In her view, if Xu Taiping's refining had been going smoothly, the Bronze Coffin could not possibly have stirred like this.
Yet Lü Daoxuan spoke from behind the gate in a perfectly calm tone:
"There shouldn't be any problem. His Martial Fortune is likely lacking, causing some difficulties as he performs a cultivation technique he hadn't mastered before."
As it turned out, just as Lü Daoxuan had predicted, Xu Taiping spent an entire two hours before finally refining a single Origin Beginning Clone.
When Xu Taiping stepped out of the Bronze Coffin, he was almost completely drained, his Qi and Blood and True Essence all but exhausted.
Fairy Lingyue immediately took out a Grass Return Pill and placed it directly into Xu Taiping's mouth.
Once his Qi and Blood had recovered slightly, Xu Taiping immediately asked Fairy Lingyue and Lü Daoxuan in bewilderment:
"Master, Sister Lingyue."
"When I was refining the Origin Beginning Clone just now, I clearly followed every step Master taught me, but every time I was on the verge of success, I would fail because of some tiny shortcoming."
"Only after I kept trying until my True Essence and Qi and Blood were nearly exhausted did I finally refine one."
After hearing Xu Taiping's account, Fairy Lingyue immediately frowned.
"It seems you were indeed right, Old Lü."
Just as Xu Taiping was utterly at sea, Fairy Lingyue told him of Lü Daoxuan's suspicion that the Nine Abysses would sever his Martial Fortune.
Beyond that, however, Fairy Lingyue did not mention that Qingxuan would bear the disaster brought by the Great Void Calamity in his stead.
While Xu Taiping was still looking astonished after hearing Fairy Lingyue's account, Lü Daoxuan's voice suddenly came from behind the Bronze Gate:
"Taiping, although I anticipated that the Nine Abysses would sever