The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 292 - 291 This Is Too Unreasonable

Chapter 292: Chapter 291 This Is Too Unreasonable

Xie Jiuniang refused to accept and asked, "How was I hasty?"

"Planting in a jade basin is enough to succeed? If it were that easy, Cleansing Spiritual Grass wouldn’t be a rarity in the Cultivation World." Xuanyuan You only saw a layer of Spiritual Soil on the surface of the jade basin.

Having come to someone else’s abode, he had never used his Divine Sense, so naturally, he didn’t know what was beneath the Spiritual Soil.

Xuanyuan You then said, "Before, truly, no one could do it, especially not easily. It was extremely difficult to keep alive due to its harsh environmental requirements."

He sighed with such sentiment because people from his family had once put in a great effort to plant Cleansing Spiritual Grass, naturally at a great loss.

Xie Jiuniang recalled the Cleansing Spiritual Grass she found in Yunmu Mountain and shook her head, "This Cleansing Spiritual Grass shouldn’t require much from its environment; it’s very likely that there are some special conditions making it difficult to grow."

"How so?"

"I found one in Yunmu Mountain back in the day."

"Yunmu Mountain? Is that the mountain range near your home?"

"Yes, there’s nothing much there."

"Nothing much there, yet Cleansing Spiritual Grass can be found?" Xuanyuan You was shocked, "Are you pulling my leg?"

Xie Jiuniang grew annoyed, "How would I know? It’s no secret how barren Yunmu Mountain is."

Besides, was she just planting it casually?

Who casually plants with Breath Soil?

And when Breath Soil wasn’t enough, she even buried Top Grade Spiritual Stones.

It was only because Cleansing Spiritual Grass grew slowly; with other spirit grass, it would take mere minutes to grow into a plant. However, she’d visit Yunmu Mountain again when she returned to her family.

Perhaps she would stumble upon something good.

According to the Xie Family records, Yunmu Mountain used to be rich in resources, but it was repeatedly visited by cultivators, and gradually, resources became depleted until it became barren.

Xie Jiuniang had listened to Xuanyuan You talk for quite a while.

She did not know where this guy got his gossip; he talked and talked without finishing, without repeating a single story. He even knew which disciple of Danfeng bumped into a tree trunk while sneaking peeks at female cultivators practicing swordsmanship, and about a certain male cultivator’s concubine exchanging glances with others, and so on.

None of it qualified as decent gossip.

Finally, Xuanyuan You, feeling satisfied with the chat, made a point of telling Xie Jiuniang before leaving, "Little Profiteer, I’m going into seclusion next to specifically practice my hammer technique. I won’t come out until I make some progress."

"Good for you, I hope you achieve some progress soon."

Xie Jiuniang responded perfunctorily, just wanting him to get lost quickly.

After Xuanyuan You left, Xie Jiuniang discovered that he had left a very small Spiritual Jade Bottle behind. When she picked it up and scanned it with her Divine Sense, she found it contained a cubic space.

It was filled with Spiritual Liquid that Golden Core Stage cultivators could use.

Then, a Sound Transmission Talisman flew in; it was Xuanyuan You’s voice, boastful and triumphant, "Little Profiteer, I’m generous, right? This Spiritual Liquid usable by Golden Core Stage cultivators—I begged my ancestor shamelessly for it, and now it’s yours."

Upon hearing this, Xie Jiuniang chuckled lightly.

Even if she didn’t lack this sort of thing.

But to outsiders, she was lacking.

Xuanyuan You’s action was quite sincere.

Consider that the most common Spiritual Liquid usable by Qi Cultivation was expensive; a tiny bottle, about a pound in weight, would cost around ten thousand Spirit Stones, and for the Foundation Establishment Stage, the same amount would cost seventy to eighty thousand.

The Spiritual Liquid usable by Golden Core Stage was even more expensive.

This cubic volume of Spiritual Liquid would be exorbitantly priced on the market.

