"May I ask, sir, what is wine?"
"The word for wine refers to water in the You time. You is the tenth earthly branch, which means west, which means autumn, which is the time when the rice is ripe. When grains are brewed into water, it is called wine!"
"This is what the scriptures say. Weiyu wants to hear the young master's voice."
"The intoxicating thing is wine. Beauty, wealth, fame and wealth in the world, if it can intoxicate people's hearts, what is not wine?"
"May I ask, sir, what is drunkenness?"
"To die from alcohol is to be drunk, to be born from alcohol is to be sober! Between being sober and drunk, there is the meaning of life and death..."
…
The scene of discussing wine in the endless sea emerged in Ning Fan's mind bit by bit.
Is Weiyu today the same person as Weiyu back then... If so, why is his aura different and his cultivation so different!
The Tantai Weiyu that Ning Fan met back then was nothing more than Suixu Cultivation, and what came to the lower world was just a distraction, but now...
The cultivation level of Weiyu in front of him was already at the peak of the fifth calamity in all eternity!
He is actually the pinnacle Immortal King!
In Weiyu back then, Ning Fan could see what was in Weiyu's mind using the whispering technique. However, in Weiyu today, he is unable to do this. The whispering technique has no effect at all...
It's not that Ning Fan has insufficient cultivation, but that there is an almost terrifying suction force in Wei Yu's body, which seems to be able to swallow up all the spiritual thoughts and magical powers that bully her...
"Wei Yu, who was discussing wine with you back then, was my witchcraft clone who stayed in Nantian. The Nantian Tantai family is a long-standing branch of my family. I secretly sent the witchcraft clone to go out to play. The elders in the clan didn't know. So, you must never tell others about this, okay?"
Seeming to see Ning Fan's confusion, Tantai Weiyu took the initiative to explain.
"Witch Gu clone?" Ning Fan was slightly startled.
"Yes, it's the witchcraft clone. If I don't send a villain to play secretly, I will die of suffocation. You may not be able to imagine that I haven't stepped out of my house for three million years... Fortunately, you scared my family Elder, I took this opportunity to come out and play."
"Scared the elders in your family?" Ning Fan was startled again.
"My family is from the Nan tribe. Although my home is here, my hometown is not here..." Tantai Weiyu sighed quietly.
Southern tribe!
Ning Fan's eyes narrowed slightly. He originally had many doubts in his heart, but after Wei Yu said the word "Nan Clan", he figured them all out.
The reason why this woman is following him. I came here for the Southern Clan’s affairs!
If this woman is the same person as Weiyu back then, she must know her true identity! Is this woman here to reveal her identity as a monk from the Rain Realm? But coming from the rain world is not unjustifiable...
only…
For some reason, Ning Fan had the strange feeling that everything was exposed in front of Tantai Weiyu's cunning eyes.
And if this woman really has malicious intentions. She won't be the only one coming, those old monsters from the Southern tribe won't show mercy to him...
"You followed me for seven days but didn't show up. Could it be that you just wanted to scare me..." Ning Fan suddenly had a weird guess.
"You can't blame me for this. Who wants you to smash the quasi-sage clone of the third grandpa and scare my grandpas so much, for fear that the Nan tribe will provoke a powerful enemy. Haha, I will scare you too. And the ancient overhaul, Zhao Jian...sister almost believed it. How about it? Mr. Ning has been living on tenterhooks these past seven days..."
Tantai Weiyu put down his wine glass and covered his mouth with a very elegant smile. Although he was noble and mature, he gave people a sense of sinisterness. It's like chasing Ning Fan all over the starry sky, how interesting it is...
Ning Fan was speechless.
In the past seven days, he also said that a peerless strong man was eyeing him. Although he was not frightened, he was extremely cautious. Like facing a formidable enemy...
But it turned out that it was just a prank played by this woman!
I frightened him for seven days with all mysteries. Could this woman find it very interesting? The sinister world is truly incomprehensible.
another thing. Ning Fan was slightly distracted. Tantai Weiyu calls herself sister. This title reminds Ning Fan of Luo You inadvertently.
That woman also likes to think of herself as her sister. I wonder where that woman is now. Has she returned to Beitian? After all, Beitian is her hometown...
