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Huan Caiyi's Surprising Hobby
🕑 Added 2025-03-07 15:01:05 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 314 ---
The next day.
Yu Long woke up with a heavy sensation on his chest. He looked down and saw Chu Yueli and Huan Caiyi hugging him from each side, pressing their soft bodies on him.
He tried to remember what happened yesterday.
Oh, yeah.
Yu Long, Huan Caiyi, and Chu Yueli are planning the second phase of his plan until night, and then Huan Caiyi suddenly brings out a 'strong' wine after dinner, causing them to move to bed because of the mood.
You might wonder where Yona and Yujin go. Well, they got drunk faster than they got aroused.
"Damn, that was the strongest wine I ever had." Yu Long sighed, leaning on the pillow with a helpless look. "Welp, I don't mind it too much after that night."
"Fire-Ice combination isn't bad at all."
Huan Caiyi and Chu Yueli furrowed their brows, opening their eyes slowly as they saw each other from Yu Long's chest. They panicked for a second before remembering what happened last night.
Huan Caiyi blushed, 'I didn't expect the wine to be that STRONG!'
'Did I...' Chu Yueli felt complicated. She already served Yu Long once with another woman, her older sister, but having Huan Caiyi involved is something else.
Chu Yueli only knew about Huan Caiyi briefly. Yet this sudden change of position is awkward.
Even then, Chu Yueli could only sigh. Yes, another day of being Yu Long's harem member.
Yu Long sensed the tension between the two women and cleared his throat, "Ehem, morning, girls."
"Why don't we clean ourselves first before talking this out."
Chu Yueli and Huan Caiyi finally looked at Yu Long and harrumphed in their heart. 'Hmph, as expected of man!'
Yu Long felt a judging stink gaze and kissed their lips, "Okay, okay, don't look at me like that. I love you, and that's all that matters."
Huan Caiyi blushed, and Chu Yueli curved her lips in joy. Although they are annoyed, Yu Long's words make them happy.
Who doesn't love a man who understands his women?
After Yu Long kissed the ladies again, they finally got out of bed and had a morning bath together. The bathtub was large enough to accommodate ten people.
"Caiyi, can I call you that?" Chu Yueli suddenly asked.
Huan Caiyi glanced at Chu Yueli and nodded a little, "You can."
Chu Yueli smiled, "Good. Then, you can call me Yueli, too."
"Anyway, I'm curious. Where did you get that wine?"
"I made it." Huan Caiyi answered honestly. "You might not know, but I had contact with someone from another world before meeting Yu Long."
"She was a Witch, and she gave me Witchcraft Books in exchange for some treasures. One of the Witchcraft Books is about enchanting liquid, so I experimented a lot."
"I was able to make wine that could increase the speed of one's training by accident, so I decided to reduce it all into a bottle, expecting the effect to be better."
"I wanted to try a sip after the One Hundred Years' Reign Ceremony but was too excited to check Golden Crow's Trials. So, I never opened the bottle."
"I was expecting the wine's effect to be better..."
"But as we have experienced, it becomes dangerously alcoholic for some reason."
"Even though I got drunk..." Yu Long was speechless. His body naturally expels 'impurity' out, but Caiyi's wine isn't considered impurity. It has a strong medicinal essence that could nourish one's profound veins, marrow, and blood.
So, Yu Long's body mistook it for medicine.
And this was his first discovery.
Imagine finding your weakness like this.
Yu Long doesn't know how to feel about this wine. Thankfully, he can learn from this experience and will check everything before consuming something.
"Wait a minute..." Yu Long realized something.
"Caiyi, did you say that your wine can speed up one's training?"
"Yeah?" Huan Caiyii tilted her head.
"How effective was it?" Since Yu Long and Chu Yueli are different from your typical cultivators, the wine didn't affect their cultivation.
Huan Caiyi pondered deeply before answering cautiously. "It depends on the cultivation base. My servant at Sky Profound Realm drank the base version of the wine and told me her practice is around four times faster than normal."
"Three times faster for the Emperor Profound Realm."
"2.5 times faster for the Tyrant Profound Realm."
"And two times faster for the Sovereign Profound Realm."
Yu Long's eyes lit up, "Do you still remember the recipe?"
"Yes. It's in my journal." Huan Caiyi took a book from her ring and tossed it to Yu Long. "Even though my wine is good, I found it not cost-effective to make it in a large batch."
"The ingredients I needed are rare, and some of them needed to make Overlord Pellet."
"I only make some to drink it myself."
Yu Long flipped through the journal, and Chu Yueli snooped curiously to see how Huan Caiyi made the wine. After a few flips, their expression grew solemn because Huan Caiyi was more skilled than expected.
Each writing told them the details of wine-making through the Witchcraft of Enchanting Liquid such as how much ingredients, heat control, and the mixture could affect the taste and effect of the wine.
Yu Long and Chu Yueli stared at Huan Caiyi, finding this demon empress had another side they didn't know.
"What?" Huan Caiyi was puzzled by their reactions.
It's not strange for someone like Huan Caiyi to have a hobby. Sometimes, the stress of governing people and cultivation weighed on her, so she found ways to have fun and relieve it.
Witchcraft just fit into Huan Caiyi's spare time.
"Caiyi, you are a genius." Chu Yueli could only comment this way.
No way, even Chu Yueli didn't have such skills.
Yu Long closed the book and said slowly, "The ingredients needed to make wine are rare but not extinct."
"I have a Kaiju that can grow these ingredients and another Kaiju that processes them into a wine. Can we use this to cultivate people in the Illusory Demon Realm?"
"No problem," Huan Caiyi replied calmly. "Since my wine's recipe can help, then use it."
Yu Long commented, "You're generous."
"It's just a wine recipe." Huan Caiyi pouted. "I have more sacrifice than that."
Chu Yueli looked at Huan Caiyi's calm expression and sighed in her heart because this woman was more miserable than she thought.
Others wouldn't give out this kind of secret this easily. It showed just how detached Huan Caiyi was from the world.
How could Chu Yueli not understand Yu Long's thoughts? The importance of this wine is critical for the Illusory Demon Realm.
Even though Yu Long could make 'godly medicine' with the help of Woby (Slime Kaiju), he could not always be here. Not to mention, each region has different flora and fauna.
Instead of relying on a rare resource with limited availability in the Illusory Demon Realm, it is more 'practical' to utilize local products rather than transporting them from the Profound Sky Continent and Azure Cloud Continent.
The ingredients for Huan Caiyi's wine are rare, but they are abundant enough to last for decades.
Since these ingredients could grow in the Illusory Demon Realm, Freya's help can boost their growth tremendously. We can't say the same if we want to grow them on other continents.
Of course, we can't say the same for Heavenly Wind Flower's pollen and Golden Sunflower.
Yu Long gave Huan Caiyi a warm look and asked, "Do you have a name for this wine?"
"Hmm, no. It's just wine." Huan Caiyi replied bluntly. She didn't care enough to name her creation.
"Then, what about Xiao Huan Jiu (Little Fantasy Wine)?" Yu Long smiled playfully.
Huan Caiyi's eyes widened because the meaning behind this wine's name was clear. After all, Huan or Fantasy comes from her name.
She couldn't help but feel happy in her heart, "Good name."
