He watched Shi Yutong leave.
A thoughtful look lingered in Li Ping's eyes.
After a long while, he turned to Xiao Yunzhi beside him. "Yunzhi, let me see the Jade Slip."
Of the three things Shi Yutong had asked Xiao Yunzhi to do, the first two were straightforward. It was the third that had truly sent Li Ping into deep thought.
The details of the third request were as follows:
Shi Yutong had asked Xiao Yunzhi to kill Long Jie, a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator of the Cloudstep Sect. She also hoped to buy back, at a high price, a spiritual treasure Long Jie had plundered from the Snowflight Sect.
Li Ping had harbored a vague suspicion from the very beginning.
During the chaos in Snowflight City a year earlier, he had transformed into a beautiful young girl and killed a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator who was leaving the Snowflight Sect with a precious treasure.
At the time, however, he had not known that cultivator's identity. He had gone to considerable trouble to kill the man and obtain his Storage Bag.
He had no intention of returning his spoils to the Snowflight Sect.
Considering that the Snowflight Sect might have placed a tracking mark on the treasure, he had sealed the Storage Bag without even inspecting it and hidden it somewhere secluded outside the city to avoid any awkward complications.
Even now, he had no idea what treasure the Storage Bag contained.
If the Snowflight Sect could locate it using a mark they had placed on the treasure beforehand, he could only say that the treasure was not fated to be his.
As for retrieving the Storage Bag?
Li Ping intended to wait until he had achieved Core Formation. Until then, he wanted to maintain a good relationship