15 Flower Wine Monk and The Guests

The Liquor worm was shaped like a silkworm, its entire body giving out pearl white light. It was a little chubby and had a cute appearance.

The Liquor worm fed on wine and could fly. When it flew around, it would curl up into a ball, and its speed was very fast. Even though it was only a Rank one Gu, but it was worth even more than a few Rank two Gu.

Right now the Liquor worm was glued to a bamboo pole merely 50-60 steps away from Fang Yuan. He held his breath, not closing in rashly, but slowly walking backwards.

He knew his distance was very near, but to really catch a Liquor worm directly it was an incredibly difficult task for a Gu Master who just opened the primeval aperture like him. You could say, there was totally no hope of success.

Fang Yuan was unable to see the Liquor worm clearly, but in the darkness he could feel the Liquor worm directing its vigilance at him. He slowly backed away gently, trying his best not to disturb the Liquor worm.

He knew that if the Liquor worm was to fly away, he could never catch up with his own speed. He needed to wait until the Liquor worm drank until it was drunk, and then with its flying speed slowed down he would have a chance to catch it.

Seeing Fang Yuan retreat further away, the Liquor worm crawling on the bamboo pole stirred. The strong aroma of wine before it was so tempting, so attracting, making the worm lost in a reverie. If it had saliva, it would have long been drooling a pool of saliva around it.

But the Liquor worm was incredibly wary and vigilant. Only after Fang Yuan retreated 200 steps back did it shrink a little and bounced into the air. When it fluttered high in the air, its body curled up into a ball, looking like a small and white rice dumpling. The little dumpling swept across the air in a round arc, floating down onto the grass that was sprinkled with green bamboo wine earlier.

With delicious food right before its eyes, the Liquor worm dropped its guard. It impatiently climbed onto a flower bud filled with some wine and popped its little head in, only leaving a chubby tail on the outside.

The Liquor worm was ravenous, and the green bamboo wine was so delicious. It opened its mouth wide and inhaled, very quickly lost in the deliciousness of its food, totally forgetting about Fang Yuan.

At this moment, Fang Yuan started to approach cautiously. He could see the tail of the Liquor worm outside the flower bud. This tail was just like a silkworm's tail, chubby and rounded. The light it emitted made people think of a pearl.

At first the Liquor worm's tail was hanging outside, unmoving. Then after a while this tail started to curl upwards, showing that it was drinking really happily. At the end when Fang Yuan was only ten steps away, its tail started wagging and swinging with a cheerful rhythm.

It was totally drunk!

Seeing this made Fang Yuan nearly laugh out. He did not continue walking forward, but patiently waited. If he rushed over right now he would definitely have a huge chance of catching the Liquor worm, but Fang Yuan's intention was to have this Liquor worm guide him to the Flower Wine Monk's remains.

In a moment the Liquor worm withdrew from the flower bud. Its body was fatter and its head swayed about, resembling a drunken man. Unexpectedly, it did not realize Fang Yuan's presence. It climbed up onto another bright yellow flower and perched on the stamen, feeding heartily on the wine droplets there.

This time after it had finished drinking, it finally felt full. Its body slowly shrank into a round ball and slowly flew up. When it was 1.5 meters above the ground, it leisurely flew in the direction of the deeper part of the bamboo forest.

Fang Yuan quickly followed after its trail.

The Liquor worm was already heavily drunk, making it fly slower by half of its usual speed. Even though this was the case, Fang Yuan still had to run with all his might to follow after its shadow.

The night was washing past his vision as the young teenager ran in the bamboo forest, chasing after a small bead of snow not far ahead.

The moonlight was gentle, the breeze slow and steady. In the bamboo forest that was like a clear pond, the stalks of green spear bamboo flashed past before his eyes, quickly falling behind him. The ground was a green carpet of grass, riddled with blossoming wild flowers. There were small stones with moss growing, and the yellow shoots of bamboo.

