The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 425 - 424: Anger to Death without Compensation

Chapter 425: Chapter 424: Anger to Death without Compensation

"Yeah, yeah, it’s just ordinary poison. With the Mo Family here, there’s no fear we can’t cure it," Xie Jiuniang echoed with a sentence full of instigation, "You all come a bit closer. You’re standing too far away. If I wanted to escape, I wouldn’t even need to exert much effort—it’s way too lacking in challenge."

Xie Jiuniang then pointed at the Nascent Soul who had set up the Spiritual Force Shield, and sneered, "Seriously, you’re too afraid of death. This little bit of poison smoke can be cleared with a single Detoxification Pill. If you don’t believe me, come and try it for yourself."

"I swear on the honor of my Master Chaoyan, I, Yuanxi, have always been honest," Xie Jiuniang said with genuine emotion, and then added, "The ones I cheat are usually not human."

Was this a roundabout way of calling them inhuman?

The Nascent Souls outside the formation gnashed their teeth in anger.

The four Divinity Transformation experts in the distance also fell silent.

Such a foul-mouthed person, no wonder so many old fossils wanted to kill her—they’d want to kill her too!

Or what, were they planning to keep her alive for the New Year?

In fact, the several Divinity Transformation experts did not bear any enmity toward Xie Jiuniang. They had met her for the first time today and had come at someone else’s request.

The ones who truly bore a grudge against Xie Jiuniang were those dozen or so Nascent Souls.

Every family had Divinity Transformation ancestors because of Xie Jiuniang—they had fallen in one way or another. Through one conflict after another, the hatred between the two parties had become extremely deep; it was now a matter of life and death.

For some reason, these people were particularly wary of her.

The probable cause was Xie Jiuniang’s posture within the formation—she was too confident, without a trace of fear in her eyes. With their many years of experience, they just couldn’t detect any acting on her part.

That was enough to prove that she still had a card up her sleeve.

A card that made her unafraid of them.

The more unknown it was, the more guarded people became.

Xie Jiuniang had not lived as many years in both her lives combined as these people outside the formation, but even though she was not very old in this life, she had developed particularly many wiles, holding their psychological changes especially accurately in her grasp.

Actually, she hadn’t spoken carelessly.

There truly was Lethal Poison arranged within the formation, but it required her to detonate it, waiting for the right moment.

Those people each took a Detoxification Pill.

A few Nascent Souls stood up and started attacking Xie Jiuniang’s formation from a distance.

An eighth-grade formation wasn’t something so many people couldn’t break through.

It was just that they were extremely wary of the Lethal Poison.

A test strike revealed that there was only poison smoke, and never Lethal Poison, which made them a bit more courageous. They dispatched a few Nascent Souls to approach and attack.

The four Divinity Transformation experts flew into the air.

From their positions, it really seemed like they were blocking all of Xie Jiuniang’s escape routes.

Teleportation Talismans aren’t a cure-all for escape, and using them left a traceable path. Powerful Divinity Transformation experts could detect the subtle changes in the Spiritual Energy in the air and disrupt the teleportation path, causing the teleportation to fail.

Some powerful beings could even directly pull someone out of the void of teleportation.

The strength of those methods was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Xie Jiuniang had just given them a reminder.

So, they hadn’t sealed the space but had used their Divine Sense to lock down the void.

They were waiting for Xie Jiuniang to use a Teleportation Talisman, only to fall into their trap.

Jian Lingyan noticed this immediately, "Dog owner, they’re so shameless. All four of them used Divine Sense to lock this place down, like a net, covering all directions. Even if you wanted to burrow into the ground, you’d be locked on."

Xie Jiuniang, "..."

Was she in over her head, or had she bitten off more than she could chew?

Outside, the Nascent Souls continued to work together to attack the array barrier, causing the Top Grade Spiritual Stones in the indentations of the Array Plate to deplete quickly.

Xie Jiuniang sat cross-legged in front of the Array Plate.

From time to time, she thrust in a Top Grade Spiritual Stone.

The confident Nascent Souls thought they could break the formation by simply depleting its Spiritual Stones, not to mention that breaking an eighth-grade formation would also be difficult for them. But Xie Jiuniang, one after another, without hesitation, fed Top Grade Spiritual Stones into the slots.

It annoyed them for no good reason.

Were Heaven’s Chosen ones really so hard to kill?