"Mr. Ning, who has countless beauties, are you thinking of another woman?" Tantai Weiyu smiled meaningfully.
"...Hmm." Ning Fan did not deny it, but then thought of another woman and asked, "It was the girl's witchcraft clone that led Su Qiu to ascend back then. Su Qiu is doing well now and has adapted to the life of Zifu Academy. ?”
This time, the question was asked by Yin Suqiu.
"Junior sister is living a good life. According to the news from the witchcraft clone, junior sister is now practicing cultivation..."
Tantai Weiyu paused and then said,
"Stop talking about this, you haven't answered me yet. Do you want to drink the wine from my hometown?"
“Wine from home…”
Ning Fan nodded, poured himself a glass, tasted it, and was slightly stunned.
It’s not wine…it’s water!
But it’s not just ordinary water…
It has no special taste, no spiritual power at all, and is not even considered wine. But for some reason, Ning Fan's heart immediately becomes peaceful after drinking this glass of water.
Ning Fan drank one cup, then a second cup, and a third cup... After three cups, he slowly closed his eyes. At this moment, he seemed to have forgotten the killing seven days ago, the sea of blood he had walked through over the years, the light of swords and shadows on the road of bones, the cultivation of his body, and the world of cultivation...
He seemed to have regained the feeling he had when he was a mortal, remembering the days when he was young, walking on the dirt on the mountain to collect medicine... He remembered his hometown of Haining, and remembered that there was a river there, and the river water seemed to taste like this...
He seemed to think of the Yue Kingdom again, and the snow in Qimei City. This clear water wine seemed to be the boiled snow water...
No, no, this is not real water...
Water becomes wine, which is a transformation.
Turning wine into water is a retrospective process.
This is not pure water, but... water made from wine. If we insist on matching it with wine, it would be water wine!
"Good wine."
Ning Fan slowly opened his eyes and gave a pertinent comment.
This shout was not loud, but it attracted the attention of many monks in the wine shop. These low-level monks gathered in the wine shop. Naturally, most of them are good drinkers. When they hear the words of good wine, they will naturally pay attention. Unfortunately, they were destined to be disappointed. When they glanced over with their spiritual thoughts, they discovered that the content in Ning Fan's cup was not wine, but water.
"Is this person stupid? He drank water, but he said it was good wine. Is there something wrong with his head? This wine isn't even good!"
"I won't mention this guy anymore. If you ask me, the Immortal Drunkenness brewed from my thousand-year-old cold dew is the truly good wine."
"Nonsense, compared with my three-thousand-year-old beautiful lady. Your immortal drunken bullshit is nothing like that!"
"My world is red..."
"My cup of purple wine..."
The whole room was full of arguments, which immediately suppressed Ning Fan's previous cheers. There were also a few old drunkards who were good at this, drunkenly slapped the table and laughed, taking Ning Fan's embarrassing incident of mistaking water for wine as a joke. certainly. These drunkards just laughed a few words and gave up, continuing to drink their own wine, not bothering to pay attention to Ning Fan, a novice in drinking.
Tantai Weiyu silently closed his eyes, unable to hide the shock in his heart.
Although she gave Ning Fan the wine, she didn't expect him to understand it. After all, no Dongtian monk had ever understood the wonders of this clear water.
Even she herself doesn’t understand…
Ning Fan understands...
In front of Tantai Weiyu's eyes, the figure of that big brother seemed to appear again, standing at Tantai Ferry day after day. Looking in the direction of the vast road. From dawn, to dusk, to eternal night, from spring, to lonely autumn, to midwinter...
I can't forget the lonely look on my elder brother's face as he drank swigs of water and wine.
I can't forget the vicissitudes of my elder brother's tone as he stroked his little head and told himself the story of Cang Mang Dao...
"My name is Ni Fan, and I am Cang Mangxiu. But I am not..."
"What I'm looking at is not the boundless road, but waiting for an encounter with a butterfly. It's not the boundless nine butterflies, but... the once insignificant self."
