"Haha, good! Then let's drink until we're fully content..."

Upon hearing Chu Huannian's words, Mu Jinyu recalled when he went out earlier to gather information, overhearing many drunken people spewing nonsense, deeply entrenched in the past glory of the Human Race, cursing the Foreign Race!

Today, the news of Cangyan State's destruction spread, and countless people of the Human Race in Canglan Realm, upon hearing this news, probably wouldn't be able to sleep well and would want to drink themselves into oblivion!

Though he rarely drinks, and even more rarely drinks to the point of drunkenness.

But upon learning the news of the Earth Emperor's remains being destroyed today, he truly wanted to drink until he was fully content!

"Then let's go!"

Seeing Mu Jinyu agree, Chu Huannian's lips curved slightly, forming a beautiful smile, and she turned to walk towards a small pavilion in their courtyard.

The gentle breeze blew, making Chu Huannian's dress flutter lightly, looking very pleasant.

Mu Jinyu followed Chu Huannian and walked slowly to the small pavilion, where he sat down on a stone stool.

"Dada, dada, dada..."

Afterwards, Chu Huannian took out several dishes from the Qiankun Ring, all packed from the dining hall of Dongyue Mansion.

Mu Jinyu glanced at them; all were made from Fierce Beast Meat at the Void Breaking Realm level, which likely cost Chu Huannian quite a few academic credits.

"Come, let's drink to our hearts' content!"

Mu Jinyu took out a pair of white jade chopsticks, picked up a piece of Red Scorched Demon-patterned Pig's head meat, and began eating.

Then he twisted open the cap of a Wine Gourd and raised his hand towards Chu Huannian.

"Bang!"

Chu Huannian also pulled open the cork of the Wine Gourd, then raised her hand to clink against Mu Jinyu's Wine Gourd.

"Gulp, gulp, gulp..."

The two exchanged smiles and then began to drink the fine wine from the gourds in large mouthfuls.

Mu Jinyu didn't know what kind of wine it was, but it felt extremely strong and overpowering, as if flames were rising inside his abdomen after swallowing.

Enough to burn through his five viscera and six bowels, tearing him apart!

"Ha~"

"That's strong!"

Mu Jinyu drank nearly three pounds of wine in one go, then put down the Wine Gourd, breathed out the alcohol fumes, and smiled with his cheeks slightly flushed.

"What kind of wine is this?" Mu Jinyu looked at Chu Huannian and asked.

Chu Huannian also drank several pounds of wine in one go, and her originally fair and flawless face gained a few shades of rosy red, making her bloom like a rose, looking extremely charming and attractive.

Upon hearing Mu Jinyu's question, her clear and indifferent eyes gained a few ripples, and she answered with a hint of intoxication: "Forgetting Sorrow!"

"This wine is called Forgetting Sorrow!"

"The ingredients and Spirit Fruits used for brewing are all of the Void Breaking Realm level; anyone with lower cultivation would be knocked out after a few sips!"

"Although my cultivation is at the Late Stage Hedao Realm, almost at its peak, I'm ultimately not at the Void Breaking Realm, so I probably can't drink too much. Eventually, I might pass out before you do. Haha, if I get drunk, will it make you any happier?"

Chu Huannian usually speaks neither too much nor too little; she almost always answers whatever Mu Jinyu asks her.

But after drinking several pounds of Forgetting Sorrow, the floodgates of her words seemed to open.

Mu Jinyu merely asked what kind of wine it was, but she spoke at length, even touching upon unrelated topics.

She sounded just like a chatterbox.

"Mu Jinyu, what's the purpose of your cultivation?"

After taking several more gulps of Forgetting Sorrow, Chu Huannian asked Mu Jinyu with thick alcohol breath.

Mu Jinyu also had quite a few pounds of Forgetting Sorrow down his stomach; though not drunk, his cheeks had become significantly flushed.

Upon hearing Chu Huannian's question, he instinctively answered: "Me? What's the purpose of my cultivation? Initially, I didn't know, but now, I want to become strong and take my master and them back home..."

"Home? Haha, haha..."

