Chapter 562: Mysterious Zither Maiden

"Many thanks, fellow Daoist!"

He He Pingsheng cupped his hands toward the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator.

The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator laughed: "You're welcome... fellow Daoist must have also encountered a bottleneck, right?"

"The eleventh layer?"

He looked at He He Pingsheng with curiosity.

He He Pingsheng nodded.

The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator said: "Fellow Daoist, you are luckier than me; I encountered a bottleneck at this tenth layer... sigh... even if I could obtain that Rootless Grass in this Nine Nether Heavenly Abyss, I don't know how I would break through the second bottleneck in the future..."

"Forget it, forget it..."

"Let's go... let's go wait over there!" The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator was quite easygoing.

He He Pingsheng followed him as they left together.

Most of the cultivators at the entrance also left.

Not far from the entrance to the Nine Nether Heavenly Abyss, there was a spirit teahouse that occupied a large area.

The crowd of cultivators left the entrance and actually headed straight for the spirit teahouse, sitting down in a flurry.

"Come, come, come... sit, sit, sit..."

The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator said: "Fellow Daoist, hehe... you definitely won't lose out by coming here to drink tea!"

"Taste the boss's craftsmanship!"

He He Pingsheng did not pay too much attention.

What could be so good about spirit tea?

He and the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator found a random seat and sat down.

At this time, the empty seats in the spirit teahouse were basically all filled.

Before long, a Foundation Establishment stage waiter brought up the spirit tea, giving one cup to each person.

And collected the tea money while he was at it.

The tea money was truly outrageously expensive, charging ten thousand spirit stones per person.

Although they were low-tier spirit stones, this value was truly expensive to the extreme.

He He Pingsheng pondered that since the price was so high, this spirit tea must have something special about it.

He picked up the cup and sniffed it.

There was no particularly unique scent.

He took a sip!

Uh...

How should he put it?

He He Pingsheng's face turned bitter: Damn it, this stuff isn't even as good as the century-old immortal brew from "Spring Rain Workshop."

And yet, so many people come here to drink tea?

Have the people of the Spirit Realm never tasted anything good?

Looking at the people around him, each one of them looked delighted and satisfied.

"Fellow Daoist, how does the spirit tea taste?" the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator asked, looking at He He Pingsheng.

He He Pingsheng said: "To tell you the truth... hmm... average!"

"Hahaha..." The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator chuckled: "Indeed, the spirit tea here is indeed average, but of those who come here to drink tea, how many come for the sake of the spirit tea?"

"Shh, shh, shh... in a moment, the proprietress will come out to play the zither!"

"Everyone is here for the sake of this proprietress..."

"Hehehehe..."

When the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator spoke, he actually couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

He He Pingsheng understood immediately: Good heavens, so everyone comes here to drink tea not for the tea, but to look at a woman?

Fine!

Ten thousand low-tier spirit stones, I really want to see how this proprietress is so beautiful as to topple cities and countries?

After about half an incense stick of time, a woman holding an ancient zither walked out.

She sat on the chair at the very front and began to play, holding the ancient zither by herself.

He He Pingsheng's gaze shifted over, and his pupils shrank slightly.

So beautiful!

Hiss, hiss, hiss...

He He Pingsheng, who was drinking tea, suddenly gasped.

The beauty of this woman was already enough to make one unable to extricate oneself.

From the moment this woman walked into the teahouse, the gazes of everyone in the teahouse changed.

From playful to devout, from devout to obsessed.

If He He Pingsheng had not cultivated the "Xuan Sect Heart-Calming True Formula," a cultivation method for the spirit, his consciousness would likely have been affected as well.

"Ding-a-ling..."

The soothing sound of zither strings rang out, capturing people's souls.

Combined with the sound emitted by the zither strings, the woman's beauty became even more soul-capturing.

He He Pingsheng frowned and took a sip of tea, feeling that the taste of the tea had also become more flavorful.

No!

How could the tea become more flavorful?

That is impossible!

The tea had not changed; it must be the person tasting it who had changed.

Not good!

At this moment, He He Pingsheng also knew that his spiritual sense and senses had been affected; he hurriedly took a deep breath, sank his spiritual sense, and incidentally sealed half of his six senses.

A wisp of powerful spiritual sense surged out from his sea of consciousness and swept toward the woman.

He He Pingsheng wanted to see, who exactly is this woman?

The massive spiritual sense swept over the woman.

He He Pingsheng swept at nothing.

He could not see her cultivation!

He could not see her true form!

He could not see whether this woman was human or demon.

"Rude..." The woman playing the zither suddenly raised her head, revealing a peerless face; her eyes looked toward He He Pingsheng, her vermilion lips opened slightly, and then her slender, white jade hand suddenly pulled at the zither strings.

The zither strings tightened and then snapped back.

Between this tightening and snapping, a massive force transformed into sound waves and slammed toward He He Pingsheng.

Before the sound waves even arrived, He He Pingsheng's face turned pale.

He hurriedly reached out a hand, condensing the Five Elements Qi within his body into Five Elements Hunyi Force, gathering it in front of him to form a black energy shield.

Pop...

The white sound waves pierced through the energy shield He He Pingsheng had condensed and struck his body with a bang.

This strike not only contained massive spiritual power but also possessed a spiritual sense attack.

Fortunately, He He Pingsheng was sufficiently powerful in both body and spiritual sense.

Although he did not defend against it, he managed to withstand this attack.

"Good lad..."

"Ding..."

The woman pulled the zither strings with her jade hand, and a second sound wave came.

The second sound wave attack looked no different from the first on the outside.

But in reality, it contained even more massive energy.

Bang...

This time, He He Pingsheng barely had time to react before he was blasted out of the teahouse window by this attack, falling onto the ground outside.

The hairs all over He He Pingsheng's body stood on end, and cold sweat broke out.

At this moment, he knew what terror was.

The woman's first strike had failed to repel him, but it had already tested his defensive strength.

Therefore, during the second attack, this attack power was controlled just right; there was not a single bit of waste, nor was there a single bit of insufficiency.

It was just enough to blast him out of the room without causing injury.

What kind of strength is this?

Soul Transformation?

Void Refinement?

He He Pingsheng did not dare to think too much!

He took a deep breath and then looked back at the teahouse.

He found that the woman was still playing.

And she had even looked at him meaningfully.

The key point was... what made He He Pingsheng feel even more eerie was that just now, this woman had launched two attacks at him in succession, yet the people around them acted as if they hadn't seen anything, still staring obsessively at the woman and listening to the zither music.

Forget it!

This teahouse is off-limits.

Let's go!

He He Pingsheng lifted his feet to leave.

But just at this moment, the woman's cold voice reached his ears: "Come in and sit down, listen to the zither quietly!"

It was like a command, impossible to refuse.

He He Pingsheng looked at the small room with trepidation, then walked in and sat back down in his seat.

And the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator sitting in front of He He Pingsheng was completely unaware of what had happened here.

This woman's strength is truly hair-raising! ===== CHAPTER 563 =====