The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 444 - 443: Little Fatty Returns to Tianxu Sect

Chapter 444: Chapter 443: Little Fatty Returns to Tianxu Sect

"Who sent you here?" Chaoruo asked.

The Little Fatty answered in confusion, "Master, looking."

Chaoruo couldn’t understand what Little Fatty meant, feeling like she was in a fog.

Yet, upon noticing Chaoruo’s lack of response, Little Fatty urgently added, "Master, looking, meet."

If Xie Jiuniang were here, she would know that Little Fatty was searching for Chaoyan.

On their way back to the Tianxu Sect, Old He and Little Fatty initially encountered a myriad of troubles. Later on, they tried their best to avoid people, traveling through desolate mountains and wild ridges. They had no idea about Chaoyan’s demise.

Therefore, Little Fatty strictly remembered Xie Jiuniang’s words, to find Chaoyan.

After communicating for a while longer, Chaoruo still didn’t understand.

Suddenly, Little Fatty flung Old He, who was half-dead, out of the treasure vault.

The thrown-out Old He even spat out a mouthful of old blood.

That finally caught Chaoruo’s attention.

Old He, upon seeing Chaoruo, was stunned for quite a long time. Struggling to stand, he greeted Chaoruo and took the initiative to introduce himself. "Sect Master Chaoruo, I am Little Koumen... I know Yuanxi."

He laid out his identity and the sequence of events that had brought him there.

Chaoruo finally understood who they were, but she hadn’t expected them to have miraculously survived a battle in the wilderness. "You said you have a Shadow Stone?"

"Yuanxi asked me to..."

Old He thought for a moment and handed the Shadow Stone to Chaoruo, then looked at Little Fatty’s anxious expression. "The child wants to find the master of Yuanxi."

"Yes, master, meet," Little Fatty gestured with his hands and nodded vigorously.

Mentioning Chaoyan, Chaoruo’s face showed grief. "He has had an accident..."

Old He was greatly shocked. "How is that possible?"

"You didn’t hear anything on your way here? The news has been spreading everywhere," Chaoruo scrutinized him with a look.

Old He bitterly smiled. "I couldn’t show my face without being discovered shortly after, I was chased and attacked several times, severely wounded. It was only with the child’s help that we made it here."

Chaoruo pressed her lips together tightly, giving no indication whether she believed him or not.

She simply lowered her head to examine the Shadow Stone that Old He had brought.

Upon examining it, Chaoruo nearly lost control, but fortunately, as a Sect Master for many years, her self-control was excellent. She barely managed to restrain herself, avoiding losing her composure in front of others.

Then, Chaoruo turned to look at Little Fatty, who was in a state of shock.

Little Fatty was questioning his life; he had met Chaoyan and liked him very much. He couldn’t believe that Chaoyan had fallen. What was he to do? He felt utterly at a loss and full of grievances.

Unable to complete his mission, what should he do?

"Little one? Did Yuanxi give you something to deliver to his master?" Chaoruo asked seriously.

Little Fatty nodded his small head, his little mouth pursed as if he were about to cry but not quite there yet.

Chaoruo asked, "Did he say you could show it to me?"

Little Fatty looked puzzled, but it seemed that he could?

Eventually, Little Fatty set up a Jade Coffin. Inside, Chaoruo saw the Xie Family Clan Leader, Yuanxi’s grandfather, lying within.

Little Fatty hesitated before he also took out the item Xie Jiuniang had given to Chaoyan and the Shadow Stone.

Chaoruo first examined the Shadow Stone.

After viewing it, her cool eyes instantly reddened. The clues she had been following were previously described in bits and pieces. Now, witnessing the Shadow Stone, the events of that moment flashed vividly in her mind.

"A bunch of shameless wretches, unworthy of being cultivators," raged Chaoruo internally, as an involuntary aura of might overflowed from her.

When she saw that Old He’s complexion turned even paler, Chaoruo realized something was wrong and quickly summoned her eldest disciple to take Old He down to heal, leaving only Little Fatty behind.

Chaoruo was more eager to know about Xie Jiuniang’s situation.

Unfortunately, both Old He and Little Fatty were clueless when asked.

Initially, she did not know whether Xie Jiuniang was dead or alive. After visiting Zhengyang Peak, she met Dashan and Little Golden Monkey and saw that their temporary contract with Xie Jiuniang was still intact, albeit extremely weak, as if it could break at any moment.

She guessed that Xie Jiuniang’s situation was dire but nonetheless breathed a sigh of relief.

At least she was still alive, just temporarily missing.

Meanwhile, the unaware Xie Jiuniang at the inn, it had been six months since Little Fatty returned to the Tianxu Sect. Had he been entrusted with delivering important news, it would have been long stale.

Xie Jiuniang did not leave Dahuang City immediately.

She chose to go into seclusion inside the Small Tortoise Shell.

The cracks in the Small Tortoise Shell, to her surprise, repaired themselves as she succeeded in her Nascent Soul breakthrough, an unexpected boon. Moreover, even if the Time Leaf was hidden, it still did not affect her ability to use foresight and retrospection.

After some time for verification,

Xie Jiuniang discovered that her foresight duration had extended.

During the Initial Golden Core phase, her foresight lasted two and a half days, and retrospection reached back two years. Now, at the Initial Nascent Soul phase, she experienced a qualitative leap—the foresight duration extended to three years and six months, and retrospection spanned over a millennium. This power was quite terrifying.

In the Cultivation World, it was unprecedented.

You should know that learning the art of deduction, Star Divination, and the like generally resulted in vague future predictions, offering just a rough idea. Nobody could predict and retrospect with the precision and freedom of Xie Jiuniang, without incurring the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao considered her a favored blade.

Doors of convenience opened wide for her, and fortunes consistently came her way.

It didn’t matter if one had three Spirit Roots or five; achieving Divinity Transformation was not a concern.

Take Xie Jiuniang for instance, she was merely in her thirties. It’s rare for cultivators at her age to even form their Golden Core, let alone achieve Nascent Soul. To have succeeded in Infant Formation at such an age was unheard of in the recorded annals of the Cultivation World.

Xie Jiuniang was keeping a low profile for now.

If she revealed herself, she wouldn’t need to say anything.

Just standing there, she would cause an immense sensation.

Within the inn, Xie Jiuniang continuously used foresight to glean many pieces of information. Initially, she wanted to return to her sect and gather a force to take revenge on the Seven Major Families. However, foresight repeatedly hinted that a great war would break out at the Border Battlefield in about a year, drawing numerous powerful beings to the scene.

With each foresight, other details might differ slightly.

But the initiation of the great war at the Border Battlefield remained constant.

This left Xie Jiuniang feeling extremely upset, her hatred with nowhere to vent, nearly causing a heart demon to take root, had it not been counteracted by the Pure World Lotus at crucial moments.

Had someone else experienced what she had, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see their mentality warp or for them to fall into the demonic path. Thus, being as stable as she currently was, hinged crucially on the existence of the Pure World Lotus.

After several more uses of foresight,

Xie Jiuniang eventually chose not to return to the Eastern Region.

She rented a small courtyard in Dahuang City, paying a year’s rent upfront, and prepared to go into seclusion within the city for a year.

It was not that she was unwilling to go outside the city to set up a formation for seclusion.

But conducting seclusion outside the city walls was far less safe than inside.

With cultivators present within the city, setting up an isolation formation in a small courtyard, as long as she remained within the Small Tortoise Shell, was actually less conspicuous. Outside the city, someone setting up a formation might attract the attention of passing powerhouses.

She might even run the risk of being robbed...