A Pot of Hundred Days' Drunkenness

However, to Su Chen, it did not matter how outstanding Ye Xuan was. What mattered was that he was the direct-line young master of the Ye Family in Clear River City.

There was still an old score from their previous lives between the Ye Family and Su Chen, one that had yet to be settled.

Su Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sharp glint seemed to flash through them. Yet it lasted only an instant. The next moment, his expression returned to its former stillness, like an ancient well without ripples.

After Ye Xuan spoke, the people present no longer paid attention to Su Chen.

Just then, the wine and dishes were brought to the table.

The exquisite dishes were a dazzling array. Every one was a supreme delicacy unavailable elsewhere, every one exorbitantly valuable. Complete in color, fragrance, and flavor, they resembled works of art and made one's forefinger twitch with appetite.

Once all the dishes had been served, everyone present could no longer wait. They picked up their chopsticks and began eating, praising the food without exception after tasting it.

Wang Bingyan beamed. She had begged the Wang Family Patriarch for a long time before he agreed to grant her this banquet in a Human-Class Private Room at Drunken Immortal Residence.

They were only sixteen or seventeen-year-old children, after all. Only juniors from a family like the Wang Family, whose wealth ranked among the very best in Clear River City, could afford such lavishness.

Her charming eyes shifted, and Wang Bingyan noticed Su Chen sitting to one side. To her surprise, he had remained seated with an indifferent expression from beginning to end. He had not even touched his chopsticks, much less sampled a single bite of food.

"Hey, Jiang Tingyi, why isn't your cousin eating?" Wang Bingyan sneered. Naturally, she did not think Su Chen looked down on the food. She merely assumed that he had never seen such exquisite dishes before and did not dare use his chopsticks.

Jiang Tingyi felt embarrassed. Under the table, she could not help pinching Su Chen with her little hand as she said in exasperation, "Eat already. What are you afraid of?"

In truth, it was not that Su Chen refused to eat; he simply had little appetite. Back when he was the Pill Emperor of the Pill Domain, he routinely ate rare delicacies such as true dragon meat from the Eastern Sea and ten-thousand-year snow mountain fruit. Even those had to undergo eighty-one painstaking stages of preparation before reaching his table. How could the wine and dishes of a small city tavern possibly catch his eye?

Only after hearing Jiang Tingyi tell him to eat did Su Chen unhurriedly pick up his chopsticks and taste the dish nearest to him.

"How is it, Brother Su? Do the wine and dishes of Drunken Immortal Residence suit your palate?" This time, it was a fair-skinned youth with narrow eyes who spoke. Afterward, he gave a mocking smile. "Oh, right, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Wang Teng, a disciple of the Wang Family."

How could Su Chen possibly not know Wang Teng?

He was Wang Bingyan's devoted pursuer. Though he and Wang Bingyan were of the same clan, their blood relation was quite distant.

Speaking of which, this man's talent was rather good. At such a young age, he had already cultivated to the Seventh Stage of the Qi-Attraction Realm. Even if he were placed in the Orthodox Unity Sect, he would count among the outstanding talents of the new generation.

Although Wang Bingyan barely gave him the time of day and had set her heart entirely on Ye Xuan, Wang Teng never tired of pursuing her.

Speaking of which, Wang Teng had contributed greatly to why Su Chen's previous life in Clear River City had been so miserable. Because Su Chen was Jiang Tingyi's cousin, Wang Bingyan compared him with Wang Teng at every turn, reducing the Su Chen of his previous life to utter worthlessness. Wang Teng was also eager to show off before the woman he loved. Whenever he had the chance, he would stomp on Su Chen a few times, unwilling to stop until he had trampled him into the mud.

Thus, in his previous life, Su Chen's most direct adversary had been Wang Teng.

"It'll do," Su Chen said lightly. To him, this food was unbearably crude. The only reason he called it passable was to give Jiang Tingyi some face.

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to Wang Teng's ears, this made him laugh on the spot. "It seems Brother Su is a man who has seen the world. But I do not understand—how could a person like you be expelled from your sect for stealing its medicinal pills?"

As soon as those words were spoken, most of the people present secretly laughed.

Jiang Tingyi said angrily, "Do not spread nonsense about something you have no evidence for."

She was beautiful, but when she became angry, she was like a mother leopard. Several people nearby who had been laughing could not help shrinking their necks when they saw her like this.

Smack—

Without concealing his mockery, Wang Teng placed a wine pot before Su Chen and said, "Little Brother Su, you are our guest, so perhaps you do not know the rule in Clear River City. Whenever someone first arrives, we locals must invite him for a drink. This pot of wine is a token of our regard. Hurry and drink it!"

Another youth chimed in, "That's right. You must drink every last drop before you can be said not to have let down our goodwill!"

Su Chen's gaze swept over the wine pot. Seeing the three words "Hundred-Day Drunk" engraved on its side, his eyes turned cold.

