After exchanging a glance with the girl, Xu Taiping looked ahead again and walked straight past her.
It was as though he had never seen her at all.
In truth, even without this Trial, he would never have rashly accepted food offered by a stranger out of pity.
Not to mention that his current identity, Qi Zhou, was a villain.
So even without using the True Intent of Lotus Root Broken, Yet Its Fibers Remain or the Lotus Eye's Divine Ability, he was certain that Qi Zhou would never accept the food the girl held out.
"Bitch, how dare you give the food I gave you to an outsider?"
Just as Xu Taiping passed the girl, he suddenly heard the young gentleman on the carriage roar in anger.
Then, amid repeated cracks of a whip, the horses' neighs exploded through the street.
Bang!
Immediately afterward, amid a rapid clatter of hooves, the carriage sped past Xu Taiping, dragging the girl behind it.
Dragged along the ground, the girl wailed in pain, a truly wretched sight.
"Whew..."
Watching the girl being dragged away, Xu Taiping slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
He had been very afraid that the faint stir of compassion would make him step forward and save her.
Only after seeing that nothing around him changed, even after the girl was dragged away, did Xu Taiping inwardly sigh in relief and think:
It seems I chose correctly this time.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly felt warmth enveloping his entire body.
Looking down, he saw a faint golden light spreading over him.
At the same time, he sensed another strand of True Essence and Qi and Blood Power within his body.
Strangely, however, he received far less True Essence and Qi and Blood this time than