Chapter 2097: Senior, how is my strength?

He Ping Sheng didn't wait for the trade fair to end before leaving; instead, he walked out when there were still about a few hours left until the end!

Why?

Because I'm afraid!

I'm afraid that after the trade fair ends, the Buddhist disciples will surround him.

It's better to leave first!

"Did you get what you wanted?" Tao Bi Fu asked He Ping Sheng.

He Ping Sheng nodded: "I got some items!"

Tao Bi Fu asked: "What about the Sheng Zha Zi?"

He Ping Sheng said: "I already have the Sheng Zha Zi, by the way... I want to buy some items from your chamber of commerce!"

"Lower-grade divine veins, you have those, right?"

"No!" Tao Bi Fu said: "What do you need that thing for?"

"These lower-grade divine veins are things only extremely small families would need!"

"Under normal circumstances, even three-star families don't need them!"

He Ping Sheng said: "I have a use for them!"

"Alright!" Tao Bi Fu said: "Our chamber of commerce doesn't have them, but if you go forward along this road, there's a shop street where all kinds of things are sold; you can go check it out!"

"Our chamber of commerce doesn't deal in lower-grade divine veins not because we don't have them, but because they're too low-grade!"

He Ping Sheng nodded.

"Okay, now let's talk about the Tao Mountain Grand Competition!" Tao Bi Fu said: "I've done everything I can, but I really can't change the current situation!"

"Actually, for you, whether or not you participate in this competition doesn't make much difference!"

"I still say the same thing: with your cultivation, going there would be pointless!"

"No!" He Ping Sheng shook his head and said: "If I go, I will definitely get a Shakyamuni Divine Fruit!"

"Hmph..." Tao Bi Fu laughed angrily at He Ping Sheng: "He Ping Sheng..."

"You're really interesting!"

"You think I can't give you an opportunity, so you're deliberately coming to extort me, right?"

"No!" He Ping Sheng said with a serious face: "I really can make it into the top nine!"

For He Ping Sheng, getting first place might be a bit surprising, but getting ninth is really not that difficult.

I just don't believe that Tao Mountain alone has nine peerless heavenly talents at the God Monarch Realm, each of whom could overwhelm me.

"On what basis?" Tao Bi Fu said: "You can't possibly rely on just your mouth, can you?"

He Ping Sheng patted his own chest: "How could that be? I rely on my own strength!"

"If you don't believe me, you can have a match with me!"

"Alright!" Tao Bi Fu said: "If you truly have strength, I, Tao Bi Fu, will help you strive a bit more!"

"How about this: you go wait for me outside the east gate of Spring City, and in one hour, I'll come out!"

"By then, I will test your ability!"

"Go!"

Tao Bi Fu waved her hand.

He Ping Sheng left the Xian Lai Chamber of Commerce, then walked along the road Tao Bi Fu mentioned to a shop street, and randomly picked a few shops there to buy some lower-grade divine veins.

Very cheap!

One piece of medium-grade divine gold can buy one of them!

He Ping Sheng bought over thirty lower-grade divine veins in one go!

Then, he left Spring City and came to wait outside the city.

After waiting about half an hour, Tao Bi Fu indeed came out of the city.

Behind her followed a woman with cultivation at the twelfth layer of the God Monarch Realm, wearing a brown-red Dao robe, no makeup, her face clean and simple, extremely beautiful.

"Follow me..."

Tao Bi Fu didn't say extra words, just turned into a stream of light and flew farther out of the city.

He Ping Sheng and the woman in the brown-red Dao robe also turned into streams of light and followed.

Tao Bi Fu's speed is very fast.

It seems intentional!

But no matter how fast she is, He Ping Sheng can always follow leisurely behind her.

This made Tao Bi Fu and the other woman secretly startled.

The three of them flew one after another for about half an hour, and finally arrived at the void deep in the desolate mountains.

At this moment, the twilight was dark and gloomy, the sun had already set.

Standing in the void and looking around, everything was endless mountain ranges.

Hardly any human traces.

He Ping Sheng wasn't afraid of Tao Bi Fu playing tricks either; a mere God Venerable Realm, although he couldn't say he could instantly kill her, killing her wouldn't be difficult either.

"He Ping Sheng..." Tao Bi Fu called out to him, her voice clear and cold.

He Ping Sheng clasped his hands: "Junior is here!"

"This is our Tao family's disciple, just like you at the God Monarch Realm, cultivation already at the twelfth layer!" She pointed to the girl in the brown-red Dao robe: "If you can defeat her within the time of one incense stick, I will acknowledge your strength; this way, you should be convinced, right?"

"And I tell you, Tao Yao Yao, although she is the number one God Monarch Realm expert in our Tao family, even if she participates in the Tao Mountain Grand Competition, she couldn't possibly enter the top nine!"

"Not even the top twenty!"

"I say this... you should understand, right?"

He Pingsheng said: "Understood!"

"Good..." Taobifu swept her wide sleeves: "You two fight, but there's one thing—no divine talismans allowed, no sneak attacks, stop when appropriate!"

"I will watch from the side and judge accordingly!"

"One incense stick..."

He Pingsheng and that Taoyaoyao each flew into a separate empty void.

Taoyaoyao waved her hand and unfurled a crimson sword: "Let you strike first!"

He Pingsheng smiled, then took out the Hongmeng Purple Gold Staff.

Then, the boundless divine power within his divine form surged into the staff with a boom, and in the next moment, the massive staff descended from the heavens.

The thousand-zhang divine staff resembled a heavenly divine pillar, pressing down upon the void.

However, this strike was not aimed at Taoyaoyao.

Instead, it directly smashed toward Taobifu.

"Villain... you dare..." Taobifu also did not expect He Pingsheng's strike to be aimed at herself.

She instantly flared with anger: "Ant... overestimating yourself!"

After the momentary panic, Taobifu quickly composed herself, then, with a wave of her hand, produced an ice-blue pearl.

The pearl was fist-sized, but under the activation of her divine power, it instantly expanded to a thousand zhang.

She felt that using it this way was truly overkill—blocking He Pingsheng's strike was utterly effortless.

In the next moment, the staff in He Pingsheng's hand also expanded to a thousand zhang, then he struck violently into the void.

A crimson lotus blossomed forth.

The lotus spanned a thousand zhang, covering most of the sky in Taobifu's field of vision.

Then, within that crimson lotus, a blinding red light crashed down, as if a sudden gust of heavenly wind had been stirred.

Boom...

The ice-blue pearl was blasted away.

The residual fire-force powerfully struck Taobifu's body.

Pfft...

Taobifu immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, her body suddenly plummeting, then heavily crashing onto the peak of a great mountain.

The earth around the mountain range below cracked open with a roar.

Countless fissures spread like spiderwebs.

Taobifu trembled with rage, her divine power surged from within and shot out from underground.

But in the next moment, a purple-red staff pierced her brow's divine locus.

Buzz buzz buzz...

The divine staff hovered three cun from her brow, slightly trembling, emitting a purple-red gust that instantly scattered Taobifu's hair.

"Senior... how is my strength?"