Fang Yuan's faint shadow was also speeding ahead on the ground, passing through the shadows that each stalk of bamboo cast on the earth like a black line. He tightly kept his sight on the bead of snow, gulping in huge amounts of fresh mountain air, ordering his legs to catch up in the midst of faint wine aroma in the air.

Because of his speed, the moonlight looked like water to his eyes. Light and shadow moved frequently, like he was galloping in water filled with seaweed.

The Liquor worm flew out of the bamboo forest, and so did Fang Yuan. A sea of white flowers with a yellow spot in the middle borrowed the wind from his feet, scattering their petals. 

With the various sights that passed by, Fang Yuan only focused on the Liquor worm.

Fang Yuan was in hot pursuit, firmly following behind the Liquor worm. Going up the mountain stream, he could already hear the sound of a waterfall. After he turned around a sparse forest, he saw the Liquor worm fly into a crevice in the middle of a boulder.

Fang Yuan's eyes lit up and he stopped in his tracks.

"So it's here." He panted heavily, his heart beating against his chest like mad. With this one stop he could feel his entire body covered in sweat, hot air surging throughout his body accompanying his accelerating blood flow.

Looking around, he found that this place was a shallow benchland.

Pebbles of various sizes covered the ground, the river surface barely covering over the small stones. There were also blocks of gray boulders scattered freely in the area.

Behind Qing Mao Mountain was a huge waterfall. The flow of the waterfall varied with the weather; it plummeted down to the earth, pounding out a deep pool. Beside the deep pool was the Bai Clan Village, a clan with powerful influence that was comparable to the Gu Yue village.

The waterfall branched out to many smaller branches, and it was apparent that Fang Yuan was facing one of the many branches of a branch. On normal occasions this benchland was dry, but due to the recent heavy rainfall that went on for three days and three nights, a shallow stream formed here.

The source of the flowing stream was from the huge boulder that the Liquor worm had entered into earlier.

The boulder leaned against a vertical mountain wall. Small waterfalls that branched away from the main waterfall were like silver pythons that flowed down the mountain wall, hitting onto the boulder. After a considerably long time the middle of this huge boulder had eroded away and formed a crevice.

At this time as the waterfall washed down, the water current gently roared. It was like a white curtain, completely obstructing the gap in the boulder.

After observing his surroundings, Fang Yuan's breathing was no longer anxious. His eyes flashed with a hint of resolve; he walked to the boulder and took in a deep breath, and then he rushed in headfirst.

The boulder gap was rather large, and two adult humans could walk side by side in it with no problems. What more to say with Fang Yuan, who was merely a 15-year-old teenage boy?

Once he rushed in, the rapid currents pressured down on Fang Yuan's body. At the same time the cold water quickly drenched him from head to toe. Fang Yuan battled against the water pressure, moving in quick steps forward. As he walked a few dozen steps, the water pressure started to lessen.

But the space in the fissure also began to shrink, and Fang Yuan could only walk sideways. His ears were filled with the roaring of the water, the top of his head was a sheet of white, and deeper into the boulder was a black darkness.

Fang Yuan felt a little wary of the darkness around him, he didn't know what was hiding in this place.

He only read the manga from the beginning, so he didn't know what might happen to Fang Yuan from the novel when walking in this place. Maybe something will surprise him this time ?

'I have to go forward' was Fang Yuan's determination.

Fang Yuan could only continue forward by walking sideways, slowly edging into the darkness. The water no longer washed over his head; the stone walls were covered in moss, grazing against his skin, feeling slippery. Soon he was swallowed by the darkness, and the stone crevice became narrower, squeezing around him. Gradually even his skull could not rotate freely. Still Fang Yuan gritted his teeth and continued forward.

After walking another twenty more steps, he realized that there was a red shade of light in the darkness. At first, he thought it was an illusion. But when he blinked and focused, he began to confirm that this was indeed light!

This realization made him renew his spirit and with that he knew that he was on the right way.

He continued walking for another fifty to sixty steps, the red light growing brighter. In his eyes the light slowly expanded into a long, vertical and fine seam.

