Chapter 12: Awakening of Destiny's Profession: Wine Sword Immortal
The boy's body began to radiate a dazzling golden light.
Next, as if gravity had forsaken him, he floated into the air. His withered body and broken spiritual veins started to mend rapidly. The gourd in his hand also began to glow with golden patterns.
In the next instant, the boy's soul left his body, and the wine gourd was absorbed into his spirit.
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[Talent successfully awakened. Soul detected…]
[Initiating the awakening of Destiny's Profession…]
[Profession and talent fusing…]
[Destiny complete: Wine Immortal returning to position.]
[Destiny ascends: Sword Immortal blessing granted.]
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Far above the sky, a celestial gate burst forth with a brilliant light. In a flash, night turned to day. At the center of the radiant celestial gate, a colossal sword began to form, emanating an aura of supreme power. Soon, the sword dissolved into a river of light, dispersing across the world.
Across the globe, at that very moment, a torrential downpour began. But those who reached out to catch the rain realized in shock—it wasn't water. It was wine! Heavenly wine from the celestial heights!
In no time, the rich fragrance of wine permeated every corner of the world.
Top-tier experts everywhere were stunned, looking up in awe.
At the ancestral home of the Wang family, the White Emperor, who was healing Yun Xian'er, gazed piercingly at the celestial gate.
"An Immortal has descended to the mortal realm…"
The celestial anomaly quickly faded, but the one who caused it knew nothing of this—because he had already fallen into a deep sleep.
When he finally opened his eyes again, he found that the night had fully fallen.
"How did I… fall asleep?"
Wang Xian groggily sat up. After a moment, he recalled what had happened. He had drunk the wine his mother left for him, got drunk, and slept until now.
Realizing the sequence of events, Wang Xian slapped his cheeks, trying to wake himself up.
"My gourd—where's my gourd!!" Wang Xian panicked instantly.
That gourd was his mother's most beloved item and one of his last connections to her. He couldn't lose it!
Just as he was about to get out of bed to search for it, an unbelievable sight unfolded. His left hand started to glow, and as the light faded, the yellow gourd appeared in his palm.
The moment Wang Xian saw the gourd, he felt a strange connection to it. It felt as though the gourd was an extension of himself, completely under his control.
With a thought, the gourd dissolved into specks of light and vanished. But Wang Xian could clearly sense that the yellow gourd was now resting quietly in his mind.
"What… is going on?"
He instinctively opened his Profession Panel.
Everyone who awakened a profession had their own personal Profession Panel.
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[Wang Xian]
[Profession: Brewer (Destiny Exclusive Profession: Wine Sword Immortal)]
[Talent: None (Integrated into Profession)]
[Level: Meridian Realm, Ninth Vein]
[Lifebound Artifact: Wine Immortal Gourd]
[Physique: 100]
[Spirit: 100]
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"Wine Sword Immortal?" Wang Xian stared at the panel in disbelief. "How did my profession change?"
He hurriedly opened the details of his profession.
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[Wine Sword Immortal—Destiny Exclusive (Hidden)]
Exclusive Skills: Immortal Brewing, Wine Sword, Heaven-Slicing
Exclusive Talents: Wine Immortal, Sword Immortal, Blessing of the Sword, Blessing of the Wine, Descent of the Immortal, Fallen Immortal of the Mortal Realm
Description: The heavenly way is fractured, chaos descends upon the world. Immortals sever themselves from heaven, falling into the mortal realm. With sword and wine as companions, demons quake in fear.
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"How… is there such a profession…"
The boy could hardly believe what he was seeing. Then, he opened the skill details.
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[Immortal Brewing—Active Skill]
Effect: Consume ingredients to brew wine. Any wine you brew will be of the highest quality and blessed by the Wine Immortal.
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[Wine Sword—Active Skill]
Effect: Consume wine to comprehend sword intent, then condense that intent into your lifebound Wine Sword. (Note: Wine must be brewed by yourself.)
