The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 175 - 174 The Purpose of Coming to the Secret Realm

Chapter 175: Chapter 174 The Purpose of Coming to the Secret Realm

The Sword Sect disciples were embarrassed but fortunately, there were no casualties.

Su Songting and the two others noticed something amiss on the shore and flew out of the water to check.

Such an unexpected incident was hard to explain; they searched for a while but didn’t find any problems and chalked it up to coincidence.

The items the three of them found at the bottom of the pool were also disappointing.

They could only acknowledge their bad luck.

Xie Jiuniang was carrying Xuanyuan You as they left.

They were about to catch up with Xie Ying and the others.

"Eh, is that a Xue Ling Bee?" Xuanyuan You paused in his steps, noticing a Spiritual Bee perched on a tree, "Is there really a Xue Ling Bee in the Secret Realm? Aren’t they unique to the Western Region?"

Xie Jiuniang’s cold eyes turned towards the Xue Ling Bee.

As if startled, the bee flew away in an instant.

A flash of understanding crossed Xuanyuan You, "A Contracted Beast? Are we being monitored by someone?"

"You’re not completely foolish," Xie Jiuniang remarked, her smile not reaching her eyes as she watched the direction the bee flew off.

Xie Ying and the others were fighting with a Demonic Beast.

The two of them had no intention of helping and sat down on a large tree.

Xie Jiuniang pulled out two Spirit Fruits and tossed one to Xuanyuan You.

Xuanyuan You bit into a red fruit and asked, "Aren’t you going to help them?"

"It’s not dangerous, so why help? Blindly helping just to share the spoils is just asking for annoyance," Xie Jiuniang certainly wouldn’t engage in such thankless tasks.

That was what the two of them thought, but Xie Ying seemed to think differently. Seeing her not helping and instead spectating, she couldn’t help but glare at her angrily.

Xuanyuan You laughed, "Is someone glaring at you?"

"Oh, my cousin’s eyes aren’t good; she glares when trying to look at people."

"Pfft! Cough cough..."

Xuanyuan You laughed so hard he almost choked.

The Demonic Beast was killed, and the guarded Spirit Plants were picked.

Xie Haoran sheathed his sword, approached with a smile, and asked, "Xiaojiu, how was the excitement?"

"It was just okay, nothing spectacular," Xie Jiuniang had told him before that she was just there to watch the excitement.

At this moment, a few disciples who had been injured earlier looked over and started asking about Lin Wangchen and Ren Bingyan.

Xie Jiuniang was too lazy to speak, but Xuanyuan You excitedly recounted what he had seen and heard, concluding with a lingering thought, "Brother Lin and Sister Ren should be rejoining the group shortly."

"Crack—"

Xie Jiuniang suddenly smashed the core of the Spirit Fruit she held in her hand towards Xuanyuan You.

It whistled past Xuanyuan You’s cheek, making his heart skip a beat, "Little Profiteer, what are you doing?"

"Can’t you see for yourself?" Xie Jiuniang reminded him.

Xuanyuan You turned his head and saw a dead poison spider on the tree bark behind him, the fruit core embedded three inches into the wood.

The disciples who were talking to him were also scared into a cold sweat.

Lucky that the Little Profiteer took action...

They hadn’t encountered any danger today and had let their guard down for a moment!

Xuanyuan You jumped next to Xie Jiuniang, "Xiaojiu, thank you for saving my life."

"Cut the drama, move aside, we’re setting off," Xie Jiuniang activated a Flight Charm and followed after Xie Ying and Xie Haoran. They couldn’t stay long since there had just been a fight and bloodshed.

"Ah—"

A shrill scream in the distance startled the forest birds into scattering.

Xie Jiuniang was jolted, "What’s happened now?"

"Someone must have encountered danger," Xuanyuan You reflexively moved closer to Xie Jiuniang.

They scanned the area with their Divine Sense and recognized the problem.

