Chapter 1943

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　　Immediately afterwards, amidst a flurry of astonished voices, Xu Taiping didn’t even look at that young girl once and once again directly headed towards that street corner.
　　That slap just now was the scene deduced by the Lotus Pupil.
　　Although Xu Taiping didn’t quite understand the motive behind Qi Zhou slapping this young girl, judging from the current situation around him, the deduction of the Lotus Pupil was undoubtedly correct.
　　So as Xu Taiping continued to walk forward, he very difficultly muttered：
　　”If it wasn’t for this young girl, what exactly was the motive for this Qi Zhou to kill that young master？”
　　And just as Xu Taiping was thinking like this, Xu Taiping felt as if his body was fixed by something and couldn’t move at all.
　　When he came back to his senses, he found that not only had the rain stopped, but even the world in his eyes had been inverted.
　　Xu Taiping struggled to raise that knife, and then only discovered that he was being hung upside down on a long pole.
　　And the position of this long pole was exactly the position where Qi Zhou had killed that young master that day.
　　The reason why Xu Taiping recognized the place at a glance was that in the gap between the floor tiles under him, he could still see the blood that hadn’t been washed clean, as well as the bloody smell that emanated from time to time.
Looking at the mocking eyes of the people in the shops and restaurants in Western Zhou again Xu Taiping helplessly sighed and said:
　　“It seems that this Qi Zhou should have been caught.”
　　And just at this time, an old man in the guise of a butler came to Xu Taiping’s side.
　　The old man didn’t say a word and kicked Xu Taiping with a “bang”.
　　Immediately, Xu Taiping felt a suffocating pain.
　　With the original physique of the brute Qi Zhou, it was impossible to be in such pain. Obviously, the person who caught him had tampered with his body.
　　Immediately, before the pain on Xu Taiping’s body completely dissipated, the old man suddenly cupped his hands towards Western Zhou and said：
“Everyone, from today, my Hong family will expose this villain here for ten days.”
　　“I want to see if the rats hiding in the gutter behind him dare to show up！”
In addition, from today, as long as anyone steps forward and spits on this villain, my Hong family will reward ten taels of gold!
　　As soon as they heard that one mouthful of saliva was worth ten taels of gold, the onlookers in the restaurants and teahouses on the street suddenly became lively.
　　After hearing this movement, Xu Taiping secretly thought in his heart：
　　“If the Hong family really wants to kill Qi Zhou, I’m afraid they would have already done it when they caught him. They haven’t killed him until now, and it’s definitely not just as simple as humiliating him.”
　　Xu Taiping casually turned his head and looked at the steward of the Hong family, secretly inferring in his heart：
　　“Either they can’t kill him and are waiting for someone.”
　　“Or it’s really as the steward said, they want to draw out the other villains behind Qi Zhou.”
And just as Xu Taiping was thinking like this only heard a “spit” sound the steward of the Hong family suddenly spat a mouthful of stinky thick phlegm on Xu Taiping’s face.
　　Xu Taiping looked at the steward for a moment, and then said coldly in the tone of Qi Zhou：
　　“Old guy, I remember your face.”
　　For this kind of aristocratic family that can allow that young master to humiliate a young girl, Xu Taiping originally didn’t have any good intentions.
　　He even felt a little pity that the Thirteenth Seat didn’t take the task of killing that young master as his training task this time.
　　“Bang！”
　　After seeing the look in Xu Taiping’s eyes, the steward kicked heavily on Xu Taiping’s chest.
　　In an instant, the unbearable pain began to impact Xu Taiping’s soul.
　　At the same time, the steward 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 treasure in the Yellow Millet Immortal Mansion by then, what awaits you will be the soul-searching and bone-eroding technique of the Five Spirits Sect.”
　　“Even if you have this mysterious iron bone, so what？”
　　The words of the Hong family’s butler undoubtedly confirmed Xu Taiping’s previous guess.
　　However, 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 people of the Five Spirits Sect to come for support, but also to force Qi Zhou to hand over the treasure map of the Yellow Millet Immortal Mansion.
　　Just as Xu Taiping was secretly thinking, the butler had already stood up.
　　“I’ll　go　first！”
　　At the same time, a tall man jumped down from the upper part of a tavern beside him and ran straight to Xu Taiping.
　　“Ah… bah！”
　　A mouthful of thick phlegm was spat onto Xu Taiping’s face.
　　It has to be said that if a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder was hung here, these mouthfuls of thick phlegm would really be no less than a powerful soul attack for him.
The Hong family is not afraid to spend ten taels of gold to seduce the people in this town to humiliate Qi Zhou obviously wanting to draw the entire Buddha-Slaying Town to their side to prevent retaliation from the people behind Qi Zhou.”
　　Xu Taiping was very hardworking in diverting his attention.
　　However, even he still felt extremely uncomfortable after his face was covered with sticky thick phlegm.
　　Finally, he managed to allocate a wisp of divine soul power and injected it into the bronze ring on his hand.
　　This bronze ring was precisely the treasure bestowed by the Thirteen Seats of Lin Yuan, which could slow down, accelerate, or stop the passage of time in this world.
　　Because this thing didn’t originally exist in this passage of time, thus no one could see or take it away.
　　“Snap！”
　　At this time, accompanied by a clear snapping sound, the passage of time around Xu Taiping began to accelerate.
　　In the blink of an eye, it was already evening.
　　At this moment, the moon was exactly in the middle of the sky, and judging from the wet street pavement, it should have rained heavily again at noon today.
　　After finding that the thick phlegm on his face had also been washed away by the rain, Xu Tai suddenly felt refreshed.
　　However, what made him a bit regretful was that even though he used that treasure, it only changed this passage of time from early morning to late at night, and he wasn’t able to directly skip the ten days of being hung upside down here.
　　“Logically speaking, it should have been possible to skip over it. Could it be because it’s time for the choice set by the Thirteen Seats again？”
　　And almost at the time when Xu Taiping was thinking like this, a thin and ragged figure was limping along with a broken bowl in hand, struggling to walk towards him.
　　After staring at that figure for a long time, an inexplicable sour feeling arose in Xu Taiping’s heart.
　　That’s right, it was still that girl.
The girl limped along the short distance of less than a hundred feet. It took her at least half a stick of incense to come to Xu Taiping’s.
Immediately, the sweating girl held up the broken bowl in her hands with both hands and handed the half bowl of food that was like swill to Xu Taiping.
　　In the moonlight, Xu Taiping could clearly see the crystal clear beads of sweat rolling down the girl’s cheeks.
　　At the same time, against the backdrop of the moonlight, the smile on the girl’s face became even cleaner.
　　Clean like the first snow after winter.
　　This smile as clean as the first snow formed a strong contrast with the marks of suffering on her body.
The girl with a smile on her face, holding up the broken bowl in her hand, said crisp:
　　Dad, look, I found food again. Eat！
For a moment, Xu Taiping suddenly didn’t want to guess how Lu Zhou would choose. He directly bit the broken bowl handed by the girl with his mouth and drank the half bowl of swill in one gulp.
　　If you choose wrong, you choose wrong.
　　At worst, bear the pain of the backlash of the power of time again.
　　While thinking like 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 quietly wait for the backlash of the power of time.
　　But to his great surprise, instead of being backlashed by the power of time, he was wrapped in a golden light transformed by the power of qi and blood true essence.
　　”This… actually chose correctly？”
　　Xu Taiping was first stunned, and then for some reason, his heart warmed, and he secretly said：
　　”So that’s how it is.”