The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 343 - 342: Picking Up The Leftovers

Chapter 343: Chapter 342: Picking Up The Leftovers

This was something completely absent in the foresight!

Has little fatty leaf learned to hunt for food on its own?

The spiritual soul of Daoyin from those years is still vivid in Xie Jiuniang’s memory, for which she had reaped great benefits.

Excitement surged in her heart at the thought!

Fang Pi, trapped in the sea of consciousness, began to feel very confused and lost, surrounded by a veil of silver light with nothing else in sight, yet he could not escape—within the silver light were strands of fine threads.

These fine lines, however, gave him an intensely strong sense of danger.

"Who is it? Who has captured me?!"

"Release me at once!"

"Provoke me, and once I’m out, I’ll make you regret it! I’ll make sure you wish you could die but can’t, your physical body fed to dogs, your spiritual soul used for a sky lantern..."

Even as a spiritual soul entity, Fang Pi’s malevolent energy was hard to extinguish, continuously cursing and swearing restlessly.

Xie Jiuniang had no worries of him escaping.

In those years, she was only at the initial stage of Foundation Establishment, with a weak spiritual soul and a fragile Time Leaf, yet she managed to deal with the spiritual soul of Daoyin—how much more capable was she now when her spiritual soul had grown much stronger than before.

The Time Leaf was no longer what it used to be either.

She Mei and her group dispersed the dust around them with a technique, only to see a Divinity Transformation corpse lying on the ground.

"He was killed with a sword cutting his throat," Lang Kai went up to check. "He wasn’t killed by us. Moreover, his spiritual soul has escaped, which might cause future problems."

"I was the one who killed him, and his spiritual soul has also been eradicated," Xie Jiuniang appeared.

No hidden trouble was possible.

Xie Jiuniang then asked, "Are his belongings still around?"

Lang Kai cracked a smile, "All here! Three Storage Rings, this person was really rich."

They thoroughly looted the spoils of war.

The Divinity Transformation corpse was burned to ash in a blaze.

They then cleaned the battlefield, smoothing over any traces left behind, and even had the Time Leaf erase the space around to prevent others from using Time Retrospection to track them.

Afterward, the five of them rushed back the way they came, moving swiftly.

The reason was the commotion they had caused, which might have alerted nearby powerhouses.

Thinking of the possibly lurking figures around the Tianxu Sect, Xie Jiuniang’s heart filled with malice.

"Use the Teleportation Talisman."

Xie Jiuniang was the first to use the Teleportation Talisman.

Following her were the four Great Demon Guards.

Since she had already set up a Locating Talisman earlier, she was not worried about straying off course; although Tiantian Mountain was some distance from the Sect, they needed to teleport several times to reach it.

Just as Xie Jiuniang had anticipated.

Half a quarter of an hour after they had left, a Divinity Transformation cultivator hurried over, but unfortunately couldn’t find anything.

Xie Jiuniang returned to Zhengyang Peak of the Sect as if nothing had happened.

Outside her dwelling.

There was a person waiting, and it was none other than Song Baobao.

Song Baobao, seeing her return from outside, was shocked for quite some time, but as soon as she regained her composure, she immediately ran up to her and rambled, "Xiaojiu, weren’t you in closed cultivation? You went out? I thought you were cultivating in seclusion; I hesitated on how to call out to you. I wanted to knock on your dwelling’s barrier, but I was worried it would disturb your cultivation. I was truly torn..."

"What do you want with me?"

Xie Jiuniang didn’t invite Song Baobao into her dwelling and directly inquired instead.

Song Baobao excitedly said, "My family’s second ancestor has arrived."

"Oh?" Xie Jiuniang raised an eyebrow.

Was the Song Family deciding to swap now?

Song Baobao nodded repeatedly, her eyes and brows smiling, "My second ancestor said he wants to meet you."

"Where is he now?"

"He went to have tea with Lord Xiaoyuan. He originally wanted to see you, but then heard that you were in closed cultivation."

Song Baobao was waiting for Xie Jiuniang’s response.

