Whiskey

The night was very quiet as Xiao Meng finally sneaked back to his side hall. He often played the vanishing act, and Xiao Zhan and the others were long since used to it, so he did not have to worry about them searching everywhere for him.

By now it was already the latter half of the night. Having fought for a whole day, he really was somewhat sleepy and tired, so he hit the pillow and fell right asleep.

Early the next morning, the sun rose, spewing out morning glow imbued with the breath of life. The energy between heaven and earth was extremely refined, and after taking a few breaths of inhalation and exhalation, he felt refreshed in body and mind.

Although he had slept very late last night, Xiao Meng still woke up at the first instance.

In a few days, it will be the annual testing again. Although I can currently abuse that group of turtle grandsons into dogs, as a transmigrator, how could my vision be so short-sighted as to take a bunch of minor characters seriously? This is simply an insult to me. Xiao Meng looked up at the red-as-blood rising sun, his gaze growing profound, looking very much like an elderly man who had weathered ten thousand years of frost.

Actually, he was worried that Xiao Yan would snatch his protagonist halo. Although the system said that he was the true protagonist, Xiao Meng had never believed in this pit-father system that liked to strike him with lightning.

He even secretly swore toxic oaths multiple times that once he became powerful, he must dig the system out of his head and give it a severe beating, otherwise he would be shaken to the point of collapse and battered beyond recognition by countless beautiful women.

After washing up and brushing his teeth, Xiao Meng grabbed lethal weapons like a spatula and a slingshot and went out, heading to the back mountain.

Yesterday he had obtained a fishing opportunity, and he planned to use it today.

Not long after, he arrived familiarly deep in the back mountain. With a thought from Xiao Meng, a fishing rod of entirely red color appeared in his hand.

According to the system, this was the lowest-grade fishing rod, and there were many high-grade ones further along; it was just that he was not yet qualified to wield them at present.

Xiao Meng sat cross-legged at the foot of a tree and took a deep breath. Then he flicked the fishing line, and the hook plunged straight into the earth. Xiao Meng immediately closed his eyes, and the scene of the hook traveling appeared in his mind.

"What the heck, Earth again?" Soon, Xiao Meng saw a blue planet, which he was incomparably familiar with.

"Damn it, don't tell me I've hooked condoms, bras, or something like that again!" Xiao Meng's mouth twitched fiercely, and he almost wanted to give up this fishing opportunity.

"Tathagata Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the Three Pure Ones Supreme bless me. I hope I can hook a normal thing this time." Xiao Meng prayed silently.

"Eh! Why are the buildings here so strange? Could it be that this isn China?" The different architectural style made Xiao Meng feel surprised. Most of the things he hooked before came from that piece of land he loved the most; he never expected that today he would actually change territories.

"This place is not the island nation, though I don't give a damn about the stuff from that broken place either. Hmm! It doesn't look like the Americans' place either... I was even preparing to fish for a dozen nuclear weapons with powerful lethality..." Xiao Meng muttered to himself. Just in this short moment, the fishing hook fell above an ancient mansion, and then passed through the roof, continuing to extend downward.

It passed through seven or eight floors.

"What?"

"Is that wine?"

Seeing the thing on the fishing hook, Xiao Meng felt completely speechless. He didn't even like drinking alcohol, so why did this stuff show up?

"My goodness, this seems to be a very ancient wine cellar, so the wine inside must be immensely precious." Xiao Meng used his will to drag the fishing line back.

"Come quickly, someone is stealing wine, come quickly..." [Foreign language] Just as it passed through two floors, it encountered a group of fierce, tall security guards wearing uniforms, and at the same time, the alarm instantly sounded.

"Damn! Is what I'm doing called stealing? It's clearly fishing, alright?" Although Xiao Meng couldn't understand the other party's language, he could roughly guess it. Therefore, he was very dissatisfied and wanted to flick the fishing rod to smash their heads with the wine bottle hanging on the hook.

He saw that the underworld bosses in TV shows all liked to hold a beer bottle in one hand and furiously smash the other party's head; it seemed like a very cool feeling.

A group of security guards roared, running around everywhere, wanting to get that bottle of wine back. That bottle of wine was truly too precious, with an incalculable value, but in just the blink of an eye, the wine bottle vanished.

In an instant, everyone was dumbfounded, all thinking that their eyes were playing tricks on them. That bottle of wine could actually pass through floors without leaving even a trace?

"Good heavens! This is a method that only gods can possess."

"Oh, my god..." [Omitted one hundred thousand words]

Everyone knelt down, devoutly praying and kowtowing.

As for that bottle of wine... What of it if a god drank a bottle of wine? Whoever the fuck dared to talk nonsense would have their head blown up even if the president came.

To anger the divine, the world itself would be destroyed; what did a bottle of wine amount to?

"I am the God of Light!" Xiao Meng truly wanted to roar out loud.

Not long after, a bottle of wine was hauled up by him from beneath the earth.

"1494, whiskey... Damn! Over five hundred years old?" Xiao Meng's eyeballs almost popped out, and he was dumbfounded. How could there still be wine from over five hundred years ago on Earth?

Through the attire of that group of security guards, he could be certain that was definitely an era after the year 2000.

