Chapter 563: Golden Mouse

Soon, the song ended!

The woman stood up, nodded to the crowd, and bowed: "Many thanks to everyone, this little woman's performance has ended!"

Only then did the crowd wake up from the immersion they had just been in.

Everyone had a fiery look on their faces.

Only He Pingsheng, seemingly calm, was covered in cold sweat!

This time, it made He Pingsheng feel even more fear than when he faced that black-clad female Void Refinement expert.

Clatter, clatter, clatter...

Everyone raised their hands to applaud.

The woman, however, walked straight to He Pingsheng's side and even bowed to him.

Scaring He Pingsheng into jumping up, he hurriedly cupped his hands and bowed back.

"May I ask the young master's name?" the woman looked at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng's heart jolted; he was currently using the Jinlan Treasure Garment to hide his identity, transformed into a middle-aged man, yet this woman had actually seen through his middle-aged disguise and called him 'young master' directly?

Good heavens!

It was becoming more and more terrifying.

He did not dare to be negligent and hurriedly said: "I am Long Zhe!"

The woman asked again: "Long Zhe, is that the young master's real name or a fake name?"

Now He Pingsheng was in a bit of a bind.

He couldn't say it was a fake name, could he?

If he said it was a fake name, wouldn't he have to say his real name? But once his real name leaked out, I'm afraid the Sky Fire God Emperor would be able to find him before long.

But if he said Long Zhe was his real name, what if it was exposed later? Wouldn't that be trouble?

He thought for a moment and said: "Real name or fake name, it's just a code name; I have no secrets before you, miss, so why worry about the name?"

"Young Master Long speaks well!" The woman smiled and said: "Come listen to my music more often in the future!"

"I'm leaving!" She smiled sweetly, looking stunningly beautiful.

Then she turned and left.

With the woman gone, the shop became lively again.

Voices were loud, and people began to discuss.

The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator opposite He Pingsheng laughed and said: "So it's fellow Daoist Long Zhe... I didn't expect fellow Daoist to be held in such high regard by Miss Hong Luo, it's truly enviable!"

He Pingsheng felt bitter inside: I'd rather not have this kind of high regard, okay?

"Fellow Daoist!" He Pingsheng asked: "You should have been down into this 'Nine Nether Murong Murong Tianyuan', right?"

The red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator nodded: "Naturally, hehehe... I won't hide it from fellow Daoist Long Zhe, I have been down there more than four hundred times!"

"Sigh... it's just a pity... although I've been inside more than four hundred times, I have never encountered Rootless Grass!"

"No, I can't say I haven't encountered it!"

"There was some!"

"I collected four stalks, but they were all fourth-tier Rootless Grass!"

"There were no fifth-tier ones!"

"But the fourth-tier ones don't have much use for me either!"

He Pingsheng suddenly gasped: "This... more than four hundred times... this, this, this... is the difficulty of collecting this Rootless Grass really this high?"

"That's right!" the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator sneered: "What did you think?"

"Fellow Daoist, you don't know, this Rootless Grass is quite special!"

"Rootless, rootless, it means it has no roots; they grow in the void, floating everywhere with the wind!"

"And the fifth-tier Rootless Grass seems to have gained some spiritual intelligence!"

"Whenever someone approaches, they will drift away with the wind in advance... so capturing Rootless Grass is extremely difficult!"

"That's right!" someone nearby also said: "In this Nine Nether Murong Murong Tianyuan, one cannot extend spiritual sense, so Rootless Grass is extremely difficult to capture!"

"You've only been down four hundred times; I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I have been here for more than sixty years!"

"To this day, I haven't been able to encounter any fifth-tier Rootless Grass!"

"But one cannot generalize; some people are lucky, or have some methods, and can even obtain this Rootless Grass after going down only a few times!"

"It's not strange!"

Others around also spoke one by one about the difficulty of coming here.

Understandable!

Those who can stay here are almost all those whose luck isn't very good.

Those whose luck is explosive have long since run away with the Rootless Grass.

He Pingsheng asked: "Then... if I want to buy it, using heavenly materials and earthly treasures for trade, is it possible to trade for it?"

"Of course you can!" the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator said: "This fifth-tier Rootless Grass, in the end, is only a fifth-tier spiritual material; as long as you can afford the price, this thing can still be bought. I believe that right here in our spiritual tea house, there is definitely some brother who has Rootless Grass on him!"

"Hahaha..."

The crowd laughed out loud.

He Pingsheng also nodded.

Buying it should be possible.

However... since he's here, he should go down and take a look first, right?

What if he's lucky?

If he finds the Rootless Grass, then he won't need to use any heavenly materials and earthly treasures to trade.

Just wait!

After drinking a cup of spiritual tea, He Pingsheng cupped his hands to bid farewell to the red-robed Nascent Soul cultivator and left the spiritual tea house.

Not long after walking out of the spiritual tea house, he smiled and said: "Come out, since you've followed me here, stop playing hide-and-seek!"

Behind He Pingsheng, a wretched-looking youth ran out.

He smiled and bowed to He Pingsheng: "Senior... hehehe... this little one pays his respects!"

He Pingsheng's gaze swept over this wretched youth.

Spiritual sense flew out.

The youth was at the Golden Core cultivation level, only at the fourth layer of the Golden Core Stage.

"What is your name?" He Pingsheng asked.

The wretched youth said: "This junior is Jin Shu!"

"Jin Shu?" He Pingsheng frowned; this name really fits this guy's temperament.

"That's right, Senior..." Jin Shu said: "Actually, this junior is from the Golden Mouse clan!"

"This Golden Mouse, in the Spirit Realm, is called a 'Treasure-Seeking Mouse' by others. Senior, don't look at how ugly I am; actually, my talent in treasure-seeking is very high!"

"Hehehe... this is also the innate divine ability of our Golden Mouse clan!"

He Pingsheng seemed to understand something; he stopped walking, looked Jin Shu in the eye, and said: "I understand, you mean you have that Rootless Grass in your hands!"

"And you want to trade with me!"

"Right?"

"Right, and also wrong!" Jin Shu smiled: "Senior thinks too highly of me; although I am a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, my cultivation is low after all. After entering this Nine Nether Murong Murong Tianyuan, I don't dare to go deep, I can only wander around on top, but there are few good things up here!"

"So, I do have fourth-tier Rootless Grass in my hands, but no fifth-tier!"

"Let me show you!"

While speaking, this Jin Shu actually took out a jade box: "Under the sunlight, the jade box cannot be opened, otherwise the Yin-Sha energy inside will be dissolved by the sunlight outside!"

"Senior, you can just probe with your spiritual sense and you will know!"

He Pingsheng extended his spiritual sense to scan the surroundings first; finding no accomplices of this Jin Shu, he then extended a wisp of spiritual sense into the jade box.

There really was Rootless Grass.

And in this one jade box, there were three stalks.

Each Rootless Grass had four slender leaves.

This is also a characteristic of Rootless Grass.

Those with four leaves belong to the fourth tier!

Those with five leaves belong to the fifth tier.

And fifth-tier and fourth-tier, the leaves are also different.

Don't look at how they are both called Rootless Grass, they are not the same variety. ===== CHAPTER 564 =====