The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 401 - 400 Low-level Demon Nightmare

Chapter 401: Chapter 400 Low-level Demon Nightmare

Xie Jiuniang recalled what had happened in her premonition.

Suddenly thinking of a detail, she asked, "Senior, isn’t your flame the type that cannot be extinguished once it touches something? I saw you extinguish those black mists, and the fallen flames didn’t set the Red Leaf Forest on fire."

"Only the flames containing my own essence cannot be extinguished," the Sun Blaze Golden Flame did not want to reveal this secret to her. But, thinking that he would be by her side for a long time in the future, and fearing that she may feel he was not devoted, he felt compelled to tell her the truth.

After a pause, the Sun Blaze Golden Flame added, "The Emperor is currently weak and cannot use it."

Xie Jiuniang just wanted to say how can you still pride yourself on being able to restrain the Red Leaf Forest even slightly when you are half-disabled? How do you calculate this ’slightly’? You can’t even break through the periphery!

Having a contract with Xie Jiuniang, the little fellow believed she wouldn’t know what he was thinking unless he spoke his mind, right?

Yet the pride of a sovereign kept him silent, acting as if he hadn’t noticed her thoughts.

Xie Jiuniang yanked the Broken Sword, "Little Jianjian, do you know what that is?"

"I don’t know, I haven’t seen it before," Jian Lingyan also couldn’t see the specifics of her premonition. The occasional glimpses were blurry and unclear. "Do you want me to scout ahead? There is a contract, so even if I get lost, you can summon me back instantly."

"Then will you take a look? Just circle around the perimeter, no further than ten li."

"At your command."

With a whoosh, the Broken Sword flew out.

Upon its return, Jian Lingyan was quite baffled, meandering as he spoke, "Dog owner, there is nothing out there."

"Nothing within ten li?"

"No problems, not even a small insect was seen, and the black mist that you mentioned wasn’t there either."

"This is a big problem," Xie Jiuniang thought of her premonition and suddenly felt slightly dizzy. "This Red Leaf Forest probably has poison. An undetectable poisonous gas."

It wasn’t that there were no living creatures, but that they would die as soon as they got close.

The poisonous gas eroded the bodies of living beings unknowingly.

Jian Lingyan shook his sword body, "Dog owner, quick! Perform a Dust Cleansing Technique on me, I think I’ve been poisoned."

"Go away."

Xie Jiuniang didn’t want to deal with him.

However, Jian Lingyan persisted, and she lifted her hand to perform a Dust Cleansing Technique on him.

Jian Lingyan believed his owner could venture deep into the Red Leaf Forest as long as she wished to; she would always find a way.

Annoyed, Xie Jiuniang pondered feasible solutions while Jian Lingyan and the Sun Blaze Golden Flame silently stood by, not daring to disturb her.

Little Fatty was the most well-behaved.

He was lying on his side, sound asleep.

Xie Jiuniang initiated her premonition once more.

[Stepping out of the Law House, Xie Jiuniang caught several pheasants nearby and tossed one into the Red Leaf Forest. Initially, the pheasant had no issues.

After a short while, like a drunkard, it staggered, fell to the ground, and never got up again.

She waited a bit longer.

A clump of black mist appeared, enveloping the pheasant’s corpse, and when the mist dispersed,

the body of the pheasant was gone.

Xie Jiuniang conducted several trials, and the situation was the same every time.

Then she tried a different method...]

Emerging from her premonition, Xie Jiuniang had used nearly a third of her Spiritual Power.

Not much time had passed in the outside world, but in the long river of time, more than three months had gone by for Xie Jiuniang.

She repeatedly attempted usable methods.

Xie Jiuniang was now at the eighth level of the Golden Core; the duration she could foresee at once had changed again. Calculated by a month of thirty days, it amounted to ten months and twenty days.

The extension of time followed a pattern: with each breakthrough, the duration of premonition doubled. For instance, when she breaks through to the ninth level of the Golden Core, it will extend to twenty-one months and ten days.

In the past, Xie Jiuniang had not understood the pattern.