Whiskey was one of the most famous wines in the world, so this bottle of whiskey from over 500 years ago was probably the most precious wine on the entire Earth, with no exceptions.

Xiao Meng's heart was shaken.

"Although I didn't like drinking in my past life, I still drank horse piss. But I've never even drunk wine priced above a hundred yuan a bottle, let alone world-famous wine. Today I actually have the fortune to taste world-famous wine that even rich people cannot drink, so it wasn't in vain that I was busy yesterday," Xiao Meng was very excited. Although the Battle Through the Heavens world was flourishing in martial arts, wine was truly not their forte; that stuff tasted even worse than horse piss, and only people of this world could drink it with relish.

"Swoosh!"

Xiao Meng opened the bottle cap in three strokes and two, and immediately a thick fragrance overflowed, making people nearly drunk. Xiao Meng felt somewhat dizzy, as if he were already drunk.

"My goodness, the kick is actually this strong? I haven't even started drinking yet, and I'm already drunk," Xiao Meng felt it was incredible. It really lived up to being a famous wine aged for five hundred years.

Inside the bottle was thick, viscous liquid, crystal clear, resembling amber, transparent and glowing bright. The fragrance was so thick it could no longer melt away.

Xiao Meng smacking his lips, and then inverted the wine bottle. It was just that the wine paste inside was too viscous, and it took more than ten minutes for a drop the size of a fingertip to drip into his mouth. Yet with just this tiny bit, Xiao Meng felt it was already enough.

He drank it down in one gulp. It was rich and fragrant, simply leaving a lingering aftertaste, but the next second, his expression changed drastically. His throat felt as if it were on fire, very uncomfortable. Following closely, his whole body became blazing hot, and abruptly he turned into a man of fire, the clothing on his body instantly turning to ashes.

The so-called heaven in the previous second and hell in the next was precisely describing this kind of situation.

"Holy shit, am I drinking alcohol or magma? It's burning me to death," Xiao Meng screamed repeatedly, suffering immensely as he rolled on the ground.

"No, if this goes on, I'll be burned to death sooner or later."

Subsequently, he forcibly sat cross-legged and circulated the Eternal Undying Art to refine the endless energy within his body.

At this moment, Xiao Meng's body was wreathed in fiery light, brilliant throughout, spewing out rosy clouds with surging aura, just like a phoenix bathing in fire. The spectacle was astonishing.

"This won't do. The first realm has already reached the extreme and cannot be advanced further, but what should I do with so much energy in my body?" After an hour or two, there was still a lot of energy remaining inside Xiao Meng's body, making his whole body extremely uncomfortable.

"Forget it, I might as well charge at the Heavenly Abode right now," Xiao Meng hardened his heart, immediately circulating the technique and redirecting the residual energy within his body to rush toward his chest.

The Heavenly Abode was actually the Shanzhong acupoint, also called the middle Dantian.

"Come on!"

Xiao Meng let out a low roar, and the energy in his body began to rapidly converge toward his heart, as if forming a poisonous dragon drill that continuously rotated.

"Swish!"

However, the first charge failed. Xiao Meng tasted sweetness in his throat, and a gush of hot blood welled up. He had only broken through to the Qi Transformation Realm a day or two ago, and simply had not prepared himself to charge the Heavenly Abode Realm; now he was being forced into a difficult situation, having no other choice.

"I, Brother Meng, refuse to believe this. Continue charging for me..." Unconvinced, Xiao Meng drove the cultivation technique to its extreme, seeking to forcibly open the Heavenly Abode.

He charged three or four times, and all of them ended in failure.

Yet not only did Xiao Meng not stop, the repeated failures instead stirred up his unyielding temperament.

After the tenth charge, Xiao Meng finally saw hope. At the sharpest point of that energy vortex, a needle-tip-sized spot of light appeared. That seemed to be the entrance of a time-1unnel, capable of leading to a mysterious world.

Xiao Meng felt as if he had unlocked a universe, opening up a secret repository. This feeling was extremely marvelous.

When this spot of light appeared, the energy within his body seemed to be guided by some sort of traction, pouring entirely into the Heavenly Abode.

Also at this moment, he underwent a transformation. Vital energy soared to the heavens, piercing through the firmament like wreathed divine flames.

Xiao Meng's consciousness saw the scene within the Heavenly Abode. It was like a chaotic world, extremely vast and permeated with golden gas, hazy and indistinct.

"The path of cultivation is truly marvelous," Xiao Meng could not help uttering such a sigh.

The mysteries of the human body were endless; whether opening the Qi Abode or the Heavenly Abode, it was a kind of exploration and a kind of breakthrough.

Yet only by opening up the Qi Abode or Heavenly Abode could one be considered a true martial practitioner, for this was the foundation of cultivation.

The middle Dantian was where the fundamental vitality of life resided, harboring the essence and breath of the entire body. Once opened up, the physical body would possess infinitely powerful possibilities.

Having broken through to the Heavenly Abode Realm, Xiao Meng sensed the changes in himself. It was as if he himself had turned into a world the size of an egg, slowly growing and filled with infinite possibilities.

Xiao Meng's consciousness was still observing his own Heavenly Abode when suddenly, he seemed to see other things inside the Heavenly Abode—full of vitality and wreathed in chaotic mist.

"What is that?"