Mortal Bones

Immediately, in a state of astonishment, Xu Taiping did not even look at the girl, and walked straight to the street corner again.

The slap just now was the scene deduced by Lian Tong.

Although Xu Taiping did not quite understand Qi Zhou's motive for slapping the girl, judging from the situation around him at the moment, Lian Tong's deduction was undoubtedly correct.

So Xu Taiping continued to walk forward, while muttering with difficulty:

"If it were not for this girl, what was Qi Zhou's motive for killing that young master?"

And just as Xu Taiping was thinking this, Xu Taiping felt that his body seemed to be fixed by something and could not move.

When he came to his senses, he found that not only had the rain stopped, but even the world in his eyes had turned upside down.

Xu Taiping tried hard to lift the knife, and then he found that he was being thrown on a long pole.

And the position of the long pole was exactly the position where Qi Zhou killed the young master that day.

Xu Taiping recognized him at a glance because he could still see the unwashed blood stains and the bloody smell in the gaps between the tiles under him.

Looking at the mocking eyes of the people in the shops and restaurants around him, Xu Taiping sighed helplessly:

"It seems that Qi Zhou must have been caught."

At this moment, an old man who looked like a housekeeper came to Xu Taiping's side.

The old man kicked Xu Taiping with a "bang" without saying a word.

Immediately, Xu Taiping felt a suffocating pain.

With the original physique of the reckless man Qi Zhou, it was impossible for him to feel such pain. Obviously, the person who caught him had done something to him.

Immediately, before the pain in Xu Taiping's body completely dissipated, the old man suddenly bowed to the people around him and said:

"Everyone, from now on, my Hong family will expose this villain here for ten days."

"I want to see if those rats hiding in the gutter behind him dare to show up!"

"In addition, from now on, anyone who comes forward and spits on this villain will be rewarded ten taels by my Hong family!"

When they heard that a spit was worth ten taels of gold, the spectators in the restaurants and teahouses on the street suddenly became lively.

After hearing this, Xu Taiping thought to himself:

"If the Hong family really wanted to kill Qi Zhou, they would have done it when they caught him. They haven't killed him yet, and it's definitely not just to humiliate him."

Xu Taiping turned his head casually and glanced at the Hong family's housekeeper, and inferred in his heart:

"Either they can't kill him, so they're waiting for someone."

"Or it's really like what the housekeeper said, they want to lure out the other villains behind Qi Zhou."

Just when Xu Taiping was thinking this, he heard a "spit" sound, and the Hong family's housekeeper suddenly spit a mouthful of fishy and thick phlegm on Xu Taiping's face.

Xu Taiping looked at the housekeeper, and then imitated Qi Zhou's tone and said coldly:

"Old man, I'll remember your face."

Xu Taiping had no good intentions for this kind of family that allowed the young man to humiliate the girl.

He even felt a little sorry that Thirteenth Seat did not regard killing the young master as his training mission this time.

"Bang!"

After seeing the look in Xu Taiping's eyes, the housekeeper kicked Xu Taiping hard in the chest.

Instantly, the unbearable pain began to impact Xu Taiping's soul.

At the same time, the housekeeper leaned close to Xu Taiping's ear and whispered coldly:

"Ten days later, the immortals of the Five Spirits Sect will come here. If you still refuse to hand over the map of the Huangliang Immortal Mansion's treasure, you will be greeted by the Five Spirits Sect's soul-searching and bone-eroding technique."

"With such immortal methods, what can you do even if you have this black iron bone?"

The words of the Hong family's housekeeper undoubtedly confirmed Xu Taiping's previous conjecture.

But what he didn't expect was that the reason why the Hong family hung him here for public display was not only to wait for the Five Spirits Sect's support, but also to force Qi Zhou to hand over the treasure map of the Huangliang Immortal Mansion.

Even as Xu Taiping was thinking secretly, the housekeeper had already stood up.

"I'll go first!"

At the same time, a tall man jumped down from the restaurant next to him and ran straight to Xu Taiping.

"Ah... spit!"

A mouthful of thick phlegm was directly spit on Xu Taiping's face.

It must be said that if a person with mysophobia was hung here, this mouthful of thick phlegm would be no less than a powerful soul attack for him.

"This Hong family did not hesitate to use the price of ten taels of gold to lure these people in the town to humiliate Qi Zhou. It is obvious that they want to pull the entire Shafo Town behind them to prevent revenge from the people behind Qi Zhou."

Xu Taiping tried very hard to divert his attention.

But even he still felt very uncomfortable after his face was covered with sticky phlegm.

Finally, he tried hard to separate a trace of soul power and injected it into the bronze ring on his hand.

This bronze ring was a gift from Linyuan Thirteen Seats. It was a treasure that could slow down, speed up, or stop the time in this world.

Because this thing did not exist in this time, no one could see or take it away.

"Snap!"

At this time, accompanied by a crisp snap, the time around Xu Taiping began to speed up.

In the blink of an eye, it was already night.

At this time, the moon was at its zenith, and judging from the wet street surface, it should have rained heavily again at noon today.

After finding that the thick phlegm on his face was washed away by the rain, Xu Taiping felt refreshed.

However, he regretted that even if he used the treasure, it only changed the time from early morning to late night, and he could not directly skip the ten days of being hung upside down here.

"Logically, it should be possible to skip it. Could it be that it is because it is the time for the thirteen seats to make a decision again?"

Almost at the time when Xu Taiping was thinking this, a thin figure in ragged clothes was holding a broken bowl and limping towards him.

After staring at the figure for a long time, Xu Taiping inexplicably felt a sour feeling in his heart.

Yes, it was still the girl.

The girl limped for at least half an incense stick of time on the short road of less than a hundred feet before she came to Xu Taiping.

Immediately, the sweaty girl held the broken bowl in her hands with both hands and handed the half bowl of food that looked like rotten water to Xu Taiping.

Under the moonlight, Xu Taiping could clearly see the crystal beads of sweat running down the girl's cheek.

At the same time, under the moonlight, the smile on the girl's face became even cleaner.

It was as clean as the first snow after winter.

This smile, as clean as the first snow, formed a strong contrast with the traces of suffering she had suffered.

The girl, with a smile on her face, held up the broken bowl in her hand and said in a crisp voice:

"Dad, look, I found food again, eat it!"

For a moment, Xu Taiping suddenly didn't want to guess what Lu Zhou would choose. He directly bit the broken bowl handed by the girl with his mouth and drank the half bowl of rotten water.

If you make a wrong choice, you make a wrong choice.

At worst, you will have to endure the pain of the backlash of the power of time again.

While thinking this in his heart, Xu Taiping bit the broken bowl with his mouth and handed it back to the girl.

"Thank you."

After saying this, Xu Taiping began to wait quietly for the backlash of the power of time.

But what surprised him was that he was not attacked by the power of time, but was enveloped by a golden light transformed from the power of blood and essence.

"This... turned out to be the right choice?"

Xu Taiping was stunned at first, then his heart was inexplicably warmed, and he said secretly:

"So that's it."