Naturally, he knew of Hundred-Day Drunk. It was a specialty fine wine of Clear River City. A Qi-Attraction Realm cultivator would become dead drunk after merely one small cup. If someone drank an entire pot, even an expert of the Essence Condensation Realm would be unable to withstand it and would certainly make a fool of himself on the spot.

He was currently at the Eighth Layer of Qi-Attraction Realm. If he truly drank this entire pot, forget making a fool of himself—he might even die on the spot.

"What? Little Brother Su, are you not planning to give me this face?" Wang Teng asked with a smile that was not a smile.

Su Chen said calmly, "What the hell is your face worth? If it were not for my cousin's sake, I would never have come at all."

"Ha ha ha..." Wang Teng seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world. He laughed so hard that he rocked back and forth. "You? Who do you think you are? Did we beg you to come?"

"This Brother Su." At that moment, Ye Xuan, seated in the place of honor, also spoke in a refined manner. "You have come from afar and are our guest. Wang Teng means well. It would not be good if you refused to drink."

Was that so? He meant well?

If someone did not know how potent Hundred-Day Drunk was, saying that would be understandable. But everyone here, including Ye Xuan, had grown up in Clear River City. How could they possibly not know that drinking an entire pot of Hundred-Day Drunk could kill someone?

Jiang Tingyi could no longer endure it. She looked at Ye Xuan with disappointment in her eyes. So Ye Xuan was not as perfect as she had imagined.

Jiang Tingyi rose to her feet with a swish. "We are not eating this meal. We are going home."

"Don't leave." Wang Teng smiled without smiling. "I do not mean to deliberately make things difficult for Little Brother Su. How about this? If he cannot drink an entire pot, one cup should be fine, right? If he keeps refusing and making excuses, then he will be refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit."

From his tone, it sounded as though merely asking Su Chen to drink one cup was some enormous favor.

But Su Chen knew that an ordinary Qi-Attraction Realm martial artist would become unconscious from drunkenness after even one cup. This humiliation was unavoidable.

Su Chen's eyes grew faintly cold. Seeing Wang Teng approach with the wine pot in hand, he casually picked up a wooden chopstick from the table and flung it at the wine pot in Wang Teng's hand.

Whoosh—

The next moment, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

The chopstick in Su Chen's hand shot like a sharp arrow and pierced straight through the wine pot in Wang Teng's hand!

Immediately afterward, the wine pot shattered with a crack, and the jade-like liquor spilled all over the floor.

However, to Su Chen, it did not matter how outstanding Ye Xuan was. What mattered was that he was the direct-line young master of the Ye Family in Clear River City.

There was still an old score from their previous lives between the Ye Family and Su Chen, one that had yet to be settled.

Su Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sharp glint seemed to flash through them. Yet it lasted only an instant. The next moment, his expression returned to its former stillness, like an ancient well without ripples.

After Ye Xuan spoke, the people present no longer paid attention to Su Chen.

Just then, the wine and dishes were brought to the table.

The exquisite dishes were a dazzling array. Every one was a supreme delicacy unavailable elsewhere, every one exorbitantly valuable. Complete in color, fragrance, and flavor, they resembled works of art and made one's forefinger twitch with appetite.

Once all the dishes had been served, everyone present could no longer wait. They picked up their chopsticks and began eating, praising the food without exception after tasting it.

Wang Bingyan beamed. She had begged the Wang Family Patriarch for a long time before he agreed to grant her this banquet in a Human-Class Private Room at Drunken Immortal Residence.

They were only sixteen or seventeen-year-old children, after all. Only juniors from a family like the Wang Family, whose wealth ranked among the very best in Clear River City, could afford such lavishness.

Her charming eyes shifted, and Wang Bingyan noticed Su Chen sitting to one side. To her surprise, he had remained seated with an indifferent expression from beginning to end. He had not even touched his chopsticks, much less sampled a single bite of food.

"Hey, Jiang Tingyi, why isn't your cousin eating?" Wang Bingyan sneered. Naturally, she did not think Su Chen looked down on the food. She merely assumed that he had never seen such exquisite dishes before and did not dare use his chopsticks.

Jiang Tingyi felt embarrassed. Under the table, she could not help pinching Su Chen with her little hand as she said in exasperation, "Eat already. What are you afraid of?"

In truth, it was not that Su Chen refused to eat; he simply had little appetite. Back when he was the Pill Emperor of the Pill Domain, he routinely ate rare delicacies such as true dragon meat from the Eastern Sea and ten-thousand-year snow mountain fruit. Even those had to undergo eighty-one painstaking stages of preparation before reaching his table. How could the wine and dishes of a small city tavern possibly catch his eye?

Only after hearing Jiang Tingyi tell him to eat did Su Chen unhurriedly pick up his chopsticks and taste the dish nearest to him.

