The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 399 - 398: Sending Them to Their Deaths

Chapter 399: Chapter 398: Sending Them to Their Deaths

Xie Jiuniang’s escape route was exactly where the Danyang Spirit Plant was located.

She intentionally paused for a moment as she flew past the Danyang Spirit Plant, eventually making a pained choice to continue fleeing.

It looked as if she had stumbled upon a treasure during her escape but had to abandon it to save her life!

This subtle change might go unnoticed by the careless, but Wuhuan, who was almost fixated on Xie Jiuniang, naturally saw it.

Wuhuan was now at the peak of the late Golden Core stage, just one step away from the Nascent Soul.

With a few other Golden Core cultivators by his side, anyone alone would flee immediately upon seeing them approach, unless they were foolish.

Therefore, Wuhuan and his companions did not suspect any deception.

Of course, their vigilance was never fully relaxed.

But at the sight of the Danyang Spirit Plant, it disappeared completely!

Someone exclaimed excitedly, "My God, what is this?"

"It’s the Danyang Spirit Plant!"

"Must be a few thousand years old, haha, we’re rich, rich! This trip to the Secret Realm was worth it."

"It really is the Danyang Spirit Plant, we’re not dreaming..."

"Senior Brother Wuhuan, hurry and pick it. After that, we still have to chase after that person." A disciple urged Wuhuan hastily.

For a moment, Wuhuan suspected it was a trap.

But the thought of the extremely rare Danyang Spirit Plant dispelled his doubts.

Who would be foolish enough to use it to set a trap?

Wuhuan leaped towards the crevice and personally went to pick it.

Worried about damaging the root and affecting its medicinal potency, he was extremely careful. Just as he had dug up the Danyang Spirit Plant and was about to carefully examine it, suddenly, a surge of alarm struck him: not good, it’s a trick...

He found himself plummeting downwards.

Those on the ground were startled by the sudden change. Someone swiftly leaped into the air and caught Wuhuan as he fell.

They safely landed on the ground.

The others hurried over to check on him, particularly concerned whether the Danyang Spirit Plant had been damaged, and then they all fell for the trap!

This medicine would not render a person unconscious.

Those who were affected seemed more like they had lost their souls, dazed and confused.

If someone gave directions, they would move like puppets on strings.

Xie Jiuniang returned after leaving.

Little Fatty adorably went over and took the Danyang Spirit Plant back to the treasury. Seeing that the roots were undamaged, he foolishly planted it again.

This kind of medicine had no effect on Artifact Spirits.

Xie Jiuniang had been holding her breath and was not worried about the drug’s effects.

After Little Fatty had finished his task, she formed a technique and blew away the surrounding medicine powder.

When she saw the few people standing there looking dazed, Xie Jiuniang smiled sinisterly and commanded, "Hand over everything valuable on you."

Wuhuan and the others did as they were told, without emotion.

She stripped the people clean, leaving only their vestment robes, even taking all their Secret Realm Tokens.

Xie Jiuniang then asked Jian Lingyan, "Where is the nearest dangerous place?"

"Eight li away at the Red Leaf Forest, does master want to go there?" Jian Lingyan asked, not understanding why.

Xie Jiuniang looked at the Broken Sword as if it were a fool, "Knowing that it’s a danger zone, why would I go there?"

Jian Lingyan inquired, "Then why did you ask?"

Xie Jiuniang didn’t answer but instead put her plan into action.

She ordered Wuhuan and the others to head towards the Red Leaf Forest and watched with her own eyes as they entered.

Only then did she choose not to follow.

According to the records, the Red Leaf Forest was a place where one could enter but never return, even more dangerous than the Snake Abyss.

The moment these people stepped into the Red Leaf Forest, their death was sealed.

Xie Jiuniang was waiting not far outside the Red Leaf Forest and even threw out a Law House for resting. She waited until the Divine Sense brands, imprinted by the owners on several Storage Bags and Storage Rings before her, dissipated.

