"When exactly is Master Qiao coming back?"
"Yes... we've been waiting for so many years!"
"It's been over a hundred and seventy years since we last saw her!"
"My master's treasure is still with Master Qiao. She's still nowhere to be seen, and my master is practically coughing up blood."
He Pingsheng had transformed into his third aspect, Duxuan, and stood outside his own shop watching for a while. He smiled faintly.
That was right. When he had left last time, he had taken ten supreme-grade Immortal Artifacts belonging to his customers with him!
They had originally agreed to collect them after ten years. These people must have gone mad by now, right?
Heh heh heh...
Still, these people could hardly stand guard outside Qiao Xiaoqiao's Artifact Refining Shop every day. Of those gathered outside now, some had come to ask Master Qiao to refine artifacts, while others were servants or disciples of those ten customers.
In any case, they were all lying in wait for He Pingsheng.
"Everyone... don't worry!"
The next moment, the door to Qiao Xiaoqiao's shop opened!
A woman in a red Daoist robe smiled at everyone. "Everyone, sorry for the wait... we're terribly sorry. Something came up with our Master Qiao recently!"
The woman in red was Red Spirit!
He Pingsheng was now in Duxuan's form, so it was naturally inconvenient for him to appear in person. He tossed out one of the Primordial Purple Gold Staffs. Because it had fused with the Illusory Transformation Origin, it could turn invisible, so no one nearby could sense it when it flew into He Pingsheng's body.
Because this was a new identity, and because this was Heavenly Eye Emperor City rather than Lesser Vehicle Heaven, even those lofty Dao Origin Realm experts could not possibly know that