Chapter 1459: My Life Had Three Disciples
Though the man in the Plum Blossom Forest was not a Great Sage,
he surpassed even Great Sages.
Xu Zimo estimated that many Great Sages could not attain his realm, openly merging with the Heavenly Dao.
This was Acting on behalf of Heaven.
Xu Zimo smiled at him, raised the wine jug in his hand, and drank with equal abandon.
As the wine entered his throat, it was first a fierce surge,
like a bomb exploding in his throat.
Yet the fierce liquor soon dissipated, leaving behind a faint fragrance that lingered endlessly in the memory.
Xu Zimo sighed with emotion.
After finishing an entire jug, he asked, "Is there any more?"
"Is it good?" the man in the Plum Blossom Forest asked with a smile.
"It isn't good, but I still want to drink it," Xu Zimo replied.
The man in the Plum Blossom Forest burst into laughter, and the sound shook the plum blossoms throughout the entire forest until they seethed and fell.
"To put it plainly, this wine is worthless.
It was originally fragrant wine, bland as water," the man replied.
"But I added fierceness to it.
After that burst of fierceness, when you taste its fragrance again, it becomes endlessly memorable, with a flavor all its own."
"It was clearly the same wine. Merely by adding fierceness to the opening, it became good wine."
As the man spoke, his laughter gradually settled.
"This wine is like life.
If your road is smooth all the way, you instead feel that it is nothing special.
But if the road ahead is covered in thorns, and after you cross those thorns, you are given a smooth road again,
you will instead feel that the ordinary is the true essence."
Listening to him,