Chapter 280 - The Divine Winery (1/2)
"This is the Divine Winery that produces all the wines for the gods." said the propitious lantern quickly.
It then quickly explained, "The wines produced here are divided into different categories. The higher quality wines will be supplied to the gods with higher positions and vice versa. The dangers that lurk within the winery are those wine bugs and the wine barrels."
"The Divine Winery?"
The interest of Zhong Yue and the others were piqued up as they had never expected to discover such precious locations here, no wonder that exploded Qi Practitioner shouted so happily.
Zhu Jushan even started the swallow his saliva as his inner glutton was aroused from the propitious lantern's mention of the divine wine.
"I wonder if there are still divine wines left in the divine winery," wondered Zhu Jushan.
The four then quietly walked towards the Divine Winery under the guidance of the propitious lantern. There were thousands and thousands of them in the Divine Jungle, but only those that managed to obtain a head by devouring people seemed to possess intelligence while those without heads had only one instinct – and that was to devour heads!
And instead of being a token of luck as their names suggested, these lanterns became one of the threats in the Divine Jungle, threatening the lives of those who intruded the jungle.
It was not long after they started moving towards the Divine Winery, they heard waves of shrieks, seemingly released by other Qi Practitioners that fell into the hands of these murderous lanterns.
And now, they were near the so-called "precious" place, only about half a mile away. But they remained quiet and walked carefully, fearing that they would accidentally draw the unwanted attention of these propitious lanterns. These lanterns were as fast as lightning, and their roots could not only grow in an instant, they were also extremely robust, even Zhong Yue could not escape if these roots tied him. If that scenario came to be, then he would be having his next cup of tea with the gods in heaven or demons of hell.
"You have to cover up your head; these propitious lanterns would not come after you if they can't see your head."
The captured propitious lantern conveniently became a traitor of its kin as it said, "The reason why we love to devour heads is that after eating a head, we could acquire our own brain and grow our intelligence. We would not even be interested in you if you weren't able to serve such a purpose."
The four of them then quickly took out their spare clothes and wrapped them around their head, and the results were visible in almost an instant; the lanterns stopped coming after them, and they instead turned their attention to the other intruders in the Divine Jungle. They continued roaming around on their own as they went after them.
Not long later, they finally arrived at the Divine Winery where flags waved happily in the sky. The winery was built at the side of the mountain with a river flowing out in it, and the divine winery was incredibly spacious.
The winery clearly was unable to escape the ravages of time, turning into ruins adorned with shattered tiles and fallen pillars. The base of the structure, however, managed to remain intact and the four of them could easily see how prosperous this winery must have been back then. Judging from the space that the winery occupied, they could only begin to imagine the sheer volume of divine wine that was brewed here and supplied to the gods and heavenly Monarch.
So weathered, will there still be some divine wine left?"
Zhu Jushan looked around but all he saw was broken barrels, and he said in disappointment, "This place appeared once long ago in the Lesser Void World, and the old hags probably looted all of the remaining divine wine…."
As soon as he was done talking, another group of Qi Practitioners arrived at the Divine Winery as well. Judging from their attire and appearance, these guys were most probably from the West Barren, and immense killing intent rose within them as soon as they saw Zhong Yue. Just when they were about to attack, the faces of one of them darkened, and he quickly signaled his friends to stop by sending them a message through his psyche. His message seemed to give them a shock as they promptly restrained the actions they were about to take.
"He is the Zhong Shan Clan's member from Swords Gate, it is best if we do not provoke him…." said the Qi Practitioner to his friends.
Suddenly, the earth trembled vigorously and a three to four feet tall wine barrel crawled out from the ground.
Dong——-
The wine barrel landed on the ground heavily, and from the barrel came two incredibly muscular hands while a face appeared in the middle of the barrel.
As the barrel stared at Zhong Yue and the other three with its eyes, Zhong Yue was in shock as he felt everything suddenly went extremely weird as the lanterns were alive and now the barrels!
"My guess is that there is still lots of divine wine in this huge barrel." murmured Zhu Jushan.
"I still don't have legs…."
The wine barrel's eyes rolled around before it landed its vision on Zhu Jushan and it immediately plunged towards him while it shouted, "Give me your muscular legs!"
Upon seeing this, Zhu Jushan saw Zhong Yue, Qiu Jin'er, and Ao Shanshan move a few steps away from him as soon as he wanted to ask for help from them.
"Are you for real?" shouted Zhu Jushan as he charged back towards at the wine barrel. The Zhu Jian Celestial Race was ranked second in terms of physical strength in the entirety of the West Barren, but Zhu Jushan was sent flying away before letting out a shout and spitting out blood from his mouth as soon as he clashed with the huge barrel!
The barrel continued flying in the air, and it landed on Zhu Jushan heavily. It immobilized him with its heavy weight. It then stretched out its arms and began moving Zhu Jushan into its body!
"Stop looking, help me!" shouted Zhu Jushan.
Zhong Yue took out his Golden Peng Sword and swung at the arms of the wine barrel. To his surprise, the Golden Peng Sword failed to slice the barrel's arms off.
So hard!