"Still want to fight?" Huang Xiao let out a breath and asked the fat man ten paces away.
"Phew..." The fat man also let out a long breath and waved his hand. "No more, no more. I didn't expect you to be so formidable, kid. Lasting this long against yours truly takes some skill."
"The same goes for you!" Huang Xiao said with a smile.
The fat man reached back and took down his large wine gourd. Pulling out the stopper, he poured a great mouthful of wine into his mouth, then held the gourd out toward Huang Xiao. "Want a swig?"
"Sure!" Huang Xiao nodded and caught the large wine gourd the fat man tossed over, then poured a great mouthful into his mouth just as the fat man had.
"Cough, cough, cough..." The wine sent Huang Xiao into a fit of coughing the moment it entered his mouth, and he tossed the large wine gourd back.
"Ha ha!" Seeing Huang Xiao's bedraggled state, the fat man caught the gourd and burst into belly-shaking laughter. "My wine isn't so easy to drink. You'll find few wines this fierce anywhere under heaven."
After coughing a few times, Huang Xiao recovered. He thought that the wine certainly packed a punch. It was countless times more overpowering than the strongest wine he had ever drunk. The fat man's claim that few wines under heaven could match it was no empty boast.
"But I admire your nerve, too. Weren't you afraid the wine might be poisoned?" the fat man asked.
"Don't forget, I'm a disciple of Poison God Valley," Huang Xiao said with a faint smile.
Naturally, Huang Xiao would not drink someone else's wine casually. But his exchange with this fat man had been purely a spar, so he could sense that