Martial Ascent to Divinity

As the banquet progressed, the dragons drank more and more wine.

In the open-air hall, the dragons, each over twenty meters tall, gathered together, each as high as a seven or eight-story building.

The strongest ones, the peak demigods, were over a hundred meters long and more than fifty meters tall.

Zhou Leng and Red Eyes seemed like pedestrians walking beneath towering skyscrapers.

By late night, the banquet had reached the final drinking phase.

Barrel after barrel of new fine wine was brought in like flowing water.

To Zhou Leng, it was a barrel, but to the demigod giant dragons, it was a cup.

"Today, to welcome His Majesty Zhou Leng, no one will leave sober, and the use of any power is forbidden! Anyone who dares to use external force to clear their drunkenness is desecrating the Dragon God, despicable and shameless!"

"Yes, yes, yes..."

Zhou Leng knew that both dragons and giants had a habit of banqueting. At the end of banquet, they would drink heavily, without even peanuts, drink till you drop.

He had joined one as a Grandmaster before and was drunk.

The physical strength was strong, but the size difference was too big.

Whenever a new wine came up, the host of the banquet would loudly announce its name and tell its history and brewing process, including some anecdotes.

Some of the brewing ingredients were even demigod medicinal fruits, enough to intoxicate even demigod giant dragons.

Zhou Leng shook his head, he still had common sense.

For example, some homemade grain or fruit wines were not high in alcoholic content but were particularly intoxicating and harmful, just because of too many fusel oils, content too high, which was poison to people.

Dragon wines followed a similar logic. The bodies of the giant dragons were too strong, ordinary things wouldn’t intoxicate them. What could intoxicate them, who knew what it was?

Definitely beyond the level of fusel oils and could even be called toxic.

The wine that could intoxicate a demigod giant dragon, a normal person would die with just one sip.

The first cup, no, the first barrel, was quickly delivered to Zhou Leng and Red Eyes.

Red Eyes smiled sweetly at Zhou Leng, patted her wine barrel, opened her mouth, and the wine flowed backward into her mouth.

The nearby dragons clapped and laughed, then looked at Zhou Leng expectantly.

At the table, one cannot refuse.

Zhou Leng patted his wine barrel, as if toasting, opened his mouth, secretly using power, and the wine quickly flowed into his mouth.

The entire barrel of toxic wine flowed into his stomach.

Many demigod giant dragons smiled.

They had heard about Zhou Leng getting drunk before.

Today’s new wine at the banquet could make demigod giant dragons vomit, humans couldn’t withstand it.

Not to mention Grandmasters, even human Martial Saints couldn’t drink much.

Zhou Leng, having last time’s experience, was straightforward this time, ready to get drunk, treating it as a rest.

He thought it would be like last time, as the wine entered his stomach and massive amounts of alcohol flowed into his bloodstream.

But this time, after drinking the entire barrel, he felt nothing.

Zhou Leng lowered his head to look at his belly, it was not distended at all.

His stomach seemed to have become some kind of storage space; the wine was compressed after entering, with only a small amount released and slowly absorbed by the body.

The dragons sensed something was off.

Beside him, Jade Wings, slightly tipsy, shouted, "Didn’t I say no using external force, are you cheating? I remember last time, after drinking a barrel, your whole body turned red."

"It’s all in my stomach."

Zhou Leng gently patted his belly, which made a sloshing sound.

Jade Wings said, "Nonsense, even a Martial Saint’s stomach wouldn’t change, unless your stomach is no longer human... uh... have you become Starry Sky-ized?"

Saying the last part, Jade Wings suddenly realized.

Because humans only have one condition under which this would happen.

"Not sure," Zhou Leng said vaguely.

"Drink!" The dragons weren’t bothered with this or that and continued drinking.

An hour passed, and the Grandmaster dragons were sprawled all over the ground, Jade Wings, who claimed to have Starry Sky Bloodline, was also confusedly drunk, lying on the ground, talking nonsense.

Zhou Leng’s eyes were only slightly bright, and his cheeks were faintly red.

The demigod giant dragons, none of them were good creatures, looked at each other and started scheming.

Taking turns to toast, one dragon, one barrel.

Zhou Leng, wanting to relax during the tense period of the Ascension Divinity Ladder, accepted all.

An hour later, even the weakest demigod giant dragon’s eyes began to blur.

Zhou Leng jumped onto the wine barrel and shouted, "How come some of you haven’t finished drinking, raising fish in there? Stop dawdling, drink! If it doesn’t kill you, drink till it does! Are you up to it? A bunch of nobodies..."

To avenge being drunk last time, he taunted them face-to-face.

The dragons couldn’t stand such provocation and drank heavily.

One after the other, they collapsed, even some upper-rank demigod giant dragons started hiccupping.

However, the peak demigods remained unperturbed.

Their massive bodies, over a hundred meters, and strong poison resistance assured they would laugh till the end.

Drinking till dawn, they drank over a thousand barrels, and finally Zhou Leng’s stomach reached its limit.

The substances in the wine uncontrollably entered his body.

The dragons withstood it, and Zhou Leng didn’t use any tricks, didn’t activate the Great Sun Divine Skill to expel the alcohol.

Finally, he collapsed in front of the peak demigods.

The peak demigod dragons laughed heartily, then as they looked around, the laughter stopped.

Except for the peak demigod dragons, all other dragons were lying on the ground.

They looked at the snoring Queen of Red Eyes, helplessly.

The plan was all set, get Zhou Leng drunk so Red Eyes could conduct a ceremony of dragon maiden taking on a human Martial Saint, but she got drunk first herself.

The mother dragon’s competitiveness really hindered matters.

"Someone, take the two of them to rest."

Zhou Leng slept for a whole day and night. Upon waking, found a smooth, sleek... large red dragon lying next to him, its forty to fifty meters long body snoring thunderously, causing the entire room to tremble.

The hangover left his body feeling a bit weak.

Supporting the Queen of Red Eyes to get up, the feel of the scales was nice, he patted them, hmm? It seemed to be a big butt, he had better slip away.

Just stepping out, ready to eat, a Grandmaster White Dragon quickly approached, reporting news as they walked.

"Your Majesty, have you recently killed another important figure from the Demon Worship Sect?"

"Hmm?"

"Benjamin is dead."

"Benjamin, the first Martial Saint of the Eagle Alliance?"

"Yes. Now the Demon Worship Sect and Seagull Alliance, Eagle Alliance are in turmoil, even the Demon Prison Lord has been alerted. Some say Blood of Tyranny did it, others say it was you."

"What does it have to do with me? Ridiculous." Zhou Leng felt puzzled, not knowing that the Demon Worship Sect had gotten more and more shameless.

To frame a Martial Saint, would they even dare to frame and cheat, planning to have a fraudster take half my power?

"We are also not clear about how it happened, but conjecture that it is because your rank on the second layer of the Celestial Ladder is too high, and the Demon Purgatory wants to eliminate you, using it as an excuse."

"That makes sense. Have they taken any action?"

"The Demon Dragon side said, the Demon Purgatory has already sent envoys to Dragon Mountain, wanting us to hand you over. What a joke, how could the dragons hand over the Chairman. So, they likely will arrange other means against you, be cautious. However, as long as you’re within the range of Dragon Mountain, they won’t dare make a move, doing so would mean death."

"According to their usual tactics, would they send demigod assassins?"

"Yes. As long as the benefits are substantial enough, even a dragon race insider might take action. Hence, we sent away a large number of demigod giant dragons, leaving only the trustworthy ones nearby."