"... Cangwu Dao is the hometown of butterflies. The monks here worship butterflies as gods, just because the Cangwu Nine Butterflies were born here, and there are countless unknown mortal butterflies... The world only knows that only Cangwu Nine Butterflies are born. Flying out of the boundless road, if an ordinary butterfly steps on the boundless road, it will fly into ashes... Few people know that there was once a mortal butterfly that flew out of the boundless road... That day, the ancient sword master entered the boundless road to use his sword, and there was a bold butterfly, Hiding in the sword master's body..."
"...It is not powerful and can be called ordinary, but it is this ordinaryness that caught the eyes of Zi Dou Immortal Emperor and saw a glimmer of life in the darkness, so he showed mercy and agreed to the ancient sword master's pleading. , gave the butterfly a second life..."
"...When it entered the dream world, it was an ordinary butterfly. After reincarnation, it was still an ordinary butterfly. Immortal Emperor Zi Dou did not help the butterfly too much, for fear of damaging the butterfly's Yin. The only time he intervened was to separate the Luan Gu Great Emperor and the butterfly. The cause and effect of the butterfly are connected together... Unfortunately, that hope is still too slim. Even before the death of Immortal Emperor Zi Dou, he did not have any hope for the butterfly, but had high hopes for the ten ancient spirits... Unfortunately, the ten ancient spirits Ling has failed the expectations of the Zi Dou Immortal Emperor and the trust of hundreds of millions of Zi Dou Immortal cultivators..."
"...There is an old saying in our vast land, a butterfly flapping its wings is enough to change a reincarnation... Although the butterfly's origin is ordinary, it has no ancient bloodline, no support from the family destiny, if it is not ruthless, it will have no future. Who can No one would have thought that the path chosen by the butterfly is something that no monk in the true world would dare to try! If he does not die, he will return to the vast road one day, and I must wait for it, so that it can be perfect!"
I don’t understand, I don’t understand why the elder brother has to wait for a butterfly.
I don’t understand, I don’t understand why big brother likes to drink this clear water wine...
Tantai Weiyu could not see the benefits of this clear water wine. She had always known that if her elder brother liked it, it would be good... Today, she just wanted to share this wine with Ning Fan, her best friend in wine.
But Ning Fan understands...
"Young Master is indeed a person who knows how to drink. When we meet again today, let's allow Weiyu to be rude again. May I ask Young Master, what is wine?"
The first time, Tantai Weiyu asked about wine, and Ning Fan answered about life and death, truth and falsehood, cause and effect, and reincarnation, but this time it was different.
The question was still the same, but what Tantai Weiyu asked was no longer Tao.
Just that clear water wine...
She thought of the scenes in Cangmang Road, and of her elder brother. She wanted to understand his original intention of drinking water and wine, and wanted to understand the person she had never understood... There was sadness, bitterness, and more in her eyes. But I miss you.
The end of the world misses you and cannot be forgotten...
Ning Fan frowned slightly. For some reason, he couldn't get used to seeing Tantai Weiyu sad. It was the same last time and this time too. He was not attracted to this girl, but instead looked at her as if she were a nephew or a descendant, just like Zhao Dieer. It's a weird feeling of... an elder feeling sorry for a younger generation. It's a... weird feeling that feels like it's been familiar to them for countless years.
However, Ning Fan was very sure that he had only met Tantai Weiyu twice in his life. As a result, the feeling of being extremely familiar could only be explained by an illusion.
"The girl asked. But this clear water wine?"
"You really understand what I want to ask." Tantai Weiyu's sadness subsided slightly and he nodded.
"The girl gave me a drink of clear water wine first, and then asked this question. Ning could naturally guess one or two."
Ning Fan paused. After recalling the taste of the clear water wine, for some reason, I thought of the scene of the old man fishing, and after pondering, he said again.
"Last time, I saw life and death, truth and falsehood, cause and effect, and reincarnation in the wine. This time, I saw perfection..."
Ning Fan moved the wine pot and glass, stretched out his finger, and with a touch of magic, he drew a circle on the wine table, shining slightly.
"When I draw a circle, there must be a place to start, and the starting point of the circle. This must be the end point of the circle, and this is, perfection."
"From water to wine, what we seek is sublimation, and from wine back to water, it is a traceback. This traceback is exactly about walking out from the starting point, going around once, and returning to the starting point. Although it is still at the starting point, the circle has been completed. Therefore, this clear water and wine can no longer be regarded as pure water, because it has reached perfection and is naturally extraordinary."