Certainly, Xie Jiuniang had no time for visitors at the moment; she still had a Divinity Transformation level spiritual soul entity trapped within her sea of consciousness, and what she needed most was to enter closed cultivation immediately.

Xie Jiuniang hesitated before asking, "Did your second ancestor mention a swap?"

"Of course we need to swap. Otherwise, why would my second ancestor come?"

Song Baobao said matter-of-factly.

Xie Jiuniang did not think it was as simple as she thought, but guessing was not a solution either. It was better to meet first, "You go and speak with your second ancestor, set a time, then inform me using a Sound Transmission Talisman."

Song Baobao nodded vigorously like a pecking chicken.

Then, she turned and ran, off to notify her second ancestor.

"Young master?"

The voice of She Mei rose from behind.

"What is it?" Xie Jiuniang did not turn around; she stepped into her cave dwelling.

"Are you not interested in the items from the Divinity Transformation anymore?" She Mei asked half-jokingly.

Xie Jiuniang waved her hand dismissively without looking back, "Turn my share into Spirit Stones and give it to the Broken Sword."

When it came to the effort spent, she hadn’t put in much.

But regarding the benefits gained, she had probably received the most.

The Spiritual Soul was a great nourishment for the Time Leaf, and for her, it was an exceptional opportunity, as right now, pure Soul Power was continuously brimming from the Time Leaf.

It was coming out much faster than before.

The Soul Power floated atop the Sea of Consciousness, waiting for her to refine it.

The current Xie Jiuniang knew that what she needed most was to enter seclusion.

Jian Lingyan, having heard Xie Jiuniang say that share was for her, immediately flew out from the Contract Space to divide the spoils with the four Great Demon Guards.

The four Great Demon Guards had long known about Xie Jiuniang’s Broken Sword and the Sword Spirit.

So they were not surprised.

Thus, Xie Jiuniang entered seclusion again!

She was single-minded in her focus to refine the Soul Power in her Sea of Consciousness.

As for the trapped Spiritual Soul of Fang Pi, when he found out that his Spiritual Soul was dissipating, he panicked and started thrashing around, but still couldn’t escape the Barrier formed by the silver light.

The moment Fang Pi’s Spiritual Soul collided with the thin lines, he cried out in agony, "How is this possible? How can it be the Power of Laws!"

"Huh?"

This stopped Xie Jiuniang in her tracks.

She halted her cultivation and began to study the thin lines, "So these are the so-called Laws? They seem quite dangerous."

Ordinary people couldn’t see them!

And what does being able to see them imply?

At the moment, Xie Jiuniang did not understand, nor had anyone told her, that this was an insight into the Heaven and Earth Laws that only those at Divinity Transformation could possibly touch.

Many who reached Divinity Transformation could not fully comprehend a single Law throughout their lifetime.

A big reason was that they couldn’t see them.

The Laws were intangible, and each was distinct.

Not being able to see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Xie Jiuniang could see them, but she didn’t pay much attention to it. Luckily, no one knew, or else it’s hard to say how many people would be green with envy.

After studying for a while, she ultimately did not dare to touch the silver lines with her Divine Sense.

She was mainly detecting danger.

She was not willing to engage in anything that posed even the slightest danger.

A cultivator who wants to live a long life must be cautious and careful.

Xie Jiuniang ignored the screaming Fang Pi and continued refining the Soul Power that was spilling out from the Time Leaf.

As the Soul Power was constantly refined, it filled her Sea of Consciousness.

The Sea of Consciousness was gradually expanding, with notable progress.

Fang Pi had gone from panic to numbness. Trapped as he was, he couldn’t even self-destruct his Spiritual Soul; his ultimate fate was to dissipate and become nourishment for the Time Leaf.

Unbeknownst to him.

Suddenly, the Sea of Consciousness began to churn, endlessly roiling.

A massive amount of Soul Power surged from the Time Leaf into her Sea of Consciousness, along with those thin lines bound by the leaf, which now began to roam freely inside the Sea of Consciousness.

Xie Jiuniang felt her head swell with pain.

It was as if something had been stuffed into her brain, as if it were about to explode at any moment...