"Three thousand people..."
Xu Taiping felt that he had still underestimated how ruthlessly these Great Cultivators acted.
"He must have failed to find me for so long that he simply planted the Seven Tribulations Curse on all three thousand people, preferring to kill the wrong people rather than let anyone escape."
Fairy Lingyue's tone turned somewhat icy.
As Xu Taiping chewed the last mouthful of his meat pie, he murmured inwardly, "Sister Lingyue, does that mean the seven deadly calamities my left eye showed me yesterday were meant to help me break this Seven Tribulations Curse?"
Fairy Lingyue was taken aback by his words.
For she, too, had suddenly realized this.
"If that truly is the case, then this time, your left eye and the One-Leaf Book will be facing off from afar."
Fairy Lingyue also found it somewhat inconceivable.
She had never expected the left eye Xu Taiping had obtained by chance to be capable of countering a divine object like the One-Leaf Book.
"There is one major problem now."
Xu Taiping picked up his bowl and drank the last mouthful of porridge, while telling Fairy Lingyue inwardly:
"According to the Lotus Eye's projections, this afternoon, on my way back from the Relic-Seeking Studio, a group of cultivators trying to seize my treasures will assassinate me. Sister Lingyue, do you think I should go or not?"
The Relic-Seeking Studio was the largest business selling treasures, talismans, and pills in Southern Chu's Imperial Capital.
Besides ordinary treasures and pills of Earth Rank and below, the Relic-Seeking Studio also had a dedicated auction house in its inner courtyard, where treasures of Heaven Rank and above were auctioned.
In Xu Taiping's original plan, they would buy the Heaven Rank True Fire Talismans needed for Seed Burning at the Relic-Seeking Studio, along with