The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 279 - 278: The Origin of Broken Sword

Chapter 279: Chapter 278: The Origin of Broken Sword

Xie Jiuniang shook the Broken Sword and asked curiously, "Do you know the origin of this guy?"

"You’re its contract master, and you don’t know?" Dari Golden Flame was surprised again.

Xie Jiuniang said, "Its blade was severed, and by the time I met it, it was about to dissipate. It had forgotten many things long ago."

"Heaven-Cleaving Sword."

Dari Golden Flame began to recount the origin of Jian Lingyan.

It was an ancient god sword that could once split the heavens, damaged during the great battle between gods and demons, downgraded several ranks, contracted to a master, then unluckily encountered the celestial demon war, and broke in the last battle.

Ninety-nine percent of its Original Spirit Source was lost.

Memory loss, as miserable as it gets.

It was the first time Jian Lingyan knew its tragic past, "So I was once so imposing, sob sob, why did you tell me this, I’m so pitiful. From a majestic divine sword to now just a little wretch trying hard to earn Spirit Stones to feed myself, and having to endure the stinginess of my miserly master..."

Thwack!

Hit by the stick again!

Several thwacks in a row, clapping loudly.

As she smacked, Xie Jiuniang asked, "How have I been squeezing you? Want to review the account books to see how much you owe me in Spirit Stones?"

Jian Lingyan, who was being hit, didn’t dare to make a sound and feigned death with all its might.

And the stick, left outside for too long, actually caught fire.

This showcased how terrifying this place was!

Seeing this, Dari Golden Flame looked at the Broken Sword, eyes full of disdain, "No guts!"

"You have guts! You have the most guts!"

Jian Lingyan, not daring to retort to its dog master, dared to argue with Dari Golden Flame, "You are already so accomplished that you need me, who lacks guts, to come and save you, how wonderful."

Dari Golden Flame: "..."

Xie Jiuniang: "..."

Quite logical, cannot refute.

Frankly speaking, she stood on the side of that doggone thing, after all, it was her little buddy.

"Cough cough—"

Clearing her throat, Xie Jiuniang changed the subject, "What we need to do most urgently now is to break this formation platform."

Since she had decided, Jian Lingyan dared not act up.

Dari Golden Flame had even less to say.

So, Xie Jiuniang held the Broken Sword, continuously channeling Spiritual Power into it, and now the Broken Sword was no longer the rusty sight of the past.

As the Spiritual Energy increased, the blade became more mysterious, swiftly gathering an incredibly strong force.

As the master, Xie Jiuniang also took out a Spirit Revitalizing Pill, slowly replenishing the Spiritual Power consumed in her Dantian.

Reaching the brink, she slashed down with her sword.

This strike was very precise, targeting the formation’s vital point, not attacking a wide area.

Boom!

There was a sound, yet not too loud.

The formation platform had a small piece missing from the strike.

The next moment, she sensed a strong crisis!

In a flash, Xie Jiuniang retreated to a corner, widening the distance from the formation platform.

On the formation platform, flames raged, rising high, with a force that threatened to destroy everything.

With the formation’s vital point broken, Dari Golden Flame broke free from the seal in one go.

Even Xie Jiuniang, who was outside, couldn’t bear the heat wave; this fire was completely different in scale from the Earthfire earlier.

The Ice Soul Stone was melting!

This was fire that even the Ice Soul Stone couldn’t withstand.

In just a moment, an egg-sized Ice Soul Stone had shrunk to the size of a peanut.

If she didn’t escape quickly, she’d lose her life!

Damn!

Was Dari Golden Flame intending to repay kindness with enmity?

Pulling out a Teleportation Talisman, she ripped it open, and in an instant, Xie Jiuniang vanished with the Broken Sword from the spot.

The person had already been teleported to the woods outside the city.

It was the very place she had prepared in advance.

When she appeared, a talisman hidden in this place ignited and instantly turned to ash.

Once a Teleportation Talisman is used, where it teleports to is usually uncontrollable.

