The Arrogant Immortal-Chapter 45 - Goods Not As Described

“It’s hard to say, I feel like I’m just a bit short, why don’t you start with a hundred thousand Spirit Stones for me,” Jian Lingyan said, making it sound like ‘bring me a dish first.'”

Impressive, is he trying to bite off more than he can chew?

The method to conceal one’s cultivation base was just what Xie Jiuniang urgently needed. Jian Lingyan had grabbed hold of Xie Jiuniang’s lifeline, and now, he was beginning to play the fool.

Xie Jiuniang, now rarely this desperate, wasn’t stingy; she waved her hand and produced a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

“Little Jianjian, you’d better remember, or else…” Xie Jiuniang threatened.

“As long as there are enough Spirit Stones, I will definitely remember,” Jian Lingyan said, excited to the point that even the sword was trembling, plunging headfirst into the pile of Spirit Stones.

Before long, a vortex of Spiritual Energy appeared in the pile of Spirit Stones. Spiritual Energy flowed into the Broken Sword, and coupled with the already rich Spiritual Energy in the cave, the effect was multiplied.

After a short time, the mountain of Spirit Stones vanished, leaving only a pile of rubble and sand on the ground.

The Broken Sword flew out.

Xie Jiuniang asked with anticipation, “Did you remember?”

“Uh, I’m still a bit short…”

Jian Lingyan answered regretfully and then said, “I probably need another hundred thousand?”

Xie Jiuniang’s phoenix eyes dangerously narrowed, “Little Jianjian, are you sure?”

“Yes, yes, sure,” Jian Lingyan affirmed desperately, shaking the Broken Sword up and down as if nodding like a human.

Xie Jiuniang, with a stern face, threw out two hundred thousand.

Jian Lingyan froze.

Wasn’t it a hundred thousand? Did his stingy master miscount?

Now, to pass up a good deal would be foolish, Jian Lingyan plunged into the pile of Spirit Stones once more.

About an hour passed.

The Spirit Stones Xie Jiuniang had just earned a few days ago were gone again.

The process was like a gambler’s; having spent a hundred thousand without gain, she spent another hundred thousand, until she was cleaned out in the end.

Xie Jiuniang clenched her teeth and asked through gritted teeth, “Did, you, remember?”

The Broken Sword, excitedly fluttering around the cave, paused when it heard the dangerous words.

Xie Jiuniang suddenly calmed down, pulled out an account book from her Storage Bag, and asked again, “Little Jianjian, did you remember? Six hundred and forty-eight thousand and thirty-five Spirit Stones. If you didn’t remember, I’m noting it down.”

Jian Lingyan, who had felt on top of the world for successfully tricking Xie Jiuniang, instantly deflated, stammering, “I, I guess I remembered.”

The sword pressed against Xie Jiuniang’s forehead.

Xie Jiuniang felt her Spiritual Soul swayed, and something new appeared in her mind.

It was a memory from Jian Lingyan’s perspective.

The memory showed a male cultivator drawing a Talisman.

The Talisman he was drawing was one Xie Jiuniang had never seen before, and instead of using Talisman Paper, it was drawn on a piece of Spirit Jade roughly the same size.

No Talisman Brush was needed to draw the Talisman; it was outlined with Divine Sense.

The moment the Talisman was complete, the Talisman Light concealed itself.

The ordinary Spirit Jade suddenly became extraordinary.

Just as Xie Jiuniang wanted to take a closer look, the image disappeared. Gone?

That’s it?

“Little Jianjian, come out! I promise not to kill you.” Xie Jiuniang was fuming with rage, “I spent all my Spirit Stones just to feast my eyes on the Jade Talisman? What I want is the method to craft it, the method for the Hiding Talisman!”

Goods not matching the description, refund!

Xie Jiuniang opened her account book again, and with a cold laugh said, “If you don’t give me the crafting method, I’ll keep a record. If you don’t pay off the debt, don’t ever dream of getting another Spirit Stone from me.”

After a while, the weak and childlike whining of Jian Lingyan finally came, “This is all I remembered, sob, there’s no more…”

It had remembered earlier, actually. It had only intended to scam some Spirit Stones. Alas, its master gave away too many, enticing it to lose control for a moment.

Cheating her again and again…

In the end, the result was the Sword Spirit incurring a huge debt and signing an unequal treaty for a hundred years.

Within those hundred years, Jian Lingyan must work for Xie Jiuniang for free, always on call, hardworking and uncomplaining.

The last eight words carried too much weight, a burden it could not bear at the moment.

Xie Jiuniang put away her account book and served up some motivational soup for the soul, “Little Jianjian, as long as you work hard, you’ll have everything in the future. What are Spirit Stones? You’ll even have Spirit Jade.”

No longer paying attention to Jian Lingyan.

Xie Jiuniang sat cross-legged on the cushion, eyes closed, seemingly cultivating. In reality, she was repeatedly recalling the process of the male cultivator drawing the talisman in her mind.

From it, one could glimpse one or two things.

First and foremost, crafting Jade Talismans required a strong Divine Sense, then a talent to manipulate Divine Sense, followed by top-quality Spirit Jade.

The thought of creating a Hiding Jade Talisman was dismissed, but attempting to draw a Hiding Talisman seemed feasible.

Xie Jiuniang hadn’t mentioned to Jian Lingyan that the talisman characters sketched by the male cultivator were very similar to those of the Breath Concealment Talisman, with only minor modifications at four points.

She had drawn Breath Concealment Talismans before and was naturally familiar with its characters, so it wouldn’t be hard for her to draw the Hiding Talisman given a little time.

Luckily, before she left the Xie Family to visit the library, “Comprehensive Introduction to Talisman Characters” contained detailed annotations on these characters.

After pondering for a long time in her heart, Xie Jiuniang sat upright at the table, took out her Talisman Brush and Talisman Paper. She also took out Demonic Beast Blood and mixed it with Cinnabar.

She began to draw the talisman.

The first time, when the talisman characters were drawn to one-tenth, it failed.

Right at this point, she had to make the minor modification.

After making adjustments, she steeled her concentration, picked up the Talisman Brush once again, this time making the modification successfully, but then failing at a critical point just shy of halfway.

Then came failure, failure after failure.

Until the Spiritual Power in her Dantian was drained to one-tenth, insufficient to attempt another drawing, she had to stop and meditate to recover for the time being.

Two days went by.

Xie Jiuniang focused on drawing talismans.

It was a pity that the last modification point was never successfully made. It wasn’t that the modification was incorrect, but that attempting to draw the Hiding Talisman at the seventh stage of Qi Cultivation was a bit of a stretch.

One could say that the Hiding Talisman was the most difficult talisman Xie Jiuniang had encountered so far.

Today, Xie Jiuniang had to go out because disciples from the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall were coming for registration.

Over by the waterfall, Xie Si’niang and the others were all there.

“You all arrived so early.”

Xie Jiuniang greeted everyone with a brilliant smile, saying hello one by one.

Xie Xu laughed, “I was worried I would miss the registration.”

“We were worried too, if we don’t have a Spiritual Field, it would be troublesome, and we would have to clear the land by ourselves,” a Xie Family disciple said, still shaken, “Thankfully, Xiaojiu reminded us.”

“Xiaojiu, if you are short-handed with your own Spiritual Fields, just let us know and we’ll help.”

“Yes, yes, me too.”

“…”