The Arrogant Immortal-Chapter 48 - You Guys Really Know How to Play

Xie Jiuniang dared not mention the spirit stones; explaining the loss of several hundred thousand would be difficult, thankfully her parents didn’t ask.

Materials that could be used were kept, those that couldn’t be used were put up for sale in the shop, and the Ganoderma Establishment was sent back to the family.

This proposal was suggested by Xie Shen, who wouldn’t just give them away for free; it was akin to selling to the family.

The value would be about the same as the market price, and getting a high price was impossible. As the elder who brought the Xie Family disciples over to Xi’an City hadn’t left yet, Xie Shen decided to make a trip to Xi’an City the next morning.

The Ganoderma Establishment was very important to the family.

Xie Jiuniang had no objection to this.

She knew the family meant something different to her father.

She didn’t want to complicate things for her father with her personal grievances. Her grandfather wasn’t great to her, but he was quite good to her father. Besides, it was just a trifle; what mattered was her father’s happiness.

“Eh, what’s this?”

Mo Lan opened a box, which was filled with IOUs.

Upon hearing this, Xie Jiuniang took a look, then another, her small mouth agape before she hastily explained, “Mom, Dad, those people had no spirit stones but still wanted to buy my goods, so they wrote these IOUs. It wasn’t me who asked them to; they insisted on doing it…”

“My daughter is quite capable, isn’t she?” Mo Lan said with a sarcastic tone.

Xie Jiuniang wiped away nonexistent sweat.

Xie Shen flipped through the large stack of IOUs.

In Xi’an City, rumors had reached the couple that a certain Miss Xie made a fortune trading during the assessment period and even sold a Soul-Nourishing Wooden Hairpin to the genius Alchemist Mo Chuan at a giveaway price.

The goods from the three storage bags, along with a box of IOUs, revealed the extent of their daughter’s business dealings.

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Xie Shen’s brow twitched, “Daughter, you weren’t just trading for the whole month, neglecting to take the assessment seriously, were you?”

“No.” Xie Jiuniang stole a glance at her mother, “I only traded for twenty days. Then, I was surrounded by impostor Sect Disciples and had to go to the Sect gates a few days early…”

“Hahaha! Well done, she truly is my daughter,” Xie Shen slapped Xie Jiuniang’s shoulder, his face all smiles.

Xie Jiuniang puffed out her chest and tilted her chin up proudly, only to feel a ‘loving’ smack from her mother on the back of her head.

Mo Lan said unamused, “Don’t do it again.”

The Sect assessment was a grave matter, and her daughter had exploited it for financial gain. What would the Sect Elders who oversaw the assessment think? If they got a bad impression of her daughter, there could be trouble.

Mo Lan also reminded her, “Don’t let wealth blind you. Keep a low profile in the Sect from now on and focus on improving your strength.”

“Yes, I will keep mother’s teachings in mind,” responded Xie Jiuniang, seriously adjusting her attitude. The whole situation was trivial until Mo Chuan complicated things, disrupting her original plans. It wasn’t just the Lin and Mo families; likely, it would attract the attention of others as well, necessitating careful reevaluation.

In the middle of the night, Xie Jiuniang made use of the Earthfire Room and crafted a set of bracers from beast skin.

Different from the common bracers on the market, these also protected the back of the hand, perfectly covering the Contract Totem.

Back in Xi’an City, Xie Jiuniang had already contemplated crafting a set but had not found the opportunity with the entrance assessment approaching.

Xie Jiuniang tore off the cloth bandages on her right hand and put on the bracers.

Once bonded with the owner, the bracers were soft and light, feeling like nothing when worn.

“They look good, much more pleasing to the eye.” It was always an eyesore to wrap the hand with cloth, looking like a bandage on an injury, not a good omen.

Xie Jiuniang meditated and regulated her breath until she restored her spiritual power to its peak before she left the Earthfire Room.

The sky was already bright outside.

Mo Lan had prepared a pile of food early in the morning, intending for her daughter to take it back to the Sect.

Xie Jiuniang grabbed a steamed bun and took a bite before asking, “Mom, where’s Dad?”

Mo Lan answered, “He went out early in the morning to Xi’an City.”

“I have to return to the Sect now, Mother. I’ll come to see you when I’m free.” Xie Jiuniang was a bit reluctant, but there were too many things that needed her attention, and she couldn’t afford to waste time here.

After packing up the food Mo Lan had prepared and bidding farewell, Xie Jiuniang hurriedly left.

Before leaving, Xie Jiuniang went to a shop and purchased two hundred sheets of the most expensive talisman paper on the market, spending a painful amount of two thousand spirit stones.

In the past, the talisman paper she used cost one spirit stone per stack; today it was a whole stack of spirit stones for one sheet.

If she hadn’t suspected that the consistent failure of her attempts to create a Hiding Talisman might be related to the quality of the talisman paper, she definitely wouldn’t have spent this undue sum.

Didn’t she see how the shop assistant’s eyes lit up when making the purchase?

That was the look of someone seeing the God of Wealth or a prodigal son!

Not long after Xie Jiuniang left, someone came asking about her. When they found out she had only purchased talisman paper and had rushed away, they too left.

This incident was unknown to Xie Jiuniang, and even if she knew, she wouldn’t have been surprised. By choosing to re-enter Tianxu Sect, she was mentally prepared to be under surveillance at any time.

She walked out of the Fangshi alone.

Without the immortal cranes to carry her on the return journey, Xie Jiuniang could only travel on foot, which was fortunate since the dozen or so miles were not considered far.

As she passed through a stretch of woods, sounds of a fight came from ahead; then a young man’s voice forcefully attempting to sound calm rang out, “In broad daylight, under the clear sky, you dare to rob someone?”

“It’s you we’re robbing, and you we’re beating! Hand over your valuables or we’ll kill you!” came a hoarse male voice.

Several sounds of a scuffle followed, and then the young man’s cries for help.

The cries were pitifully moving.

However, Xie Jiuniang walked past without so much as a sideways glance.

Idiots! The fight was too fake.

That young man turned the cries for help into something surprisingly comical!

Xie Jiuniang shook her head, thinking to herself, “These days, if you don’t have the talent for acting, better not to try to make a living like this.”

This sort of thing had happened to her often in her previous life. Anyone she “helped” would stick to her like a plaster.

And now, in this life, it happened again…

In this life, she intended to be a person with a heart of iron and stone!

The people in the woods acting out their scene watched with wide eyes as Xie Jiuniang passed by them.

She was the kind that didn’t look back at all.

The young man got up from the ground, patted the dirt off his body, and asked with a somber tone, “Whose lousy idea was this? Now look, she didn’t come to rescue this young master. How am I supposed to naturally make her acquaintance now?”

“Young master, maybe… she ran too fast and didn’t hear it?”

“Get lost!”

The young man kicked out in annoyance.

How could she possibly not have heard?

The mountains were always quiet; any little sound could be heard.

There’s no way the intended target didn’t hear them.

Just as the young man and his group were about to leave, a flash of light streaked by, and someone arrived on a flying sword, demanding, “Who dares to rob someone here?”

“It’s me, Uncle Lin! There’s no robbery, we were just fooling around.” The young man quickly yelled out, fearing the newcomer would slash down his two followers with a single stroke of his sword.

The others with their faces covered hurriedly pulled off their masks, “It’s us, Uncle Lin.”

“Ah, it’s Young Master Gongsun, you guys really know how to have fun.” Uncle Lin said with an amused smile.

Gongsun Yu bowed his head in shameful appearance, the lowered eyelids hiding the predatory look in his eyes.