Chapter 083: The Covenant on the Mountainside
Through a lot of practice in these three months, Huang Hua has barely reached the level of a junior alchemist, not only learned the refining methods of several pills, but even the "Spirit Feeding Pill" of the Thousand Gu Sect has been refined a lot, so after a little success in alchemy and collecting enough spiritual liquid, Huang Hua began to pester Zou Shuniang to teach himself to brew spirit wine.
This brewing is actually roughly the same as alchemy, and it also needs to be purified and synthesized with Dan furnace fire first, but the last step does not need to be concentrated into Dan, but the water of the spiritual spring is added for catalytic fermentation, and it can be drunk directly after a period of time.
This kind of spirit wine has one of the biggest benefits, that is, it can disperse the medicinal effect, a pot of spirit wine is equivalent to a pill, but the pill must be immediately refined, otherwise it will explode and hurt the body, and the spirit wine is different, as long as you don't drink the spirit wine in one sip but only drink a small sip each time, its medicinal properties not only do not need to be refined to slowly absorb through the body, but also allow people to enjoy the hallucinogenic effect of the spirit wine.
However, although Zou Shuniang taught Huang Hua a method of refining spirit wine, the spirit wine brewed according to this wine recipe has almost no wine strength, and it can only be regarded as a drink at most, and Zou Shuniang has another high-grade spirit secret recipe, but she refuses to teach it.
"I said Zou Xiaomei, I even gave you the unique secret recipe of the Thousand Gu Sect, why don't you tell me? If this wine doesn't have the strength of wine, how can it be called wine, I haven't drunk wine since I practiced, do I know how much I want to drink?", Huang Hua said the truth, once the wine enters the body, it will refine itself, there is no alcohol strength at all, he really wants to get drunk once.
"Brother Huang, I only said that I would teach you to make wine, but I didn't say that I would also teach you the secret recipe of our Qingyun Sect's winemaking, right? Don't force me anymore, this will not work", Zou Shuniang was very unhappy when she was forced by Huang Hua, although she believed that Huang Hua would not spread it, but after all, this is a matter related to the entire Qingyun Sect, in case this secret recipe is really going to be revealed, she can't afford this responsibility.
"I said Zou Xiaomei, why are you so difficult to speak? I just want to make some wine and drink, what do you have to worry about? We have been through so much together, and I can't get out, I really don't know what you're worried about? Are you still guarding against me?" Huang Hua saw that he had said both soft and hard for a long time, Zou Shuniang just didn't agree, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed.
"What do you mean to guard against you? Yes, we have experienced so much together, I not only let you live in my cave, not only accompany you to collect medicine every day, but also teach you alchemy hand in hand, I actually said that I am guarding against you, I really didn't expect it, it turns out that I am such a person in your heart", Zou Shuniang heard Huang Hua say this to herself, and couldn't help but start to be angry.
"Aren't you guarding against me? Aren't you just afraid that I will leak this wine recipe? I can tell you clearly, I can't get out, I can only stay in this spiritual mountain for the rest of my life, I don't need to use your spiritual wine to improve my mana, it's just that the years are long, lonely and lonely, I only hope that after you leave, I can still have strong wine to accompany me for the rest of my life, is my little request too much?", as he spoke, Huang Hua suddenly aroused a hidden pain in his heart.
"Hmph, you don't need to say it, although you are only in the middle of the term, sooner or later you will get married, it's only a matter of time before you go out, you don't have to think about it anymore, I won't teach you anyway", Zou Shuniang didn't know the inside story, but still insisted.
"Okay, even if you are ruthless, since the words have come to this, then there is no need for me to stay here anymore, thank you for teaching me alchemy, we are now clear, then Zou Daoyou take care and say goodbye", Huang Hua finished speaking, and left Zou Shuniang's cave without looking back, and flew away with a flying magic weapon.
"You...... , you get out", Zou Shuniang scolded at Huang Hua's distant back, tears flowed out instantly, she never expected that Huang Hua would turn her face with herself for a spirit wine formula, her heart was very painful.
returned to his cave mansion, Huang Hua lay on the bed and turned over and over again, thinking about whether his requirements were too much, or whether Zou Shuniang was too selfish, groggy and confused, Huang Hua fell asleep.
For the next month or so, Huang Hua didn't think about this problem anymore, he had already figured it out, Zou Shuniang had never promised to give him the secret recipe for brewing, and he was a person with a cultivation partner, and he was going to marry Dan out of the mountain soon, all of this was just his own wishful thinking, it was just his own passion, so Huang Hua decided to forget about Zou Shuniang.
Zou Shuniang didn't come to Huang Hua again, maybe she was still angry, maybe she had already left with Dan.
Everything went back to the past, Huang Hua still went to the lake alone every day to cultivate, and occasionally went out to collect ordinary elixirs, although he couldn't cultivate the Dan, and he didn't have the Earth Fire and Dan Furnace Alchemy, but the problem was that he had nothing else to do.
