After returning to his courtyard, Li Yu took a rare night off from cultivation.
He picked up a wine flask and began trying to imbue it with spirit-storage restrictions.
Without having taken the practical courses at the Purple Origin Palace, however, he failed to succeed on his first attempt as he had with setting up formations.
Soon, after a flicker of spiritual light, the wine flask in Li Yu's hand twisted out of shape and became unusable.
Li Yu felt a little regretful. Why hadn't he taken another ten flasks of wine to go?
But he soon remembered that the Setting Sun Terrace sold over a hundred flasks of spirit wine every day. Even if they recycled the empty flasks, Manager Hao would probably oblige him if he asked for a few.
Unwilling to waste the purple qi in the Essence-Gathering Spirit-Storage Formation, Li Yu immediately got up and headed to the Setting Sun Terrace again.
"Cai'er, bring a basket of wine flasks from the back courtyard." After hearing Li Yu's request, Manager Hao breathed a sigh of relief and told the Woman in the Colorful Skirt to fetch them. At first, he had thought Li Yu wanted another ten flasks of wine charged to Zhao Qian's account.
"Let me handle the heavy lifting." Li Yu hurried after the Woman in the Colorful Skirt into the back courtyard. Seeing several baskets of empty wine flasks stacked together, he promptly swept them all into his Storage Bag.
The Woman in the Colorful Skirt hesitated, wanting to say something, but considering Li Yu's current status, she let him do as he pleased.
Over the course of the night, Li Yu ruined twenty-three empty wine flasks before finally succeeding in imbuing one with the spirit-storage restrictions.
He named this lucky wine flask the