"Xu Taiping, you're the Golden Scale Champion, not the True Martial Sword Champion, much less the Dragon-Riding Martial Champion. With your meager cultivation, you couldn't even enter the first floor of our Faceless Tower."
Once she stopped smiling, Liu Baizhi deliberately changed back to Jiang Zhi's face, then spoke to Xu Taiping in an icy tone, a trace of disdain on her face.
"I can't enter your Faceless Tower, but I've killed plenty of its people."
Xu Taiping met her gaze calmly.
He was not trading words with Liu Baizhi for the satisfaction of winning an argument.
He was stalling for time.
The clone he had left outside the cave had already seen his Second Senior Brother, Dugu Qingxiao, arrive at Sunset Glow Valley, now filled with fallen rocks, with several other senior brothers from the Azure Profound Sect.
Barring any surprises, Lü Qianshou and the Faceless Tower assassin hidden in the shadows would soon appear.
Besides that, Xu Taiping's other purpose was to draw Liu Baizhi's attention entirely onto himself, keeping her from harming his fellow disciples.
"That was because you had the Golden Scale Ranking's protection back then, and your martial fortune was at its height. But now, your spirit bone is shattered and your Path to Immortality severed. Clearly, you've become a discarded pawn of the Golden Scale Ranking."
Rather than being angered by Xu Taiping, Liu Baizhi smiled.
Rumors that the Golden Scale Ranking had abandoned Xu Taiping had circulated among the public ever since the day the Nine Nether Bone-Shattering Curse shattered his spirit bone.
After he defeated Shen Li today, the rumor had even become that he had exchanged the last martial fortune granted by the Golden Scale Ranking for an advancement in his Martial Dao cultivation.
"Bang!"
While the two were speaking, another