"Very well."

  Fairy Lingyue smiled faintly at Xu Taiping.

  For some reason, even though he was just a teenager in his teens, she always felt that his determination was strohan many adults, much like someone she had known before.

  "e closer."

  Fairy Lingyue suddenly beed Xu Taiping with her hand.

  "What does the fairy have to and?"

  Xu Taiping stepped forward, someuzzled.

  "Smack."

  At that moment, Fairy Liended a finger and lightly tapped Xu Taiping's forehead.

  Before Xu Taiping could react, he felt a refreshing ess entering his brain, followed by the appearance of a white paper in his mind, rec the recipe and preparation instrus for the Bone-sing and Marrow-Washing Soup.

  "The Bone-sing and Marrow-Washing Soup? There really is a recipe in this world that allow boo cultivate."

  After Xu Taiping saw the effects of the recipe, a look of joy couldn't help but appear on his face.

  "Little guy, don't be too happy yet. The recipe for the Bone-sing and Marrow-Washing Soup is meant to be used in jun with another soup recipe. However, the ingredients needed for that recipe are too precious. Even if I give them to you, it won't be of any use. Therefore, you will enter some difficulties during the process of soaking in the Bone-sing and Marrow-Washing Soup."

  Fairy Lingyue poured a basin of cold water on Xu Taiping's head.

  "What kind of difficulties?"

  Xu Taiping immediately asked.

  "Without the other soup, when you soak in the Bone-sing and Marrow-Washing Soup, your whole body will be ireme pain, just like the pain of cutting flesh and scraping bones."

  Fairy Lingyue's expression turned serious.

  "I'm not afraid of pain."

  Xu Taiping thought for a moment and then shook his head firmly.

  Although Fairy Lingyue wao say that he hadn't tasted that kind of suffering, otherwise he wouldn't have answered so decisively, she couldn't say it for some reason.

  "Today, this deity is in a good mood. In addition to the inal promised recipe, I will give you ahing."

  Fairy Lingyue suddenly smiled and then reached out her hand to gently squeeze.

  In an instant, Xu Taiping saw white light verging like ribbons in Fairy Lingyue's palm. When Fairy Lingyue opened her hand again, three colorful and translut beads had appeared in her palm.

  At the moment whehree beads took shape, Xu Taiping clearly felt that Fairy Lingyue's figure became much more transparent.

  "Swoosh!"

  Before Xu Taiping could ask what it was, Fairy Lingyue suddenly raised her hand and scattered the three beads, throwing them in three different dires in the medial garden.

  After doing all this, Xu Taiping heard Fairy Lingyue softly ting an intation. At the same time, faint blue light verged around the three beads, f a mysterious rutern that enveloped the entire medial garden.

  "This is the Minor Three Spirit Gathering Array. Although it is not as powerful as a real Spirit Gathering Array, it is enough to ehat your half-acre medial garden will yield three times the harvest within a year."

  After doing all this, Fairy Lingyue expio Xu Taiping with some weakness.

  "Three times?"

  Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping's face first showed surprise, theook out the four Soybean Spirit Crystals from his pocket and hahem to Fairy Lingyue, saying:

  "Fairy, please accept these four beans. My grandfather said that fairness is the most important thing in a transa, otherwise it won't st."

  Seeing Xu Taiping say this seriously, Fairy Lingyue couldn't help but burst into ughter, but immediately she became serious again and said:

  "What you said is correct. Si is a transa, fairness is important. However, well, you hese Spirit Crystals for your cultivation, so sider it as me lending them to you first. When the Earth-Hiding Fruit bears treasures agaiime, you returo me."

  Hearing this, Xu Taiping also thought seriously for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then when I returo you ime, I will have to include i. I will have to give you five Spirit Crystals."

  "Yes, yes, i must be included."

  Fairy Lingyue covered her mouth and chuckled.

  At this moment, Fairy Lingyue's figure became slightly transparent again, and her aura obviously weakened a lot.

  "Little Taiping, this remnant soul of mine is too weak. I o tinue resting and recuperating in the Earth-Hiding Fruit. It will take at least one or two months before I e out. From now on, this medial garden and your own cultivation will depend on you. Don't hold me back. I still o rely on the Earth-Hiding Fruit to restore my true form."

  Fairy Lingyue instructed Xu Taiping with a slightly pyful tone.

  "Fairy, rest assured, cultivation is my own matter. Taiping will never hold you back."

  Xu Taiping's gaze was very determined.

  "You said it well. Cultivation is indeed a personal matter. On the long path of cultivation, others help for a while, but they 't help forever. In the end, it still depends on oneself."Fairy Lingyue smiled satisfactorily, then poi the withered beanstalk and said:

  "Taiping, go ihe house and find a shovel. Dig this beanstalk out and bury it in the ter of the medial garden."

  "Alright."

  Xu Taiping urned around without a word, and headed towards the house.

  Just as he turo go back to the house, Fairy Lingyue, who had been smilily, suddenly had a sharp look in her eyes. She then turo look at the wall behind her.

  Following her sharp gaze, one could see a pair of eyes glowing with a faint blue light, sneakily watg the courtyard.

  The moment Fairy Liurned her head, those eyes obviously noticed her and immediately rolled off the wall.

  "Whoosh!......"

  At the same time, Fairy Lingyue, who had been somewhat ethereal, suddenly turned into a gust of wind and whistled out of the courtyard, sending the figure that had fallen off the wall flying with one hand.

  "Mercy, Immortal, mercy! I'm just an Evil Ghost, forced by the Tiger Lord of Green Peak Ge to harm people!"

  Before Fairy Lingyue could speak, a Corpse Ghost with a greenish fad a rotting body revealing white bones bowed to her.

  "Serving the tiger, it's scum like you all."

  Fairy Lingyue snorted coldly, then spped the Corpse Ghost away with a palm through the air. At this moment, she seemed like a pletely different person pared to when she was fag Xu Taiping.

  "Wait, my strength has not fully recovered yet, and I may not be a match for that Tiger Demon. Killing this Evil Ghost will only bring trouble. It would be better to cast an Entment Spell on it, making it temporarily fet what happened here. When Taiping's cultivation is successful iure, he subdue that Tiger Demon. It would be a good experience."

  Fairy Lingyue, who was about to kill the Evil Ghost in one fell swoop, suddenly withdrew her hand. She murmured a sentender her breath, then a happy smile appeared on her face.