"Life and death are a complete process. From life to death, from death to life, and so on, a circle is formed."
"Truth and falsehood are a complete process. From seeing whether it is true or not to seeing whether it is true or not, only after completing this circle can the path of truth and falsehood be complete."
"Cause and effect are also a perfection. Today people are fishing, and they are fishing for me every year. The cycle of cause and effect is also like a circle."
"Look at the Cultivation Star, why is it round? Look at the sun and the moon, why is it round? Look at the human eye, why is it round? Look at the vast starry sky, where is there no round... All living beings in the world are pursuing it. Perfection. The edges of pebbles will be rounded by the tide, and the spirit of a young man will be rounded by the world. This roundness is the path recognized by heaven, and is the destination of all living things in the world, but there are exceptions..."
"In this world, there is also a type of monk who will not polish off his edges and corners. God calls him soft, but he insists on showing his hardness! God calls him round, so he wants to go against it and make it square! The same is true of walking back from the starting point to the end point. It's just that... he would rather kowtow and bleed in the reincarnation, but also keep his edges and corners, expose his sharp edges, and compete with God's will... It's not that he can't give in, it's just that he can't compromise, because those edges and corners are his way, which is better than others. Life is more important. As the old saying goes, the sky is round and the earth is round. People in the world blindly pursue the round, but forget that there is a square way..."
The sky is round and the earth is round... Big brother seemed to have said similar things back then...
Tantai Weiyu stared at Ning Fan blankly. For a moment, he actually had the illusion that he had gone back to the endless years before, as if he had returned to the vast road, to Tantai Ferry, to those days when the sky was clear and the rain had not yet come. and night.
She remembered that day, brother Nifan had stood at the intersection and sighed, saying that this clear water wine had the best taste and was the best wine in the world to drink when homesick.
However, it cannot be called the best underground wine...
That day, she promised ignorantly that she would brew the best underground wine for her eldest brother, but she only made him laugh.
"Master Ning, do you think this clear water wine deserves the reputation of being the best wine in the world?" Tantai Weiyu suddenly asked.
"Is this the best wine in the world? When I drink this wine, I actually feel like I'm returning home. Just like when I was young, this wine is worthy of being the best wine in the world." Ning Fan replied.
"Master Ning thinks that this wine can be regarded as the best wine in the underground..."
"The best underground wine?"
Ning Fan was startled. This was the first time he heard such a term.
But it’s no wonder when you think about it. If there is a world, then there is an underground. What’s wrong with that? The world is yang, the earth is yin, and the circle is recognized by the sky. This clear water wine is full of wine, and it is not shameful to be the best wine in the world. However, if you want to be the best drink under the earth, you cannot seek perfection, but must be Fang means spicy, never bland...
"This wine is not enough to be called the best underground wine." Ning Fan replied.
"If you want me to brew the best wine in the world, how do you plan to brew it..." Tantai Weiyu asked.
At this moment, she actually had some expectations. If Ning Fan knew how to brew, would she be able to complete what she promised her big brother back then and brew this wine.
Even though...big brother is no longer here...
"If I brew it..." Ning Fan thought of his father and the scene when his father brewed wine with blood. The pungency has never been forgotten to this day.
"If I were asked to brew the first underground wine, I would still use the perfect method to brew it, but I would add the blood and bones of the people I killed along the way into the wine to create the edges and corners of the wine. Brewing wine with bones and blood is the best way to make wine. But he is so drunk that he is made of flesh and blood and deserves the reputation of being the best drink in the underground!"
The wine you practice should be spicy, and it should... follow the right path!
If the circle is yang, then the square is yin, which is the ultimate yin...
They were obviously discussing wine, but Ning Fan seemed to have a huge realization, as if he had understood his own path at this moment.
When Tianming practices cultivation, this road is blocked... The meaning of "blocked" is that this road already exists, but it has been blocked.
"The word "square"...could it be that God wants to block the path of cultivation!"
Others are cultivating the heavens, but what they are cultivating...could it be the earth!
With this thought, Ning Fan's eyes suddenly changed when he looked at the mountains and rivers of Nandou Star! (To be continued.)
