"Gulp..."
Xu Taiping tilted his head back and took a mouthful of Hidden Immortal Wine. His throat, which had grown somewhat dry and cracked from excessive depletion of his qi and blood and true essence, was instantly moistened.
He gently shook the wine flask. Finding only a few mouthfuls left, Xu Taiping wiped his mouth and murmured:
"This flask of Hidden Immortal Wine the Tower Master gave me truly put out the fire singeing my brows this time."
When the Lotus Eye had used the great deductive power just now, without the Hidden Immortal Wine replenishing his spirit in time, he, with five soul seals still on him, would probably have long since had his body and soul exhausted and his qi and blood and true essence drained dry by the Lotus Eye and the soul seals.
After catching his breath, Xu Taiping asked the Lotus Eye:
"Lotus Eye, were you saying just now that the great deductive power had already succeeded?"
The Lotus Eye replied:
"The deduction was finished an incense stick's time ago."
Xu Taiping let out a long, whooshing breath, then closed his eyes and focused his mind once more as he asked the Lotus Eye:
"What you used just now could no longer be considered the great deductive power, could it?"
The Lotus Eye answered:
"It should count as the great deductive power at the ultimate realm of your current cultivation."
Xu Taiping nodded silently.
Just then, his mind finally sank into his sea of consciousness, and he saw hundreds of golden lotuses drifting through its pitch-black expanse.
At the sight, Xu Taiping immediately frowned and asked the Lotus Eye:
"These golden lotuses are all results of your deduction."
Xu Taiping naturally knew that each golden lotus contained a divine soul mark.
And these divine soul