"Sixty thousand Gold Essence Coins? Even I'm a little tempted by what you're saying."
Xu Taiping looked astonished.
He had never expected that after three years of secluded cultivation in the Wilderness, the price on his head would have risen this high.
"Is that Holy Maiden of the Poison King Cult the mother of Demoness Su Su?"
Xu Taiping asked Elder Yun Zhong, voicing his guess.
"Indeed." Elder Yun Zhong nodded, then gave an awkward smile. "She said you sullied her daughter's chastity in the Thousand Buddha Kingdom, young brother, so she wants your life in payment."
Xu Taiping frowned.
As her mother, don't you have any idea what your daughter's like? She was clearly the one trying to harm me all along, so how has she turned around and accused me instead?
Like mother, like daughter, indeed.
Still, he was somewhat surprised that Demoness Su Su was alive. He had thought Shang Jiu would kill her to silence her.
"Elder Yun Zhong, why do you know all these things in such detail?"
Xu Taiping took out his Dragon Gall Wine and drank a mouthful, then crouched down and asked Elder Yun Zhong.
"Because... because I'm one of the assassins Blood Hand recruited."
Elder Yun Zhong gave another awkward smile.
Xu Taiping nodded, not particularly surprised.
Unexpected, but within reason.
I can understand the Poison King Cult's Holy Maiden wanting to kill me over her daughter, but why does that Mysterious Man want me dead?
Xu Taiping pondered this in some puzzlement.
"Elder Yun Zhong, if that's all you know, I'm afraid I can't let you go."
He then looked at Elder Yun Zhong with sincerity in his eyes.
As though he had long expected Xu Taiping to say this, Elder Yun Zhong immediately grinned. "To make it easier to