Reborn as Huo Yuhao, but also in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 23 Drink Less When You're Out and About

As the sun sets and dusk settles, the world begins to fall.

Huo Yuhao and his two companions were processing the meat of the Fire Cloud Leopard. Gu He put down the prey he was carrying, straining to look away from the incongruous steamer, and approached, saying, "The meat of magical beasts is very tough and difficult to chew. It doesn't necessarily taste very good either."

"If you'd like to try it, let me think if there's any way..."

Guhe had just taken out a few medicinal herbs from his storage ring, preparing to devise a prescription to soften the flesh, when he heard the three of them say in unison.

"No need to trouble yourself, senior."

Upon hearing this, Gu He was slightly taken aback and looked up at Huo Yuhao. He saw Huo Yuhao's fingertips gently stroking the ribs in his hand, and a layer of fine ice crystals appeared and quickly disappeared.

Sensing Gu He's probing gaze, Huo Yuhao calmly explained, "I condensed countless tiny ice crystals inside the meat, which can stretch the fibers, thus making the meat soft and tender."

Furukawa: "..."

Just then, Xiao Yan's voice rang out, and Gu He looked at him again. He saw Xiao Yan practicing his fist techniques on a piece of leg flesh, each punch creating a wave of flesh. He looked exceptionally excited.

"I inject the hidden force of Bajiquan into the flesh, using the hidden force to destroy the muscle fibers, which will definitely make it soft."

Furukawa: "..."

Gu He subconsciously turned his head to look at the third person, but before he could turn his gaze back to Little Fairy Doctor, Little Fairy Doctor's explanation came over.

"I used poisonous fighting gas to corrode some of the muscle fibers. Don't worry about the poison; I can inhale the toxic gas produced after the corrosion."

Furukawa: "..."

The medicinal herbs slipped silently from his hand.

After a moment of silence, Gu He finally reacted, picked up the medicinal herbs and put them into his storage ring, asking with some confusion, "How come you all know this?"

Xiao Yan explained, "After all, we've been training in the Monster Mountain Range for almost three months. At first, Yuhao cooked for us, but we couldn't just sit around and wait to eat, so we helped prepare the ingredients."

Before Gu He could ask any more questions, Xiao Yan immediately said, "Senior Gu He, please rest for a while. We'll be eating soon."

So I'm just getting the free lunch. Guhe was speechless.

……

After Huo Yuhao finished preparing the food, Gu He was naturally impressed by Huo Yuhao's culinary skills and praised it highly. However, Xiao Yan's words, "Eat what's ready," still lingered in his mind. After a slight hesitation, he took out a jar of medicinal wine and several wine cups from his storage ring.

"This is a medicinal wine that I carefully brewed using herbs such as Seven Star Grass, Illusion Leaf Vine, and Linglong Fruit. It has the effect of nourishing blood and qi and clearing the meridians. I couldn't even give it to President Fa Ma when he wanted it!" Gu He said, opening the wine jar and pouring a cup for each of them amidst a sweet aroma.

Under the moonlight, the wine in the glass shimmered with a pale silver luster. Huo Yuhao picked up the glass, brought it to his face, and took a light sniff. A sweet fragrance wafted up and permeated his heart and soul.

Huo Yuhao did not drink it immediately, but asked Yao Chen through mental sharing.

"teacher?"

"It's not poisonous, you can drink it."

With Yao Chen's permission, Huo Yuhao took a sip. Seeing this, Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Yan also took a sip and then drank it all in one go.

"It tastes great! I didn't expect Senior Guhe to be not only good at making medicine, but also good at brewing wine!" Xiao Yan exclaimed.

"Remember, this medicinal wine cannot be neutralized with fighting spirit; its medicinal properties must be released naturally. Moreover, this wine has a very strong aftereffect, and it's very easy to get drunk."

Gu He, in high spirits, poured them wine one after another, and drank quite a bit himself, his face already flushed. But just as he was about to check on the three little ones' drunken state with a touch of smugness, he met three pairs of bright, piercing eyes.

