"You're Senior Sister Liu, aren't you?"
Xu Taiping looked calmly at the woman outside the door.
"Yes, it's me!"
Seeing that Xu Taiping still recognized her, Liu Zijin immediately smiled.
After all, as far as she was concerned, she and Xu Taiping had only met once, back at the Green Bamboo Abode.
"Junior Brother Taiping, there's something I'd like to confirm with you."
Liu Zijin spoke to Xu Taiping without beating around the bush.
Xu Taiping gave Liu Zijin a long look, then nodded and said,
"Please wait a moment, Senior Sister."
He guessed that Liu Zijin must have recognized him as the young man who had fought the Tiger Demon in the Red Maple Forest that day.
"Senior Brother Qingxiao, Senior Sister Linglong, I'd like to speak privately with Senior Sister Zi Jin about something. I'll come back and report the details to you afterward."
Xu Taiping addressed Dugu Qingxiao and Zhao Linglong.
"Go ahead. We'll wait here, then take you to the courtyard arranged for you."
Qingxiao nodded.
He never interfered in his fellow disciples' private affairs.
In a scenic pavilion outside the Ten Thousand Scrolls Tower.
"Junior Brother Taiping, you were the young man who descended from the sky in the Red Maple Forest that day, weren't you?"
Liu Zijin looked at Xu Taiping with some apprehension.
At first, she had never connected Xu Taiping of the Green Bamboo Abode with the young man in the Red Maple Forest. After all, the gap between their cultivation and strength was far too great.
It was not until the day of the Seven Peaks Assembly, when she saw Xu Taiping use the exact same Green Ox Fist as the young man in the Red Maple Forest, that she connected the two.
"Yes, that was me."
Xu Taiping hesitated,