NOVEL WEB Chapter 165: Mixing Drinks
The last few pages of "Nether Chronicles" actually describe the art of bartending.
The Nether House only stipulates that any being entering must choose a bottle of wine to drink, but doesn't say you can only drink one bottle.
The reason for the saying that drinking two kinds of wine leads to certain death is because the Demon Spirit Wines contain different attributes of Demon Spirit Essence, and drinking two wines will inevitably cause a conflict in attributes, causing great harm to the body.
However, if several Demon Spirit Wines with different attributes are mixed together to achieve balance or mutual restraint, then drinking several or more wines wouldn't be an issue.
Of course, drinking too much is not advisable because some Demon Spirit Wines contain Demon Spirit Essence that is simply too powerful, and a single drop could be lethal.
Not to mention a human body, even the body of a demon cannot withstand it.
The Demon Spirit that chose Blood Rose earlier considered it to be one of the milder Demon Spirit Wines here, as Blood Rose only absorbed Demon Spirit Blood, and the Demon Spirit Blood it absorbed was rather mixed, so the wine brewed from Blood Rose doesn't contain very concentrated Demon Spirit Essence and doesn't affect the body much.
Unfortunately, the bartending skills recorded above only explain the general principles and some recipes but do not document the characteristics and strengths of the Demon Spirit Essence in each wine.
However, for Li Xiu, these things are already sufficient. Blended Wine only requires drinking a cup to fulfill the agreement, not the whole bottle, which is also an advantage.
He memorized these contents and then returned the book to its original place.
"What's your name?" Li Xiu, already confident in leaving the Nether House, asked relaxedly.
"You can call me boss lady." The woman upstairs clearly didn't want to reveal her true identity.
"How long have you been trapped here?" Li Xiu leaned back on the sofa, asking comfortably.
He now knew that this woman who claimed to be the boss lady couldn't harm him as long as he didn't act recklessly or go upstairs, and the woman had no way to deal with him.
"Nether Chronicles" introduces that a demon spirit becoming the spirit of the Nether House can only stay upstairs to guard it until the wines in the cabinet are drunk dry, allowing her to be liberated.
But the true guardianship of the Nether House spirit is not these Demon Spirit Wines downstairs but an object upstairs, though what this object is, "Nether Chronicles" does not record.
It's estimated that the author of this book also doesn't know what the object upstairs is.
It's very likely that the woman upstairs was trapped there, becoming the spirit of the Nether House, all in pursuit of obtaining that object.
The demon spirit that just came went upstairs, probably aiming to seize that object too.
"Does that have anything to do with you?" The boss lady's voice turned cold, showing she disliked this topic.
"Boss lady, why don't we make a deal?" Li Xiu said with a smile, "I help you leave the Nether House, and you help me with a little task."
"You better think about how to get out of here yourself." As the boss lady spoke, she suddenly felt something was wrong and asked in shock, "How do you know this place is called the Nether House?"
"It's written quite clearly in 'Nether Chronicles'," Li Xiu said.
"Can you really understand the Demon Text?" The boss lady asked in surprise.
"Though it's much more complex than human language, ultimately it's just another language to learn, not difficult to master. I must thank you for choosing that picture-based book, making it much easier to learn." Li Xiu honestly replied.
"Do you mean you previously didn't know Demon Text and only learned it by looking at that picture book?" The boss lady couldn't believe Li Xiu.
How could such a thing exist, merely by looking through simple picture books, one learns a language, especially one as complicated as Demon Text.
Every symbol in Demon Text sometimes has multiple meanings, and its grammar is extremely complex, more complicated than many secret code texts. She didn't believe anyone could understand Demon Text within just a few hours based solely on this.
"Although I haven't completely learned it, knowing some common symbols and grammar is already enough. I didn't plan on becoming a Demon Text expert; there's no need to delve so deeply," Li Xiu said.
The boss lady was silent; she didn't believe Li Xiu learned it in such a short time.
But regardless of whether he learned it now or earlier, it makes no difference; since Li Xiu can understand Demon Text, he naturally knows what the Nether House is. It's pointless for her to say more.
"Even if you've seen the bartending skills, they are equally useless. Those wines mixed from the bartending might be bearable for a demon body, for a human like you, even blended Demon Spirit Wine could kill you." After a long pause, the boss lady's voice came down again.
"That's my own affair; if I manage to get out alive, would you be willing to cooperate with me?" Li Xiu casually replied.
He wasn't merely human; he had a demon spirit larva within himself. Even without the larva, he possessed Light Energy, almost similar to a demon body.
Otherwise, when he drank nearly half a bottle of Blood Rose, a normal human Trial Taker would have died long ago.
"What kind of cooperation are you proposing?" the boss lady pondered and asked.
"I find people or demon spirits to come to the Nether House to drink, letting you potentially free yourself earlier. In exchange, if I encounter a formidable enemy in Black Death City, I hope you'd lend me a hand," Li Xiu said.