In Xu Taiping's eyes.
Judging by aura and pressure alone.
In the lower realm of the Shangqing Realm-that was, within these Five Heavens-there were probably very few who could rival Fairy Lingyue.
After all, decades ago, relying only on her own Divine Soul Power and his Spirit Refining Realm body, Fairy Lingyue had single-handedly slain the Abbot of Fire Cloud Temple.
Although she had the aid of the Earth Fruit's Immortal Peach then, its power had primarily protected Xu Taiping's flesh, keeping his body from being crushed beneath Fairy Lingyue's divine soul.
With her Primordial Spirit alone, she already possessed such terrifying combat strength.
Xu Taiping truly found it difficult to imagine how terrifying Fairy Lingyue's combat strength would be now that she had obtained this puppet body.
So when he heard the shout from that so-called Tangting Mountain Elder outside, never mind Fairy Lingyue-even he felt not a ripple.
But the spectators inside the inn and Zhu Wu, the Grand Elder outside, felt very differently.
Inside the inn.
Apart from the one or two Transformation Realm experts concealed in the shadows, the expressions of the watching cultivators as they faced Fairy Lingyue's aura could, with some exaggeration, be likened to those of people glimpsing a deity.
Even those two Transformation Realm experts hidden in the shadows felt as Xu Taiping once had when confronted with this aura: like people at the foot of a mountain, gazing up at its towering grandeur.
Outside the inn.
Zhu Wu, the Grand Elder of Tangting Mountain, had thought himself the sun and moon in the sky. Only after sensing Fairy Lingyue's aura from inside the inn did he discover that he was not the sun or moon, but a few glimmers of firefly light on a summer night.
Just then, Fairy Lingyue, her