Chapter 406: Exploring the Demon Cave Together

Linghu Jiu liked Ning Zhuo's free and easy style, and felt even more excited, taking out stone bowls, one for each.

He sat down busily: "It's here, it's here!"

Seeing him like this, Ning Zhuo couldn't help but sigh secretly: Last time Ning Zhuo brought tea, Linghu Jiu was happy, but he was never as excited as he was now.

Ning Zhuo used the jar-opening finger tactics taught in Zhu Xuanji's letter and successfully opened the mud seal.

In an instant, the wine fragrance drifted out, filling the entire cave.

As soon as Linghu Jiu smelled it, he blurted out: "Oh? It's actually our country's national cellar!"

His eyes lit up, and his Adam's apple rolled with excitement: "Good fellow, this is a hundred-year-old national cellar Lovesickness Wine, not often seen."

"Brother, where did you get this? I have entrusted others to purchase it many times. There are many national cellar spirit wines on the market, but this kind of hundred-year-old national cellar is extremely difficult to receive."

"Thanks to your blessing, brother, I really have a treat this time, hahaha."

Ning Zhuo smiled and poured a full bowl for Linghu Jiu and himself.

The two wine bowls collided, and they started drinking.

In the stone bowl, the color of the Lovesickness Wine was like crimson pearls and jade, clear and bright, reflecting the expectant faces of the two.

Sniffing lightly, the wine fragrance mixed with the faint scent of red beans, gentle yet distant.

As soon as the wine entered the mouth, it was soft and smooth, warm like the first dew of spring. The faint sweetness of red beans melted on the tip of the tongue, carrying strands of emotion, and then a hint of hidden bitterness appeared in the mellow aftertaste, like the mood of lovesickness accumulated for a long time, pressing on the heart and not dispersing for a long time.

The two tasted it carefully, and for a long time, neither spoke.

After a long time, Linghu Jiu broke the silence: "A hundred-year-old national cellar, it really lives up to its name! The entrance is gentle, as if there is the sweetness of red beans, and it also contains the mellow and solid fragrance of a hundred years of brewing. The meaning of lovesickness is ethereal and uncertain, but if you taste it carefully, you feel even more heavy."

"A hundred years of time, still lovesick..." Ning Zhuo also sighed endlessly, "The longer the age of this wine, the heavier the lovesickness, good wine, truly good wine!"

Ning Zhuo had tasted three kinds of wine recently, namely Ice Jade Wine, Melancholy Nether Brew, and Lovesickness Wine.

Among the first two, Ice Jade Wine can use spirit to bring qi, rapidly promoting qi sea cultivation. Linghu Jiu also benefited a lot from this. Melancholy Nether Brew, regardless of whether it is real or fake, can communicate with yin and yang, bringing the guidance of ancient sages.

Both of these wines have powerful effects.

But Lovesickness Wine is not like the first two; it appears more luxurious, just letting people experience the feeling of lovesickness.

This kind of wine is difficult to preserve.

Because the feeling of lovesickness is difficult to last.

How long can ordinary people be lovesick? One year, two years? Ten years, or twenty years?

Human hearts are easy to change, human feelings are easy to forget, and the flow of time can wash away all kinds of things and wear away everything.

It is difficult for an emotion to be maintained for several years, several decades. As for a hundred years? Even rarer.

Because an ordinary person's life is only a hurried hundred years. What kind of emotion can make people miss it for a lifetime?

Once, what the Retired Emperor of the Nandou Kingdom wanted to express was this emotion.

It is said that the Lovesickness Wine she designed and brewed herself still remains to this day.

She wanted to give it to someone to drink, but this kind of fine wine was never successfully sent out!

The production of Lovesickness Wine is very difficult, requiring the spirit chef to harbor intense lovesickness, only then is there a possibility of production.

The preservation of Lovesickness Wine is also very difficult. It requires the lovesickness contained within it to be able to last for a long time.

