Gu Changsheng returned to Tianhuang Star and sought out Emperor Lan.
Emperor Lan's residence was not very large, but it wasn't small either. The entire courtyard was filled with various wine jars. This place was Tuoba Beier's favorite place.
At this moment, Emperor Lan, still with only one head, was busy around a wine vat, muttering something. He conjured a hand, poured a bit of wine into a glass, and then tasted it carefully. After drinking, his eyes lit up, and he took out paper and pen to record something on it. In a corner, many papers with records were piled up.
"After ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine experiments, I finally succeeded," Emperor Lan said happily, completely unaware of Gu Changsheng behind him.
"Cough cough!" Gu Changsheng coughed twice, trying to prove his existence.
Who knew Emperor Lan would say, "If you want wine, go find it over there yourself. Remember not to take the ones on the shelves; those wines are not something you can handle."
"..." Gu Changsheng.
Emperor Lan didn't hear any movement, so he turned his head to look. When he saw Gu Changsheng, his pupils shrank, and he quickly said, "So it's Holy Emperor Your Majesty. Lan Di was remiss in not welcoming you from afar. Please don't blame me!"
Gu Changsheng shook his head, casually found a stone stool to sit down, and then asked, "That girl Beier often comes to steal wine, right?"
"Your Majesty sees everything clearly. Lan Di admires you!" Emperor Lan said with a chuckle. He had just mistaken Gu Changsheng for Tuoba Beier.
Gu Changsheng glanced at the surrounding wine jars and knew that many of the wines were brewed for Tuoba Beier.
"Holy Emperor Your Majesty, you've come at the right time. Recently, I used the roots of the Emperor Source to research a new recipe. This is the finished product. I've tried it and think it's not bad. Would you like to try it?"
Emperor Lan placed the wine he had just tried in front of Gu Changsheng.
Gu Changsheng said, "Wine can be drunk anytime. Right now, I have a question I want to ask you."
"Your Majesty, please ask. Lan Di will definitely answer everything he knows without holding back," Emperor Lan said solemnly.
"Before asking this question, answer me truthfully: have you always been single?" Gu Changsheng asked.
"How is that possible? To be honest with Your Majesty, before I entered the Chaos Burial Sea, I was the most handsome guy in our world. I had countless concubines in my harem. It's just a pity... I disappeared for countless years and made many enemies back then. I'm afraid they have been implicated because of me," Emperor Lan said regretfully.
"Didn't realize you were quite the player?" Gu Changsheng teased.
Emperor Lan replied with a straight face, "Your Majesty, please don't misunderstand. I was sincere to all of them. Although I am amorous, I am definitely not promiscuous. I gave them all a title."
"They wouldn't fight over favor?" Gu Changsheng asked curiously.
The palace intrigues in mortal countries are very cruel. One wrong step and it's two lives lost, or even several. To climb to the top, they will stop at nothing.
"Your Majesty, I think you misunderstood. They love me, and I haven't treated them differently. There is no conflict of interest between them. Why would they fight? Not only will they not fight, but they will also actively get along more harmoniously to make things easier for me.
Your Majesty, the situation you described would only happen if they didn't love me, only liked the status I brought them, and had no feelings for me. Only then would they only think about climbing to the top and fight for favor."
Emperor Lan's face already showed a conceited smile as he spoke. He was the amorous Emperor Lan, and he would never take a woman he had no feelings for into his harem.
"No conflict of interest, feelings..."
After listening to Emperor Lan's words, Gu Changsheng's eyes lit up. He already knew why Hou Tu and Yun Wuyue were in their current situation. They didn't want to embarrass him, so they took the initiative to show goodwill to each other.
"Haha, let's drink!" Having figured everything out, the depression in Gu Changsheng's heart was swept away. He picked up the jar of wine on the table and boldly poured it into his mouth.
Emperor Lan was confused by Gu Changsheng's behavior. He asked, "Your Majesty, didn't you say you had a question to ask me?"
"Never mind!" Gu Changsheng said.
"Uh..."
Emperor Lan was still thinking that he could answer a question that even His Majesty didn't know. That would be something even more joyful than breaking through to the Breaking Dao Realm right now.
If he could solve a problem for His Majesty, who was so invincible, what would that mean? That would mean that besides brewing wine, he, Emperor Lan, had other strengths!
But now His Majesty said there was no problem, which gave him a feeling of wanting to say something but not being able to. This feeling was like a mortal holding their breath, very uncomfortable.
"Or, Your Majesty, would you still like to say it?" Emperor Lan said.
"Your wine is not bad. Although it's a bit spicy because it's newly brewed, it has a fresh feeling that is refreshing. If it is aged over time, it can reach another level. Not bad, not bad!"
Gu Changsheng praised Emperor Lan's newly researched wine, thinking that it was worth bringing him back from the Chaos Burial Sea. He had not disappointed him.
Seeing that the Holy Emperor no longer mentioned the "problem", Emperor Lan was a bit regretful, but when he heard the Holy Emperor praising the wine he brewed, he was also excited. To research this new wine, he had been researching for ten years, not knowing how many roots of the Emperor Source he had consumed. The Emperor Source was a peak Breaking Dao Realm immortal herb. A single root was enough for a mortal to become an immortal venerable on the spot, extremely precious.
If the Holy Emperor hadn't told him that he could dispose of it as he wished, he wouldn't have dared to waste it like this.
If Emperor Source knew in the afterlife that the wine brewed from his main body could be praised by the Holy Emperor, then he could probably rest in peace.
"Senior Emperor Lan, I'm here again!"
Just then, a graceful figure skipped in. She was very beautiful, but carrying a gourd that was even bigger than her made her look a bit cute. Clearly, her gourd could be shrunk and hung on her waist, but she liked to carry it on her back.
"Ah, Holy Emperor Martial Uncle!"
Tuoba Beier looked surprised when she saw Gu Changsheng.
"Why are you here?" Tuoba Beier stepped forward to greet him.
"If I didn't come, he would have become your exclusive brewer!" Gu Changsheng said, pointing to the surrounding wine jars.
The wine on the shelves was too high in grade, but the wine on the ground was all suitable for Tuoba Beier's current cultivation level, and it accounted for more than two-thirds of all the wine. In terms of quantity, Emperor Lan had indeed become her exclusive brewer.
"Martial Uncle, you can drink it too!" Tuoba Beier said embarrassedly.
"Martial Uncle, are you tired? I'll massage your shoulders!" Tuoba Beier was like a child who had made a mistake and wanted to make amends.
Gu Changsheng also smiled. He liked this martial niece who had inherited his love of wine, even though she wasn't his disciple. He wasn't really angry with her.
Gu Changsheng enjoyed Tuoba Beier's massage while saying, "You've been slacking off in your cultivation recently!"
"No, I haven't!" Tuoba Beier muttered.
"Hehe, I don't mind, but if your master knows, she will definitely teach you a lesson," Gu Changsheng said with a smile.
"Master, she is still in seclusion!" Tuoba Beier said.
"Her main body is in seclusion, but she has separated a clone to come out," Gu Changsheng said.
"Ah?"
Tuoba Beier's face fell. She had already foreseen that her free life of cultivating when she wanted to and traveling when she didn't want to was about to end.
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