The Arrogant Immortal
Chapter 84 What should I do if my heart hurts so much?

Chapter 84: Chapter 84 What should I do if my heart hurts so much?

"Master, everyone is fighting over the beast eggs; why don’t we take a stroll to the Auspicious Beast Egg cavern?" Jian Lingyan suddenly suggested.

Xie Jiuniang straightened up, "You’ve discovered something good again?"

"Not yet, but where an Auspicious Beast is born, there must be treasures aplenty." Jian Lingyan suggested going there to search exactly because she hadn’t found anything yet.

Xie Jiuniang’s eyes sparkled with interest as she praised, "Little Jianjian, having known you for so long, you’ve finally come up with a reliable idea for once."

So, while others were embroiled in a fierce battle, a person and a sword stealthily made their way on the Little Flying Boat.

On the big ship.

Mo Chuan’s gaze shifted from the fight to a certain location where the spiritual energy was moving abnormally, as if something was stirring.

Mo Chuan suddenly asked, "Senior, what was that just now?"

"Oh, that was a little Human rascal passing by on a little boat," a lazy voice replied, indistinguishable between male and female, yet captivating.

At this, Mo Chuan’s starry eyes flickered, and an inexplicable small figure flashed across his mind.

Meanwhile, Xie Jiuniang, who had left, suddenly felt a chilling sensation and quickly looked around but found nothing suspicious.

"Little Jianjian, did you notice anything?" Xie Jiuniang asked Jian Lingyan for confirmation.

Jian Lingyan replied in a muffled voice, "Someone did discover us just now, but they had no ill intentions."

Xie Jiuniang sat up straight with a jerk, tensing up with caution. The Little Flying Boat managed to sneak into a cavern underwater, which was the former site of the Auspicious Beast Egg, yet the person who discovered them earlier made no move.

Maybe, as Jian Lingyan said, they really had no ill intentions?

She put away the Little Flying Boat and slipped into the cavern.

Outside the cavern entrance, Xie Jiuniang still threw down a Small Isolation Array Plate carefully, blocking the entrance to prevent any sounds from inside from traveling outside.

Xie Jiuniang wanted to find treasures but didn’t want to cause a commotion.

Jian Lingyan circled inside the cavern and came back dejectedly to Xie Jiuniang, "I didn’t find anything; it must have been taken by someone else."

"Is that so? I’ll have a look myself."

Xie Jiuniang felt that since she was here, she had to take a look for herself to be satisfied.

The floor of the cavern was very dry, with a few ordinary green plants sporadically growing. Xie Jiuniang didn’t recognize them, but she noticed something else.

Water couldn’t enter the cavern, and it had nothing to do with the Water-Repelling Pearl.

Walking deeper into the cavern, all the rocks were rainbow-colored, iridescent, and somewhat similar to the phenomenon in the sky—both were equally dazzling.

In the center, there was a small Stone Platform.

The Stone Platform was still made of Rainbow Stone, resembling a rainbow in the sky. There was a small nest made of dried branches above it, now empty.

Not long ago, the Auspicious Beast Egg must have been nestled there.

Surrounded by rocks as clear as day, Xie Jiuniang searched the nest and finally picked up a twig the size of a finger.

Xie Jiuniang asked, "What kind of wood is this?"

"It’s Dragon Blood Wood, but the residual dragon essence is nearly non-existent. It’s useless junk now."

"Even if it’s junk, it’s still Dragon Blood Wood!"

Xie Jiuniang was shocked.

This was a divine wood watered with dragon’s blood, said to exist only in dragon’s nests. And another term for a dragon’s nest is a dragon’s tomb.

Xie Jiuniang couldn’t help but ask curiously, "Little Jianjian, if there is Dragon Blood Wood in the world, does that mean dragons truly exist?"

"Don’t be shocked by the unknown. Dragons definitely exist, but not necessarily in this world. It’s useless to talk about this with you, a Foundation Establishment beginner in cultivator. You should focus on cultivating. Without sufficient power, no matter how wonderful the vast world is, you are not qualified to participate."

Jian Lingyan felt sorrowful inside.

She was already crippled and had no power to roam freely...