Upon hearing Mu Jinyu's answer, Chu Huannian was momentarily stunned. She looked up, her moist eyes glimmering with autumnal waves, intoxicated, and shook her head saying: "I have no home; neither Ah-Xui nor I have a home..."

Hearing Chu Huannian's words, an undrunken Mu Jinyu froze, then furrowed his brows slightly.

He recalled his experiences in the Chu Kingdom with the Chu sisters, as well as the desolation at the Guoshi Residence.

Indeed, he had never seen the parents of Chu sisters, nor heard any news about their parents from their mouths.

It seemed like they didn't have any other relatives either.

Originally, he hadn't thought much about it and didn't want to delve into others' affairs.

But from Chu Huannian's words, it seemed the sisters indeed had a past they couldn't bear, prompting her to coldly declare that they had no home!

Before Mu Jinyu could ask.

Chu Huannian began speaking of her past like spilling beans.

"My mother was once a Commandery Princess of the Chu Kingdom, but she had no cultivation talent, meaning she didn't possess any strong Foreign Race bloodline. She once had a loving partner, but one day, she was noticed by a man from the Fighting Spirit Tribe, and then you can imagine the outcome..."

"The lover she was in love with was naturally obliterated by that man from the Fighting Spirit Tribe, and then he forcefully took my mother over. No one thought this was wrong!"

"Even the former Chu Kingdom Sovereign kept persuading her to accept reality and not resist, telling her being noticed by a strong figure of the Fighting Spirit Tribe was her fortune..."

"Of course, my mother refused to agree and always wished to die!"

"But without cultivation, how could she die in the hands of a strong figure from the Fighting Spirit Tribe?"

"She became like a toy for him to manipulate. Several years later, my mother gave birth to me and Ah-Xui!"

"As for that man from the Fighting Spirit Tribe, several years later, he seemed tired of my mother, having apparently realized something in the process, broke through a bottleneck, and didn't need to cultivate in the Hong Chen anymore. He simply brushed himself clean and left."

"My mother finally got her freedom; she didn't waste a moment and committed suicide by jumping into a well!"

"At that time, Ah-Xui and I were still young, only about three years old!"

"Because that man from the Fighting Spirit Tribe left without a trace, no one wanted to take care of us. If I hadn't later been found to possess a strong Fighting Spirit Tribe bloodline, Ah-Xui and I would probably have starved to death!"

"I cannot die; I must live. I have to take care of my sister till she grows up..."

"So I could only desperately cultivate and slaughter on the battlefield, eventually becoming the youngest National Scholar of the Chu Kingdom, the only Hedao Realm Cultivator in history!"

"Several months ago, when we arrived at Dongyue Mansion together, you wouldn't know how much the Chu Kingdom Sovereign spoke to me, how much he hoped I would stay in the Chu Kingdom!"

"But I won't forget what the old Sovereign said when I was young—that I was a wicked child. If it weren't for being found possessing strong Foreign Race bloodlines, my sister and I might have been executed by him!"

"In a place like that, given the chance to leave, how could I not leave?"

"Back then, if it hadn't been for worrying about Ah-Xui's lack of cultivation, making it hard for her to leave the Chu Kingdom, and my desire for revenge on the Fighting Spirit Tribe along with my ignorance of riding Dongyue Mansion's Teleportation Array, which could also allow bringing family members away, I wouldn't have arranged Ashui to remain in Chu Kingdom at all!"

"Sometimes..."

"I'm really quite envious of Ah-Xui; she can't cultivate, doesn't have as many thoughts as me, and can actually live carefree."

"But truthfully, if I were to have no cultivation talent, maybe I wouldn't actually wish for that; that way we couldn't have survived our youth, and I wouldn't have the chance to seek revenge on that man..."

Mu Jinyu listened as Chu Huannian babbled on continuously, never interrupting.

He looked at her with sympathy.

The man of the Fighting Spirit Tribe she spoke of, in reality, should be her father by blood!

But due to her mother's unbearable experiences and his choice to abandon his wife and children, she deeply hated him; hence she referred to him only as "the man," replacing his paternal identity.