He picked up the gourd, only to discover that the mouth was still capped. He gently unscrewed the lid, and a faint, sweet aroma of wine drifted out.
In an instant, a chilly gust of wind whipped through the entire underground passage. The air currents collided, swirling into a vortex. Xu Lang activated his True Eye and surveyed his surroundings. Dozens of Dwarf Ghosts—malevolent spirits—were crawling out of the sacrificial pits. Their eyes glowed with a ghostly light, locked firmly onto the Cinnabar Gourd.
Xu Lang immediately realized that the wine inside the gourd was the problem. It was potent enough to attract malevolent spirits! An ordinary person would surely have perished here, but Xu Lang merely smiled, twirling the Tiger-Head Staff in his hand. They had come at the right time; they were here to deliver energy points to Master Lang. He could use this chance to accumulate a wave of points and further improve his strength for the next fusion.
Chapter 181