"Try it first." Fairy Lingyue smiled. "If it really is Hidden Immortal Wine, this little half-gourd will last you some time."
Xu Taiping nodded, then picked up the wine gourd with some apprehension, took a small sip, and swallowed.
At first, that small mouthful tasted no different from ordinary strong liquor, and Xu Taiping noticed nothing unusual.
But as Xu Taiping drew a gentle breath, saliva seeped into his mouth like sweet rain. When he swallowed it, Pure Essence immediately poured into his apertures and meridians.
Xu Taiping merely circulated the Cloud-Riding Art to refine it a little, and that Pure Essence swiftly transformed into vital energy and true essence, some flowing into his limbs and bones, and some into his dantian and qi mansion.
More wondrous still, when the qi and blood and true essence flowed into his limbs and bones and his dantian respectively, a strand of intangible divine essence flowed into his sea of consciousness.
From then on, Xu Taiping needed only to keep swallowing the saliva in his mouth to generate an unending stream of qi and blood, true essence, and divine essence, just enough to replenish what the Eight Soul Seals devoured.
Its effects were exactly as Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland had described.
"Sister Lingyue, this must be Hidden Immortal Wine!"
Xu Taiping looked at Fairy Lingyue, his face filled with delighted surprise.
"That's good. That's good."
Fairy Lingyue also let out a deep breath of relief.
For Xu Taiping, who no longer had the protection of the Golden Scale Ranking's martial fortune and would be beset by misfortune, the coming journey to Peerless Nether Heaven was certain to be extraordinarily perilous. This little half-gourd of Hidden Immortal Wine offered a considerable measure of protection.
"Oh, Taiping, you know these two, don't you?"
Just then,