The Arrogant Immortal-Chapter 44 - Hiding Jade Talisman

Him leaving was even better.

He had been embarrassed today, and in his sorrow… he didn’t want to see anyone.

Xuanyuan You took out his own array plate, ready to set up the formation.

Xie Jiuniang, having an extra array plate, went to the waterfall below.

This time, it was finally foolproof.

Don’t think she was randomly claiming territory; this place was close to a water source, most suited for clearing new lands. Even without clearing, it was good for planting spiritual fruit trees.

Xie Jiuniang planned to live on Shihao Mountain for ninety years; claiming more land was very necessary.

Returning to her cave abode, she went into seclusion again.

This time, finally undisturbed, Xie Jiuniang took out the three storage bags hidden on her person and another from around her waist.

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The four storage bags were brimming full.

The harvest from this assessment wasn’t just the visible spirit stones, but also the demonic beast materials and spirit plants she had exchanged for.

Though the grades weren’t high, the sheer quantity was overwhelming.

One storage bag, with fifty cubic feet of space, was filled with good quality demonic beast meat; she sold all the trimmings as jerky. She had specifically reserved this meat for her mother.

Compared to her mother’s cooking skills, the stuff she made was crap.

Two storage bags contained various materials and spirit plants, as well as the complete carcass of a hawk, which she would hand over to her parents later.

The remaining storage bag held nearly six hundred thousand spirit stones, along with Xie Jiuniang’s usual items.

What had been on Xie Jiuniang’s mind were the two identical tokens. One had come from Xie Ying, and the other from Gan Meng’s storage bag.

The front of the tokens bore ancient characters, while the back was engraved with a Fusang tree pattern.

The pattern showed two large trees supporting each other.

In legends, Fusang was known as the divine tree, where the divine beast, the Three-legged Golden Crow, often roosted. By now, both Fusang and the divine beast had disappeared in the river of time.

Xie Jiuniang studied the two tokens back and forth, and inadvertently stacked them together.

The next moment, the two tokens, as if awakening from a millennium of slumber, began to merge progressively.

After a while, they became one token.

The style and pattern remained the same, but the surface became smooth; what was somewhat ancient now seemed new.

Xie Jiuniang’s heart thumped with excitement.

“Could this be Xie Ying’s great opportunity from her past life?”

Xie Jiuniang recalled how Xie Ying had suddenly vanished in her previous life, then reappeared in the same spot after a while, even wearing a different dress.

With an excited heart, she proceeded to acknowledge ownership by applying a drop of her blood.

The blood slowly merged into the token.

After waiting a good while with no reaction and without establishing a connection with the token in her mind,

she tried again, letting more blood merge into it.

After waiting a good while again, all was still quiet.

Xie Jiuniang attempted to probe it with her divine sense, but the divine sense was still blocked.

“Forget it, let’s just leave it for now,” she decided.

She put away the token and checked the newly acquired spirit plants.

A Ganoderma Establishment plant could be used to concoct two furnaces of pills, and with some luck, she might obtain more than a dozen Foundation Establishment Pills. Currently, with only a first-grade alchemy skill, she didn’t need the two spirit plants for now.

I’ll give it to my parents when I see them.

“Stingy master, aren’t you going to reward me with something?” Jian Lingyan whined in a milky voice.

Xie Jiuniang raised an eyebrow and asked, “On what grounds?”

“I did a great service by warning you about the Divinity Transformation attention,” Jian Lingyan declared, boldly demanding spirit stones.

Xie Jiuniang thought it over and agreed, “Alright then.”

She fumbled around and pulled out a piece of jerky, teasingly said, “Jerky, this is your reward.”

Jian Lingyan flew out of the contract space in a huff, ready to bash her over the head.

Xie Jiuniang quickly interjected, hurriedly saying, “Okay, okay, I’ll reward you with a spirit stone, deal?”

“Not good enough, I want a thousand.”

“I don’t have that many, you might as well kill me,” she said, in a typical display of valuing life over money.

“This… these eight hundred… no, one hundred should be enough, right?” Jian Lingyan sulked miserably, adopting an attitude suggesting it would stop giving reminders if it wasn’t compensated.

Xie Jiuniang deliberately took her time taking out a hundred spirit stones.

Jian Lingyan swiftly snatched away the spirit stones and circled Xie Jiuniang, then in a tone mimicking hers, teasingly said, “Stingy master, half of the jerky is mine, you used it to gift someone today and haven’t replaced my spirit stones. I don’t ask for much, just give me one or two.”

Xie Jiuniang remained unmoved.

“Give me spirit stones, give them to me now! Or I’ll kill you—”

Jian Lingyan attempted the same trick again.

Suddenly, a long wooden stick appeared out of thin air and with a “bang,” sent the Broken Sword flying.

It hit the stone wall of the cave abode.

With a “swoosh,” the Broken Sword flew back, its childish voice accusingly whined, “Sneaky and cunning master, sneak attacks are so low, if you dare we should—”

The words “have a duel” were left unsaid.

Because it knew a duel wouldn’t work.

“Wuwuwu, half of that jerky is mine; no, no, you must give me spirit stones to make it up.”

It was proven that acting shamelessly was useless in front of Xie Jiuniang.

She had a heart of stone.

Without a word, she took out all the jerky from her storage bag.

Then she split it in two.

Then she picked out another handful of jerky and placed it on the pile in front of Broken Sword.

Xie Jiuniang said calmly, “There, now it’s been returned, nothing’s wrong now, right?”

Jian Lingyan was left stunned by her actions and asked in a milky voice, “Shouldn’t you be giving me spirit stones? Jerky is no use to me.”

“But I didn’t sell any spirit stones before,” Xie Jiuniang retorted, putting away half of the jerky.

Jian Lingyan huffed irritably and vanished back into the contract space in a flash.

Xie Jiuniang asked with a smirk, “Little Jianjian, hurry up and take the jerky back. If it’s left out, it might spoil.”

“I don’t want that trash,” it retorted.

Putting it into the space would sully its territory.

Xie Jiuniang pressed on, “If you don’t want it, then can I take it?”

“If you want to pick it up, then pick it up.”

Jian Lingyan was busy counting the newly acquired spirit stones back and forth.

Xie Jiuniang gathered up the jerky and casually inquired, “Little Jianjian, do you know any methods to conceal one’s cultivation base?”

“Isn’t there a Hiding Talisman?” Jian Lingyan replied offhandedly.

Once it spoke, it also froze up.

Xie Jiuniang, only twelve years of age, at the seventh level of Qi Cultivation, and with a triple Spirit Root, was somewhat conspicuous. Last time she managed to bluff her way through with Spiritual Liquid, but as her rank rose it would inevitably arouse suspicion.

Her question was casual, not expecting an answer from Jian Lingyan…

Then, it added, “The best would be a high-grade Hiding Jade Talisman.”

Xie Jiuniang’s face showed her confusion.

What Hiding Talisman? Jade Talisman?

In her past and present life, this was the first time she had heard of it.