The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 202 - 201: Using Human Lives to Smear Xie Jiuniang

Chapter 202: Chapter 201: Using Human Lives to Smear Xie Jiuniang

Xie Jiuniang stepped forward and said, "You’d better not let him die—oh, if he dies, I won’t acknowledge it. Of course, even if he doesn’t die, I still won’t acknowledge it."

This blatant statement shocked some listeners to the core.

Xie Jiuniang initially thought this disciple was a backup plan.

But when True Person Wang launched a surprise attack and secretly prepared lethal moves.

She realized then that the real mastermind was True Person Wang.

This disciple was merely cannon fodder, a pawn that allowed True Person Wang to make his move with apparent legitimacy.

"Alas, I can hardly hold up in this situation," Xie Jiuniang sent a pleading Sound Transmission Talisman to Chaoyan, her words tinged with feigned panic, "Master, the True Person Wang from the Discipline Hall and the Gongsun Family have conspired to kill me. It’s so scary! Hurry up and rescue your disciple!"

At these words,

True Person Wang’s face turned steely blue. "Nonsense," he spat.

"Whether it’s nonsense or not, you and I know the truth," Xie Jiuniang lightly clucked her tongue in response.

Among the observing disciples, some stepped back in shock.

The development of events had exceeded their expectations; it was not something they could involve themselves in. Some disciples had finally realized that they might have been used as pawns. Then, they turned angry glares toward Gongsun Yun, who had enticed them to come.

Mo Chuan was handling the matter on behalf of True Lord Muhong. After learning the whole story from another disciple, he had a vague guess about the original deceit and naturally refused to let True Person Wang take Xie Jiuniang away.

Thus, a stalemate ensued for a time.

Xie Jiuniang notified Chaoyan again.

This was not the outcome True Person Wang wanted to see. His involvement in the Wu Shuangshuang incident had already left him in the cold at the Discipline Hall for years.

Now, he found himself in a predicament.

He wanted to bring Xie Jiuniang back to the Discipline Hall first and then find a way to clear himself, but Mo Chuan wouldn’t allow it.

Mo Chuan also forbade the crowd of disciples from leaving. "Before the investigation is clear, it’s best for everyone not to go anywhere. Let me clarify one thing first, Yuanxi wasn’t trespassing in Elder Muhong’s library, she had the elder’s permission. Moreover, it was you who trespassed on the elder’s territory..."

This issue was not going to pass.

Suddenly, all the involved disciples’ expressions changed.

As for the life or death of that disciple surnamed Lou, few were truly concerned.

True Person Wang gestured to two other disciples from the Discipline Hall to take away the unconscious Lou.

"No! You can’t take him away,"

Xie Jiuniang blocked their way, "If you take him and kill him or destroy the evidence and then try to pin the blame on me, wouldn’t I be unjustly accused and unable to clear my name even if I fell into a river and washed myself clean?"

"Yuanxi, I ask you to cooperate with the actions of the Discipline Hall," True Person Wang demanded with a cold face.

Xie Jiuniang was not intimidated in the least, "I don’t trust you."

"Are you questioning the fairness of the Discipline Hall?"

"No, no, no, I’m not questioning the Discipline Hall; I just don’t trust you. After all, you have a history—last time with Wu Shuangshuang, you tried to pin it on me, so, I will wait for my master to come—"

Before Xie Jiuniang could finish her sentence,

A tall and lofty figure stood by her side.

"Disciple, who is trying to harm you?" Chaoyan’s indifferent eyes swept across the scene, eventually fixing on True Person Wang.

True Person Wang was drenched in cold sweat.

He felt a pressure as heavy as Mount Tai bearing down on him and, in the next moment, could no longer support himself and knelt down.

Chaoyan snorted coldly, "It’s you again, Wang Zhen, harboring unrelenting malicious intentions toward my disciple."

True Person Wang’s own name was indeed Wang Zhen.

As he had never taken a master, he had no one to give him a Taoist name. After reaching Core Formation, he did not choose a Taoist name for himself and continued to use his birth name. Because he had a niece married into the Wu Family, he was in good terms with Wu Sheng.

This matter wouldn’t be difficult to investigate.

Chaoyan had known it all along, and so had Xie Jiuniang.

Xie Jiuniang had never been afraid of schemes.

The person behind the scenes probably didn’t expect that Xie Jiuniang was not afraid of a Golden Core’s sneak attack.

For any ordinary Foundation Establishment Disciple, it would have been a death sentence.

To launch a sneak attack at such close range, normally, it would have been impossible to react. But True Person Wang didn’t expect Xie Jiuniang to possess the Divine Sense of a Golden Core and perceive the danger ahead of anyone else!

And True Person Wang had cultivated some unknown technique.

The concealment of that strike was similar to Xie Jiuniang’s Exquisite Spirit Needle, both killing without a sound.

Xie Jiuniang would not keep quiet about this matter. As soon as Chaoyan arrived, she informed him by Sound Transmission Talisman.

True Person Wang only had himself to blame for choosing incorrectly.

Chaoyan immediately sent a message to the Elder of Discipline Hall.

Gongsun Yun’s heart pounded like a drum; the turn of events was unlike anything she had imagined.

The Elder arrived quickly, followed by Mo Yu.

Then, everyone was taken to the Discipline Hall.

This matter could not withstand investigation.

From the start, it was fraught with flaws, and those who initially stood out to plot against Xie Jiuniang seemed to be nothing but disposable pieces. During the interrogation at Discipline Hall, Gongsun Yun took full responsibility for the matter and ended her own life on the spot.

Before her death, she still insisted, "I was just jealous of Xie Yuanxi. Why should she receive the master’s favor when I have strived for so long without success? I just wanted to teach her a lesson, but she is too cruel. She struck out to kill my nephew Lou, who is only at the Qi Cultivation stage and couldn’t withstand her Foundation Establishment attack..."

The disciple with the surname Lou also died.

He was resuscitated only to die again.

Using two lives to smear Xie Jiuniang was a significant move by the person behind the scenes, a madman who held lives in contempt.

Xie Jiuniang was dumbfounded as well.

Sitting in the room and suddenly having a pot dropped from the sky on her.

All the other Danfeng Disciples were acting under Gongsun Yun’s orders. While harboring a bit of flattery towards Gongsun Yun, they indeed did not know the inside story; the key two people were already dead.

The only one who knew the inside story, True Person Wang, insisted that he was just passing by. "I had no intention of harming Yuanxi. I just wanted to take her to Discipline Hall. But she refused to comply, and I had no choice but to exert a bit of force..."

Without evidence, what could Chaoyan and his disciple do to him?

But was Chaoyan the kind of person to swallow his anger?

No!

He issued a life-and-death challenge to True Person Wang on the spot, the kind that takes place on the Grace Platform.

True Person Wang, with a face ashen, refused to accept the challenge, "I am a Golden Core, you are a Nascent Soul..."

"To avoid others saying I’m bullying you, before stepping onto the Grace Platform, I will suppress my cultivation base to match yours," Chaoyan said with ice in his eyes and barely suppressed killing intent.

True Person Wang was still not yielding.

Chaoyan taunted, "Are you trying to act the coward?"

"True Lord Chaoyan, do not bully too far—"

"Bang!"

With one strike, Chaoyan sent True Person Wang flying.

The man even crashed through a wall, hurtling out of the great hall.

"How about if I bully you?!" Chaoyan’s pent-up rage was still unabated. In an instant, his figure appeared outside, striking at True Person Wang again. He held nothing back in this move, aiming to destroy Wang’s Dantian.

"Chaoyan! Stop!"

It was the shout of a Divinity Transformation mighty one.