Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 291 Battle of the Evil Spirits
Pei Xia has disappeared.

Before yesterday, this news might not have bothered Huang Bing much.

However, the four factions displayed great power in their martial arts competition, and the person was gone the next day, which made Huang Bing take the matter very seriously.

He immediately sent disciples from several peaks to inquire and search, but there was still no news after half a day.

In the afternoon, Li Qi hurriedly entered the main hall: "Master, there's something I need to tell you."

Huang Bing quickly asked, "How is it?"

“Ah, that’s how it is,” Li Qi took a breath, “I’ve discovered that all the wine jars in our sect are empty.”

Before he could finish speaking, Huang Bing kicked him under the table.

The sect leader snapped, "I told you to find someone, what are you doing looking at the wine vats?"

Li Qi crawled out from under the table in a disheveled state: "We couldn't find it, so we sent it to several groups of people, and of all the messages we received, this one sounded a bit strange."

Yesterday's celebration involved a lot of wine, and all three sects were resting within their respective sects, which may have been for their own use. The Changjing Sect is weak in cultivation but strong in wealth, so if someone wants to drink some wine from you, you can't expect them to report it.

This is such a trivial matter, why bother reporting it?

And so, the sun set behind the western mountains, and the bright moon rose.

For an entire day, even with Huang Bing mobilizing the sect's resources, they still couldn't find a trace of Pei Xia.

By the second day, everyone was starting to get a little nervous.

It's not that we have to treat the sect's elders like children, and that it's a big deal if they disappear for a few days.

The four key factions are still competing, with only a five-day break in between. For many martial arts practitioners, this amount of time is not enough to recuperate or study their opponents. Who would leave their sect without a word?
Huang Bing had no choice but to intensify his efforts, even mobilizing his brothers from the Cao Gang to keep an eye out for any traces in the Changjingmen Mountains.

Another whole day passed, and only one message reached the sect, which stood out.

The several wineries in the giant water fortress at the foot of Zongmen Mountain were all left with only empty wine jars overnight.

After this happened repeatedly, Li Qi had no choice but to take it seriously. He made a special trip down the mountain to investigate and question people in the water village, and confirmed that all the wine had disappeared without a trace overnight.

When he reported this news to Huang Bing again, the sect leader finally didn't kick him this time.

Huang Bing also realized that there might be a problem here.

But what's the use of realizing that? You need to be able to understand it!

And so, the next day passed.

Two days of searching yielded no clues, which clearly indicated that something had gone wrong.

Ji Shaofu was extremely anxious at Shuxing Peak. She hadn't been able to eat or sleep for the past two days, and she was rapidly becoming haggard.

On the third day, she took the initiative to go find Huang Bing, also wanting to go down the mountain to search for him.

Logically speaking, she had two days left before her martial arts competition, which was the time for her to rest and recuperate. However, seeing her pleading and desperate look, Huang Bing knew that this girl was deeply entangled in love and decided to let her be.

On the third day of the Changjing Sect's massive search for Pei Xia, the only news they received was that all the wine in Qingcheng's thirty-two wine cellars, breweries, restaurants, and even brothels had vanished as if evaporated.

This is definitely not a coincidence.

After discussing the matter, Huang Bing, Li Qi, and many elders unanimously agreed that it must be related to Pei Xia's disappearance.

Since the incident of the stolen wine has spread from the sect to the water village, and even to the entire Qingcheng, it will definitely spread to other surrounding towns if it continues.

After nightfall, the entire Changjingmen sect did not rest. Huang Bing dispatched ten teams of men to rush to other nearby towns overnight to keep watch and search, determined to find any clues!

On the fourth day, even Han Youzhi was getting restless.

From the morning onwards, she frequently went in and out of the Jade Palace, waiting and looking around at the place she had agreed to meet Pei Xia last time.

However, no one ever came.

Once again emerging from the celestial realm, Han Youzhi sighed deeply and looked at Lu Li, who was eating heartily beside the table, and said with a wry smile, "You actually ate it all."

Pear picked up her chopsticks and tapped them: "I'm still growing, if I don't eat more, how will I end up with big breasts and a big butt like you?"

Han Youzhi looked at the food on the table and suddenly said, "These past few days I've heard people in the sect say that wine is being thrown everywhere. Do you think he's been drinking too much?"

Pear shook her head: "He doesn't drink much." Not "he doesn't drink much," but "he can't drink much."

It's hard to say whether Pei Xia's alcohol tolerance is innate or influenced by the calamity, but in any case, alcohol can stimulate his nerves, but it can never numb him.

So what exactly is Pei Xia...?

"found it!"

Outside the cave, Li Qi's shout suddenly rang out.

Pei Xia has been found.

……

Sixty li north of Changjingmen lies Linquan Town.

This small town with mud walls and black tiles has a small population. Because of a cold spring that was used to brew wine in the past, it became quite famous and left behind many wineries.

This morning, as the winemakers opened the storeroom, they were greeted by an unusually strong smell of alcohol. Some of them were immediately alarmed, thinking that some beast had broken in during the night and overturned the earthenware jars.

When they looked inside, they weren't surprised; they were completely dumbfounded.

All the wine jars in the town have vanished!

It wasn't until noon that someone came running back, shouting hysterically, "The wine thief has been found! He's right outside town!"

Outside Linquan Town, right in the middle of the main road, there are countless empty pottery jars and wine vats piled up.

Amidst the stacked wine vessels, two figures stood face to face, their eyes bloodshot, mouths agape, saliva dripping from them, as if they had gone mad.

"Boy, you...you..."

The man with the open shirt was flushed. He pointed his finger crookedly at Pei Xia and said, "You... are not human!"

Pei Xia's face wasn't red; on the contrary, he was as pale as a corpse.

It felt as if all the blood in his body had been diverted to support his core organs. His blood vessels were constricting, and his skin was as cold as ice, but inside his body it felt like a raging fire was burning. Every pore on his body was exuding the smell of alcohol.

He knew that this difference in outward appearance was a sign that his physique was inferior to that of his opponent.

The hairy-chested bastard in front of me is likely at the Dao Proving Realm, three major realms above me. Pei Xia's remaining body, a remnant of the Five Virtues and Eight Aspects, is still inferior.

but! Yes!
The two weren't competing to see who would drink themselves to death first.

It's not about who gets drunk first!

Although Pei Xia's body felt the pressure first, in terms of mental clarity, he was definitely superior to his opponent!
Spitting the metallic, rusty-tasting saliva from his mouth onto the ground, Pei Xia glared at the hairy-chested man: "You lost, you scoundrel!"

The man was not drunk yet.

But he also knew that if he continued drinking, it was hard to say whether Pei Xia would die first, but he would definitely get drunk first.

He cannot get drunk.

His practice, known as "heroic spirit," is something that, once he gets drunk, is hard to shake off.

At that time, with that heroic spirit, they will be able to collapse mountains, destroy valleys, drive away clouds, and ride lightning, leaving no grass growing in their wake.

"you!"

The man pressed his forehead against Pei Xia's, staring at him fiercely for a long time.

He finally let out a loud burp, then lay back on the ground: "You win, damn it!"

Pei Xia let out a painful groan almost simultaneously.

Honestly, when the other party proposed the drinking contest, he really thought that this was just an ignorant and arrogant cultivator in the Dao Proving Realm who had intruded into his most invincible domain.

Unexpectedly, this fierce battle was comparable to the one against Xie Zu outside Beishi City!

He looked at the hairy-chested man lying on the ground: "Who are you?"

The man laughed loudly: "I am Chen E!"

(End of this chapter)