Chapter 319: No Good Banquet (Part )

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Liu Xunyi slowly stood up. He first glanced at Xunzhen, who frowned slightly, then looked at Tang Cong and the Liao brothers, who looked solemn, and finally cast his gaze on Song Yu and Jian Zhong who were opposite him. At this moment, his expression was complicated, just like his uneasy heart.

Seeing this, Tang Cong shouted: "If we can't break the copper pot, can we turn it over?"

"The Palace Master hates sneaky people the most." Hu Yanba said in a deep voice, "Jian Zhong pierced through the copper pot with his inner strength. If you want to take advantage of him, you'd better admit defeat as soon as possible to avoid embarrassment."

"you……"

"Shut up!" Liu Xunyi shouted, "What Huyan Banner Master said is right. Picking plums should be based on real ability, not clever tricks." After saying that, Liu Xunyi's eyes turned and looked meaningfully at the vague figure in the cabinet, and said with a hint of meaning, "If you don't have real talent and knowledge, how can you be qualified to make friends with Palace Master Ren?"

"Master Liu is right," Dong Xiao'er agreed with a smile, "but it's better to do than to say. Why don't you let us see Master Liu's methods?"

Liu Xunyi's expression straightened up. He walked slowly towards the pot, looked at the dark green water in the pot, and quickly thought of a strategy in his mind.

"Turning the world upside down!" Xunzhen suddenly spoke up to remind.

A word of advice awakened the dreamer. Liu Xunyi thought about it for a moment, and suddenly realized something. A strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He placed his hands lightly on both sides of the copper pot, secretly using his internal strength to rub it quickly.

At first, the green water in the pot was calm. After a while, the green water began to boil and churn, and it became more and more intense. Seeing that the time was right, Liu Xunyi wrapped his arms around the copper pot and turned it suddenly. The green water in the pot began to spin and gradually formed a whirlpool.

Three green plums are at the center of the vortex.

As the vortex continued to accelerate, green water rushed to the surroundings, the center gradually became concave, and the bottom of the pot was faintly visible.

In a flash, a rapidly spinning green plum emerged from the center of the vortex. Seeing that the time had come, Liu Xunyi was quick to stretch out two fingers and quickly pick out the green plum.

Then, he flipped his wrist and threw the green plum into the air. With a flick of his finger, he broke it into pieces. Then he picked up a few pieces of clean plum flesh and put them into his mouth slowly.

Liu Xunyi's movements may sound slow, but in reality they were just a blink of an eye. He moved smoothly and in one go, and by the time he had swallowed the extremely sour plum, many people in Piaomiao Pavilion were still stunned and had not yet recovered.

Although the plums are sour, compared with the danger of green vitriol oil, this taste is nothing.

"Good!" Ding Ao spoke first, "Master Liu is brave and resourceful. I admire you!"

"The second flavor."

Before he finished speaking, Ren Wuya's voice was heard in the cabinet.

A moment later, four disciples came slowly carrying a wooden box. When they opened the box, Liu Xunyi, Song Yu and the others were all secretly surprised.

Inside the wooden box were two shiny black poisonous snakes with triangular pointed heads.

The snakes were about the thickness of an arm and ten feet long, coiled together in the wooden box, moving weakly. The flexible and hard head, like a black bean, the eyes emitting a faint cold light, the looming fangs, and the hissing thin tongue all made people feel a tingling sensation on their scalp and tightened their muscles.

Seeing Liu Xunyi and Jian Zhong's gloomy expressions, Ding Ao smiled faintly and said, "This is a Tianshan serpent. It is extremely poisonous and extremely powerful. If you are entangled by it, even a bull will have no chance of breaking free. If you are accidentally bitten by it, you will die within half an incense stick, and even gods cannot save you. So, you two must be careful when dealing with it."

"You want us to eat it?" Liu Xunyi asked in surprise.

"No." Ding Ao shook his head and said, "We are not eating it, but eating the gallbladder inside it. The gallbladder of a common snake is extremely bitter, and it is the second taste, extremely bitter. The rules remain the same, you can only use your hands, not weapons. Who will go first?"

"Last time it was Hero Jian who risked his life, this time it's my turn." Liu Xunyi volunteered.

"Master..."

Liao Chuan looked nervous, and hesitated several times before finally uttering two words with difficulty: "Be careful."

Liu Xunyi looked down at the two snakes in the box and took a deep breath, as if to calm his mind. At this moment, the Piaomiao Pavilion was completely silent, and everyone's eyes were all focused on him, nervous, curious, playful, indifferent, with different expressions, hiding their intentions.

"Humph!"

Liu Xunyi shouted softly, and the two snakes were startled and immediately stood up. Taking advantage of their unpreparedness, Liu Xunyi quickly pinched the head of one snake with his left hand like a clamp, and clenched his right fist to hit the snake's vital point.

The threatened snake suddenly moved and quickly counterattacked. Its speed and force were far beyond Liu Xunyi's imagination.

Because its head was being pinched tightly, the snake could not bite back at Liu Xunyi. It could only twist its body desperately and quickly wrap itself around Liu Xunyi's left arm.

In the blink of an eye, the snake had tightly coiled around his arm, shaking its head desperately. If Liu Xunyi's left hand had not been unyielding and would rather die than let go, he would have been bitten to death by the snake if he had been distracted for a moment.

The mediocre snake went up along his arm, and its tail swung wildly in front of Liu Xunyi's eyes, with such force that it could make a sound of breaking through the air. Liu Xunyi dodged the attack of the snake's tail while punching the mediocre snake's vital points with his fists like raindrops.