"How is that possible!" Gu He was so anxious that the alcohol hit him hard, and he immediately became a little tipsy. He took out several more jars from his storage ring.

"Come on, keep drinking! I refuse to believe it!"

However, what Gu He didn't notice was that Huo Yuhao only took a small sip at the beginning and didn't drink any more.

The wine that Little Fairy Doctor drank immediately encountered a wisp of purplish-gray poisonous gas upon entering her body. The poisonous gas within her Calamity Poison Body had been suppressed for too long, and now it was ravenously thirsty, absorbing and refining everything, regardless of whether the wine was medicine or poison. Therefore, Little Fairy Doctor remained calm and composed, her fighting spirit slowly increasing.

As for Xiao Yan...

"Didn't you raise fish? Come on, bottoms up! Let me tell you, with this level of alcohol, it's just like juice where I'm from! I once single-handedly took down the whole class!"

……

"Haha! Let me tell you, that old man in Yunshan..."

Huo Yuhao and Little Fairy Doctor had long since put down their wine cups and gone off to cultivate. Only Xiao Yan and Gu He remained by the campfire, drinking together.

"Brother Xiao Yan, I... I see your cultivation technique... seems to be of a low level?" Gu He's face was flushed, one hand on Xiao Yan's shoulder, the other patting his own chest.

"Your teacher is really... awful! He's a complete scoundrel, making you practice Yellow-Rank, Rank-1 techniques."

"Brother Guhe, you can't handle this! You're drunk so easily! My master can drink way more than you!"

Xiao Yan didn't seem drunk. He took advantage of Gu He's dizziness to acknowledge him as his brother, but judging from the words he uttered, he probably wasn't very sober.

"Cultivation technique, big, big brother has a good one, come, look at this." Gu He took out a cultivation technique from his storage ring. This was a low-level Earth-rank cultivation technique that Yunlan Sect had specially found to recruit him, a Pill King.

"You practice this, this!"

"Let me tell you, don't let the fact that my technique seems simple fool you..."

Just as Xiao Yan was about to let something slip, Huo Yuhao appeared behind them like a ghost and tapped them with his hand.

Thump! Xiao Yan collapsed to the ground and couldn't get up.

"Ha, ha, it's... you're not good enough..."

Gu He was overjoyed. Although he didn't understand why he should be happy, he was just happy to see Xiao Yan fall.

"Hey, Huo, kid, you... you're ice-attribute, right? Well, have you heard of the Mittel family? They... they're good at ice-attribute stuff. Let me introduce you... to their patriarch." With that, Gu He pulled out a scroll, grabbed something randomly, and started writing on it, clearly unaware of what he was doing.

"Thank you, Senior Furukawa. Please allow me to go back and consider it."

"Why call me 'senior'? Call me 'big brother'!" Gu He grumbled, dissatisfied. Then, he laughed and continued, "Little Fairy Doctor, our Yunlan Sect has some excellent poison-attribute cultivation techniques. You... you can join the Yunlan Sect."

"I'll go back and think about it," Little Fairy Doctor replied in the same way.

"If you're willing, I... I can introduce you to Yunyun. Yunyun, you... do you know? She's..."

Before he could finish speaking, Gu He could no longer hold on, his voice became indistinct, and he collapsed to the ground. Soon, he and Xiao Yan began to snore.

"Tsk!" Huo Yuhao snatched the scroll from Gu He's hand, which was filled with scribbles drawn with the juice of grass stalks, and dragged the two people who were stuck on the ground into the tent. He couldn't help but think to himself: It seems that this Pill King Gu He is more like Elder Xuan.

"Achoo! Achoo! Who's insulting me!"

"Hehehe! Yuhao, now is a good opportunity. Should we let this 'Dan King' know how treacherous society is?" Yao Chen began imitating his old enemies again.

Huo Yuhao was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Senior Guhe... he is a good person."

"Haha, just kidding."