Quan Jinfa calculated that his facet nonetheless had 5 males left, every a heavy drinker and will in all probability drink three or 4 extra rounds, the opponent couldn’t presumably be capable of maintain one other twenty or so drinks in his stomach… or may he? Even when he actually couldn’t get drunk, his stomach may solely maintain a lot. Figuring that victory was in hand, he was feeling fairly good; then he by chance glanced down on the flooring and noticed that the floorboards beneath Qiu Chuji’s ft have been clearly soaked by. Shocked, he whispered to Zhu Cong: “Second Brother, check out his ft.” Zhu Cong solely appeared down for a second earlier than muttering: “Not good, he is utilizing his inside energy to pressure the wine out by his ft.” Quan Jinfa quietly replied: “That is proper; I did not assume that his inside energy can be so highly effective, what ought to we do now?”

Zhu Cong thought to himself: “With this little trick, he may go 100 extra bowls with none downside. I’ve to provide you with one other contest or one thing.” He took a step again earlier than all of a sudden falling by the opening within the floorboards that he precipitated earlier after which climbing again up by the opening, all of the whereas shouting: “So drunk, I’m so drunk!”

One other spherical of drinks and now the ground boards beneath Qiu Chuji’s ft have been saturated with wine and a bit little bit of a fountain squirted out from the boards onto the ground beneath. By now Nan Xiren, Han Baoju, and everybody else had observed, and everybody was secretly admiring such a strong show of inside energy.

Han Baoju put his bowl again onto the desk and was nearly to confess defeat when Zhu Cong shot him a glance and turned to Qiu Chuji: “Elder’s inside energy is nearly god-like and we won’t however admire such a show. However it’s nonetheless 5 in opposition to one; it would not appear fairly honest actually.” Qiu Chuji was a bit stunned and requested: “Then what does Second Brother Zhu recommend we must always do?” Zhu Cong smiled and stated: “I say let the 2 of us battle it out to see who’s finest.”

All of the spectators have been somewhat baffled by this; Zhu Cong was the one, of the group of 5 nonetheless going up in opposition to him, who was clearly shedding, why would he go and decrease his odds much more? However the different six Freaks knew that though this brother of theirs would not appear to take something significantly, he is stuffed with concepts and tips and his actions have been usually pure genius. Figuring that he should have a plan in thoughts, the six of them did not object.

Qiu Chuji set free a bit snort: “The Seven Freaks of the South actually do wish to look good it doesn’t matter what. How about this? If Second Brother Zhu finishes the wine left on this vat with me, if neither is shedding, then it’s going to depend as a defeat for me…how about it?”

By now the vat was a bit bit lower than half full, with many bowls remaining; this might imply that solely two drunken Buddha’s with their massive bellies may maintain all of it. However Zhu Cong did not appear to thoughts that as he smiled and stated: “Though I’m not a really massive drinker, I as soon as beat a number of fairly massive drinkers throughout one in all my adventures. A toast,” he stated waving his fan in his proper hand and his left shirt sleeve, he downed a bowl.

So the 2 of them downed one bowl after one other; in between drinks, Qiu Chuji requested: “What sort of massive drinkers?” Zhu Cong replied: “Properly, as soon as I traveled to India and the king dragged out a water buffalo to problem me in a consuming match. However in the long run neither of us received or misplaced.”

Realizing that Zhu Cong was poking enjoyable at him, he simply snorted in response and downed one other bowl. Nevertheless, he observed that regardless that Zhu Cong was waving his arms all over whereas speaking nonsense, he was nonetheless matching him bowl for bowl. There wasn’t any wine spilling out from his arms or ft, so clearly was not forcing the wine out of his physique with inside energy; however there was an enormous bulge in his abdomen so he figured that Zhu Cong could know easy methods to broaden and retract his abdomen at will. He was feeling somewhat puzzled when Zhu Cong spoke up once more: “The yr earlier than final I went to Siam, ha, now that is much more ridiculous. This time the King of Siam obtained an elephant to problem me. That vast factor drank seven vats! How a lot do you assume I drank?”

Although Qiu Chuji knew he was simply making stuff up, he couldn’t assist however ask: “How a lot?” Zhu Cong’s face all of a sudden turned lifeless critical as he lowered his voice and stated: “9 vats!” Instantly he raised his voice once more and shouted: “Drink up, drink up!”

So he simply went on like this, form of drunk however not likely, form of loopy however form of not, and shortly the 2 of them had completed off the whole vat. The remainder of the Freaks had no concept that he may maintain all of that wine and all of them have been pleasantly stunned.

Qiu Chuji gave him thumbs up: “Brother Zhu actually is wonderful!”

With a smile, Zhu Cong replied: “To maintain the wine out of our our bodies, Reverend used inside energy, however I needed to resort to merely outer methods. Right here, take a look.” With a hearty snort, he all of a sudden did a again flip and when he landed there was a picket bucket in his hand. With a slight wave of his hand, the fragrances of the wine that stuffed half the bucket got here pouring out. All the folks current have been martial arts masters and, apart from Ke Zhen’E, have been sharp sufficient to select up on any trickery or faux strikes, but not a single one in all noticed the place the bucket got here from. Wanting down, Zhu Cong’s stomach had all of a sudden returned to its regular flat form; clearly the bucket was hidden beneath his gown. The Seven Freaks of the South all burst out laughing and Qiu Chuji was shocked.

Because it seems, Zhu Cong was finest at trickery and illusions and that was the place the nickname ‘Magical Fingers Scholar’ got here from. This little trick that he simply pulled was handed down by magicians all the best way to right now. A magician would stroll onto the stage with nothing in hand, with one again flip a goldfish bowl can be in his hand, one other again flip and a bowl stuffed with water appeared; this might go on till there have been sufficient bowls on stage and all of a sudden there was one goldfish in every bowl. That is completely astounding when witnessed first hand and needs to be seen to be believed. The second time Zhu Cong fell by the opening was when he hid the big bucket beneath his gown. All of the loopy discuss was to distract Qiu Chuji. When a magician does his trick proper, even tons of upon tons of of pairs of eyes couldn’t spot how the trick was carried out. Qiu Chuji didn’t even suspect that he can be pulling this sort of trick and was not in a position to catch him pouring one bowl after one other into the bucket beneath his gown.

Qiu Chuji snorted: “Hmph! You name this consuming?” Zhu Cong laughed: “And what you probably did was? The wine I drank is on this bucket, the wine that you just drank is on the ground, any variations there?”

He paced backwards and forwards as he talked, all of a sudden he by chance slipped on the puddle of wine by Qiu Chuji’s ft and fell in direction of Qiu Chuji. Qiu Chuji caught him and let Zhu Cong stability himself. After pacing backwards and forwards as soon as extra, he all of a sudden stated in a loud voice: “Great poem! Such great poetry! Mid-Autumn have at all times… moon most brilliant, cool winds paved the way… for refreshing night time. A day’s fortunes… sinks man and silver, the dragons in 4 seas… leap out water….” His voice was slowly dragging out as he started to sing the traces.