Meanwhile, back with Xu Taiping.
Trapped within the "Fire Prison," he was struggling to hold on.
Forcing the Mountain Spirit Blade Domain open had already accelerated his consumption of True Essence and Qi and Blood. Now he also had to suppress the Blazing Slave's Cloud Spirit Power and Fire Magic. Even though he had just downed an entire jar of wine, he was still finding it extremely difficult.
More importantly, as the potency of that whole jar of Hidden Immortal Wine began coursing wildly through his body, he actually began to feel drunk.
With Xu Taiping's current cultivation, no wine, however strong, should have been able to get him drunk unless he wanted it to.
And this drunkenness piled snow upon the frost of his predicament.
For once he began to feel drunk, controlling the True Essence and Qi and Blood within his body became increasingly difficult.
As Xu Taiping struggled to stay sober and maintain the Blade Domain, he murmured inwardly:
Could this be the drawback Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland meant when he said the Hidden Immortal Wine had its flaws?
Just as he was thinking this, the potency of the Hidden Immortal Wine gradually began to weaken under the dual drain of the Blazing Slave and the Eight Emperors Soul Seal.
Xu Taiping immediately found himself in a dilemma.
Although he still had seven jars of Hidden Immortal Wine left, his growing drunkenness made him somewhat afraid to keep drinking.
Boom!
While he hesitated, an even fiercer wave of fire spread out from the Blazing Slave.
In an instant, Xu Taiping's Blade Domain, already compressed to a mere ten zhang square, abruptly shrank to an area just three zhang square.
Left with no choice, Xu Taiping picked up a flask of Hidden Immortal Wine he had prepared earlier,