Therefore, there is very little hundred-year-old Lovesickness Wine on the market. Once it exceeds several decades, the Lovesickness Wine itself deteriorates and is difficult to drink again.

But today, Ning Zhuo and Linghu Jiu drank this kind of wine.

For a time, both were immersed in the feeling of lovesickness, deeply affected, and unable to extricate themselves.

Ning Zhuo missed his mother. Now that his mother has turned into a mechanism, accompanying him by his side, it seems close, but in reality, it is still far away.

The second target, the Fetal Breath Spirit Boat, is too far and huge. Until now, Ning Zhuo has not found a feasible path to burn this boat.

Linghu Jiu thought of his junior sister Lin Shanshan.

The taste of Lovesickness Wine melted in his mouth, as if thousands of silk threads gently wrapped around his heart.

He was adopted by Lin Bufan when he was very young, watching Lin Shanshan grow up little by little.

The sweet and short moments he spent with Lin Shanshan, in this wine, seemed to be lengthened by the precipitation of time, becoming more and more deep and long.

Lovesickness Wine turned every longing in Linghu Jiu's heart into drops in the wine, gradually misting in his heart.

"Life is like wine, lovesickness is like a song." Linghu Jiu sighed, "Some lovesickness eventually fades with the passage of time, while some lovesickness is brewed deeper and deeper!"

The atmosphere of this drinking session was very different from the previous one. The previous one was enthusiastic, this one was affectionate.

After three rounds of drinking, Ning Zhuo directly stated his situation: "Brother Linghu, I have drunk Melancholy Nether Brew again recently, but there is no guidance from predecessors."

Linghu Jiu pointed at Ning Zhuo: "This situation is absolutely normal."

"You must know that drinking this wine only provides us with an opportunity, an opportunity to communicate with the sages of the underworld."

"At some moment, if the sages of the underworld are willing, and have time, and find you and me pleasing to the eye, they will not hesitate to give a little guidance."

"Most of the time I drink Melancholy Nether Brew, nothing happens. Even if there is, most of the time, it is ethereal gibberish, making it difficult to understand. I only rely on my own natural talent to comprehend from these gibberish and obtain benefits."

"Brother's eruption of luck last time was not the norm."

Ning Zhuo smiled slightly: "So that's how it is."

He looked deeply at Linghu Jiu, and for a while, there was no language.

Seeing his strange expression and staring at himself, Linghu Jiu smiled freely: "Brother, if you have anything to say, just say it!"

Ning Zhuo did not use the Human Life Hanging Thread, so he could not use the Buddha Heart Demon Seal to sense the depths of Linghu Jiu's heart.

But relying on his own life experience of more than ten years and his foundation in speculating on human nature, he determined Linghu Jiu's sincerity.

A flash of brilliance flashed in Ning Zhuo's eyes, he let go of his courage, and spoke directly.

He first said that he had asked his Ning family Jin Dan ancestor to seek the wine recipe, but was sternly rejected by Lin Bufan, with no room for discussion.

He also gave the wine to a spirit chef to taste, let the latter try to identify the wine recipe, but got an unexpected evaluation.

Linghu Jiu was very novel when he heard it: "You said, Melancholy Nether Brew is fake wine? Actually, it has no function of communicating with the sages of the underworld?"

"Impossible!"

Linghu Jiu shook his head directly and said decisively: "This is the wine my master gave me personally, and he even strictly ordered me... to keep this secret."

Speaking of this, Linghu Jiu was a bit unnatural.

His temperament was lazy and free and easy. To put it badly, when he was emotional, he often threw some instructions to the back of his mind.

Melancholy Nether Brew is the best example.

Clearly, the master asked him to strictly keep the secret, but in Linghu Jiu's view, this wine had his natural talent, and most of the time it was ineffective when drinking, so the value was not high.

Therefore, when he saw Ning Zhuo pleasing to the eye last time, he took it out directly and let Ning Zhuo drink it to his heart's content.

Ning Zhuo