Chapter 44: Monkey Wine, not yielding the opportunity of the Liquor worm
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On the second day in the afternoon during lunch break, Fang Yuan went to the shopping district outside
the mountain vige again.
As many of them had to work in the day, there was not many vigers at the tentage area.
Fang Yuan walked to the area where the vendor was selling Intimate Grassst night, ording to his
memory. He reached only to see an empty cart, still on the spot. An ostrich was dragging the cart
along.
It stood on the spot proudly, its body size asrge as an ostrich while having the appearance of a
chicken, the back of the creature bulged into a curved angle. A pair of wide wings were collected on the
side of its body, the feathers splendidly bright in seven colours. The chicken head was raised tall, its
huge red cockb like an agate crown, shing with the luster of a gem under the sunlight.
“It seems I was still toote, the Intimate Grass was sold out. What a pity, if I were able to buy a few
catty of Intimate Grass, I’d be able to save quite a bit of primeval stones.” Fang Yuan’s footsteps came
to a halt as he walked away and continued to venture deeper into the area.
“Come, have a taste of the delicious wine from all the different viges. There are more than a hundred
types of wine here, like the Lantern Grass Wine, the Nine Tune Wine with a strong aftertaste, the light
and elegant Ancient Dragon Well, the sweet and sour Flower Rock Tune, the mouth-watering Hundred
Spring Old Cer, the rich and heavy fragrant Intoxication of Three Autumns……” In front of a blue
round bucket before the tent, a shop assistant was hawking with gusto.
A light shed through Fang Yuan’s gaze as he immediately grew interested. With a turn, he entered
the wine shop.
The decor in the wine shop was very unique.
At the most inner part of the tent, there was a long counter. A Gu Master was stationed there, with tens
of crystaldybugs around the size of wicker-baskets behind him, sticking onto the tent’s cloth walls.
On the floor there was no carpet, but rather the uncovered mountain rocks and soil. Among the soil,
vibrant coloured mushrooms grew.
These mushrooms had all sorts of colours, looking round and slightly cute. Some were asrge as
tables, while others were short like benches. They were often distributed where arge table
mushroom was surrounded by a few shorter bench mushrooms.
“This is the Innocent Mushroom, purposely grown by a Gu Master. It has the ability to absorb dust and
particles in the air to purify it, and it’s a type of grass Gu.” Fang Yuan could recognise the mushroom’s
origins immediately upon seeing them.
He chose one of the short mushrooms and sat down. The mushroom’s surface immediately sank down
a little, making Fang Yuan feel like he was sitting on a sofa like those on Earth.
“Young master, this is the wine catalogue, would you like to take a look?” A shop assistant walked over.
Fang Yuan nced at the wine catalogue and realised that the wine here was more expensive than the
green bamboo wine.
“I’ll have a cup of monkey wine.” Fang Yuan put down the catalogue.
“A cup of monkey wine!” The shop assistant turned around and shouted.
At the counter, the Rank one Gu Master heard and immediately bent down to take out a bamboo wine
cup.
Next he took the wine cup and turned around, facing the tentage. On the blue tent walls were the tens
of crystaldybugs, head facing downwards and tail facing upwards, quietlytched onto the walls as if
they were merely decorations for the tent.
These crystaldybugs were also a type of Gu. Its stomach was empty, as they were often used by Gu
Masters to carry precious liquids.
Their bodies were transparent, as if they were made of crystals. From the outside, one could see that
within thedybug’s stomach, different kinds of liquor could be found.
The Gu Master quickly found the crystaldybug that contained the monkey wine among them.
He ced the bamboo wine cup at the mouthpiece of thedybug, and gently stroked the exoskeleton
of thedybug with his other hand.
A small amount of primeval essence entered the crystaldybug’s body, and afterwards it opened its
mouth and a gush of liquor flowed into the bamboo wine cup.
The liquor sttered around in the cup until it was full.
The Gu Master ced the bamboo wine cup which was filled with monkey wine on the counter. The
shop assistant who had already been waiting for a while quickly held up the cup meticulously and
walked a few steps to deliver it to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan only took a tiny sip, the monkey wine was indeed a fruit liquor, being sweet and refreshing
and delicate on the pte.
He stopped drinking, but instead with a thought, Fang Yuan summoned the Liquor worm.
The white and fat liquor worm turned into a sh of white light and curved an arc in the air. With a
‘plop’, itnded in the wine cup.
The wine sttered everywhere, sprinkling onto the mushroom table.
The Liquor worm joyfully beat about in the wine cup, and the monkey wine could be seen decreasing
with the naked eye. In a few breaths time, the cup had dried out, with not a single drop left.
“It’s the Liquor worm!” The Gu Master at the counter shouted, his eyes sparkling. He was a Rank one
Gu Master with Grade D talent, only able to follow the merchant caravan and work in this wine shop.
His objective was to sightsee while finding his chances.
The Liquor worm can refine primeval essence and raise it by an entire realm. To a Rank one Gu
Master, it can be said to be an extremely precious Gu worm. Isn’t this the chance he’s been
painstakingly searching for?
“This young master, do you have any ns to sell this Liquor worm?” He excitedly approached, a look
of sincerity in his eyes.
Fang Yuan shook his head, rejecting him with a determined attitude, getting up to leave after that.
His motive this time was to reveal the Liquor worm in his possession; he had never thought of selling it.
“Young master, young master, please hold on. I am really sincere about this, maybe we can sit down
and have a discussion.” The Gu master reluctantly followed Fang Yuan to the tentage entrance but
Fang Yuan did not show any response to him.
