Xu Taiping immediately rose to greet Fairy Lingyue.
Fairy Lingyue smiled and tossed the jar of wine in her hand toward Xu Taiping, saying:
"Catch."
Xu Taiping reached out to catch it, then held the wine jar in one hand and said:
"Sister Lingyue, after you sent me here in the bronze coffin yesterday, did the Nine Abysses make any further moves?"
Although he still did not know how Fairy Lingyue had managed to join forces with his master, Lü Daoxuan, he had already guessed that their intention had surely been to help him escape the Nine Abysses' pursuit.
After all, even before he had been sent into that bronze coffin, so many Yin Demon Beasts had already been hunting him.
"Yesterday?" Fairy Lingyue smiled and corrected him:
"That was three years ago."
"Three... three years ago?" Xu Taiping looked astonished.
With his current physique and cultivation, under normal circumstances, even if he had slept for a hundred years, he would have been able to sense it clearly upon waking. For as long as the Power of Time continued to flow, it would inevitably leave traces in his body and divine soul.
Yet now, even after Fairy Lingyue told him he had slept for three years.
He still could not sense any traces of time's passage within him.
At his words, a hint of surprise appeared in Fairy Lingyue's eyes as well.
In her view, it was understandable that Xu Taiping would not know he had slept for three years if no one pointed it out.
Yet even after she had pointed it out, Xu Taiping still appeared astonished. This was truly unexpected.
Fairy Lingyue immediately looked at Xu Taiping with a solemn expression and said:
"Taiping, let me examine you."
Xu Taiping nodded.
Then Fairy Lingyue extended a finger