The second floor of this shop looked somewhat spacious and empty. Aside from several paintings hanging on the walls and spiritual herbs scattered here and there as embellishments, there was little else. Yet the arrangement had clearly been painstakingly designed. Though Xiao Hua did not understand it, he could still sense a trace of elegance. It was much more comfortable than the purely commercial atmosphere of the first floor.
After the shop assistant served some spirit fruits, he invited Xiao Hua and Xue Xue to sit in the few chairs on the second floor, then headed straight up the stairs to the third floor.
Xiao Hua picked up a spirit fruit and put it into his mouth, gently biting through its skin. A stream of juice rich with the scent of wine flowed down his throat, followed at once by a drunken sensation rushing into his mind. Xiao Hua had never liked the taste of wine, much less this sort of drunken feeling. He had not expected the spirit fruit to be like this, and he frowned tightly, immediately trying to mobilize true qi to drive away the unpleasant sensation!
Beside him, Xue Xue watched with great interest. She had picked up the same kind of spirit fruit, but had not put it into her mouth. Seeing Xiao Hua frown and a faint flush rise to his face, she said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Xiao, this is a Mind-Intoxicating Fruit, precisely the favorite of male cultivators. You had better not use True Qi to regulate your breathing, or the feeling of intoxication will be greatly diminished..."
"The feeling of intoxication..." Xiao Hua felt waves of faint dizziness in his mind and could not help smiling bitterly to himself. What was there to enjoy about this feeling...?
Still, the dizziness