One evening a month later, Huang Hua returned from collecting medicine from the nearby mountains, and as soon as he arrived at the lake, he felt that there was a spiritual breath coming from his cave, and that spiritual breath was very familiar to Huang Hua, because it was Zou Shuniang.
Huang Hua was a little inexplicably excited and a little apprehensive, so he quickly returned to his cave.
Zou Shuniang was sitting cross-legged on Huang Hua's big bed and closed her eyes to breathe, there were five porcelain bottles with Zhenling talismans in front of her, and found that Huang Hua had returned to the cave, Zou Shuniang opened her eyes and smiled faintly at Huang Hua.
"I take the liberty to visit, and I hope that Brother Huang is not strange, the little sister has reached the critical point of the knot, and she will retreat tomorrow, and I don't know if I will be able to meet again in the future, so I came to say goodbye, this is the high spirit wine that the little sister has just brewed, and I hope to smile when I give it to my brother", Zou Shu smiled faintly after speaking.
It was also a charming smile, but Huang Hua's mood was unusually low, although he had long known that there would be this day, but now when he really came, he didn't expect it to be so sentimental.
"Thank you little sister, then I will congratulate you first, yes, we have been in the mountains for more than two years, you should go back, otherwise someone will have to worry, okay, then I will borrow flowers to offer Buddha, and use your newly brewed liquor to make a trip for my little sister", Huang Hua finished speaking, and then strode into the big bed, and came to Zou Shuniang to sit cross-legged opposite him.
"Well, then thank you Brother Huang, these pots of high spirit wine are made according to the secret recipe of our Qingyun Sect, but due to the lack of a few elixirs, I used other materials instead, so the medicinal power of this spirit wine is only half of the original recipe, but the wine is enough", Zou Shuniang smiled faintly again.
"Just enough alcohol, what I want is the hallucinogenic effect of alcohol, I really haven't been drunk for a long time, come on, come on, I'll toast you first", Huang Hua waved his hand, summoned the two bone cups placed on the square table to the front, and then opened a porcelain bottle in front of him, poured a glass and handed it to Zou Shuniang, and then poured a glass for himself.
"Thank you Brother Huang", Zou Shuniang raised her glass and took a sip, but Huang Hua saw the bottom of the cup in one sip.
The spirit wine is very fragrant, the taste of wine is very strong, Huang Hua took a bite of it, and felt that there was a spicy wine smell rising from his stomach to his throat.
"Cool, wow, it's so cool, it's really good wine", Huang Hua finally felt the taste of the spirits again, and was very happy.
"Brother Huang, this kind of wine should be drunk less every time, so that the body can slowly absorb the medicinal power in order to enjoy the hallucinogenic effect brought by the wine, otherwise it is easy to explode blood", Zou Shuniang raised the cup and frowned.
"Oh, and this kind of exquisiteness?Well, okay, I'll drink it slowly", Huang Hua also felt the surging medicinal power in his body, so he hurriedly secretly exercised his skills to refine, and after a while, the medicinal properties in his body began to slowly calm down.
"Hehehe, don't worry, drink slowly", Zou Shuniang raised her glass and took a sip, it seems that she hasn't drunk for a long time.
"Little sister, don't blame me, I was too impulsive that day, I'm sorry", Huang Hua raised his glass and took a sip and took the initiative to admit his mistake.
"Hehe, it's over, let's not talk about this, let's drink a bar", Zou Shuniang took another sip after speaking.
Time passed slowly in an awkward atmosphere, and the two of them were polite without a word, and they were both drinking the stuffy wine by themselves, maybe there were some things that everyone didn't want to say, maybe the wine was not enough.
"I have a senior brother named Wan Lei, he and I were childhood sweethearts before I practiced, he was very good to me, since the beginning of the world, he has always cared about me, taken care of me and protected me, until later we were accepted as disciples by the Huang Gang Master of the Qingyun Sect", Zou Shuniang drank and drank, suddenly turned her head to look at the night of the small lake outside the cave, and began to tell her past.
"Senior Brother Wan's parents and my parents are fellow villagers, we grew up together, when I was fifteen years old, the Huang Gang Leader of the Qingyun Sect passed by our hometown and found that Wan Lei was an earth-attribute Heavenly Spirit Root, and I was a wood-earth dual-attribute True Spirit Root, so he wanted to accept us as disciples, but my parents disagreed, so the Huang Gang Master gave me an exercise to let me practice in the world first and took Wan Lei away."
Zou Shuniang said and spoke, her thoughts seemed to return to the past, on her reddened delicate face, her eyes began to be a little confused, but Huang Hua did not interject, just quietly listened to Zou Shuniang's narration.
"Many years later, my parents passed away due to illness, I became an orphan, the Huang Gang leader took me to the Qingyun faction, and I also saw Wan Lei again, he had already built the foundation at that time", Zou Shuniang swept her hair and continued.
"Wan Lei was very happy to see me, and I was also very happy, but it didn't take long for me to find that his eyes on me had changed, he no longer looked like my big brother, and there were more other things in his eyes when he looked at me", Zou Shuniang still calmly looked outside the cave and slowly narrated.