The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 424 - 423: Delaying Time

Chapter 424: Chapter 423: Delaying Time

Xie Jiuniang muttered softly, "Send them to Medical Immortal Valley to meet with those ten, I’m truly a kind person, never once thought of taking their dog lives."

"Isn’t it that you can’t kill them?" Jian Lingyan taunted.

Xie Jiuniang pretended not to hear Jian Lingyan’s words, her movements speeding up slightly.

They arrived faster than expected.

First to arrive were four Divinity Transformation, followed by thirteen Nascent Souls.

Everyone was here.

They all began to besiege Xie Jiuniang.

Xie Jiuniang stood calmly in the formation, her young face showing not a trace of fear.

Was this reasonable?

A Minor Golden Core, chased by several Divinity Transformation and over a dozen Nascent Souls should be tragic, scared, and desperate.

Not looking at them as if they were dead men, as she was now.

Xie Jiuniang declared loudly, "The Seven Great Families are becoming more and more unscrupulous, even daring to collude with Demon Cultivators. Do you think killing me will break the prophecy of your clan’s destruction? Dream on! There are thousands and thousands more like me!"

Her words could not be considered anything but piercing.

However, among those present who belonged to the Seven Great Families, only those Nascent Souls did.

The four Divinity Transformation were not from the Great Families, so the impact was less on them. Hearing Xie Jiuniang’s outburst, they felt a surge of emotions.

Recalling all they had heard before.

Many things were too exaggerated for them to believe given their age and the various rumors they had encountered, but now they had to re-evaluate everything.

Recently, the chase against Xie Jiuniang by the Great Families, no matter how secretive they were, how hidden their actions, the aftermath always came to light, followed by uproarious public discussion.

Such as the last time when the Seven Great Families exhausted their resources, guarding the outskirts of Tianxu Sect, ready to ambush Xie Jiuniang.

The details were subsequently exposed one by one.

Including which individuals the Seven Great Families had invited.

There was a list of Divinity Transformation names, shocking the entire Cultivation World with such a powerful lineup, more than enough to obliterate a Great Sect.

Now things had turned out well; half a year of ambushing a Golden Core True Person, lost quite a few Divinity Transformation lives, and still not a scratch on the person. This led to a Divinity Transformation venting their anger by slaughtering their way through Yunmu City.

Shamelessness combined with incompetence, the Divinity Transformation on that list became nothing but a big joke.

In the shadows, it seemed like a force had been long watching the Great Families.

As soon as they committed misdeeds, it wouldn’t be long before their actions were broadcasted widely, with remarkable diligence, even details such as a certain family’s member dining and dashing, or a certain family’s member forcefully taking a concubine were spread with great effort.

The reputation of the Great Families used to be good, many people made an effort to curry favor with them.

Now, they’ve become something people avoid as if fearful of bad luck just by associating with them, partly thanks to the work of those behind the scenes.

Not long ago, the Great Families also wanted to exploit others to do their dirty work, spreading rumors that Xie Jiuniang was carrying treasures.

The news did spread, but it stirred up no waves at all.

The reason being someone had already asserted that they were trying to exploit others, deliberately spreading false rumors to lure some fools into becoming cannon fodder. Consequently, most were clever and chose not to believe it.

Only a few believed, but even they couldn’t locate the subject of the rumors.

Xie Jiuniang rarely walked outside the Sect gates, always in seclusion or preparing for it.

But drifting off-topic, Xie Jiuniang now saw the people outside the formation, appearing as if they could break the formation at any moment, yet no one took the initiative to strike.

Xie Jiuniang grew impatient, stood with her arms akimbo inside the formation, and called out to Shuxing and the other three, "What are all of you waiting for? Strike already!"

To her surprise, the more she urged them, the less they attacked.

The four Divinity Transformation exchanged glances, as if communicating telepathically, and then spread out, stationing themselves at the eastern, southern, western, and northern points.

Xie Jiuniang was in the center.

It was a state of tight encirclement.

Xie Jiuniang suddenly chuckled and said, "Don’t think about blocking the space. Before you succeed, I guarantee that I’ll use a Teleportation Talisman and be gone. I advise you to attack the array first."

After a pause, Xie Jiuniang cheekily added, "It’s best if you all attack at once, I have a big gift to give you all."

The four Divinity Transformation cultivators originally intended to block the space.

But suddenly, they changed their minds.

Otherwise, if they painstakingly completed the lockdown and then the target fled, wouldn’t they have just sealed off loneliness?

"Should we join forces in a single blow?"

Someone asked but no one answered.

Immediately, everyone’s gaze drifted toward the Defense Jade Token hanging on Xie Jiuniang’s waist.

Shuxing’s strike earlier was blocked by the Jade Token, and it remained undamaged.

What’s more, Xie Jiuniang’s words made them think of the memory of ten Divinity Transformation cultivators joining hands to kill her.

There’s a trap here!

And it might very well be a Lethal Poison!

When Xie Jiuniang attacked Shuxing earlier, she loudly shouted "Lethal Poison".

Who knows if she still has any on her?

Earlier, when they pinpointed Xie Jiuniang’s location using Divine Sense, they indeed saw her setting something up within the formation.

With this thought, the crowd retreated a distance once more.

"Tsk! I was just saying it for the sake of it, really, just speaking off the top of my head. The Lethal Poison or whatever, I’ve already used it all up. Don’t be scared, I don’t have that stuff anymore." Xie Jiuniang earnestly explained, yet her eyes hoped they would quickly attack the array.

The next moment.

The dozen Nascent Souls outside the array saw the Divinity Transformation cultivators pulling back and they too retreated further and further.

Lethal Poison was quite notorious of late.

A poison even Divinity Transformation cultivators couldn’t withstand—much less Nascent Soul cultivators—and most importantly, even the Medical Immortal Valley’s Mo Family couldn’t cure it temporarily.

Xie Jiuniang raised a hand to gesture them to stay, slyly saying, "Don’t, don’t, don’t retreat too far. I was really just talking casually. You all actually got scared like this, such cowards."

"I’m going to record this scene with a Shadow Stone." Xie Jiuniang took out a Shadow Stone from her Storage Ring and began recording the people outside.

Right after, she pointed at a particular Nascent Soul, "Mo Family’s Nascent Soul, hello there. I know you. Before the Dragon Gate Secret Realm opened, you visited our Tianxu Sect’s Fafeng, saying Lin Wangchen blew up the Mo Family’s forbidden grounds and even stole the treasures of the Mo Family, hehe. I’m quite curious, is that true?"

The mention of this was bad enough.

As soon as she spoke, the Nascent Soul’s fists clenched in shock.

He struggled to maintain composure!

The others were equally filled with shock and suspicion.

How did Xie Jiuniang identify them?

What they didn’t know was that Xie Jiuniang was never one to sit idly by and await doom. She was particularly adept at manipulation, managing to stall for half an hour. Finally, one of the Divinity Transformation cultivators hesitantly threw a tentative strike from a distance.

The moment the array barrier was struck, black smoke suddenly billowed out from within the Array Barrier.

"Is that poison?!" someone exclaimed in alarm.

The people retreated further.

After the Mo Family’s Nascent Soul confirmed multiple times, he said, "It’s just ordinary poison smoke, not Lethal Poison."

"Are you sure it isn’t Lethal Poison? I’m feeling a little jittery." A Nascent Soul beside them enshrouded themselves with a Spiritual Force Shield, preventing the poison smoke from getting close.

Mo Family’s Nascent Soul asserted, "It’s not Lethal Poison."

His medical skills might not be amazing, but being in the environment, he had an edge over those outside.