The Doumen Divine King smiled bitterly. "This is wine that the Tong Gu Divine King gave me to celebrate my ascension to Divine Kinghood, saying it was brewed by his own hand. But it really is just ordinary wine, no different from what you could buy in the mortal world."
"Interesting," Ye Chen revealed a hint of a smile. It seemed this Tong Gu Divine King was quite an interesting character.
However, precisely because it was a gourd gifted by the Tong Gu Divine King, the Doumen Divine King had kept it by his side all this time, lest the Tong Gu Divine King appear one day and ask about the wine gourd's whereabouts.
Ye Chen opened the wine gourd, and his eyes immediately lit up.
Because he discovered the wine inside was vastly different from what the Doumen Divine King had described. Far from ordinary, it was clearly a peerless immortal brew. When he opened his Heaven's Eye, he could see countless Great Dao principles surging within the liquid—how extraordinary!
Calling it the number one immortal wine in the Weiyang Great World would not be an exaggeration.
He took a sip, and an intense, spicy sensation immediately filled his mouth. Even someone of Ye Chen's level, an Eternal Quasi-Monarch, felt it so strongly. One could imagine just how potent the wine in this gourd was.
"Good wine, hahaha—"
It had been a long time since he had tasted such a fiery, potent liquor. He instantly felt his entire chest cavity filled with boiling blood energy.
This was no ordinary wine; it was the fiercest, most potent liquor. Its sheer intensity was enough to make a Great Power's blood energy boil and burn away.
Beside him, the Doumen Divine King was astonished. He sniffed the air and immediately changed color, his face flushing red as his internal blood energy began to seethe and grow hot.
He hurriedly circulated his Divine King power to suppress it, secretly shocked.
Back then, he had thought it was just ordinary wine. Who would have thought that after storing it in his inner space for over a hundred thousand years, it would transform into such a fiercely potent brew? Truly unbelievable.
The Ancient Desolate Dragon and the thirteen Great Powers of Doumen were even worse off. Their bodies flushed red, blood energy boiling, nearly igniting. Then, one by one, they toppled over, actually drunk and knocked out by the mere aroma of the wine.
"Interesting, interesting."
Ye Chen laughed heartily. The more he experienced this, the more he felt the Tong Gu Divine King was no simple figure.
Someone capable of brewing such a fiercely potent wine, whose mere aroma could intoxicate a Great Power and make a Divine King's blood energy boil...
A single sip made Ye Chen, a super-existence comparable to an Ancient Monarch, feel his blood energy churn. This person was undoubtedly extraordinary.
A Divine King?
He didn't think so.
It was very likely a Quasi-Monarch, or even an Ancient Monarch.
Holding the gourd, Ye Chen focused his mind and began to perform a Deduction using his Eternal Quasi-Monarch abilities.
Boom—
Within his brow, his Chaos Saint Soul, a miniature figure, sat cross-legged, surrounded by myriad chaotic lights and the laws of all heavens and myriad Daos, beginning the Deduction.
Using the wine gourd imbued with the Tong Gu Divine King's aura for the Deduction was undoubtedly much faster than attempting it with no connection at all.
Ye Chen's eyes remained motionless, yet countless scenes flickered within them, constantly shifting, shimmering, and resonating.
Finally, within his gaze, the figure of an old man appeared—extremely disheveled, like a beggar, with a wine gourd on his back, passed out drunk on a street.
People came and went on the street, paying him no mind. Only a few kind-hearted souls gave him some money or food.
"A beggar? You must be the Tong Gu Divine King," Ye Chen smiled, having already found the Tong Gu Divine King's figure.
At the same time, the beggar-like old man seemed to sense something and glanced suspiciously in this direction. "Someone can actually Deduce my location? Not simple."
At this moment, Ye Chen and the Tong Gu Divine King were gazing at each other from afar.
A gaze separated by infinite space!
The next moment, the Tong Gu Divine King shook his head. "I dislike being spied upon."
With a flick of his sleeve, the scene instantly collapsed into nothingness.
