dao Register's assessment of his chances of successfully undergoing tribulation, based on his

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