The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 419 - 418: Turning the Tables

Chapter 419: Chapter 418: Turning the Tables

The high-altitude battlefield.

Lord Guangluo and the Great Demon Cultivator withdrew from each other after the clash.

Wuning was a mighty figure among Demon Cultivators, with formidable strength that ranked among the top. His name alone was enough to hush a crying child, for he was an existence that could silence tears.

Demon Cultivators in the Cultivation World usually roamed around Chaos City.

Chaos City lay on the northwestern edge of the Northern Region, where spiritual energy was sparse and resources scarce.

Righteous cultivators generally wouldn’t venture there, and Demon Cultivators seldom traveled across the four regions.

The old demon Wuning hadn’t left Chaos City for hundreds of years. His sudden appearance here was curious if he hadn’t an ulterior motive.

The old demon Wuning declared, "Guangluo, I only want that treasured item. Once I have it, I’ll leave."

"Bullshit!"

Lord Guangluo couldn’t help but curse, "Who fed you that crap? Clearly, they’re making a fool of you. Old demon Wuning, you’ve lived a long, pointless life. After all these years, your brain still hasn’t developed, and you’ve been easily manipulated."

He knew someone was up to mischief behind the scenes.

Clearly disbelieving, the old demon Wuning retorted, "Don’t play the fool. Before I came here, I made sure to enquire about it. Your Tianxu Sect’s disciples were involved in the Spiritless Ground."

"Idiotic! Even if there were treasured items, would they come into the hands of mere Minor Golden Cores?"

"Then hand over those involved disciples to me. If I find no treasured items after my search, I’ll let you go."

"How could the Sect’s honor allow others to trample over it?" Lord Guangluo’s momentum grew more and more imposing, incredibly majestic, as if ready for an earnest fight, "Don’t say we don’t have the treasured item. Even if we did, do you think I would fear you?"

"We fear not!"

A voice cried out loudly from below, "We of the Tianxu Sect fear not, we are not afraid to die!"

"That’s right! We fear not death! Kill the old demon, act in the name of Heaven!"

"Kill the old demon, act in the name of Heaven!"

The disciples within the Flying Boat looked up in excited support of Lord Guangluo.

The corner of Lord Guangluo’s mouth twitched.

Did this bunch of brats pay no attention to the situation?

Wuning claimed to come chasing after the treasured item, but Guangluo didn’t believe him for a second. The distance between Chaos City and Dragon Gate Secret Realm was more than tens of thousands of miles. Surely, not a trip made in just a few days?

The words he’d just said, no matter what, he had to follow through and once again engaged Wuning in battle.

The fight in the skies intensified.

The disciples watching below were terrified.

Battles at the Divinity Transformation level could easily become a calamity for the innocent bystanders.

The Nascent Soul Elder steering the Flying Boat solemnly reminded, "Fellow disciples, do not step out of the Flying Boat. Within the Flying Boat there’s still the barrier’s protection. If you leave, no one will be able to save you."

Outside the Flying Boat at that moment, apart from Lord Guangluo and two other Nascent Soul Elders, there was also Xie Jiuniang.

Xie Jiuniang’s combat power was clearly beyond that of an ordinary Golden Core.

The elder said nothing more, merely cautioning the disciples standing on the deck of the Flying Boat not to go out no matter what.

The others were also well aware of their own limits.

You had to know, the demonic beasts that surged upwards were usually at least Golden Core strength, with numbers several times their own, which included a few Nascent Soul strength beasts mixed in as well.

They were besieging the two late-stage Nascent Soul Elders.

As for the Golden Core strength demonic beasts, Xie Jiuniang single-handedly held back the majority of them.

These demonic beasts were not bound by contracts.

They were controlled by drugs.

To halt their attack, the one controlling them had to be killed, but this person was well-hidden, unseen thus far.

Xie Jiuniang killed several more Golden Core flying beasts in a succession.

Gradually, she noticed the demonic beasts converging towards her.

This alerted Xie Jiuniang to the possibility that the person manipulating the beasts might be targeting her.

