Hai Hongzi drank a cup of spirit wine along with the others and felt a surge of pure, fire-aspected Primordial Qi abruptly rise from his belly, shooting straight to his head. Overjoyed, Hai Hongzi did not dare delay. Before he could even sit cross-legged, he immediately circulated his cultivation art and refined that fire-aspected Primordial Qi. At his level of cultivation, ordinary spirit wine could only serve as amusement. He had never expected the Li Fire spirit wine to possess such effects.
"Tut, tut..." After a moment, another Nascent Soul cultivator sighed much as Hai Hongzi had. "Fellow Daoist Huode, this humble Daoist had long heard of the effects of Li Fire spirit wine, yet never had the chance to taste it. Who would have thought I would encounter it here on Yaotai Mountain? To think that you would let us drink such spirit wine... Alas, such lavish generosity... On the Cangxian Continent, I fear only True Lord Huode could manage it."
Xiao Hua remained quietly where he stood, feeling no embarrassment whatsoever. He watched the speaking cultivator with interest. The man's expression truly seemed full of emotion, without the fawning flattery Xiao Hua had imagined. Looking around again, he saw some cultivators casually pick up a second cup of wine; some raised their cups toward True Lord Huode in greeting, while others drained their cups in one gulp, paying True Lord Huode no heed at all. Thinking back to Chang Yu and the others drinking wine and eating fruit in his palace earlier, Xiao Hua began to understand. The circumstances of Daoist sect cultivators beneath the Confucian cultivators truly were difficult!
"Fellow Daoist Xuanpu, your words are far too exaggerated!" True Lord Huode said with a smile. "This old man is merely at upper-grade fourth-rank Yuan force. Above me