Once the owners die, their Divine Sense would dissipate.

Xie Jiuniang began to check the belongings of the dead, "These people are quite poor, there is nothing I can make use of."

The Jian Lingyan swiftly reminded her, "Master, don’t forget my share."

"I know, I’ll give you all the Spirit Stones." Xie Jiuniang gave all the Spirit Stones from the people to the Sword Spirit as snacks.

She then picked a Spirit Plant with intact roots that could possibly be revived, including all the seeds, etc., and gave them all to Little Fatty, while the remaining bits and pieces that neither the sword nor the child could use all went to Xie Jiuniang.

Xie Jiuniang found a Token of the Ao Family’s disciple from the Southeast Sea Region, as well as numerous items marked with the Ao Family’s emblem, within Wuhuan’s Storage Ring, "No wonder this person was so malicious towards me, turns out it’s the remnants of the Ao Family."

Last time Xie Jiuniang used Lethal Poison to plot against a group of Divinity Transformation cultivators, she indirectly informed outsiders that she might be involved with the incident at the ancestral land of the Ao Family.

As for this, Xie Jiuniang did not bother to conceal it.

The hatred of the Ao Family towards her was not without reason, but she did not care.

The people of the seven great families all hated her.

They all wished to kill her and then scatter her ashes, but this was nothing new. As long as they weren’t high-ranking Cultivators, she could finish off anyone below the Golden Core in minutes and then turn around to scatter their ashes.

...

Outside the Dragon Gate Secret Realm.

In a grand city of the Cultivation World.

In the residential district of the wealthy, within a magnificent mansion where servants were not allowed, a serene courtyard.

More than ten powerful figures were stationed there.

Five Divinity Transformation and eight Nascent Soul cultivators.

One hundred and five Soul Tokens lay before them.

At the moment of Wuhuan’s death, a Soul Token shattered, the last fragment before death being the Red Leaf Forest.

"The Red Leaf Forest?!"

A powerful figure exclaimed in shock, "He entered the Red Leaf Forest on the first day of the Secret Realm?"

"He might have been transported there, just bad luck."

That’s the only way they could rationalize it.

They could never admit that someone in the Red Leaf Forest wanted him dead on purpose.

Wuhuan was one of their highly trained assassins, skilled in beguiling hearts. His death on the first day was beyond their expectations.

One of them frowned and said, "We sent one hundred and twenty people in, and sixteen have died just on the first day. The dangers of the Dragon Gate Secret Realm exceed our expectations. They are struggling even to defend themselves, so how can they hope to achieve our objective? Our initial plan might have been too hasty."

"It’s just the beginning; do not speak so dishearteningly."

Someone stopped him from continuing, "Their misfortune on the first day was just bad luck, they won’t die so easily in the days to come."

Every person they sent had the purpose of killing Xie Jiuniang.

Naturally, they were fully equipped.

When Xie Jiuniang was checking the belongings, she discovered that Wuhuan had an abundance of additional items.

However, she couldn’t be bothered to delve deeper into it.

Not only did family forces want to kill her, but agreeing to come to this Secret Realm was also Xie Jiuniang’s way of counterattacking.

She placed her spoils of war into a Storage Bag, which she then stored in the Small Tortoise Shell.

Xie Jiuniang packed up the Law House, planning to continue towards Dragon Nest Mountain.

The Broken Sword flew back and forth outside the Red Leaf Forest, as if it wanted to explore but didn’t dare to, "Dog owner, aren’t you going to explore the Red Leaf Forest? The more dangerous a place is, the more likely it contains precious treasures."

"No, I’m not going."

"You’re not interested in precious treasures?"

"Who in the Cultivation World doesn’t know that dangerous places might contain precious treasures? But over countless years, has anyone obtained them?"

"You are the Child of Destiny, don’t be so afraid of death." The Jian Lingyan was clicking its mental abacus, subtly goading her, "Others might not obtain them, but if you do, wouldn’t that prove you’re the mightiest?"