The bamboo rat, Xiaoli, turned her spiritual power into a rope and led the "Deceitful Thief" up to the fifth floor of the marketplace.
Xiaoli took the stairs from the first to the fourth floor, passing countless onlookers who gawked at the young man floating in mid-air, his face a picture of defeat, struggling as if bound by innumerable chains.
He didn't look like the cool and suave "Deceitful Thief" they had imagined!
Nor was he a cute young lady!
"No skills, and not even good-looking, I am now unfanning."
"What a disappointment, it turns out to be a guy."
"Doesn't anyone think guys can be good too?"
"That little loli is so cute—no, wait, she's fierce!"
Only when the young man was led to the fifth floor did those Awakeners who had been watching return their gaze, bursting into even louder discussions.
