The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 294 - 293: The Heaven and Earth Net

Chapter 294: Chapter 293: The Heaven and Earth Net

He vented his frustration by giving Broken Sword a good beating.

Only then did Xie Jiuniang feel slightly appeased, "Stop causing me trouble. One more time, and I’ll throw you into a dung pit. Speak up! If you fly in a straight line, day and night, without stopping, how many days will it take to get to Yunmu City?"

"Oh, seven days? Eight days?"

"Why are you so useless?" Xie Jiuniang’s dangerously narrow eyes slanted towards him.

Broken Sword managed to steady itself after wobbling around.

No Human Cultivator could sustain high-speed flight for long, and yet they expected it of him, a mere sword. It was asking too much of the sword!

Sword Spirit Jian Lingyan cautiously suggested, "How about... we don’t go back for now?"

"My father said that we Cultivators should confront difficulties head-on!"

Xie Jiuniang pointed forward with her right arm, her gaze sharp, her ambition unbounded, "When faced with challenges, how can we shrink back?"

Moments later...

Her small shoulders drooped.

Her whole demeanor wilted.

After a long while, the deflated person slowly sank into deep thought.

As time passed, those eyes, which should have been despondent, gradually filled with determination, without a trace of discouragement.

Father was right.

Cultivators should confront difficulties head-on and not shrink back.

If a mountain blocks the path ahead, then move the mountain.

If ghosts cause mischief, then think of a way to vanquish them...

Before she could devise a meticulous plan, she needed to understand the layout of the person behind the scenes thoroughly. With Lord Shaluo, who had been hidden from the world for a millennium, appearing, Xie Jiuniang dared not underestimate the danger.

Then, she announced that she would go into seclusion once more.

The four Great Demon Guards had grown accustomed to it.

"The young master is so diligent. I’ve heard some people from the Tianxu Sect say that she has always been like this, rarely showing her face in public, and it’s always for a reason whenever she does."

"Indeed, going into seclusion is much better than causing trouble."

"It’s quite relieving."

The few of them began to chit-chat, truly at leisure.

As for Sword Spirit Jian Lingyan, who chanced upon hearing the conversation of the four, if it had been capable of rolling its eyes, it certainly would have done so incessantly.

Would its owner ever refrain from causing trouble?

Going into seclusion now was precisely to plan a big move. With the abilities of these four, following along was likely to lead to being cannon fodder.

Sword Spirit Jian Lingyan felt a momentary sympathy for the four.

Their fates were hanging by a thread, and they were none the wiser.

...

While in seclusion, Xie Jiuniang used the Time Leaf to predict, again and again, realizing that the matter had become far more complex than merely returning to Yunmu City.

Stepping into the river of time—

[Leaving the Sect with the four Great Demon Guards, tossing out the small palace, traveling openly and directly, the small palace flies over Xi’an City.

Encountering a Divinity Transformation trap, feigning ignorance, continuing on the journey.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, nearing Quyu Slope, various defensive measures deployed, warning the four Great Demon Guards of an ambush, crushing Master Qiansha’s Jade Token for help in advance, suddenly, a blinding light burst out of nowhere, causing searing pain to one’s eyes.

Almost simultaneously, the familiar attack came again!

Boom!

An ear-splitting explosion.

The small palace disintegrated into pieces, holding up for only half a breath.

The four Great Demon Guards used their beast bodies to protect their master, dying on the spot.

Xie Jiuniang died tragically...]

Having come out from the Time Leaf, Xie Jiuniang was dazed for quite some time before she snapped out of the bloody precognition, realizing that with her arrangements, she couldn’t withstand even a single breath’s time.

Just how powerful was that attack?

Waiting for her depleted Spiritual Power to be fully replenished, she proceeded with another round of prediction...

Cycling through, tireless.

Three more months passed.

The Spiritual Liquid that Xuanyuan You had sent her was all used up by Xie Jiuniang, yet she still had not found a solution that satisfied her; instead, she achieved an unexpected breakthrough.

