An Acquaintance

"The wine needs seven days to mature. We'll wait here!"

The Imperial Lord poured the distilled fruit wine into a precious jade bottle and gave it a shake, then placed it on the wine rack.

"Won't someone come to check if we wait here that long?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"There's nobody in this place. If you don't believe me, go outside and take a couple of steps," the Imperial Lord replied casually.

"Then I'll go outside and take a couple of steps!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded, then sneaked out of the winery.

A world wreathed in clouds and mist greeted him.

Looking down at what lay beneath him, like an abyss, then at the splendid peach blossoms in the distance, Zhang Xuezhou felt he was still going around in circles inside the Kunlun Ruins' formations.

"I really can only take a couple of steps!"

After taking two steps out of the winery, Zhang Xuezhou didn't dare put his foot forward again.

Although he knew the master of the secret realm was in the winery and would most likely still need him to compare their winemaking, Zhang Xuezhou didn't dare gamble on the consequences of taking that next step.

"I wonder where the Buddhist Son went!"

Zhang Xuezhou gazed at the distant peach grove.

He had a faint impression of a dark figure passing through the peach grove beyond the clouds and mist, but when he looked again, it was gone.

He shook his head hard.

As far as he was concerned, either he had been seeing things, or the other party had been moving so fast that his eyes could barely catch them.

"A place like this really is dangerous. I'd better stay close to the master of the secret realm and do my best to get him to send me