He most definitely couldn’t have obtained it by sticking to someone like a bur; it’s likely Lord Guangcheng had figured out what happened that day and indirectly sent it as a thank you gift.

Xuanyuan You, as a person, was usually guileless—for almost everything he thought was clearly written on his face. In the presence of familiar kin, it wasn’t necessary for him to speak for them to know his thoughts.

Expecting him to hide something? That would be asking too much of him.

Luckily she just didn’t want Little Fatty to be discovered by others; for the rest, she was indifferent.

She placed the Spiritual Liquid on the shelf in the Small Tortoise Shell.

Then, Xie Jiuniang began another seclusion.

This was no ordinary seclusion. After activating the formation of her cave abode, she took out the Time Leaf and began channeling spiritual power into it continuously, stopping only when a thin layer of spiritual power remained in her dantian. Only then did she activate the Time Leaf.

A silver light emerged, enveloping Xie Jiuniang within it. The scene before her eyes was the familiar yet mysterious silver river.

To move forward was to presage, to retreat was to retrospect in time.

Xie Jiuniang took a step forward, her mind set on sneaking away from the Sect and returning to her family.

[Using an Invisibility Talisman and a Hiding Jade Talisman, Xie Jiuniang left the Sect quietly, dodging the mountain gate’s register, and headed straight for Xi’an City.

She passed through the city without stopping and rode the Broken Sword to travel.

The next day, she noticed that someone was tracking her.

Jian Lingyan increased its speed, but failed to shake off the pursuer.

Four days later, she was ambushed at Quyu Slope.

She was attacked by a tremendously powerful force.

Death!]

The precognition abruptly ended, and Xie Jiuniang tumbled out of the river of time.

The result of the precognition left her face iron blue with anger.

Xie Jiuniang was aware that the aristocratic families would not let her off the hook, yet she had assumed that the incident with the Gongsun Family served as a warning, and that they would not act again so soon.

Unexpectedly, it seemed they had also considered this possibility long ago.

They wanted to catch her off guard when she least expected it.

She couldn’t help but feel fortunate that she had not left the Sect rashly.

The force that attacked her was extremely strong and fast, giving her no chance to react, not even enough time to crush the Jade Token for help that her master had given her.

From this, it was evident that those families had made a significant investment.

In such a situation, she estimated that even the four Great Demon Guards would be useless. After all, the last time they came to kill her, there were several Divinity Transformation cultivators. The forces involved in another attack would certainly be no less than before.

Xie Jiuniang sat cross-legged, while taking Spiritual Liquid to recover and asking Jian Lingyan, "Little Jianjian, do you think these Divinity Transformation cultivators, by coming together to kill me, a person of destiny, are not afraid of suffering retribution from the Heavenly Dao?"

Jian Lingyan remained silent for a long time.

It was so long that Xie Jiuniang thought it would not respond, but then it slowly said, "They act together precisely because they fear retribution. By doing so, the backlash from the Heavenly Dao is diluted among them, inevitably lessening the impact on each individual."

"Impossible."

"The rules of the Heavenly Dao are such."

"That’s unreasonable." People commonly say the masses are not held accountable; is the Cultivation World also following this logic?

No, that’s not it.

Responsibility is simply being distributed.

The same retribution, borne by several individuals together, would probably cause them to suffer for a while, but it wouldn’t be death by retribution.

Such are the rules of the Heavenly Dao.

Even the Heavenly Dao cannot defy these rules.

If the Heavenly Dao could do as it pleased, it wouldn’t have been frustrated for tens of thousands of years. It would have likely struck down the aristocratic families long ago. Of course, throughout these tens of thousands of years, not a single person from these families ever ascended to the Immortal Realm.

This discovery soured Xie Jiuniang’s expression considerably.

She could only wait to recover and presage once more.

Unless it was safe, she would not leave the Sect—that was all there was to it.

Xie Jiuniang gradually calmed her restless heart and entered into meditation.

By the time she came out of meditation the next morning, spiritual power filled her being once again.