"How is it, Brother Su? Do the wine and dishes of Drunken Immortal Residence suit your palate?" This time, it was a fair-skinned youth with narrow eyes who spoke. Afterward, he gave a mocking smile. "Oh, right, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Wang Teng, a disciple of the Wang Family."

How could Su Chen possibly not know Wang Teng?

He was Wang Bingyan's devoted pursuer. Though he and Wang Bingyan were of the same clan, their blood relation was quite distant.

Speaking of which, this man's talent was rather good. At such a young age, he had already cultivated to the Seventh Stage of the Qi-Attraction Realm. Even if he were placed in the Orthodox Unity Sect, he would count among the outstanding talents of the new generation.

Although Wang Bingyan barely gave him the time of day and had set her heart entirely on Ye Xuan, Wang Teng never tired of pursuing her.

Speaking of which, Wang Teng had contributed greatly to why Su Chen's previous life in Clear River City had been so miserable. Because Su Chen was Jiang Tingyi's cousin, Wang Bingyan compared him with Wang Teng at every turn, reducing the Su Chen of his previous life to utter worthlessness. Wang Teng was also eager to show off before the woman he loved. Whenever he had the chance, he would stomp on Su Chen a few times, unwilling to stop until he had trampled him into the mud.

Thus, in his previous life, Su Chen's most direct adversary had been Wang Teng.

"It'll do," Su Chen said lightly. To him, this food was unbearably crude. The only reason he called it passable was to give Jiang Tingyi some face.

However,

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to Wang Teng's ears, this made him laugh on the spot. "It seems Brother Su is a man who has seen the world. But I do not understand—how could a person like you be expelled from your sect for stealing its medicinal pills?"

As soon as those words were spoken, most of the people present secretly laughed.

Jiang Tingyi said angrily, "Do not spread nonsense about something you have no evidence for."

She was beautiful, but when she became angry, she was like a mother leopard. Several people nearby who had been laughing could not help shrinking their necks when they saw her like this.

Smack—

Without concealing his mockery, Wang Teng placed a wine pot before Su Chen and said, "Little Brother Su, you are our guest, so perhaps you do not know the rule in Clear River City. Whenever someone first arrives, we locals must invite him for a drink. This pot of wine is a token of our regard. Hurry and drink it!"

Another youth chimed in, "That's right. You must drink every last drop before you can be said not to have let down our goodwill!"

Su Chen's gaze swept over the wine pot. Seeing the three words "Hundred-Day Drunk" engraved on its side, his eyes turned cold.

Naturally, he knew of Hundred-Day Drunk. It was a specialty fine wine of Clear River City. A Qi-Attraction Realm cultivator would become dead drunk after merely one small cup. If someone drank an entire pot, even an expert of the Essence Condensation Realm would be unable to withstand it and would certainly make a fool of himself on the spot.

He was currently at the Eighth Layer of Qi-Attraction Realm. If he truly drank this entire pot, forget making a fool of himself—he might even die on the spot.

"What? Little Brother Su, are you not planning to give me this face?" Wang Teng asked with a smile that was not a smile.

Su Chen said calmly, "What the hell is your face worth? If it were not for my cousin's sake, I would never have come at all."

"Ha ha ha..." Wang Teng seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world. He laughed so hard that he rocked back and forth. "You? Who do you think you are? Did we beg you to come?"

"This Brother Su." At that moment, Ye Xuan, seated in the place of honor, also spoke in a refined manner. "You have come from afar and are our guest. Wang Teng means well. It would not be good if you refused to drink."

Was that so? He meant well?

If someone did not know how potent Hundred-Day Drunk was, saying that would be understandable. But everyone here, including Ye Xuan, had grown up in Clear River City. How could they possibly not know that drinking an entire pot of Hundred-Day Drunk could kill someone?

Jiang Tingyi could no longer endure it. She looked at Ye Xuan with disappointment in her eyes. So Ye Xuan was not as perfect as she had imagined.

Jiang Tingyi rose to her feet with a swish. "We are not eating this meal. We are going home."

"Don't leave." Wang Teng smiled without smiling. "I do not mean to deliberately make things difficult for Little Brother Su. How about this? If he cannot drink an entire pot, one cup should be fine, right? If he keeps refusing and making excuses, then he will be refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit."

From his tone, it sounded as though merely asking Su Chen to drink one cup was some enormous favor.

But Su Chen knew that an ordinary Qi-Attraction Realm martial artist would become unconscious from drunkenness after even one cup. This humiliation was unavoidable.

Su Chen's eyes grew faintly cold. Seeing Wang Teng approach with the wine pot in hand, he casually picked up a wooden chopstick from the table and flung it at the wine pot in Wang Teng's hand.

Whoosh—

The next moment, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

The chopstick in Su Chen's hand shot like a sharp arrow and pierced straight through the wine pot in Wang Teng's hand!

Immediately afterward, the wine pot shattered with a crack, and the jade-like liquor spilled all over the floor.