However, Xie Jiuniang, after years of studying talismans, did not come away empty-handed; she devised a Locating Talisman.

Locating Talismans are quite unconventional, such as the tokens issued by the Sect during assessments—it is the inclusion of the Locating Talisman’s inscriptions that give them their locating function.

After Xie Jiuniang had mastered it, she had a stint of inspiration to use it in conjunction with Teleportation Talismans, to significant effect.

Of course, there was a certain distance limitation.

Earlier, Xie Jiuniang had set this up as a contingency plan for herself.

She had not expected to use it so soon.

Locating Talismans are not so easy to draw; even she, as a Sixth Rank Talisman Master, spent a month’s time and only managed a few successful ones.

"This is just too insanely cruel, we nearly got burned to a crisp!" Jian Lingyan cried out in anger.

Xie Jiuniang found that the tips of her hair had been burned away significantly, and her sleeves and hem each had a large hole burned through—just as Jian Lingyan said, she was a bit slower and she would truly have been scorched!

She then felt the Ice Soul Stone in her embrace.

It was now only the size of a peanut!

Ignoring Jian Lingyan’s demonic ranting, Xie Jiuniang said, "What will follow in the city will be chaotic; if you want to absorb the Spirit Vein, you’d better hurry. I won’t go in, it is too dangerous."

"Dog owner, now is a prime time to fish in troubled waters."

"The Heaven-Cleaving Sword’s attack does not differentiate between friend and foe," Xie Jiuniang said somberly as she looked toward the city, where the flames were soaring into the sky.

That creature had been imprisoned for over ten thousand years.

At first sight, it seemed like an ordinary person—not right, more like an ordinary cluster of flames.

Once it broke free, it went mad!

Jian Lingyan tempted her again, "Can’t we just sneak in?"

"A wise man stays away from danger," Xie Jiuniang said again somberly.

Aside from the berserk Heaven-Cleaving flames within the city, there was also a Tree Demon, just one step away from ascending.

Such a commotion would surely awaken it.

Seeing that she was unmoved, Jian Lingyan knew that her fear of death had taken over again, so it flew up to her and said, "Come on, slap a Hiding Talisman on your little lord."

Xie Jiuniang raised her hand and slapped a talisman onto the sword’s body.

Then, conveniently, she slapped on an Invisibility Talisman too.

Broken Sword disappeared instantly and whooshed towards the city; since it had no flesh and blood, the Demon Vines of the city walls couldn’t detect it at all. Once it entered the city, Broken Sword quickly dived underground.

The city was now in complete chaos.

The initial disturbance started from the Earthfire Room, erupting suddenly in an instant, consuming everything on the ground, whether it was people or objects, with flames in a flash.

Some of the roots underground were affected as well.

Suddenly, the slumbering Giant Tree was startled awake.

"How can there be Strange Fire in the city?!"

"Damned Gongsun Family—"

The tree roots quickly retreated from the area where the Strange Fire ignited.

The Gongsun Family’s powerhouses flew out one after another.

They tried to extinguish the fire, and upon realizing it was futile, they immediately switched to rescuing people, taking the younger members of their clan, aiming to withdraw from the city. However, the Heaven-Cleaving flames seemed to have an extreme vendetta against the Gongsun Family.

It burned any human it saw.

If anyone tried to escape, it chased!

Anyone who touched the flames disappeared in the firelight before they could even scream.

"Help! The fire is coming this way!"

"Father! Save me—"

"Run! Head for the city gates! Hurry, don’t look back!"

"No! Help, someone save me, I don’t want to die..."

"Ancestral Tree, please save my clanspeople!" Gongsun Du suddenly pleaded aloud.

Even outside the city, one could hear the continual screams and cries from within.

Inside the city was a living hell at this moment.

Xie Jiuniang, lurking not far from outside the city, suddenly saw tree roots writhing in the air above the city and then saw one child after another being flung out of the city by the roots.

All of them were children, the oldest only about ten...