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[Heaven-Slicing—Active Skill]
Effect: At the cost of dropping one great realm in cultivation, your next attack will be enhanced with special effects: true damage, execution ability, and rule-breaking properties.
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Trembling with excitement, the boy clicked on the talent details.
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[Wine Immortal—Talent (Dao)]
Effect: You are the Wine Immortal, the one who carved out the path of wine. Drinking wine grants you an increase in power.
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[Sword Immortal—Talent (Dao)]
Effect: You are the Sword Immortal, the one who comprehended the way of the sword. You can control flying swords, and your sword technique damage will increase with each strike.
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[Blessing of the Sword—Talent (Dao)]
Effect: You are the Wine Immortal blessed by the sword. Your capacity for drinking has no limits, and the damage of your sword techniques increases with the amount of wine you drink (limitless).
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[Blessing of the Wine—Talent (Dao)]
Effect: You are the Sword Immortal blessed by wine. No wine will ever harm you, and any wine will heal all your wounds.
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[Descent of the Immortal—Talent (Unknown)]
Effect: You are the unrivaled Wine Sword Immortal who has fallen into the mortal realm. As you become drunk, you gradually unlock the form of the Wine Sword Immortal. (Note: There are five stages of drunkenness: Tipsy, Lightly Drunk, Deeply Drunk, Intoxicated, and Drunk Immortal.)
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[Fallen Immortal of the Mortal Realm—Talent (Unknown)]
Effect: You are the invincible immortal who has descended into the mortal realm. Upon fully entering the state of the Wine Sword Immortal, you will disappear from all concepts, becoming untargetable. No ability, rule, or damage can affect you.
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"This… this…"
The boy was overwhelmed by the wave of shock washing over him. He had never heard of a profession like this.
In normal circumstances, professions didn't have a clear distinction of power. Their strength depended on the talents accompanying them.
For example, the most common sword profession was Swordsman, while Wang Beichen's profession, Supreme of Ten Thousand Swords, was a rare one. But that didn't mean Supreme of Ten Thousand Swords was inherently stronger than Swordsman.
Even the ancestral patriarch of the Wang family awakened the Swordsman profession. Many of history's greatest swordmasters had this basic profession.
It's why people often said:
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"There are no weak professions, only weak talents."
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Talents ranged in quality from low to high:
F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, X, and EX.
Excluding those from imperial families, an S-ranked talent could dominate a city, SS-ranked could reign supreme in a province, and SSS-ranked would immediately become a focus of national cultivation.
An X-ranked talent was a once-in-a-century occurrence on a global scale, and the rarest of all, EX, appeared once in a millennium.
EX talents were known as Imperial Talents because anyone possessing one was destined to become an Emperor as long as they survived their path of cultivation.
And Wang Xian's talents were Dao level, with two mysterious talents still unknown.
He didn't know what tier Dao level fell under, but he was sure it surpassed EX!
It was unbelievable. This destiny-bound profession was too powerful, bordering on the absurd.
However, despite the sheer strength of his newfound abilities, Wang Xian remained calm. He quickly noticed something contradictory in the descriptions.
Blessing of the Sword said he had no limit to his drinking capacity, yet Descent of the Immortal required him to be drunk to access the Wine Sword Immortal form.
How could someone with unlimited drinking capacity ever get drunk?
After pondering this for a while with no answer, he decided to let it go. Right now, he was more eager to understand why his body had undergone such changes.
Gently, he reached out to the wine gourd in the depths of his soul and softly asked, "Was it you?"
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[Wine Immortal Gourd]
Function: Unknown
Description: A lifebound celestial artifact forged by the Wine Sword Immortal from a primordial gourd. Contains its own world.
Stored Wine: Xian Wine (click to view)
Stored Items: Mo Wange's letter, Mo Wange's relics
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Suppressing the tremor in his hand, Wang Xian withdrew the letter left by his mother.