At this moment, this mediocre snake was like crazy. It completely ignored Liu Xunyi's attack and instead took advantage of the situation to quickly wrap its thick and long tail around Liu Xunyi's chest and even neck.

"We must not get entangled by it!" Xunzhen shouted, "Since the seven inches are useless, just smash its head." Before he finished speaking, Yong Snake seemed to feel the threat of death and suddenly tightened its body.

In an instant, Liu Xunyi felt his whole body tighten, his neck was oppressed, his face turned red, his mouth was wide open but no sound came out, and even breathing became a little difficult.

"Master, hurry!" Tang Cong and the Liao brothers shouted desperately.

The snake tightened its grip, and Liu Xunyi's consciousness gradually became blurred. Taking this opportunity, the snake shook its body vigorously and quickly covered Liu Xunyi's mouth and nose.

In such a hurry, Liu Xunyi had no time to think. Facing the fishy and greasy thing at his lips, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit it hard without hesitation.

With this bite, Liu Xunyi managed to bite off a large piece of flesh from the snake.

The mediocre snake felt pain and its body relaxed slightly, giving him a chance to catch his breath.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Xunyi swung his right palm fiercely, and with the palm force full of internal strength, he slapped Yongshe's head hard.

With a crisp "crack" sound, Liu Xunyi slapped the snake's head flat, and it immediately broke into a pool of blurry and sticky blood and rotten flesh.

As the snake's head was shattered, its body subconsciously tightened a little. Liu Xunyi found the right spot and stretched out his right hand like lightning. With a light "puff", his hand instantly penetrated into the snake's body, grabbed it with five fingers, and then threw it outward, and a black snake gall was caught in his hand.

After taking the snake off his body, Liu Xunyi held up the bloody snake gallbladder. Under the indescribable complex looks of the crowd, he raised his head and opened his mouth, swallowing the bloody snake gallbladder whole into his stomach.

As the bile passed through the throat, juice burst out, and an unprecedented feeling of bitterness instantly spread throughout Liu Xunyi's body, making his facial features hideous and he almost vomited the snake gall.

After the snake gall entered his stomach, Liu Xunyi drank several bowls of liquor, but he still couldn't get rid of the bitter taste in his mouth. The liquor he drank was extremely sour and bitter, and he couldn't feel any other taste at all.

Ding Ao laughed and said, "The gallbladder of a mediocre snake is a great tonic. If Master Liu swallows the gallbladder of a snake alive, he will surely be able to strengthen his body and prolong his life. Haha..."

Dong Xiaoer turned her charming eyes to Jian Zhong, who remained silent, and said with a half-smile, "Master Jian, it's your turn to show your skills."

Although the snake was ferocious, Jian Zhong's performance was within Liu Xunyi's expectations. After some twists and turns, he finally turned the snake gall into a meal.

After passing two levels in a row, the performances of Liu Xunyi and Jian Zhong were both remarkable and on par with each other.

Next, Ren Wuya ordered people to serve sweet, spicy and salty flavors in turn.

The third taste is extremely sweet. It is like ice melting into water and you need to melt the ice into water to drink.

The fourth flavor is extremely spicy, and it is made from scarlet pepper, which needs to be chewed over fire.

The fifth flavor is extremely salty, made of dried musk deer and fox spirit, and needs to be broken into pieces of rock and pebbles before being swallowed.

Adding the first ingredient of sea plum and the second ingredient of snake gallbladder, Ren Wuya's Five Wonders of Tianshan unknowingly tested Liu Xunyi and Jian Zhong's courage and martial arts, which seemed to have a special meaning.

It took the two of them about an hour to taste all the five flavors, and until the night deepened, the five-flavor banquet came to an end.

After Liu Xunyi and Jian Zhong went through all kinds of hardships, the Xianwang Mansion and Jinjianwu finally got what they wanted and were kept in the pavilion by Ren Wuya to discuss important matters.

As for Su He, he had no choice but to leave the table in disappointment and return empty-handed.

In the blink of an eye, the noisy Piaomiao Pavilion has returned to its former tranquility.

In the outer cabinet, besides Liu Xunyi and his party, Song Yu and Jian Zhong, there were only three flag masters left: Ding Ao, Dong Xiaoer and Huyan Ba. As for the other hall masters and disciples, they had all left.

The current situation is as Liu Xunyi expected. Ren Wuya still has to choose between the Xianwang Mansion and the Jinjianwu.

"Five flavors and one feast. I have already felt the sincerity of the Northern Sage King and the Golden Dock Master from you two."

When Ren Wuya said this, Liu Xunyi and Song Yu were both shocked. It turned out that their risk-of-life experiences and tasting all kinds of flavors were just a means for Ren Wuya to test their sincerity.

“Palace Master Ren, in order to make peace with the Yulong Palace, I have not hesitated to eat raw meat and drink blood, swallow fire and ice. This sincerity... should be enough, right?” Liu Xunyi asked tentatively.

"You are not the only one who is willing to sacrifice your life." Song Yu sneered, "Master Jian has also experienced all kinds of things. How can you say that the sincerity of the Xianwang Mansion is better than that of the Jinjianwu?"

Tang Cong interrupted indignantly, "After all, Jian Zhong is not from Jinjianwu. He is just a helper you invited. How can he be compared with our sect master?"

"Master Jian is just a friend of our master, but he is willing to go through fire and water for the Golden Sword Dock, even if he dies." Song Yu sneered, "This further proves that if you make friends with our Golden Sword Dock, you will be loyal to each other and share life and death. On the other hand, the Northern Sage King claims to have friends all over the world, but how many people are really willing to risk their lives for him?"

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(End of this chapter)