A/N: As promised, here is the bonus chapter for hitting our weekly Power Stone milestone. Huge thanks to everyone who voted. Enjoy the chapter!
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By noon of the following day, the subterranean suite beneath the tea house reeked of raw spirit alcohol and fresh copper.
Empty oak barrels lay splintered across the stone floor, their contents completely drained.
Yet, despite drinking enough alcohol to kill an army of mortals, Peng Kai remained entirely sober.
The volatile, high-tier Nascent Soul Qi surging through his meridians burned off the alcohol almost instantly, leaving him in a state of hyper-focused, agonizing lucidity.
He paced the room like a caged beast, his heavy boots crushing raw meat fragments into the bedrock.
The wait was stoking the inferno in his chest.
Every second spent trapped in the silence fed the suffocating, black hatred he held for the Golden Cauldron Merchant Union.