Xie Jiuniang collected the entire nest into her Storage Bag, then turned her gaze back to the Rainbow Stone, recalling the Nine Aperture Heart Connecting Lotus that also grew on a Rainbow Stone. She then asked, "What’s the mystery behind this type of stone?"

"Ordinary stones, just infused with a wisp of Chaos Qi," Jian Lingyan mentioned Chaos Qi with less interest than a single Spirit Stone.

Xie Jiuniang thought otherwise, wishing she could knock Jian Lingyan dead with a stick, "Chaos Qi? And you didn’t remind me? The Nine Aperture Heart Connecting Lotus was taken last time, and I didn’t get the stones. It’s too late even if we go back now."

The Broken Sword shuddered, disturbed by the master’s tone which was quite frightening, yet it couldn’t help but say, "Going back would be pointless; Wu Yu took the stones away."

"What?"

Had someone taken it?

Xie Jiuniang’s little face showed great vexation.

She missed a minor opportunity, which also served as a wake-up call. From now on, she would have to check every place she visited more thoroughly.

Firstly, starting with searching the cave, Xie Jiuniang was determined to dig three feet into the ground. She put the rainbow-colored stone platform into her storage bag and then took out a bone knife, ready to start digging.

Jian Lingyan suddenly exclaimed excitedly, "Master, dig here fast!"

Broken Sword pointed at the place where the rainbow-colored stone platform had just been.

Xie Jiuniang squatted down and began to dig.

When she was about a zhang deep, she found a large, dusty pearl.

Her little hand could barely grasp it.

"What’s this?" Xie Jiuniang asked Sword Spirit again.

Jian Lingyan hovered around the round pearl and said, somewhat uncertainly, "It looks a bit like a Chaos Pearl, used by cultivators with Five Spirit Roots. It can probably turn the Five Elements Spirit Root into a Chaos Spiritual Root."

Upon hearing this, Xie Jiuniang was greatly surprised.

She was even happier than if she had had the fortune herself and hurriedly took care of it with extra caution.

Jian Lingyan asked doubtfully, "This isn’t of any use to the master, is it that important?"

"I don’t need it, but my dear old dad can use it!"

"Ah? That’s true."

"Let’s keep looking, who knows if there’s anything else?"

The duo, one person and one sword, continued digging.

Like bandits entering a village, they turned the entire depth of the cave upside down. They collected plenty of rainbow stones but didn’t find anything else of value.

Xie Jiuniang decided to leave.

She approached the entrance and packed up the Small Isolation Array Plate.

Just as she was about to sneak out, she paused and tried to put the Water-Repelling Pearl into her storage bag.

The water outside the cave still hadn’t poured into it, which was strange.

Xie Jiuniang looked around the entrance, searching for the reason water wasn’t entering the cave, but couldn’t find it at first.

Immediately thereafter, Xie Jiuniang covered her eyes with spiritual power and used the Observing Spirit Technique.

Finally, her gaze stopped at a certain position above the entrance.

There was a pit the size of a bowl.

Once she took out the Water-Repelling Pearl again, Xie Jiuniang leaped up, her bone knife thrust into a rock above the entrance.

Then she stretched out her little hand and began to dig in the pit.

Before long, she fished out a fingernail-sized crystal-clear little pearl with array patterns on it.

"A Water Spirit Pearl?" Xie Jiuniang was astonished.

It was a pearl formed from the condensation of water spiritual energy. It would speed up cultivation for someone with a Water Spirit Root, but for Xie Jiuniang, who lacked such a root, it was of no use.

Jian Lingyan said, "That little pearl is not very useful; there are plenty of them in the Tianshui Secret Realm."

Plenty of them...

Xie Jiuniang clutched her chest; her heart ached... What should she do?

Then, with a mind for a little revenge, she decided to teach a certain fool a lesson, "Little Jianjian, do you know that the ’useless’ little pearl you mentioned could sell for at least a million Spirit Stones once out of the Secret Realm? Your ignorance has caused you to miss out on a great amount of Spirit Stones, a great amount..."

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Jian Lingyan went mad. "Why didn’t you remind me?"

"But you didn’t tell me either."

Seeing Broken Sword go crazy, Xie Jiuniang suddenly felt both clear-minded and exhilarated!