The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 413 - 412: The Return of the Dragon Soul

Chapter 413: Chapter 412: The Return of the Dragon Soul

Mo Chuan was very surprised.

He had not expected his fellow disciples to turn on him.

Then he thought of the person who had entered just now and quickly made sense of it all. However, he said nothing about it.

Outside, the battle was fierce, and casualties had already occurred.

Blood stained the entrance red.

Originally, with Mo Chuan guarding the entrance, it was very difficult for a group of people to break through, especially with Ren Bingyan and others, their greatest advantage was not in numbers, but in the fact that the Tianxu Sect’s people inexplicably carried many things on their persons rather than in their Storage Rings.

A Tianxu Sect disciple was injured, but a Revitalizing Pill quickly healed him.

Compared to them, others had to drag themselves wounded.

"The people of Tianxu Sect are too cunning. I don’t believe they weren’t prepared!"

"They must have known they were going to enter a dead-end place!"

"Damn it, kill!"

"We have more people. If each of us strikes one blow, we can kill them all."

"Pu—"

A Golden Core hiding behind others and instigating them was skewered by Mo Chuan with a spear. "What I despise most are these kinds of people, those without courage themselves but who incite others to go to their deaths, hoping to benefit from the fisherman’s gain."

His words were not loud, but enough for everyone present to hear.

Some of those who were impulsive suddenly paused in their actions.

Others quickly retreated, withdrawing from the battle area, and looking around, indeed, some had not taken action, or some were just going through the motions at the back.

They had rushed forward in a moment of heated impulse.

Now that their heads had cooled, they realized the problem, they would no longer continue to be played for fools.

But the world is full of all kinds of people.

There were always some whose brains weren’t working properly, who didn’t realize this problem, and thought Mo Chuan was sowing discord. Instead of stopping, they fought even more desperately.

Such people were doomed to be cannon fodder...

Meanwhile, Xie Jiuniang stepped into the entrance and found that before her was not a cave, but a stone corridor.

She had only gone a few feet inside when she sensed something was off.

There was spiritual energy!

The cultivation base and Divine Sense she had been suppressing gradually recovered.

The silence of the stone corridor made Xie Jiuniang vigilant.

Who would have thought that the center of the Spiritless Ground would be a treasure trove?

"This place must have undergone some event in the past, which has resulted in the current barren land." Jian Lingyan came out from the small dark room, as if she had seen the light of day once again, eagerly flying back and forth in the corridor. "Master, there’s a Dragon Soul at the end of this path."

Xie Jiuniang thought it might be the Demon Emperor, so she asked, "Are there any traps or mechanisms in the stone corridor? I didn’t notice anything amiss on the way here, could it be my misperception?"

"It is not Master’s misperception, there really are no traps or mechanisms."

"Then I am relieved." Xie Jiuniang quickened her pace.

It wasn’t long before she arrived at the depths.

To her astonishment, she saw a huge underground cave where a Golden Dragon was coiled.

Upon closer examination, it turned out to be a soul! Its form flickering and unstable. Also, it seemed there was something atop the Golden Dragon’s head that looked like a pearl, vaguely visible and shimmering with rainbow light,

At first glance, Xie Jiuniang felt it was familiar.

It was exactly like the dragon corpse she had seen at Longyuan Abyss; the object with the shimmering light had to be the Dragon Ball, right?

"Predecessor Demon Emperor?" Xie Jiuniang tried calling out.

The Golden Dragon opened his eyes halfway, "You have come. Take out this emperor’s dragon corpse."

"Alright."

Xie Jiuniang immediately did as told.

She took out a Storage Ring from the Small Tortoise Shell where the dragon corpse was kept, activated her Divine Sense, and released the enormous dragon corpse.

It was indeed identical; only, the Dragon Soul seemed to be much smaller.

When the dragon’s body was released, the Dragon Soul immediately burrowed into it.

It seemed as though the soul and body were merging.

During the fusion, the awe-inspiring power of the dragon involuntarily radiated outwards, stunning all the fighting people and beasts outside in an instant!

For a moment, the battles ceased.

The nearby Demonic Beasts all cowered on the ground, submitting in fright.

Nangong Qi and the others braced for a formidable enemy.

Nangong Qi exclaimed, "Has a powerful being arrived?"

"It’s leaking from the cave entrance," Su Songting stared unblinkingly at the entrance.

"Does this mean the entrance is not a treasure trove, but a powerful being’s abode?" Nangong Qi’s heart skipped wildly.

Su Songting’s grip tightened on his sword as he gritted his teeth, "Let’s go!"

"Are we really leaving? What if it’s a treasure from inside the cave rather than a powerful being..." a disciple from the Youjian Sect hesitated.

"Go!"

Su Songting had an acute sense of danger, "Don’t be blinded by what’s in front of you. If we continue staying here, once that terrifying existence inside is free to act, it will be the end of us. Those who don’t believe me can very well stay behind."

Good advice is lost on those headed for doom; compassion cannot save those who choose self-destruction.

Regardless of what others did, he decisively turned and left.

Nangong Qi, having never seen Su Songting take a loss before, struggled internally before choosing to follow.

Not everyone can keep their wits about them in the face of great treasures.

Some followed the crowd and left; others stayed behind, hoping for the best.

Mo Chuan didn’t stop them from leaving and then said to Ren Bingyan and the others, "You should leave as well. There are no unclaimed treasures here."

No unclaimed treasures?

That implied there were treasures, but they were claimed.

Ren Bingyan and the others, being astute, quickly grasped the key issue.

A Golden Core Disciple from the Tianxu Sect worriedly said, "But what about Little Profiteer... cough, I mean, our little junior sister? Isn’t she in great danger now inside?"

"She knows the great person inside," Mo Chuan hinted just a bit.

Now everyone understood.

The important figure inside had ties with Little Profiteer.

Ren Bingyan and the others chose to leave.

So, the ones left guarding the entrance were Mo Chuan and his Contracted Beast again. Not many had stayed behind, just a dozen or so.

Earlier, Mo Chuan could hold off a larger crowd; now that fewer remained, they posed even less of a threat. As the pressure emanating from within grew stronger, the remaining few started to fear, wavering in their decision.

The main reason was that the escaping pressure was too great.

It overwhelmed those outside, causing them to unconsciously retreat from the cave entrance.

Protected by a Semi-Immortal Artifact, Mo Chuan could still endure.

To the eyes of others, this made him appear even more formidable, and some retreated further.

Nobody acted at this moment.

Inside the cave, Xie Jiuniang was actually the calmest one.

Because of the contract, the Dragon Soul’s power had no effect on her; simply put, others felt a profound oppression, but she, standing closest, felt nothing at all.

It wasn’t just that she felt nothing; the Spiritual Energy surging around her began to enter her body directly.

There was too much Spiritual Energy for her to endure.

She quickly sat down cross-legged and began to refine the Spiritual Energy with her Cultivation Technique.

Whenever she was nearly overwhelmed, the Great Sun Golden Flame would absorb the excess Spiritual Energy.

Unwittingly, her Cultivation Base rose steadily, breaking through to the ninth level of Golden Core, all the way to the peak of the ninth level. A breakthrough was impossible in the Secret Realm since there was no Heavenly Tribulation.

Xie Jiuniang could merely subconsciously suppress her Cultivation Base.

Through the repeated process of suppressing her impending breakthrough, the initial sensation of instability from her recent advancement gradually solidified until her Cultivation Base reached a stage where she could break through at any moment.

She was only a step away from shattering her Golden Core to form an Infant.