Chapter 563: Golden Rat

Soon, the song ended!

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

Only then did the crowd awaken from that state of immersion.

Everyone had a fiery look on their faces.

Only He He Pingsheng, while appearing calm, was drenched in cold sweat!

This time, it made He 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 He Pingsheng's side and even bowed to him.

He He Pingsheng was so startled that he hurriedly jumped up and busily cupped his hands in return.

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

He He Pingsheng's heart trembled; he was currently using the Jinlan Treasure Garment to conceal himself, disguised as a middle-aged man, yet this woman had seen through his middle-aged disguise directly and called him "young master" without hesitation?

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 He Pingsheng was in a bit of a bind.

He couldn't just 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 Skyfire God Emperor would 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, young lady, so why bother 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, toppling cities and countries.

Then she turned and left.

With the woman gone, the shop became lively again.

Voices were loud, and people began to discuss spiritedly.

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

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

"Fellow Daoist!" He He Pingsheng asked: "You must have been down into this 'Nine Nether Heavenly Abyss', 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 down there over four hundred times, I have never encountered the Rootless Grass!"

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

"There were 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 He Pingsheng gasped: "This... over 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 float away with the wind in advance... so capturing Rootless Grass is extremely difficult!"

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

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

"To this day, I haven't been able to encounter a single stalk of 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 just a few times!"

"It's not strange!"

Others around them 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 exploded have long since run off with the Rootless Grass.

He He Pingsheng asked: "Then... if I want to buy it, trading with heavenly treasures, 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 just a fifth-tier spirit material; as long as you can afford the price, this thing can still be bought. I believe that right here in our spirit teahouse, there is definitely some brother who has Rootless Grass on him!"

"Hahaha..."

The crowd laughed loudly.

He He Pingsheng also nodded.

Buying it should be possible.

However... since he is here, shouldn't he go down and take a look first?

What if his luck is good?

If he finds the Rootless Grass, then there's no need to use any heavenly treasures to trade.

Wait!

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

Not long after walking out of the spirit teahouse, he smiled and said: "Come out, you've already arrived here, stop playing hide-and-seek with me!"

Behind He He Pingsheng, a youth with a wretched appearance ran out.

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

He He Pingsheng's gaze swept over this wretched youth.

Spiritual sense flew out.

The youth had Golden Core stage cultivation, only at the fourth layer of the Golden Core stage.

"What is your name?" He He Pingsheng asked.

The wretched youth said: "This junior is Golden Rat!"

"Golden Rat?" He He Pingsheng frowned; this name really fits this fellow's temperament.

"That's right, Senior..." Golden Rat said: "Actually, this junior is of the Golden Rat clan!"

"This Golden Rat, in the Spirit Realm, is called by others a 'Treasure-Seeking Rat'; 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 Rat clan!"

He He Pingsheng seemed to understand something; he stopped walking, looked at Golden Rat squarely, and said: "I understand, you mean you have that Rootless Grass in your hands!"

"And want to trade with me!"

"Right?"

"Right, and also wrong!" Golden Rat smiled: "Senior thinks too highly of me; although I am a Treasure-Seeking Rat, my cultivation is low after all. After entering this Nine Nether Heavenly Abyss, I don't dare to go deep down, I can only wander around on the surface, but there are few good things on the surface!"

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

"Let me show you!"

While speaking, this Golden Rat actually took out a jade box: "Under the light of day, I cannot open the jade box, otherwise the Yin-evil Qi inside will be dissolved by the daylight outside!"

"Senior, you can tell with a probe of your spiritual sense!"

He He Pingsheng extended his spiritual sense to scan the surroundings first; finding no accomplices of this Golden Rat, 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.

Moreover, the leaves of the fifth tier and the fourth tier are different.

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