"Not bad. Your most pressing concern now is still getting used to the medicinal potency of Dragon Gall Wine. Once you can drink an entire flask in one go, your cultivation speed will be able to keep pace with those with a heavenly spirit bone."
Fairy Lingyue nodded.
"I'll do my best, but two cups are already my limit right now. Any more, and I'm afraid my body won't be able to bear it."
As Xu Taiping spoke, he raised one hand.
Across the exposed skin of his arm were wounds like cracks in porcelain.
At his words, Fairy Lingyue immediately frowned, her heart aching a little.
But she did not comfort Xu Taiping, because she knew that any consolation would be a desecration of his efforts.
"After you complete this trial assignment, I'll teach you that Body-Tempering Method of the Human Sovereign. Then Dragon Gall Wine will do much less damage to your body."
Fairy Lingyue spoke.
"Mm."
At the mention of training, Xu Taiping's eyes immediately lit up again.
"How is your practice with the improved Shadow-Splitting Technique and the Flame-Flicking Finger going?"
Fairy Lingyue asked again.
The corners of Xu Taiping's mouth rose slightly at her question. Then he took a step forward, and a burst of true qi exploded around him with a boom.
An illusory figure that looked exactly like him then appeared at his side.
"Although I still can't control it freely, I can just about make this clone walk back and forth under my control."
As Xu Taiping spoke, he directed the clone to stand before Fairy Lingyue.
"To make such progress in just two months is very good."
Fairy Lingyue nodded.
Next, Xu Taiping showed Fairy Lingyue his progress with the Flame-Flicking Finger.
By now, he could already convert true essence into