The scream came from the Minghua Sect disciples led by Gongsun Xue, involving a female disciple who accidentally got caught and dragged away by a Demon Vine.

Gongsun Xue was now rescuing someone and fighting with the Demon Vine.

Xie Jiuniang found out more than Xuanyuan You did.

One could say that around her slowly gathered those with ulterior motives.

Lin Wangchen, Gongsun Xue, Nangong Qi and Su Songting?

Wu Yu hadn’t been seen yet, but among the monitored Contracted Beasts, there must be some from the Wu Family.

Xie Haoran and Xie Ying went up to help.

The rest followed to help rescue the person.

Except for Xuanyuan You and Xie Jiuniang, the two youngest ones, who hadn’t moved.

The Demon Vine was somewhat troublesome, but in the end, everyone worked together to kill it. The female disciple they rescued was breathing her last, most of her blood drained, and Gongsun Xue stuffed a handful of Blood Replenishing Pills into her mouth.

Xie Jiuniang knew that the disciple was unconscious, merely from excessive blood loss.

After eating a handful of Blood Replenishing Pills, she would recover after a day or two of care.

Gongsun Xue dug out a Monster Crystal and handed it to Xie Ying, expressing her thanks, "Please accept this Monster Crystal, and thank you to all the friends from Tianxu Sect for your help."

"Don’t mention it, we should help," Xie Ying accepted the Monster Crystal.

Demonic Plants produce Monster Crystals, and Demonic Beasts produce Demon Cores; both are rare treasures.

The group agreed to leave together.

However, Xie Jiuniang went to the dead Demon Vine and kicked it a few times.

"Little Profiteer, what are you doing?" Xuanyuan You asked curiously.

"Scavenging," Xie Jiuniang picked up a part of the Demon Vine and tugged at it; it didn’t break.

"What use is that?"

"To use as material, but it needs to be processed before selling."

She picked up the Demon Vine scattered around and put them into the Storage Ring.

Such Demonic Plants couldn’t be useless. There are only useless people, no useless things.

Xuanyuan You was speechless, "Do you lack spirit stones that much?"

"Every little bit adds up, don’t you understand? Anyway, I’m not one to fuss about too few spirit stones," Xie Jiuniang didn’t say it was because she found them useful, as explaining more would be troublesome.

After walking a bit further.

Lin Wangchen and Ren Bingyan returned with others.

Not just them, Nangong Qi and Su Songting were also following them.

Song Qinglian and Song Baobao were not seen.

Xuanyuan You quietly started talking to Xie Jiuniang, "Weird, why haven’t we seen the Song siblings?"

"I also wonder what happened," Xie Jiuniang had a speculation in her mind. It was normal for the Song Family not to follow since they had no designs on the Child of Destiny.

Gathering like this was what was abnormal.

Xuanyuan You, unable to sit still, went to ask a disciple from the Sword Sect.

The person was very wary at first, but Xuanyuan You was thick-skinned, and besides, he wasn’t asking about any secrets.

Before long, Xuanyuan You drifted back to Xie Jiuniang, "They said they weren’t a team, just responded to a distress signal and gathered. Now they’ve dispersed to seek their own opportunities."

Xie Jiuniang asked, "Aren’t Song Qinglian and Su Songting in the same team?"

"It doesn’t seem like it now, although I thought so outside the Secret Realm."

"It’s also possible they just split up temporarily."

"That’s true, too. Those with a bit of strength have gone to seek opportunities; only those with average abilities like us would stick with the group," Xuanyuan You believed he had found the truth.

He had no idea that from the start, Xie Jiuniang’s purpose for joining the group wasn’t pure.

How was she to cut off her enemies’ opportunities if she didn’t get her previous life’s enemies together?

Looking for them one by one while juggling other considerations would be very bothersome.

Now, they had already gathered four talents...

No one knew the real reason why Xie Jiuniang came to the Secret Realm; it wasn’t to find opportunities, but to sever other people’s opportunities.

Of course, she wouldn’t pass up a good thing if she came across it.