"This concubine will naturally lift it for you, fellow Daoist."
Peacock Fairy was certainly not someone who would break her word and fatten herself on it, to say nothing of the fact that, because of this unexpected advancement, she was filled with gratitude toward Lin Xuan.
However, when she said those words, her expression was strange to the extreme. Her eyes dodged away. Lin Xuan took this subtle reaction in, and his heart could not help but stir.
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Fairy."
"All... all right."
A trace of a sigh surfaced on Peacock Fairy's lovely face, and her heart grew even more uneasy. This time, she really had spun a cocoon and bound herself in it.
To a Demon Cultivator, this Life Essence Light was something second only to the Demon Core. The restrictions within it were naturally not something that could be removed with ease.
A set of rituals was required.
Though it could not be called especially complicated, the two of them were not very familiar with each other, and there were many troublesome points involved.
As the saying went, people walked different paths. Lin Xuan's cultivation was still weak, so Peacock Fairy needed to lend him her own Demon Core. Only afterward could he use a secret art to remove the restriction within the spirit light.
And the importance of a Demon Core went without saying. Yet she just happened to have no choice but to do this, so Peacock was naturally rather gloomy inside.
If she had known today would come, why had she acted so in the first place!
But it could not quite be put that way either, because when the two had first met yesterday, they had still been in an obvious hostile relationship. At that time, Peacock Fairy had