He stretched out his left arm, suddenly feeling that the wall in front had bent away. Instantly he rejoiced, knowing that there was an enclosed space inside the huge boulder. With another few steps he finally rushed into this light seam.

His eyes were greeted with the sight of an approximately 80meters² wide enclosure.

"I have been walking for so long. But it was worth it." As he sized up this hidden space, he moved his hands and legs about, stretching his limbs.

The entire room was filled with dim red light, but he could not tell where the light was coming from. The stone walls were damp and covered in moss, but the air here was very dry. On the walls there were also a few withering vines. The vines intertwined with each other, weaving across half of the wall surface. There were even a few withering flowers growing on the vines.

Fang Yuan looked at the remnants of these flowers and leaves.

Gu came in many shapes and forms. Some were like mineral rocks such as the blue crystal form of the Moonlight Gu. Some came in the forms of worms, such as the silkworm-like Liquor worm. There were also flowery grassy types, just like the Wine Sack Flower Gu and the Rice Pouch Grass Gu before Fang Yuan.

These two types of Gu were Rank one natural Gu, Wine Sack Flower Gu and Rice Pouch Grass Gu. Just with pouring in primeval essence would they be able to grow. After growing up the middle of the flower would secrete flower nectar wine, and the grass pouch would grow out fragrant rice.

Fang Yuan moved his line of sight along the vines, and sure enough he discovered a heap of withered roots gathered into a ball-shaped clump at a corner. The Liquor worm was resting on the clump of dead roots, sleeping soundly. It was already within easy reach.

Fang Yuan walked over and took the Liquor worm into his arms. Then he got onto his knees and pulled the dead vines apart, discovering a pile of skeleton bones bundled inside.

"I've finally found you, Flower Wine Monk." There was a smile on his lips as he saw this.

Just as he was about to reach his hand out and strip away the remaining vines, suddenly-

"Try touching it?" A voice full of murderous intent suddenly sounded behind Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was not surprised, he already knew about the existence of this recording. He turns around and finds the record that will be the key to the inheritance left by the Flower Wine Monk.

He was met with the sight of light and shadow changing and fluctuating on the wall in front of him, a picture emerging.

A lean and threatening Gu Master was standing at the top of a mountain; there was another Gu Master prostrating before him. Around the two Gu Masters was a collapsed pit, fragments and chunks of stone littering the area, showing the obvious scene of a fierce battle that just ended.

"So all I have to do now is leave this record as is it and come back after 100 days"

He had found what he was looking for now, he had obtained the Liquor worm and also found the location of the Flower Wine Monk's inheritance. It is time to come back.

When he was about to return he heard a loud sound, like an explosion.

Fang Yuan was shocked by this, he looked disbelieving toward what he just heard, because the voice he had heard seemed to come from the entrance he had passed earlier.

Since the entrance to this place was flowing by water, the sound coming from outside should not be as strong as the one that Fang Yuan heard. The only plausible reason was that the explosion occurred after passing through the entrance.

"Shit. What happened? Did someone follow me? Fuck !! "

He was well aware of the dangers of this situation. If the one who came was the Gu Master from the Gu Yue clan, Fang Yuan could still use an excuse to survive. But if the person who came here wanted to kill him to monopolize this inheritance, what would he do.

Fang Yuan immediately thought of a plan to get out of this situation. One thing that was certain was that he had to kill this person who entered.

When thinking about plans to escape, he thought about what might happen.

"Maybe I had a different time with Fang Yuan from the novel, so something like this happened. If I had known this was happening, maybe I wouldn't have waited for the adoption process to finish! "

Fang Yuan looked sorry for his negligence in choosing his timing.

What Fang Yuan didn't know was that the Bai clan sent two Gu Masters to investigate the territory of the Gu Yue clan. This is because they want to gather information, they already have Bai Ning Bing, it's just about the time to start the preparation for the future.

But accidentally one of these Gu Masters saw traces of Fang Yuan entering this place.

They thought that Fang Yuan saw them, a member of the Bai clan, and went to this place to hide. because They used clothes intended to hide themselves with the help of the darkness of the night, because they also managed to get through surveillance at the border.

