After Hai Hongzi drank a cup of spirit wine with the others, he felt a surge of pure fire-aspected Primordial Qi suddenly arise in his belly and shoot straight up to his head. Hai Hongzi was overjoyed. Not daring to delay, he circulated his cultivation method before even sitting cross-legged, refining the fire-aspected Primordial Qi. At his level of cultivation, ordinary spirit wine could only serve as amusement. He had never expected Li Fire spirit wine to possess such an effect.
"Tut, tut..." After a moment, another Nascent Soul cultivator sighed much as Hai Hongzi had. "Fellow Daoist Huode, I had long heard of the effects of Li Fire spirit wine, but I never had the chance to taste it. Who would have thought I would encounter it on Yaotai Mountain? To think that Fellow Daoist would let us drink such spirit wine... Ah, such lavish generosity... On the Cangxian Continent, I fear only True Lord Huode could manage it."
Xiao Hua still stood quietly where he was, without feeling the least bit awkward. He looked at the speaking cultivator with interest. The man's expression indeed seemed deeply moved, without the fawning flattery Xiao Hua had imagined. Looking around again, he saw some cultivators casually take up a second cup of wine; some raised their cups toward True Lord Huode, while others drained theirs in one gulp, utterly ignoring him. Recalling Chang Yu and the others drinking wine and eating fruit in his palace earlier, Xiao Hua gained some understanding. The situation of Daoist sect cultivators under the Confucian cultivators was truly difficult!
"Fellow Daoist Xuanpu, your words are too exaggerated!" True Lord Huode said with a smile. "I am merely at upper-grade fourth-rank Yuan force. There are still many Daoist sect seniors above me, and they are far more