Episode 4

"Stay? Here? Huh! What? Who are you to make such a decision for yourself? No! I don't allow you to stay!" Minsheng said a little angry.

"Why, no? Are you just gonna let a powerless fox out there? It's cold at night and what if there were bad immortals there? What if they try to hurt me?" I let out a fake cry with my puppy-like-eyes.

"You? Powerless?" He sneered then look away. Later on he looked back at me. "Ah...Yes...you really are weak right now." He said and I smiled. Then he said, "But you are far away from powerless."

"How come I'm far from powerless? Can't you see that I only have forty thousand years of cultivation? Even a child is better than me." I argued.

"What would I even get for helping you? Can you do something, huh?"

"I can give you this."

I showed him one of my beautiful luminous pearls. It truly is a beauty. It looks like the aurora and it is bigger than Minsheng's head. This pearl is one of my treasures and I hope that he'll accept this. He stepped towards me and took the luminous pearl from my hand. He put it away. My eyes glow from excitement.

"This isn't enough." He said.

What? Are you serious right now? What can I possibly have that he'll want? More luminous pearls? Gold Bars? Jade?

"What do you want then?" I asked him calmly.

"Um... Service. What can you offer?"

"Ser-vice?" I don't know what to say. What can I possibly be able to do that he can't? Ah! I know! "I can create wine for you." I said hopefully.

"Wine? I can do that as well. My peach wine is famous. Don't you know that?"

"Of course, I don't know that. What I'm going to create is not just any wine. It's The Creator's wine." I smirk at him.

"The Creator's wine?" He asked. Now I caught his attention.

"Yep." I said proudly.

"That's impossible! How could you possibly have the recipe of that wine?" He said suspiciosly.

"Ha! Have you forgotten who I am?" I said.

"Chao-Xing! Then can you give me the recipe?"

Now we're talking. I summoned the scroll that contains all the details about The Creator's wine. I read the scroll first before giving it to Minsheng.

"That scroll contains the recipe, procedure, and everything that you could possible need in creating the wine."

"Are you kidding me? This is just a normal wine."

"Nope! It may seem like it's a normal wine but it's far from being normal. Can you see this? This is a dew of a nine petaled lotus. It can only be grown to a special place."

"Where?"

"A place where a luminous pearl has been growing for over a decade."

"You mean?"

"Yes. The lotus can be found at the entrance of Wang Wei."

"Hm... Okay then. I'll allow you to stay."

"Really? Oh and please don't disclose my real identity. I don't want some people to know that I'm awake. Thank you."

Hayss... Fortunately, I have that scroll. If not I might wonder outside. That wine is really something. If I only know that Minsheng will actually like the wine I shouldn't have given him my luminous pearl. I went outside and I'm surprise that Zihao is still standing by the lake side. I walk near enough to see some details of his back yet far enough for him to feel my presence.

I want to know if Zihao is that person. It has been long ago since I last saw him. However, no matter how much I try not to think about that person, I just can't forget him. Zihao, are you him?

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