Who wouldn't be afraid to see a suspicious person in the middle of night ?

So they finally decided to check this place out for Fang Yuan.

If their whereabouts were reported, then a problem would occur, of course the Bai clan would deny this on the outside, but they would be punished for not carrying out their duties properly.

They were Bai Ko Ki and Bai Lin Lu, Ko Ki had a thin body, with sharp eyes and Lin Lu had a body that developed properly and had a face that was a little crude.

The one who saw Fang Yuan was Ko Ki, but he was a coward, as much as possible he wanted to carry out this task without any problems, but because he was aware of the existence of Fang Yuan. He didn't want to get into trouble over this.

Lin Lu was a character who was quite loyal to the Bai clan, he chose this task because he felt it should be done for the prosperity of the Bai clan.

The first to enter was Lin Lu, because Ko Ki was too afraid to lead the way.

No one knows what lies behind this boulder.

But when they entered, they found a space that was quite wide at first, the more they entered they found that the path ahead shrank.

Lin Lu realized that the environment didn't support him to continue his investigation, but he had to. He didn't want the Bai clan to run into trouble because of his negligence.

He used a Gu to open a path, Lin Lu used Current Gu, after this Gu activated a powerful stream of water that started to come out of his palm and smashed into the narrowing path in front of him.

With this strength, Lin Lu managed to enlarge the path in front of him, even though this path was made of rocks, maybe because it was overgrown with moss and was always in a weak state making the rocks here quite brittle, but that attack is not too powerful enough to cause landslides.

Lin Lu's attacks were quite strong that the entire path shook and a loud explosion also echoed out. Ko Ki was immediately shocked when he heard this, he thought that they were known by the Gu Master of the Gu Yue clan.

Because of their location and environment, the sound didn't reach the outside world.

After looking at the back and not finding anything odd, he looked ahead and saw what had really happened.

"What are you doing ? Do you want to kill us? What if the explosion sound was heard by someone else? What's more, what if this place collapses ? "Ko Ki complained to Lin Lu in a cowardly manner.

He didn't dare to challenge Lin Lu openly, he knew that he was weaker than Lin Lu.

The two of them were middle stage Rank two Gu Masters. But there is a difference between physical strength and courage, in both of these aspects Ko KI lost to Lin Lu.

Hearing Ko Ki's babbling, Lin Lu just snorted at him and continued on his way.

After only a few steps after that, they heard someone's voice talking, the voice was not very clear what he was talking about.

They both fell silent when they heard this. what if this place was a secret base created by the Gu Yue clan, and they were subconsciously following someone they didn't even know about.

Lin Lu has a complicated face, he has to do something so that their whereabouts are not known earlier, but now he finds that in front of him there is more than one person.

Ko Ki on the other hand has decided to give up, he doesn't care what law he receives, he just wants to be safe for now.

Ko Ki whispered to Lin Lu to back off.

"Lin Lu. There is nothing else we can do, maybe the person I saw earlier already reported us, if we continue this journey, we will only find death awaiting us. "That was Ko Ki's last struggle to persuade Lin Lu to escape from this place.

'What if someone from outside comes into this place? Aren't we going to get knocked from both directions' This is Ko Ki's real thought.

Time is their opponent now.

But Lin Lu did not show a reassured expression, even though an angry expression appeared on his face.

'This coward doesn't think about his clan at all, he only thinks about himself'

Lin Lu himself wondered why Ko Ki could become a Rank two Gu Master with his cowardice like this.

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Lu chose to follow Ko Ki's suggestion.

He knew that if he couldn't sacrifice his life in vain in this place, how could he possibly attack one of the secret bases of the Gu Yue clan, wasn't that in itself like a declaration of war?

But that didn't happen.

In the beginning, all they experienced was fear by reflex, this place itself had access that was difficult to access, how could this place be used as a secret base?

Previously Lin Lu had also used his Gu to open a path, but there was no response.

Lin Lu decided that the source of this sound was only due to the Gu worm.

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By Nefar-inn and Spyrakles