si-mexico Chapter 169 The Wind Follows the Wine Spring
Chapter 169 The Wind Follows the Wine Spring
"If you don't pay it back, things will get really serious..."
Xu Ning looked up following the direction the woman in green pointed, and was stunned.
He muttered to himself, "This is really serious!"
It was discovered that the "sweet wine" of Jiuquan had stopped flowing at some point, and the wine pool below dried up almost instantly.
The dragon head, which should have been spitting out the "sweet wine," seemed to come alive, slowly turning its head and gently swallowing the Heart of the Wind God, which was being carried by a soft breeze.
Xu Ning reached out and grabbed Qingyi's light blue cheongsam, yelling at her, "Aren't you a Celestial Spirit? Make that dragon stop and spit out the Heart of God! We don't even know what this thing means to this world. If we mess it up, we might all die!"
The woman in green gave a strange laugh and said, "I don't know how this happened, and... it seems like it's too late."
Xu Ning turned his head and saw that the dragon's head had returned to its original position. On the lower jaw of the dragon's head, which was the legendary reverse scale, a blue light flashed and a wind element symbol appeared.
Then, clear wine flowed out of the dragon's mouth again, pouring into the wine pool below.
The inscriptions on the bluestone of the wine pool below have also been quietly changed at some point.
The characters “甘醴” disappeared and were replaced by the characters “千风”.
A refreshing aroma of wine drifted through the dust-hidden cave on a gentle breeze.
"got windy……"
Xu Ning had been in the Dust-Hidden Cave for quite some time, but he had never felt a breeze.
Now that Ganli Wine Spring has merged with the Heart of the Wind God, not only has the entire space gained a gentle breeze, but perhaps even the taste of Ganli wine will become extraordinary?
Xu Ning walked a few steps to the edge of the wine spring, bent down, took a sip, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Good wine!"
A sip of wine felt like a refreshing breeze passing through the body, cleansing away all the grime accumulated inside. Even thoughts seemed to become clear, worries vanished, leaving one feeling serene and enlightened.
"This is the true meaning of the broom that sweeps away sorrow!"
Su Shi once said that wine "should be called a fishing hook for poetry, and also a broom to sweep away sorrow."
Xu Ning felt he was illiterate and dared not speak of poetry, but this wine truly deserved the title of "broom that sweeps away sorrow."
"Well, it's already like this, let's just take it one step at a time!"
Xu Ning stood up, ready to go out and talk things out with Wendy.
Unexpectedly, the cave suddenly trembled. The man in green stood to the side, smiled, and said, "You've done something really great! Don't you want to hear about your gains before you leave?"
"Cough cough."
Qingyi cleared her throat and spoke in a mature, sophisticated voice.
"Achievement: Follow the wind, let a thousand winds follow - master the elemental power of wind."
"Offering to Dionysus upgraded by one level: Increases stamina by eight points and grants fifty Dionysus Seals."
"Level cap broken, talent panel unlocked."
"New talent 'Drunken but Real' unlocked."
Innate talent: Seemingly drunk but actually real.
While in the "drunken" state of "intending to indulge in unrestrained revelry," one can switch to a one-handed sword weapon, increasing normal attack speed by 8% and doubling attack range.
"The Destiny Panel is now open, unlocking your natal constellation: Azure Dragon Seven Mansions."
Xu Ning never expected that the breakthrough opportunity he had been searching for would appear at this moment.
"That's really impressive! Level breakthrough, talent unlocked, destiny star activated. You still say that devouring the Heart of the Wind God wasn't intentional?"
Xu Ning slowly turned around to face the woman in green and asked.
The woman in green once again wore that "I don't seem to understand what you're saying" expression that Xu Ning hadn't seen in a long time.
Xu Ning tapped her forehead, "You all better act!"
Having no time to deal with this girl who was clearly hiding her true intentions, and without having time to slowly check his new panel, Xu Ning casually picked up a porcelain bowl and crawled out of the Dust-Hidden Cave.
Wendy maintained the same expression Xu Ning had when he went in, and asked with a smile, "Where is my Heart of God?"
Xu Ning sighed and placed the porcelain bowl on the ground.
"I still remember the first time we met, you asked me for wine, saying you wanted to drink wine made from the wind."
Xu Ning slowly poured the newly made "Thousand Winds" from the wine gourd into the porcelain bowl.
"So I brewed your divine heart into a bowl of Thousand Winds Wine. After drinking this bowl of wine, we'll be even."
"Also, remember to sing in your hymns that you have already drunk your own God's heart like wine, and no one should come to me to ask for it back."
After saying that, Xu Ning turned around and ran away in a flash.
Wendy picked up the porcelain bowl filled with "Thousand Winds" from the ground with both hands, and gently sipped it.
"Turning a thousand winds into wine? This is the taste of my dreams! Is this a new story, a new myth? Hey, this is getting more and more interesting!"
Xu Ning is currently running towards Mondstadt.
He could have returned to the city directly using the teleportation point at the Windrise Land, but the achievement Qingyi mentioned earlier, "Mastering the elemental power of wind," was something he was very interested in, so he went to the wilderness to test it out.
After emerging from the space of the Dust Concealment Cave, Xu Ning sensed a new change in his Dust Concealment Gourd.
This Dust Concealing Gourd has been with him since the first day he arrived on this continent, never leaving his side for a moment. Naturally, no changes in it could escape his notice.
The most noticeable change is that the dragon patterns on the gourd's body have become clearer and more intricate.
Just like how the original dragon pattern was more like a simple totem, while the current one is more like a realistic painting.
Moreover, the most striking change is that, like the dragon head of Qianfeng Jiuquan, this dragon pattern also displays a "wind element" symbol on the reverse scale of its lower jaw, and the entire dragon seems to be surrounded by the wind of the high sky, giving it a feeling of fiercely ready to take flight.
When I first held the gourd, I could feel that it was filled with endless wine elements, and I could call upon its power at any time.
Now, in addition to the element of wine, Xu Ningxin sensed the elemental power of wind, which permeated every inch of the wine gourd, omnipresent and readily available.
Xu Ning even found that manipulating the wind element was easier than manipulating the wine element.
By simply extracting a wisp of wind from the Dust Concealment Gourd, one can mobilize the ubiquitous wind element around them.
"A thousand winds follow!"
Xu Ning wrapped the wind element around himself, and with the help of the wind, he was as light as a feather, whistling across the grassland.
Scattered across the grasslands are remnants of arrow towers and fences left behind by the Hilichurls during their siege of Mondstadt.
Xu Ning was now in a playful mood, staring at a dilapidated arrow tower in the distance.
"Turning wine into poetry!"
This time, Xu Ning used real liquor.
With the help of the wind element, Xu Ning can now not only extract the aroma of wine, but also use the wind element to create vortexes, drawing the wine from a certain wine spring in the cave directly from the gourd opening, forming a ribbon-like curtain of wine, which is then spread by the wind element and sprinkled directly towards a more distant target.
The fine wine, like a white ribbon, soaked the distant arrow tower completely.
"Next up is Gale Breath!"