Golden Core, third layer!

Xie Jiuniang confirmed her breakthrough several times, finding it unbelievable.

This way... it was possible?

"What’s so strange about that? I used a cubic meter of Golden Core Elixir, even a pig should have broken through..." Jian Lingyan popped up again to make her presence known.

Xie Jiuniang’s rising joy was abruptly cut off.

Given her talents, breaking through a minor rank didn’t require wasting these resources, not to mention the Impurity-Free Body and the addition of an Immortal Rank cultivation technique...

Smack!

The Broken Sword got hit again!

"I almost got sidetracked by you, was I expending all these to break through? It’s for using the Time Leaf..."

Xie Jiuniang, infuriated, struck the Broken Sword once more, "The minor rank I gained is like finding money on the street, free money! I am happy—"

Jian Lingyan dodged far away from her.

The thing that made Xie Jiuniang the happiest was not just the breakthrough, but also the fact that her precognition time would extend because of it.

How much longer, she would only know after testing it.

Jian Lingyan felt it unfair to be the only one getting hit, "Dog owner, have you forgotten something?"

"What?"

"For example, a little brat..."

Suddenly, Xie Jiuniang’s eyes lit up, her Divine Sense reaching into the Small Tortoise Shell, and she saw Little Fatty sprawled atop a chest, fast asleep.

With a thought.

Little Fatty appeared in the cave.

Still sprawled on the ground, continuing to sleep.

Xie Jiuniang poked Little Fatty’s chubby cheek, waking him up directly, "Little Fatty, do you have anything that can prevent snooping? Something that can even block Divinity Transformation."

Little Fatty, still drowsy, opened his eyes wide.

Xie Jiuniang added, "Something that even the Eye of Truth can’t see through."

Little Fatty, tilting his small head, fumbled in the air with his small arms and pulled out a piece of old cloth, square shaped, about half a yard, and passed it to Xie Jiuniang as if offering treasure.

The cloth was genuinely old and even a bit dirty.

Skeptical, Xie Jiuniang stretched out two fingers, pinching a corner of the rag, and then rubbed it with her fingertip, again and again.

This was no ordinary cloth!

She tried probing it with her Divine Sense, which couldn’t penetrate.

Immediately, Xie Jiuniang wasn’t repulsed anymore and put the old cloth into her Storage Ring.

Trying to predict the future again, she took out the Time Leaf.

[Xie Jiuniang snuck out of the Sect while invisible, wrapped tightly in an old piece of cloth.

Disguised as a little beggar, she entered Xi’an City, with a Divinity Transformation Divine Sense sweeping over her, then another and another...

She left Xi’an City, walked for a day and then another, and was still safe and envied.

On the sixth day, she successfully bypassed Quyu Slope.

On the seventh day, while going through a necessary mountain range, she was suddenly ambushed by two Divinity Transformation cultivators and killed.

Before dying, she even heard their conversation:

"This person might not be the target."

"If we can’t see through them, better err on the side of caution and not let them go; besides, the cloth looks ordinary but blocks investigation, which is not something a beggar would have."

"..."]

Xie Jiuniang just wanted to curse!

It turned out she was too naive, a net had been laid outside the Tianxu Sect specifically for her.

Just waiting for her to fall into the trap.

No matter where she left from, the result would be the same.

This made one suspect whether those forces had moved all their power to the Eastern Region, just to take her out?

Xie Jiuniang was a bit worried about her parents.

If she kept hiding, someone might lose their patience and go after her parents...

Xie Jiuniang asked with knitted brows, "Little Jianjian, do you think my parents are safe now?"

"Hard to say."

"If I were them, I wouldn’t touch my family."

"Why?"

"My family is my Achilles’ heel."

Smart people wouldn’t let their enemy’s Achilles’ heel disappear.

At this point, Xie Jiuniang felt she had to do something. Without waiting to fully recover her Spiritual Power, she hurried out of the cave dwelling.

She decided to make a big deal at the Main Peak...