Cows Naturally Like to Boast

Then, the two of them saw a blue-robed youth and a golden bull sitting beside a bonfire.

Behind the blue-robed youth stood four burly middle-aged men.

At the sight of the golden bull, the old man was visibly taken aback. Then, both their gazes fell on Lu Yiping.

The old man, He Shao, cupped his fists toward Lu Yiping. "We were passing by and had intended to enter the valley to take shelter for the night. We did not mean to disturb you all."

Lu Yiping smiled. "It's no matter. Sit." He pointed across the bonfire. "We were bored drinking anyway."

He Shao smiled. "Then this old man shall not stand on ceremony." He and the woman then sat down across the bonfire.

Lu Yiping tossed two jars of wine over and said, "I brewed this wine when I had nothing better to do. Though it contains no precious ingredients, it tastes rather good."

He Shao opened a jar and sniffed it. Proficient in medicinal principles, he was not afraid that there was anything wrong with the wine. Smiling, he said, "Then I must thank you, little brother." He took a large gulp.

As soon as the wine entered his body, it surged up like a fire dragon.

Yet it also carried an indescribably icy freshness.

He Shao felt an unspeakable comfort spread throughout his body.

Startled, he took another gulp and carefully savored it.

"Little brother, was this wine brewed with Ice Flame Fruit?" he asked impatiently.

"Ice Flame Fruit!" Yu Xin exclaimed in surprise.

Their Medicine King Hall also possessed Ice Flame Fruit—two of them—but they were kept in the deepest part of the treasure vault. Even when refining god-grade spirit pills, the Medicine King Hall could not bear to use Ice Flame Fruit.

Yet the ingredients used to brew this wine actually included Ice Flame Fruit?

Seeing the astonished expressions of He Shao and Yu Xin, Lu Yiping smiled. "There is Ice Flame Fruit in it."

Ice Flame Fruit?

This wine of his had been brewed with a total of one hundred ingredients.

Ice Flame Fruit was among the most ordinary of them.

Hearing Lu Yiping confirm that the wine truly contained Ice Flame Fruit, He Shao and Yu Xin were deeply shaken.

He Shao suddenly and carefully put the lid, which he had just removed, back onto the wine jar.

He smiled awkwardly at Lu Yiping. "Little brother, your wine is too precious. I would like to save it and slowly drink it when I return."

Lu Yiping chuckled.

Dragon Horn Golden Ox said to He Shao, "Kid, stop calling my master 'little brother' all the time. My master is much older than you."

He Shao froze.

Yu Xin laughed at those words. "Your master is older than my master? The wine my master has drunk could fill the Heavenly God River."

The Heavenly God River was a legendary river of the Hengyuan Plane. It stretched without end, crossing several continents.

Dragon Horn Golden Ox widened his eyes and was about to speak again, but Lu Yiping shook his head and stopped him with a look. Only then did Dragon Horn Golden Ox let it go.

"But honestly, I've never seen a golden bull before." Yu Xin looked Dragon Horn Golden Ox up and down.

Dragon Horn Golden Ox put on a solemn expression. "I am the only Dragon Horn Golden Ox in heaven and earth."

"I am the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons!"

"The Ancestor of Thunder Gods!"

"The Emperor of the Dragon Clan."

Yu Xin looked at the golden bull solemnly introducing himself and burst out laughing.

A bull was the Ancestor of Thunder Gods? And the Emperor of the Dragon Clan?

He Shao smiled as well.

Lu Yiping said to them, "This bull of mine has always loved boasting. Don't listen to his nonsense."

Yu Xin covered her mouth and smiled. "Cows naturally like to boast."

Dragon Horn Golden Ox's face turned green.

The three people and one bull drank wine, ate roasted meat, and chatted idly.

Before they knew it,

the night had passed.

Daylight had fully broken.

There were far fewer Death Spirits and corpses outside.

He Shao rose to his feet and said to Lu Yiping, "We still have matters to attend to, so we shall take our leave. I am deeply grateful to Young Master Lu for the wine." After thinking for a moment, he took out a book from his robes and said, "This book records some of my insights into medicinal principles. Please accept it, Young Master Lu."

Yu Xin was stunned. This book was her master's labor of the heart, yet he was giving it to Lu Yiping?

Lu Yiping glanced at the book in He Shao's hand, then smiled. "No need. There are many books on medicinal principles in my library."

Back then, he possessed nearly all the secret manuals of the Medicine God Valley.

From Wu Mo's memories, he had learned that the Medicine King Hall had actually been founded by an outer sect disciple of the Medicine God Valley.

Seeing that Lu Yiping would not accept it, He Shao paused briefly, then smiled. "Since that is the case, if Young Master Lu has time in the future, remember to visit me at the Medicine King Hall. He Shao will certainly treat you with fine wine!"

Lu Yiping nodded.

Soon after, He Shao and Yu Xin bade farewell and left.

After He Shao and Yu Xin departed, Lu Yiping also rose and left the mountain valley with Dragon Horn Golden Ox and the others. It had not been many years since the gray-haired elder Wu Mo set up the Soul Locking Purgatory Great Array, yet the death qi of the Battlefield of the Gods had gathered for many years without dispersing. Clearly, it was not caused by Wu Mo's Soul Locking Purgatory Great Array.

Therefore, Lu Yiping still had to discover the true cause and search for Yang Dong's whereabouts.

After He Shao and Yu Xin left, He Shao suddenly asked, "Yu Xin, what do you think of that Lu Yiping?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yiping's figure involuntarily surfaced in Yu Xin's mind. After pondering for a moment, she said, "He is like the deep night sky, impossible to see through."

She then added, "And he is incredibly knowledgeable, as though he knows everything!"

"Also, those four guards are truly strange. The flesh and blood on their bodies seemed to have only just grown back."

He Shao nodded, his eyes flickering as he pondered something unknown.

While He Shao and Yu Xin searched for the Phoenix Divine Tree, Lu Yiping and the others arrived before a forest.

This was the famed Black Prison Forest of the Battlefield of the Gods. Towering ancient trees thrust straight into the sky, every one of them black. A black mist permeated the entire forest, dark as blood.

Lu Yiping remembered that the Lord of All Gods had fallen here back then.

Zhang Jin and the other three cleared the way ahead as the War Chariot slowly entered the Black Prison Forest.

However, not long after they entered the Black Prison Forest, they heard a beast's roar.

The sound was immense, like rolling heavenly thunder, booming without end.

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