She had only discovered it recently.

"Have you thought of a solution, Master?" Jian Lingyan couldn’t help but ask.

Xie Jiuniang’s mind wandered for a moment.

Realizing she had been distracted, she quickly collected her thoughts and instructed, "Go catch a living creature for me."

Jian Lingyan went off and returned with a wolf pup, boasting, "How about that? I’m pretty impressive, aren’t I? Snatched it right from a pack of vicious wolves without them being able to catch up."

Under her Divine Sense, she saw a pack of wolves chasing from miles away, among them two high-ranked Demonic Beasts...

"You’re a piece of work!"

Xie Jiuniang’s face darkened as she suddenly struck the Broken Sword with a stick, flinging it away, before catching the falling wolf pup.

Then, she took the wolf pup with her.

She placed it on the path the wolf pack had to take and left behind a bottle of Spirit Pills as compensation. Then she turned around and left, avoiding a direct confrontation with the pack.

The lead wolf arrived and found its pup.

Unable to discover the culprit, the wolves lingered for a while before the high-ranked female wolf picked up the pup and left.

Xie Jiuniang, who had been watching from the shadows, let out a sigh of relief.

After catching a pheasant nearby, she came to the edge of the Red Leaf Forest and took out two Puppets.

She had one Puppet hold the pheasant.

Under Xie Jiuniang’s command, one Puppet walked in front while the other, carrying the pheasant, followed at a distance of two or three zhang. They had not gone far into the Red Leaf Forest.

Both Puppets stopped moving.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, the pheasant passed out.

Then, a mass of black fog appeared, ignoring the Puppet in front but attacking the one carrying the pheasant!

Just as the black fog was about to envelop the pheasant, the Puppet received its master’s command and pulled out a Sealed Jade Bottle. It sucked the black fog into the bottle and sealed it shut.

The process was swift and neat.

The two Puppets then turned around and walked out of the Red Leaf Forest.

Xie Jiuniang took the Sealed Jade Bottle handed to her by the Puppet, "Senior, can you study what this is? If it can’t be handled, then forget about going deeper inside."

There is a colorless and odorless poison on the outskirts of the Red Leaf Forest.

The source of the poison is unknown.

There are bizarre creatures like the black fog that feed on Divine Sense and are especially sensitive to living beings. The quietness around the Red Leaf Forest, without even an insect in sight, must be related to the black fog.

A flash of red light shimmered.

Xie Jiuniang was joined by a young man.

It was none other than the Great Sun Golden Flame.

He took the Sealed Jade Bottle from Xie Jiuniang and after a careful inspection, he said, "This is a low-level demon, Nightmare, which feeds on souls and flesh. It should belong to the Demon Realm; I didn’t expect to find it in the Dragon Gate Secret Realm. It’s uncertain whether the disappearance of the Dragon Clan years ago was related to the Demon Realm."

"It seems I’ve stumbled upon some serious secrets," Xie Jiuniang muttered softly, "But is this really a demon?"

"You doubt this emperor would deceive you?"

"No, that’s not it." What she recalled was the death foretold in her premonition, "I have the Pure World Lotus on me, ordinary demons shouldn’t be able to kill me, yet in my premonition, I died."

"There is something more terrifying within the Red Leaf Forest."

"Why didn’t you say so earlier?"

"You didn’t give this emperor a chance," Great Sun Golden Flame said with a headache.

If he had known there was something terrifying inside, the Human child would have been even more determined not to enter the Red Leaf Forest.

Sure enough, Xie Jiuniang sized him up and down, then examined the contract pattern on her arm thoughtfully, "Senior, you can move independently away from me, so you don’t really need me to enter the Red Leaf Forest, right? Can’t Broken Sword or a Puppet take you inside instead?"

"We have a contract; I can’t stray too far from you."

"Then... is it too late to dissolve the contract now?"

Great Sun Golden Flame’s forehead throbbed with veins popping, "If we dissolve it now, this emperor will immediately be expelled from the Secret Realm."

"..."