Then, amid gasps of astonishment, Xu Taiping walked straight toward the street entrance again without so much as glancing at the girl.
That slap had been the scene revealed by Lotus Eye Divination.
Although Xu Taiping did not quite understand Qi Zhou's motive for slapping the girl, judging by the situation around him now, the Lotus Eye's divination had undoubtedly been correct.
So, as Xu Taiping continued forward, he murmured with great difficulty:
"If it wasn't because of this girl, then what exactly was Qi Zhou's motive for killing that young master?"
Just as Xu Taiping was thinking this, he felt as though something had frozen his body in place, leaving him unable to move.
When he came to his senses, he discovered that not only had the rain stopped, but the world before his eyes had turned upside down.
Xu Taiping struggled to lift the saber, only then discovering that he was hanging upside down from a long pole.
The pole stood at the very spot where Qi Zhou had killed that young master that day.
Xu Taiping recognized it at a glance because he could still see traces of blood that had not been washed clean from the cracks between the paving stones beneath him, and the smell of blood still wafted up from time to time.
Looking at the mocking gazes of the people in the surrounding shops and taverns, Xu Taiping sighed helplessly and said:
"It looks like Qi Zhou must have been caught."
Just then, an elderly man dressed like a steward came to Xu Taiping's side.
Without a word, the elderly man kicked Xu Taiping with a thud.
At once, Xu Taiping felt a suffocating wave of pain.
With the brute Qi Zhou's original physique, it should have been impossible for him to suffer