"You damned thing, where is the beast controller?" Xie Jiuniang asked coolly.

The Sword Spirit Jian Lingyan after searching, "In the clouds to the southeast, using a Concealment Technique, a late-stage Nascent Soul."

A strange and formidable figure.

It was something Jian Lingyan had never seen before.

Xie Jiuniang felt a strong sense of crisis and thus asked, "Are there any ambushes nearby?"

After being reminded by her, Jian Lingyan made a special check and was startled by the discovery. "There really is an ambush, and not a small number of people! Five at the Divinity Transformation stage and thirteen at the Nascent Soul stage."

"Have you seen any of them before?"

"I haven’t seen any of the five at the Divinity Transformation stage, and of the thirteen Nascent Souls, I have only seen one recently at the Sect’s Fafeng."

"One from Tianxu Sect’s Fafeng?"

"No, it was one of the Nascent Souls from the Mo Family of Medical Immortal Valley who recently had trouble with Lin Wangchen. Wow, it turns out to be people from the seven major families again, they’re truly detestable, master should kill them."

"The problem is we can’t beat them," Xie Jiuniang said with an inscrutable expression.

This situation was too unfavorable for her...

Five at the Divinity Transformation stage?

Were they from the seven major families?

There were constraints from the power-figures of the border; the Divinity Transformation cultivators of those families wouldn’t dare to show themselves openly. Therefore, these five must either be hidden Divinity Transformation cultivators from several families or have deep connections with them.

All of them deserve to die!

She also thought of one who was hiding their head but exposing their tail.

Out of the blue, Xie Jiuniang raised her hand and slashed her sword toward the clouds, with a force so fierce, it seemed like a thunderous strike.

To anyone watching, it would look like she sliced at the air!

However, when the sword light reached its target, a figure suddenly flew out from the clouds.

The attacking demonic beasts hesitated for a moment.

Everyone suddenly realized.

There was a big rat hiding in the clouds all along.

The person’s clothing was plain, which made it impossible to discern their identity or origin. They were also wearing a faceless mask, with only a pair of eyes visible.

One could only tell from the figure that it was a woman.

Once exposed, instead of retreating, the person went straight for Xie Jiuniang’s life.

Their target was very clear—they intended to kill Xie Jiuniang.

A streak of firelight blocked in front of Xie Jiuniang.

At the same time, it blocked the attacker’s strike.

"Great Sun Golden Flame?!" the faceless woman exclaimed.

Because it was a Strange Fire being released, she hesitated, feeling like she was trying to catch mice while fearing to break the vase, and retracted her deadly move.

Xie Jiuniang, controlling the Strange Fire, shaped it into a flying bird, and darted towards the enemy.

Almost at the same time, Xie Jiuniang crushed the rescue Jade Token given by Master Qiansha because she knew that today’s event was not so simple.

However, the very next moment after she crushed the Jade Token,

the space around her was sealed.

This meant there was not even a way out!

Xie Jiuniang sneered, pointing at the Nascent Soul female before her, and sent her voice into the sky, "Wuning the Elder, if it’s you, don’t expect any treasures because that was just a wild rumor. However, if you help me kill this person, I can give you an item, how about that?"

"This Lord can kill you and take it anyway, which is much simpler than killing a Nascent Soul," retorted Wuning, the old demon, while fighting with Lord Guangluo, not forgetting to reply.

Xie Jiuniang laughed coldly, "The seven major families have sent Divinity Transformation cultivators several times to kill me without success—do you really think you can? You’re nothing more than cannon fodder they’ve coaxed into coming here to die!"

Wuning’s eyes flickered uncertainly.

The seven major families had never expected an old demon to keep his word.

But they didn’t foresee that his betrayal would come so swiftly, completely beyond their expectations.

Suddenly, using an Instant Teleportation Technique, Wuning appeared right before the faceless mask-wearing woman and grabbed her by the throat.

This unforeseen event caught everyone by surprise,

even Lord Guangluo had not anticipated it.