Chapter 101 – Qiji Greedy For Wine! (1/2)

101 – Qiji greedy for wine!

Lu Qiji climbed the mountain at a tremendous speed.

Her pace brisk and her body light and graceful. With little effort, the dangerous, rugged rocks that seemed difficult to tread across pa.s.sed under her feet.

Forest birds flew off in alarm, flapping their wings wildly and screeching as they gained height. Venomous snakes and insects came scuttling out of the dense thicket and the crevices of rocks to attack, to punish her for intruding their territory—-The sword in her hand flashed with almost no clear trajectory, sectioning the venomous snakes, toads and poisonous centipedes into countless pieces.

There was a strong anger in her heart so the moment she drew out her sword she did not show any mercy or forgiveness.

“Sister Qiji—-sister Qiji wait for me—–” Shouting from behind was a rounded-face chubby boy. Lu Qiji ascended the mountain too fast, no matter how hard he tried it was still impossible for him to keep up.

Lu Qiji did not care, continuing to dash towards the peak of Nameless Mountain without stopping.

She needs to summit the mountain at the fastest rate.

At least she has to reach the top before that stupid Li Muyang.

As the eldest daughter of the powerful Lu clan, she had already heard that she would encounter the four cardinal vices obstacles along the way. However, she did not take this to heart.

To ordinary people, the four cardinal vices are four walls; how many irresolute people have been kept outside of these four walls? But to Lu Qiji, how could this even be considered a test?

The scene in front abruptly changed, Lu Qiji entered into a different world.

A lonely pavilion hiding inside a bamboo forest.

An old man stood by himself with a bottle of spirit in his hand.

Clad in a gray robe, the kind-looking old man was enjoying a bowl of wine all by himself. As if he was startled by Lu Qiji's footsteps, he glanced up and waved to her: “Girl, come drink with grandpa. The wine is called Bamboo Heart, bamboo does not have a heart, but after drinking my wine everyone will have no more worries. Drown our sorrows in wine and feel free—-what do you say?”

Lu Qiji walked over, confident and calmly settled herself on the stone bench opposite the old man.

From her side she reached for a wine bowl, placing it down in front of the old man, she said: “Pour the wine.”

Smiling, the old man carefully poured the wine into the bowl. “The wine, Bamboo Heart, is pure but strong, and is famously known as 'one cup collapse'. You should start off with half a bowl and try it first.”

Old man filled only half the bowl with wine, then pushed the bowl towards Lu Qiji.

Lu Qiji wrapped her fingers around the bowl of wine and finished it off without pausing, she set down the empty bowl in front of the old man again and said: “Fill it to the brim.”

His smile became even warmer: “Girl you are a good drinker.”

He once again picked up the wine jar, filling the bowl to the brim with the Bamboo Heart wine, then pushed the bowl over to Lu Qiji.

Lu Qiji lifted the bowl and gulped down the wine, letting the wine trickle down and stain her lips. “Fill it again.”

The old man looked at Lu Qiji's face. He then proceeded to pour a bowl of wine to the brim once again.

Lu Qiji lifted up the big bowl, without the slightest hesitation chugged down the strong alcohol.

Placing the bowl on the stone table, she said once again: “Fill it to the brim.”

Old man tightly held onto the wine jar in his hand and did not move, he looked at Lu Qiji and said: “Girl, although this is a test but if you fail this test, you also fail in reality. You're drunk in the test—-then in reality you also won't be conscious. I am not the real me, but you are the real you. This is not an unrealistic rosy view, not a dream. It's fantasy and also real life at the same time.”

“Garrulous like an old woman, so annoying.” Lu Qiji s.n.a.t.c.hed the bamboo wine from the old man's hand, tilted her head and glugged down the entire jar.

In one breath, Lu Qiji finished more than half of the jar of bamboo wine that's left.

She threw the empty jar onto the table. “Bring more drinks.”

The old man picked up the empty jar and cradled it in his arms looking distress, his eyes welled up with tears: “it's wasted. So much wasted. Bamboo Wine is brewed with one hundred thousand bamboos, but you wolfed it down—-”

“The wine is pretty good. Do you have anymore? Hurry and bring it out.” Lu Qiji ignored the old man's lament, she looked at the old man and asked.

“No. Not even one. Leave, get out of here.” The old man began to drive her away from here. “Don't let me see you again. Too bad, it is too bad—– I wasted me a good jar of bamboo wine. That was my one month of supply.”

“Stingy.” Lu Qiji used her sleeve to wipe her mouth, flicking her purple hair back over her shoulders she turned away and walked out of the bamboo forest.

Cold and arrogant, like a spoiled little princess.

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Chu Xun is arrogant and did as he pleases, although he wholeheartedly wanted to catch up to Lu Qiji but possibly because he headed in the wrong direction, no matter how fast he ran, he still could not catch a glimpse of Lu Qiji's figure. Even the chubby boy who ran in front of him was nowhere to be seen, it seemed everyone had suddenly vanished.

As if he was the only person exerting effort, the only one still climbing up the huge mountain. In the eyes of strong people, they simply looked like ants on the mountainside. Ants that want to conquer the tall mountain.

Chu Xun is an extremely proud man. He doesn't like to be an ant, but he even more dislike others seeing him as an ant.

So, Chu Xun was in a bad mood.