All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

The next day at noon, Zhou Yongcheng withdrew his gaze from the heavens and saw that there were people outside the door, and quite a few of them.

After leaving the palace, Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, and Yuchi Gong hurried back home.

Their meeting started too early, and they ate breakfast early too. Today the meeting was extended, and they're starving by now. The first thing they did after work was rush home to eat; filling their stomachs was their top priority.

They had just left the palace and hadn't gone far when they saw a new tavern on the street.

The three of them stood outside the tavern, looking it over.

"When did this tavern open?" Cheng Yaojin was a little hungry, but his voice was still loud.

“Your home is the closest to here, and you don’t even know that, so how would we know?” Qin Qiong said.

“I didn’t see it when I passed by yesterday, so this tavern must have opened last night or this morning. There was basically no activity around last night, so it must have opened this morning. But the layout of this tavern looks very new. To be able to open a new tavern so quickly, the owner must be no ordinary person,” Cheng Yaojin analyzed.

"Aren't you two hungry?" Yuchi Gong asked.

The two men turned their gaze away from the tavern.

"The owner of this tavern must be no ordinary person to have it open on this street. Let's go back and eat first, and then come back for a drink," Qin Qiong said to Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong.

Neither of them had any objections. Which civil or military official in the court didn't love wine? It's just that the wines on the market were too ordinary. Now that they saw a newly opened tavern, especially one located here, they figured the wines inside must be different, so they both wanted to go in and try it out.

The three walked quickly, chatting as they agreed to meet again at a later time for drinks.

Zhou Yongcheng never expected that the first people to notice his tavern would be Cheng Yaojin and others.

He glanced around and realized that these people lived nearby.

Less than two hours later, Cheng Yaojin and his two companions arrived at the tavern.

Upon entering the tavern, the three saw Zhou Yongcheng sitting behind the counter.

Although they possessed martial arts skills, their cultivation level was too low, and in their eyes, Zhou Yongcheng was just an ordinary person.

The three of them did not greet Zhou Yongcheng, but instead looked at the wine jars behind him.

There are a total of sixteen wine jars behind Zhou Yongcheng, arranged in four rows. Each jar has a name written on it in traditional Chinese characters, making it easy to tell what kind of wine it is.

The three men noticed the name of the wine on the jar and began to whisper among themselves.

They knew about rice wine, but they had never heard of any other kind of wine.

"Shopkeeper, what are corn wine, sorghum wine, and Wuliangye?" Cheng Yaojin asked curiously.

Although the Tang Dynasty in the Journey to the West world is not the historical Tang Dynasty, it is not much different from the historical Tang Dynasty, after all, Journey to the West was written based on the historical Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Cheng Yaojin asked this question because the Tang Dynasty did not have corn wine, sorghum wine, or Wuliangye.

Zhou Yongcheng looked at the three of them and said with a smile, "They are all wines brewed from grains. Corn wine is brewed from corn, sorghum wine is brewed from sorghum, and Wuliangye is brewed from five kinds of grains. Each wine has a different taste."

The three men were filled with question marks upon hearing this; Zhou Yongcheng's explanation did not make sense to them.

"Shopkeeper, what are corn and sorghum? We've never heard of them before," Qin Qiong asked.

Whether it's the Journey to the West or the historical Tang Dynasty, corn hadn't appeared in the Tang Dynasty yet, so they didn't know what corn was.

However, sorghum did exist in the Tang Dynasty, but it wasn't called sorghum there; it was called glutinous rice.

"Corn is not available in the Tang Dynasty, but can be found overseas. As for sorghum, it is called 'shu' in the Tang Dynasty."

The three nodded, and Cheng Yaojin then asked which five grains Wuliangye was brewed from, which Zhou Yongcheng explained to them.

Hearing Zhou Yongcheng's explanation, the three of them felt as if a new world had opened up for them. They never imagined that there were so many intricacies involved in wine, which broadened their horizons.

"Shopkeeper, I see that each type of wine behind you has four grades. Is there any reason behind that?" Qin Qiong asked.

“Different qualities, different prices. Low-grade spirit wine costs ten taels of gold per tael, mid-grade spirit wine costs one hundred taels of gold per tael, high-grade spirit wine costs one thousand taels of gold per tael, and top-grade spirit wine costs ten thousand taels of gold per tael,” Zhou Yongcheng explained with a smile.

The three gasped upon hearing this; it was too expensive, they couldn't afford it, they simply couldn't afford it.

"Shopkeeper, your wine is so expensive, is it some kind of divine brew?" Yuchi Gong asked.

They began to suspect that Zhou Yongcheng was bluffing, since there was no wine in the world that cost so much.

“I also have some of the Immortal Wine here, but you can’t afford it,” Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

The three were speechless. At this moment, they did not know whether the shopkeeper's words were true or false. Given their current status, they knew that cultivators existed in this world.

"Can we only use gold for transactions?" Qin Qiong asked.

"Yes."

The main currency of the Tang Dynasty was copper coins, but silver and gold were also used.

Ordinary people don't have gold and silver; only high-ranking officials and aristocratic families do.

During the Tang Dynasty, many gold and silver mines were in the hands of powerful families, who were responsible for mining and smelting them.

Cheng Yaojin looked at Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong and said, "I only have some silver here, I didn't bring any gold. Do you have any gold on you?"

He came to drink, thinking that some silver would be enough, but he didn't expect the prices of wine in the tavern to be so outrageous.

Yuchi Gong only had some silver and copper coins on him. His wife kept a close eye on him, so he didn't dare to carry too much money when he went out.

Qin Qiong did have some gold in his money bag. He took the gold out and placed it on the counter, saying...

"How much low-grade spirit wine can I buy with all this gold?" Qin Qiong asked.

Zhou Yongcheng looked at the gold on the counter. The gold that Qin Qiong took out was semi-circular. It used to be a round piece of gold, but someone took half of it and now only half remains.

Zhou Yongcheng didn't get up; he simply stretched out his hand, and half a piece of gold appeared in his palm.

Upon seeing this, Qin Qiong and the other two knew that the shopkeeper must also be an extraordinary person, perhaps even a member of the immortal family. However, they dared not ask, as immortals were quite mysterious in the Tang Dynasty and were generally unseen by ordinary people.

"The gold is very pure, only eight taels, not enough to buy even one tael of the Lesser Spirit Wine. However, since you are our first customers, I will make an exception and give you one tael of the Lesser Spirit Wine to try."

After Zhou Yongcheng finished speaking, he waved his hand, and three wine cups appeared on the counter. Then he beckoned to the wine jar behind him, and a stream of spirit wine flew out from the jar containing low-grade corn spirit wine, which fell evenly into the three wine cups.

"Gentlemen, please have some."

Zhou Yongcheng gestured for him to proceed.

Cheng Yaojin was the first to pick up a cup of wine and drink it all in one gulp.

After taking a sip of wine, Cheng Yaojin felt that the wine was very strong and had a very strong flavor, much stronger than the wine they usually drank.

“Good wine, this is the kind of wine a man should drink, it’s just a pity there’s too little, we can’t drink to our hearts’ content,” Cheng Yaojin said.

Upon seeing this, Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong also picked up their wine cups and drank the wine, and they too felt the difference in the wine.

“It’s really a good wine.”

Qin Qiong and the others praised the wine as truly excellent.

After putting down their glasses, the three discussed it and decided to go back and get the money so they could drink to their hearts' content.

So the three of them left the tavern and went back to get their money.