The reason

"How did you get in here?"

The door to the winery was pushed open, revealing Hongku.

He looked at Zhang Xuezhou in the winery several times before finally confirming that the swaying figure before him was not an illusion produced by the formation.

He pushed the winery door open and slipped inside.

Venerable Lei followed Hongku in, his face bruised and swollen.

"This wine is really potent. I'm drunk!"

Zhang Xuezhou stared at Hongku for several seconds, then went limp and collapsed.

"Stop playing unconscious!"

But Hongku saw through his little trick at once and lifted him bodily off the ground.

"How did you get in here? Is this place safe?"

Hongku grabbed Zhang Xuezhou and sniffed, immediately catching the smell of wine on his breath.

When he saw the glass cup in Zhang Xuezhou's hand, Hongku couldn't help drawing a sharp breath.

"You're actually brewing a great medicine to drink in the Kunlun Sacred Land?"

Hongku had seen plenty of gentlemen on the rafters, but rarely one like Zhang Xuezhou, who not only ate other people's things but also holed up in their home to brew medicine.

Normally, when people snuck into some secret place, they grabbed what they could and ran, then did as they pleased once they were back on their own turf.

But Zhang Xuezhou was plainly different. He had picked who knew how many great medicines and come here to brew them.

Judging by how drunk he looked, he had drunk quite a bit.

"I think I smell Bitter Apricot," Venerable Lei said, sniffing. "Don't be fooled by the bitter in its name. The fruit is actually outrageously sweet, so sweet it turns bitter."

"I've heard of that fruit. I hear it's the finest of sweet fruits," Hongku said with a nod.

"There's also Silver