This question surfaced in every Nascent Soul’s mind, the deeper they thought, the more irritated they became, and even a sense of coldness began to rise inexplicably within them.

"Crack."

"Crack..."

As they followed the sound.

They saw the little girl inside the formation sitting cross-legged before the Array Plate, her big thieving eyes fixed on them. Unbeknownst to them, a high-grade Spirit Fruit had appeared in her hand, and she was enthusiastically crunching away on it.

The sweet and crisp scent of the Spirit Fruit seemed to drift out of the formation.

"Hurry up, keep smashing, you’re slacking off. But I can’t really blame you. When it comes to fearing death, the Divinity Transformation cultivators take the cake. Just look—" Xie Jiuniang pointed at the four people in the sky—"They’ve all hidden up there, leaving a bunch of fools like you to exert yourselves, looking like a group of dimwits. This is an eighth-tier formation! As long as I have enough Spirit Stones, you can smash away for three days and three nights and it won’t make a difference."

Crack.

"Wait a second, I need to moisten my throat with a bite of this Spirit Fruit. Carry on smashing," Xie Jiuniang casually told them to continue.

Boom!

A Nascent Soul struck forcefully.

It caused a Top Grade Spiritual Stone in the groove to be consumed on the spot.

Xie Jiuniang felt a pang of pain but nonchalantly stuck another one in its place. As she did, she couldn’t help but add mockingly, "Speaking of which, these Top Grade Spiritual Stones came from your families. Go ahead and waste them; I don’t mind at all. Really, it doesn’t bother me one bit!"

Upon hearing this, several Nascent Soul cultivators outside the formation were so angry that they felt flames of rage in their hearts.

But they were utterly helpless against her.

Xie Jiuniang’s mockery had no effect on the four Divinity Transformation cultivators. She felt a slight regret but decided to divert her attention to her Sea of Consciousness instead.

The Time Leaf trapped another Divinity Transformation cultivator’s Spiritual Soul.

Xie Jiuniang then realized

that this little chubby leaf was quite picky, only targeting the Spiritual Souls of Divinity Transformation cultivators and completely ignored those below Nascent Soul.

Louhuang’s soul form was struggling feebly.

Pure Soul Power was seeping out from the Time Leaf strand by strand.

Xie Jiuniang threw out a Puppet.

She then brought out a large wooden box full of Top Grade Spiritual Stones and directed the Puppet to monitor the Array Plate groove, instructing it to add stones immediately if the count fell below ten.

She paid no further attention.

Outside the formation, a Nascent Soul kept a tight gaze on the large wooden box filled with Spirit Stones.

On the box was the distinct family emblem of the Gongsun Family!

It wasn’t only the Nascent Soul of the Gongsun Family who had noticed, others spotted it too, realizing that she was brazenly using what she’d stolen from them.

This was outright provocation.

If Xie Jiuniang knew what they were thinking, she would probably say they were overthinking, that there was no intention to provoke. Really, there was none. Right now, her mind was occupied with refining the Soul Power in her Sea of Consciousness.

At most, she might divide a strand of her attention to provoke... no, to monitor them.

"She deserves to die!"

When the Gongsun Family Nascent Soul gazed toward Xie Jiuniang, his eyes were filled with resentful poison, "It must have been her who sabotaged our water source with the Soul Transforming Pill, ruining my son’s path of cultivation..."

Another Nascent Soul noticed his agitation and a large hand landed on his shoulder, trying to console him, "Calm down, don’t..."

"I can’t stay calm! She took all the treasures our family accumulated over countless years! She didn’t leave a single thing," the Gongsun Family Nascent Soul said through gritted teeth, filled with hatred, "We used to have no shortage of resources, but now we’re so poor we can hardly keep the pot boiling!"

The Nascent Soul beside him was about to offer more consolation.

Suddenly, a girl’s crisp voice feigned surprise, "Is that really true? That’s just too tragic for the Gongsun Family."

Then her tone shifted abruptly, "But, I still suspect you’re pulling my leg. Even a leaky boat has three pounds of nails. The Gongsun Family, no matter how poor, should be able to afford rice. If not Spirit Rice, at least the rice and flour that mortals eat, right?"

"Starving to death is impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Pfft—"

Overwhelmed with rage, the Gongsun Family Nascent Soul spurted out blood on the spot, his Spiritual Energy surged, and a sinister black aura faintly emerged.

He was actually about to descend into demonic cultivation!

Damn!