In the end he could only stand on the spot, his expression extremely regretful as he watched Fang
Yuan’s rear view turn around a corner and disappear into the midst of the horizon.
……
Unconsciously, the sun gradually set as the crescent moon took its ce.
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In the night, the moonlight shone brightly but was overpowered by the numerous street lights in the
merchant shops.
The merchant shop tonight was swarming with business. Fang Yuan was squeezed left and right as he
entered, hearing all sorts of conversations inadvertently.
“The stores normally open for three days and three nights. Tonight is already the second night, by the
morning of the day after, the merchant caravan would have left on their journey already. Thus, we have
to hurry if we want to buy anything.”
“I saw a Golden Bell Gu yesterday, sigh, too bad it was too expensive. After haggling with the
shopkeeper for a long time, it did not get any cheaper. I’ll go and take a look tonight.”
“Did you guys hear? Last night, a young man opened a Mudskin Toad and earned a profit of five
hundred primeval stones!”
……
Fang Yuan listened attentively, feeling disappointment in his heart as he did not hear anything about
the Liquor worm.
“The Liquor worm is only a Rank one Gu worm but it is extremely meaningful to a rank 1 Gu Master, yet
it’s useless to a Rank two or Rank three Gu Master as they are unable to refine their primeval essence
any further with it. Thus it is normal that no one paid attention to this. However taking the initiative to
expose the matter of the Liquor worm cannot be rushed for a period of time. If I overdo it, it might end
up letting the cat out of the bag.” As Fang Yuan walked, he pondered silently in his heart.
At this point, there was a hustle in front of him.
Next, Fang Yuan heard someone shout, “Quicklye and see, there’s a dishonest merchant here
selling fake Gu to our nsmen!”
Anger stirred among the crowd.
“Oh? There’s something like that happening.”
“Go and see quickly, which shop dares to cheat our nsmen!”
Fang Yuan followed the crowd and moved towards themotion as well.
What met his eyes were a group of people surrounding the mouth of arge red tent, the massive
crowd swarming it. Some were curiously watching while others stared coldly, but most of the people
were enshrouded with a sense of anger.
Outside the tent stood two people.
One of them was a young Rank two Gu Master, whose attire showed that he was obviously from the
Gu Yue n.
The other person had a familiar face – it was the owner of the gambling den, Jia Jin Sheng.
The young Gu Master held a ck Gu worm in his hands, raising it up and shouting to the crowd, “My
nsmen, this person in front of me sold me a fake Gu yesterday. Lying to me that it was a ck Boar
Gu, and sold it to me for two hundred and fifty primeval stones. To think that when I got home to refine
it, I realized that it was not a ck Boar Gu but simply an ordinary stinky fat worm!”
Jia Jin Shengughed coldly, “Don’t use me falsely. Since when did I tell you it was a ck Boar
Gu? What proof do you have?”
The young Gu Master on seeing Jia Jin Sheng’s denial, fell into a rage and grabbed Jia Jin Sheng’s
wrist, “You cunning merchant, you dare to deny it! You actually dare to lie to me of the Gu Yue n on
Qing Mao Mountain itself, are you trying to look for death?!”
“Let go of me!” Jia Jin Sheng was also furious as he flicked his wrist, pping away the young Gu
Master’s hand, “If you want to find trouble and extort money, you should find a better target. I am not
afraid of you! My brother is Jia Fu, a Rank four Gu Master, what can you do to me?”
“You!” The young Gu Master stared with his eyes wide, but did not dare to take action. The name of a
Rank four Gu Master was enough to intimidate him.
“Bah!” Jia Jin Sheng spat on the ground, raising his head and looked at the young Gu Master,ughing
in disdain, “It was you who wanted to take advantage of the cheap Gu. Didn’t you use your brain to
think, why a ck Boar Gu which can raise a Gu master’s strength, being such a rare Gu worm, was
sold even more cheaply than a Liquor worm? It is normally sold at six hundred primeval stones. Did
you think that you could buy one for just two hundred and fifty primeval stones? Dream on!”
“Bastard……” The young Gu Master gritted his teeth, his face flushing red as he trembled out of anger,
his chest burning with the rage of humiliation.
There were chatters among the people as they got restless, discussing furiously. But no one dared to
step up, for the Rank four Gu Master status of Jia Fu was like a giant hill in front of them, stabilizing the
crowd.
“Thisd is too vicious, what a cunning merchant!”
“No wonder he dared to be so arrogant on Qing Mao Mountain, he is actually Jia Fu’s little brother.”
“I heard that they are just half-brothers, but even with that Rank one cultivation, he is able to use this
rtionship to act unrestrained in the caravan.”
“What happened here exactly?” At this moment, a loud voice spoke out.
“Jia Fu is here!”
“The leader is here to settle the dispute, everyone give way.”
The discussion came to a halt as everyone separated and formed a narrow path between them.
A middle-aged Gu Master having a muscr short body coupled with a giant belly, walked in. He wore
a long-sleeved yellow robe, being the leader of the merchant caravan, Jia Fu.
“Sir Jia Fu, my regards.” The young Gu Master was furious but did not dare to say anything. He forced
himself to endure the anger and paid respects to Jia Fu.
Jia Jin Sheng was frozen on the spot, not expecting his brother to arrive, his face suddenly pale as
anger shed across his eyes.
This peculiar expression was captured by Fang Yuan who was observing from afar as he pondered
about the situation.