Ye Chen let out a sound of surprise and prepared to forcefully Deduce his location again.
Boom—
Suddenly, the entire Doumen World was in turmoil.
Or, to be more precise, it wasn't the Doumen World itself in turmoil, but turmoil coming from outside.
Beyond, high above the Shenwang Valley, in the unreachable sky of the Weiyang Great World, terrifying tribulation thunder was brewing, shaking the world and startling all nine continents.
Under the terrifying tribulation thunder, the entire Doumen World trembled.
The power of that tribulation thunder was beyond imagination, enough to potentially collapse even an inner world like the Doumen World, which was formed from a Divine King's origin.
A trace of gravity flashed across Ye Chen's face. This Tong Gu Divine King truly had an extraordinary origin. Merely Deducing his whereabouts actually involved a taboo of this Weiyang Great World, forcing the world's origin to descend with heavenly punishment.
But who was Ye Chen? He would not fear it.
He was just about to send a Sovereign puppet to meet the tribulation thunder and continue Deducing the Tong Gu Divine King's location.
At that moment, the Doumen Divine King's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly said, "Sir Chen, please wait. Although we cannot find the Tong Gu Divine King's whereabouts now, in half a month, the Heaven-Piercing Sacred Fruit—the Miantian Peach—planted in the Medicine God Valley of Shenwang Valley will ripen. My Doumen organization will then invite the world's top experts to a grand feast. Given the Tong Gu Divine King's personality, upon learning the Miantian Peach has ripened, he will surely come to taste it. At that time, you can ask him directly."
Hearing this, Ye Chen pondered for a few breaths, then nodded. "Agreed!"
Immediately, the chaotic light within his brow receded, and the Deduction dissipated.
Simultaneously, the extremely terrifying tribulation thunder looming over Shenwang Valley also slowly dispersed.
The Doumen Divine King breathed a sigh of relief. He had sensed the terrifying power of that tribulation thunder enveloping the Doumen World; it could absolutely destroy the entire inner world formed from his Divine King origin. If that happened, he would truly have no time to even cry.
"I've troubled you, Fellow Daoist," Ye Chen said. This way, it wouldn't be too abrupt.
Although he very much wanted to immediately ask the Tong Gu Divine King about the Supreme Inheritance.
But the Tong Gu Divine King was also no ordinary figure.
"You're welcome," the Doumen Divine King said, feeling both honored and awed. "During these half-month period, Sir Chen can stay in my Doumen World and quietly await the day of the feast."
"Agreed!"
Ye Chen agreed. There was no need to be overly hasty about the matter.
Seeing that Ye Chen would not be leaving, the Doumen Divine King also relaxed, a hint of joy flashing deep in his eyes.
Because he vaguely sensed that Ye Chen was not as simple as a Divine King; he was very likely an existence that was about to surpass the Divine King realm, or had already surpassed it.
He had been stuck at the Divine King realm for over a hundred thousand years and naturally yearned to advance further, even beyond it.
Therefore, he very much wanted to seek guidance from Ye Chen on how to transcend above.
During this period, Doumen received Ye Chen into the Heavenly Continent with the highest honors, treating him as their most esteemed guest.
As for the wine gifted by the Tong Gu Divine King to the Doumen Divine King, Ye Chen quite liked it. With a few words, he expressed his hope to trade for the wine in the gourd.
After learning how miraculous the wine gourd gifted by the Tong Gu Divine King was, the Doumen Divine King was naturally extremely reluctant to part with it. But seeing how much Ye Chen liked it, he gritted his teeth and directly gifted it over.
Naturally, Ye Chen was not the greedy type. After a moment's thought, he gave the Doumen Divine King the Quasi-Monarch battle armor from a Quasi-Monarch he had killed in the past.
"A supreme battle armor that surpasses the Divine King realm!"
The Doumen Divine King was both overjoyed and utterly shocked. Seeing Ye Chen gift it away so casually made him feel even more that Ye Chen was no simple figure, filling him with even greater awe and reverence.