"You have a keen eye, Senior."
Xu Taiping grinned.
The woman sighed at his words, then spoke in a somewhat gentler tone:
"Little fellow, could we make a deal?"
"What sort of deal?"
Xu Taiping hacked at the Flower Umbrella again.
A flicker of pained regret appeared in the woman's beautiful eyes.
"Tell me the secret of All Beings Are Equal in the Thousand Buddha Kingdom, and our Poison King Cult can spare your life and those of your senior brothers when chaos erupts in your Azure Profound Sect."
The woman spoke sincerely.
Xu Taiping's heart gave a jolt at those words.
If this woman was not deliberately shrouding things in mystery, then something must truly have happened in Qingxuan.
"Senior, have you forgotten that your daughter is still in my hands? Why don't we make a deal over her life instead?"
Xu Taiping smiled at the woman, his expression calm.
At those words, the corners of the woman's mouth lifted slightly. She pointed at the ice sculpture beside Xu Taiping and said:
"Although this body is quite precious, the Poison King Cult can still afford to lose it."
As she spoke, Xu Taiping saw Su Su's body inside the ice sculpture beside him fracture little by little, until it crumbled into a heap of fragments along with the ice sculpture.
At the same time, the woman shook her sleeve, tossing out a humanoid puppet resembling a little girl and holding it in her hand.
"Little Madman, you've ruined another of my bodies! I'll remember this grudge!"
The puppet resembling a little girl suddenly opened her mouth and angrily berated Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping was speechless.
He had long since heard from Huang Que that the Poison King Cult's Holy Maiden was proficient in the art of puppetry, but he