The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 410 - 409: Seven Kills in a Row

Chapter 410: Chapter 409: Seven Kills in a Row

Wu Danhong finally fell into the hands of Xie Jiuniang.

Xie Jiuniang did not kill her but captured her and forced her to divulge the information she wanted.

Wu Danhong couldn’t resist and confessed everything.

Upon hearing that one hundred and twenty people had come to kill her, Xie Jiuniang let out a cold laugh, "You really think highly of me."

It was truly a grand gesture.

The one hundred and twenty slots reflected the deep foundation of these families.

Bear in mind, the Tianxu Sect had only fifty slots.

Xie Jiuniang then asked, "Is there a list?"

"No, there isn’t."

"How many are left who haven’t died?"

"Eighty-nine, eighty-nine people. I only roughly know who they are; I’m not clear on the details." Wu Danhong did not want to speak, but Xie Jiuniang’s methods were too cruel. She actually sealed her spiritual power and then, using a blunt knife, cut off her flesh piece by piece.

And that wasn’t all; she even fed Wu’s flesh to the captured demonic beasts.

Any person would break under such physical and psychological dual torment.

Xie Jiuniang said mockingly, "Then write down the names you know."

She had thought of obtaining that special Jade Slip.

The result was that as soon as the person died, the Jade Slip would be rendered useless. Attempts to interrogate someone while keeping them alive proved futile as well; the Jade Slip could only be accessed by the individual, and if an outsider tried to probe it forcibly with Divine Sense, it would immediately self-destruct.

Jian Lingyan, perplexed, asked, "Master, this woman is deceiving you. Just now she said there were one hundred and twenty people, and now there are still eighty-nine alive, which doesn’t match the number we’ve killed."

"That’s not surprising. The Dragon Gate Secret Realm is very dangerous."

Xie Jiuniang guessed that the additional deaths were likely due to various accidents within the Secret Realm.

Once she could no longer extract anything useful from Wu Danhong, she ended her life cleanly and decisively.

At the same time, another Soul Token shattered outside the Secret Realm.

At that moment, the people outside clearly saw Xie Jiuniang’s face with a faint smile at the corner of her mouth, but the smile did not reach her eyes, and she appeared to be saying something.

A powerful individual said indifferently, "She’s saying, ’Seven in a row.’"

It was provocation again!

Barefaced provocation!

Someone asked skeptically, "Could she have guessed our plan beforehand?"

"That’s not hard to guess."

It was already a fight to the death.

Yet not everyone is fearless of death; human hearts are most vulnerable under pressure, and every man for himself in the face of disaster is nothing new.

Xie Jiuniang obtained a list of those who ambushed her in the Secret Realm.

Wu Danhong only wrote out about thirty names.

Before entering the Secret Realm, everyone had met to identify each other, as directed by their families, to avoid killing each other inside. Beyond that, there was nothing more; everyone was on their own.

"Dog Master, do you really believe that everyone on this list came to kill you?" Jian Lingyan asked.

Xie Jiuniang burned the list, "It’s good to look at, but not worth dwelling on."

It certainly had Wu Danhong’s enemies on it.

The woman had eight hundred schemes in her heart, even thinking of tricks before her death. Several of the names were disciples of the Minghua Sect, backed by Nascent Souls or Divinity Transformation Masters.

Wu Danhong was plotting against her even at death’s door.

She truly did not die unjustly!

Xie Jiuniang started wandering around the Secret Realm. With the help of Jian Lingyan, she had no fear of stumbling into danger. She did not aim to find fortuitous encounters but rather to make appearances to lure others.

The thought of going to Dragon Nest Mountain had long been discarded.

After more than a month had passed.

She had only slain eight, unable to find anyone else, which left Xie Jiuniang somewhat dissatisfied.

"The Nalan Family will not let you off!" A hopeless roar startled the birds in the forest into chaotic flight.

Xie Jiuniang sharply turned towards that direction.

There is a large river in that direction.

Did the voice come from the other side of the river?

Jian Lingyan probed in that direction, and Xie Jiuniang’s Divine Sense stretched out to that side as well.

Only to see Nalan Youfang fleeing in panic with a clan junior, among them one turned to block the pursuers, but was swiftly slain after a mere moment.

"Dog owner, Miss Nalan is in danger," Jian Lingyan urgently warned.

With a thought, Xie Jiuniang hurled the Broken Sword across to the other side of the river.

Propelled by the force of her throw, combined with its own speed, the Broken Sword pierced through a Golden Core about to kill Nalan Youfang, stabbing straight through!

"Who’s there?"

With one person killed, the rest of the pursuers became alert and halted.

The next moment, Xie Jiuniang descended from the sky.

She stood in front of Nalan Youfang.

Looking at the Loose Cultivators who had come to assassinate Nalan Youfang, with a murderous intent Xie Jiuniang asked, "Sister Youfang, is this murder for treasure or personal vendetta?"

"Is that you, Sister Yuanxi?!"

Nalan Youfang, still shaken, realized that she had been saved, and by someone she knew.

"It’s me, are you okay?" Xie Jiuniang responded while speaking, but her eyes were on those assailants.

The assailants had been wary at first.

Xie Jiuniang killed one of them upon her entrance, and once they heard her name, Yuanxi, and saw her wearing the robe of a direct disciple of the Tianxu Sect, they immediately connected her with her notorious background.

The first pride of the Eastern Region!

Someone whom even several Divinity Transformation experts couldn’t kill together, someone they dared not provoke.

At the first confrontation, the assailants turned tail and fled.

As if pursued by demons, they fled for their lives, some even using secret arts to escape.

The slowest among the assailants, who had not yet disappeared from sight, were cut down by Xie Jiuniang with one stroke of her sword.

One sword killed three assailants.

The first form of the Heaven-Cleaving Sword lived up to its reputation.

The effect was shocking, at least to Nalan Youfang and the junior beside her, who were left wide-eyed in astonishment.

They felt dazed, as if in a dream.

The assailants were all Loose Cultivators, outlaws in the outside world, who had spent a large sum to secure a place in the Secret Realm and naturally wanted to make their fortune before leaving, but seeking opportunities was too dangerous.

Thus, a few conspired to rob others.

They specifically targeted the easy marks.

The Nalan family was targeted because they had been fighting a Demonic Beast and were exhausted at the time, catching the attention of several people. Nalan Youfang, thinking of her deceased kin, couldn’t help but let the tears flow.

"It’s my fault I didn’t protect them well," Nalan Youfang blamed herself.

Xie Jiuniang fell silent, "You were almost dead yourself, whom else did you want to protect?"

The surviving Gold Core of the Nalan family argued, "Miss needn’t blame herself, the dangers within the Dragon Gate Secret Realm are well-known, and we were all mentally prepared when we entered."

Nalan Youfang bit her lip, holding back tears from crying out loud.

Xie Jiuniang nudged her shoulder, "Isn’t now the time to hasten the healing process and recover your strength?"

A bit of a headache.

Are all misses this haughty?

It wasn’t like this in the Southern Region before.

But then again, it was normal for her to not have calmed down immediately after her kin just encountered disaster.

Following Xie Jiuniang’s reminder,

Nalan Youfang wiped away the tears and took out Healing Pills to swallow, then immediately began to circulate her cultivation technique to catalyze the efficacy of the medicine.

The Gold Core of the Nalan family approached and collected the bodies of their kin into a Storage Bag, "I want to take them back to the family for burial rather than having them sleep eternally in the Secret Realm."

"Uncle You, thank you for your trouble."

"It’s my duty," Nalan You mournfully said.