At first, the wine's fragrance rose quietly from the depths of Golden Ao Island like a faint, elusive wisp of smoke.
But in just a few breaths, it became a raging tide that swept across the nine heavens!
Overpowering!
Overpowering to the utmost!
It did not merely slip into their nostrils. It seeped through every opening, branding itself directly onto the primordial spirits of every living being!
Throughout the vast Interception Sect, countless disciples meditating in quiet cultivation suddenly blanched.
Those with weaker cultivation felt their divine senses falter. Visions of Heaven and Earth's first opening and the Great Dao's evolution appeared before their eyes, leaving their minds reeling beyond their control.
Thud!
Some disciples lost their hold on their Dao hearts and toppled straight off their cushions. Their faces were intoxicated, their mouths murmuring as they sank into deep states of Dao comprehension.
But this was no blessing. It was a forced infusion!
If they succumbed to it, their primordial spirits would be injured at best; at worst, they would dissolve into the Dao on the spot!
"Focus your minds! Calm your hearts!"
Daoist Duobao bellowed, his voice booming like a great bell, rousing many disciples from that perilous state.
But his own condition was hardly reassuring.
He had to circulate his magic power with all his strength to resist the fragrance's intrusion. Even so, the magic power within him stirred restlessly, almost bursting out of his body!
"This... what in the world is this?!"
Zhao Gongming braced himself against a stone railing, his face filled with horror.
Merely smelling the drifting fragrance gave even him, a peak Daluo Golden Immortal, the illusion that his foundation was unstable and his Great Dao was about to leave his body!
The Three Xiao Fairies likewise paled. Only by setting up a