Chapter 1554

"It's quite good!"

Elder Yun could not help but laugh: "You probably don't drink much, do you!"

"Whether it's wine or tea, I honestly can't taste much of anything!" Su Yang said with a candid smile. "I can only get a rough sense — this wine tastes good."

"This is the Hundred Fruits Wine from Eight Treasures Studio!"

"So this is the Hundred Fruits Wine!"

Su Yang had heard of the Hundred Fruits Wine's reputation.

He'd heard it could even promote the growth of Imperial-grade beast companions, and was worth a fortune!

Still, he had only ever heard of it by name, never actually drunk it.

After all, he had little interest in drinking.

"If you like it, drink more — Sister Yun can spare that much!"

"Then I won't stand on ceremony!"

Eating pastries and drinking wine, Su Yang listened as Elder Yun talked about matters in the Wuyun Kingdom, and would occasionally chime in with a few stories from his own childhood.

The wine pot was switched out as well; after a whole pot of Hundred Fruits Wine went down his belly, Su Yang felt slightly tipsy.

Setting down his cup, he looked at the legs propped across his own thighs, and sobered up just a little…

"I just like propping my legs up — I always feel like there's nowhere else to put them."

Yun Shuying said with a charming laugh.

"…"

Inside the narrow cavern, the luminous pearls flickered with a soft glow.

Su Yang suddenly felt a wave of heat surge through his body.

Yun Shuying was very pretty — a great beauty.

She had some interest in him; Su Yang had noticed that long ago.

He downed a cup of wine in one fierce gulp and said in a low voice: "Elder Yun, I have a wife already!"

Yun Shuying blinked at Su Yang: "You're not afraid I'll latch onto you, are you?"

These past few days, the more Yun Shuying looked at Su Yang, the more she liked him in an instant.

Young, handsome, powerful, and with a decent personality — it had been many years since she'd seen a genius beast-tamer like that.

She stood up with a smile and sat down in Su Yang's lap.

She flipped the wine pot up and sucked down the liquor inside in big gulps.

Watching her smiling eyes, curved like crescents, watching her puffed cheeks press in… Su Yang admitted, he was drunk!

Ever since Xia Na had made the first move, ever since the phoenix, Su Yang felt his sense of integrity starting to slip.

Starting from the second day, Yun Shuying no longer felt that searching for the Silent Extinction Phoenix in the underground world beneath the phoenix's territory was a tedious affair.

At least she still had Su Yang for company by her side.

And Su Yang?

He was still, as always, slaughtering fierce beasts and raising the level of his Explosive Flame Elder Yan Mo.

With Yun Shuying by his side, he too felt his mood lift.

Between the two of them, a tacit understanding had been reached without either needing to say it aloud.

Getting along was extremely harmonious.

"Su Yang, I think I finally understand why you could become a Divine-grade beast-tamer at such a young age!" Yun Shuying sighed. "We've been underground for three months now, and I haven't seen you show a shred of impatience."

"I'm used to this kind of fighting!" Su Yang laughed. "I come from a common background — our Water Blue Star has always been threatened by fierce beasts. From the moment I became a beast-tamer, I've almost never stopped fighting, and I've kept at it right up until now."

Yun Shuying smiled, feeling more and more that Su Yang was a very charming man.

She felt she was the one getting the better deal.

That was how she felt, and Su Yang also felt he wasn't getting the short end of the stick.

"It's really been hard on you — compared to you, I guess I should count as someone born with a silver spoon in my mouth!"

"That's plenty impressive too!" Su Yang said. "I've seen plenty of people born with silver spoons whose achievements fall far short of Sister Yun's."

"Then would you like to join Eight Treasures Studio?"

"Is Sister Yun about to recommend me?"

"If you're willing… I feel it would be Eight Treasures Studio's loss to miss you!"

That was something Su Yang was happy to hear.

"Let me think it over!"

Whether or not to actually join Eight Treasures Studio, Su Yang still needed to consider.

He didn't have any deep feelings for Yun Shuying, but he did feel some fondness for her.

If he hadn't felt that fondness, Su Yang wouldn't have touched her.

Yun Shuying pretended to be peeved: "Oh? You're putting on airs now?"

Just then, both of their expressions suddenly changed.

Yun Shuying flashed in an instant, pulling Su Yang as they crashed into the black volcanic rock.

Immediately after, behind them, the terrifying boom of a fiery explosion rang out.

"Damn it — we've been ambushed!" Yun Shuying warned. "Be careful, it's people from the Shenlongshang Alliance — let's charge up!"

"Mm!"

The two shot up rapidly from underground, soaring straight into the sky.