Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 693: Fire Gourd (Request Subscription)

Suhabaru paid no attention to the wounds on his body; instead, he tilted his head back and opened his mouth wide, wildly gulping the rainwater falling from the sky, which seemed to be transformed from strong liquor. He appeared quite satisfied, neglecting his battle with Tao Yuanweng, stretched out his hand to gather the source energy, concentrating the rainwater around him into a sphere, and passionately drank from it.

"This is the first time I've seen someone as reckless as you, drinking the enemy's liquor! Aren't you afraid of hidden schemes!" Tao Yuanweng sneered and mocked as he spoke, while Suhabaru in the arena remained expressionless, completely ignoring it. Outside the arena, Pei Yan, who had also reached out to taste the rainwater, heard this and blushed, awkwardly coughed and glanced around to see if anyone noticed his embarrassment.

Whether others saw him, Pei Yan didn't know, but the one who made the remark, Tao Yuanweng, certainly didn't see it. He was fully absorbed in his battle with Suhabaru and took out a talisman that he placed on his chest. After reciting a series of spells, he opened his mouth wide and sprayed out a breath of liquor, which instantly ignited into flames upon contact with the talisman. Tao Yuanweng gritted his teeth and slapped the burning talisman onto his chest. With a muffled groan, through Pei Yan's shocked gaze, his entire figure was engulfed by the flames, transforming into a fiery figure.

What is this tactic? Pei Yan, who initially thought Tao Yuanweng would use the burning talisman to attack Suhabaru, was dumbfounded at the sight. Losing a fight doesn't mean self-harm, right? However, before he could complain about it to his companion at his side, the next scene left him speechless in shock.

Tao Yuanweng, engulfed in flames, quickly adapted to his current state after the initial pain. He raised his hand and pointed to the sky, and the scattered rainwater rapidly gathered around him. The fire fed by the liquor burned even more fiercely, and Tao Yuanweng's body grew larger and larger. Within a few breaths, his body had expanded several times. At this moment, Pei Yan also understood the origin of his nickname, "Pluck the Peach While Drunk." Now Tao Yuanweng appeared to be a giant flaming monkey enveloped in fire!

With the flaming monkey forming, Tao Yuanweng finally made his move. He chose to confront Suhabaru head-on. After a flash of red light, Tao Yuanweng had already charged into the courtyard, raising his fists high and smashing them fiercely onto Suhabaru's head, who was greedily gulping down the liquor. Whether it was because turning into a werewolf had lowered Suhabaru's intelligence or due to the excessive drinking causing a foggy consciousness, he didn't react immediately to such a formidable opponent. His head was hammered heavily and he toppled into the water.

Tao Yuanweng was not going to miss this chance for revenge for his disciples. He leaped onto Suhabaru's back, and his fiery fists were like two fire dragons. Without any pattern, he slammed them wildly on the back of the enemy's head. The fierce blows, coupled with the scorching high temperature, immediately pummeled and scorched Suhabaru's newly grown thick hair, half of his body ignited by the flames, sizzling, filling the arena with the pungent smell of burnt flesh.

"Awooo!" A grim wolf howl erupted as Suhabaru finally seemed to regain his senses. Roaring, he propped his hands on the ground, trying to throw off Tao Yuanweng who was riding on him. Tao Yuanweng wouldn't let him succeed, pointing his finger upward, causing the falling liquor to rapidly gather around him. With the liquor infusion, Tao Yuanweng's body expanded again, suppressing Suhabaru back down with force.

During this pressing up and down struggle, the two pulled back and forth several times, but ultimately Tao Yuanweng lost in strength to the opponent and was unsteadily thrown to the ground. The rising Suhabaru roared and turned to grab Tao Yuanweng. Seeing this, Tao Yuanweng jumped up and attacked with a punch, the two entangled once again.

The fight had grown so intense that the small courtyard couldn't contain their expanded forms. Fortunately, when Pei Yan had subdued Li Songtao, the lower-level disciples of the Immortal Palace arrived, wielding Immortal Palace Tokens to start evacuating the nearby populace. By now, the evacuation was complete, and empty residences surrounded them. The two combatants broke through the walls, expanding the battleground several times over.

Unlike Suhabaru, who fought purely on instinct, even with his heightened figure, Tao Yuanweng maintained nimble body technique. Like the fire monkey he had formed, his moves carried a few hints of the monkey's agility as he darted left and right, swirling around Suhabaru, attacking him in a way that left Suhabaru only able to defend, with no power to retaliate.

While appreciating the brilliance of Tao Yuanweng's monkey fists, Pei Yan focused more on Suhabaru. Despite how he seemed to fall behind, careful observation would reveal that Tao Yuanweng's moves hadn't inflicted fatal harm. Each singed and wounded spot healed nearly completely within ten or so seconds after Tao Yuanweng lifted his hand away. Moments later, the werewolf's thick hair grew anew.

"Rapid self-healing?" Pei Yan witnessed this and furrowed his brow, first glancing at Elder Lin, then exchanging looks with Xia Yu and Zhao Yuanhu. He looked at Elder Lin because of their similar self-healing abilities, while exchanging glances with Xia and Zhao as they simultaneously remembered the same person.

Bals, the disciple of Suhabaru before them, possessed similarly rapid self-healing abilities upon engaging in combat. Following the interrogation of Du Guangyuan and him afterwards, it was initially determined that this was an outcome of a collaboration between several realms masterminded by divine will. Now, Suhabaru's current werewolf form and its potential made Pei Yan involuntarily connect the two.

Clearly aware of this issue, Tao Yuanweng in the arena stalled over his prolonged inability to subdue Suhabaru, knowing that continuing the grappling would only backfire on him. Resolutely, after fending off the opponent's attack with a punch, he soared into the sky.

Suspended mid-air, Tao Yuanweng pointed into the void, summoning the wine gourd that once disappeared into the horizon back into view. Holding the gourd, a trace of heartache and reluctance flashed across his face. But with the situation now dire, life and death hung in balance, so he couldn't afford much care as he tossed the wine gourd lightly, then spread his arms wide. As the gourd descended to his chest, he slammed both palms together upon it with fierce force.

With a crisp "bang," the wine gourd was blasted apart upon impact, the effusing liquor and fragments of the gourd's body instantaneously transformed into a cluster of intense flames. The scorching heat and emitted light not only matched but exceeded the flames Pei Yan had unleashed before when breaking Li Songtao's icy blockade. Under Tao Yuanweng's control, the flames continuously condensed, left and right kneading until they regained the shape of the gourd. Only now, it had become a fiery gourd imbued with terrifying energy.

Pei Yan looked up at the fiery gourd in the air, eyes revealing a covetous and envious twinkle. Understanding that this was akin to Li Songtao's icy mountain, the harm it inflicted not only acted upon the flesh. This was something Pei Yan, who could only control the flame's temperature right now, could in no way achieve. If he could learn this Fire Control Technique, it really would be like adding wings to a tiger!