The Arrogant Immortal-Chapter 70 - Not Thick-skinned Enough Not Enough

It greatly relieved Xie Jiuniang.

This time, Xie Jiuniang was not in a hurry to return to the Sect, staying at home for a few days. On the first day, she thought about setting up a stall in the Fangshi. However, before she could set up, a crowd of vendors surrounded her, asking if she was buying anything?

Xie Jiuniang’s attempt to set up a stall was unsuccessful.

Instead, she went to purchase things that might be needed for the Tianshui Secret Realm and also stocked up on sufficient Talisman Paper and Blank Array Plates.

When returning to the Sect, Xie Shen handed a Storage Bag to Xie Jiuniang.

With a sweep of her Divine Sense inside, there were ten bottles of Spiritual Liquid, ten Spirit-Gathering Pills, ten Superior Spirit Stones, and a new model of a Little Flying Boat.

The rest were various snacks and Spirit Fruits made by her mother, enough to last her for a year. Because Xie Jiuniang had previously said that she would not be able to visit them until at least a year after returning to the Sect.

Xie Jiuniang lowered her eyelids, deeply moved.

Her parents had prepared everything they could for her.

Immediately after, she handed a Storage Bag to Xie Shen.

In the Storage Bag were four million Spirit Stones and a discount Token from the Rongsheng Trading Company.

Xie Jiuniang suggested, “Keep these Spirit Stones as capital for mother and father. I have a suggestion, if the shop doesn’t have a good source of goods, then use the Spirit Stones to buy from the Rongsheng Trading Company…”

Half price!

Buy them to resell in the shop, you can earn half on top.

Xie Shen truly admired his daughter’s business acumen, as well as her thick skin.

Xie Jiuniang blurted out, “Dad! Without a thick skin, there won’t be enough Spirit Stones.”

“Pfft, hahaha.”

Xie Shen laughed, patting her forehead with his large hand, “Alright! Dad will listen to you.”

Xie Jiuniang waved goodbye to her parents.

After leaving the Fangshi, she used light body techniques and headed towards the direction of the Sect.

The opening of the Tianshui Secret Realm was a year away.

Xie Jiuniang was going to the Secret Realm this time and would not come out until a year later, so she needed to give an early notice to avoid worrying her parents.

Just as she arrived at the mountain gate.

In front of the mountain gate.

Xie Jiuniang was stopped by several unfamiliar female cultivators. From the Disciple Robes they wore, they were discernible as Inner Sect disciples.

Xie Jiuniang had no recollection of these female cultivators. However, considering the multitude of disciples from every peak in the Sect and the not few who perished in yearly adventures, it was not strange that she had not met them in her previous life.

They were all disciples at the Qi Cultivation Stage.

Those at the Foundation Establishment Stage would not stoop to trouble an Outer Sect junior disciple.

In fact, when they saw Xie Jiuniang, the female cultivators were also stunned. Wasn’t this the woman accused of seducing Uncle Lin?

How could it be a half-grown child?

One of the female cultivators stepped forward, questioning suspiciously, “Are you the Little Profiteer accused of swindling Uncle Lin in front of everyone?”

“What? Sister, who in the Sect is spreading such wild rumors?”

Xie Jiuniang widened her eyes, her little face full of disbelief, “Uncle Lin is so wise and might; how could he get swindled in front of everyone? Sisters, you wouldn’t believe such nonsense, right? Hearing someone slander Uncle Lin like this, you not only don’t help clarify for him but actually believe the rumor-monger. That’s really wrong. I’m so disappointed in you. If Uncle Lin knew, he would be disappointed as well…”

That little mouth rattled on, lecturing them until they were too ashamed to show their faces.

At the mountain gate, not far away.

Gongsun Yu was paying attention to the situation over there.

Who knew, the situation twisted bizarrely.

The group of female cultivators that had come with a fierce momentum was scolded by the Little Profiteer until they hung their heads and didn’t dare to utter a word.

At last, it was the Little Profiteer who laid out a bunch of junk for them to choose from.

While Xie Jiuniang was putting out some items the female cultivators might like, she said, “Before coming here, sisters must not have inquired properly, right? That day on the Battle Peak Summit, there were tens of thousands of Outer Sect disciples.”

“I asked Uncle Lin why he was willing to pay a high price for a common Small Jade Bottle, guess how he responded? He said, perhaps… in my place, it’s not so common.”

“Many people present heard it; I didn’t spread rumors. This shows that Uncle Lin sincerely liked it and bought it. As the saying goes, what the heart desires is hard to buy even with a thousand gold pieces!”

“Come, come, look at this Small Jade Bottle, it’s the one most similar to the one Uncle Lin bought! I’ll give you a fifty percent discount, just 5000 and you can take it away.”

“The same Small Jade Bottle, just like Uncle Lin’s…”

Master Xie’s hoodwinking was in session.

It wasn’t surprising that a few female cultivators who were provoked by Gongsun Yu with a few words and then bamboozled by Xie Jiuniang’s rhetoric turned out like they did.

On the contrary, Gongsun Yu was frustrated and furious.

He had sent people to trouble the Little Profiteer, not to add to her income!

“Those brainless women…” Gongsun Yu’s face turned blue with anger.

Behind him, a Foundation Establishment female cultivator kept her head down in silence.

Gongsun Yu turned angrily and left.

The female cultivator hurriedly followed.

Gongsun Yu asked angrily, “Those two wastes haven’t come back yet?”

“Young Master, no.”

The female cultivator was a disciple of the Inner Sect Danfeng, born into a collateral branch of the Gongsun family.

The Gongsun family was different from some other families.

All collateral branches serve the main line.

The main line’s servants and guards were all selected from the collateral branches; most in the collateral branches considered it an honor, when in reality, they had no qualification to refuse.

Those few who dared to resist were, at best, captured and sent to do hard labor in the mines; at worst, their entire family would be executed up to the third generation.

The female cultivator obeyed Gongsun Yu precisely because of the clan rules. She might not fear them, but her relatives could not afford that luxury.

The female cultivator added, “I searched the back mountain but found no one. Young Master, it’s been several days since the two went missing; I’m afraid they might have met with misfortune.”

Gongsun Yu’s first thought was of Jiujiu, but he quickly dismissed the suspicion.

A Qi Cultivation Stage 7 teenager killing two at Qi Cultivation Stage 9 was simply a pipe dream.

He couldn’t do it; it was even more impossible for Jiujiu.

Gongsun Yu believed there was no flaw in his logic, and indeed, any normal person would think the same.

But, was Jiujiu normal?

The scariest part was that no one knew she wasn’t normal.

And through the report from Jian Lingyan, Jiujiu finally found out the person spreading rumors behind her back was actually Gongsun Yu!

Persistent as a ghost and sick in the head!

After making another small profit, Jiujiu returned to Shihao Mountain.

On the fruit trees, a few fruits had begun to ripen, and the Spiritual Rice in the fields was also ready for harvest.

Xie Xu and the others were busy in the fields.

Seeing Jiujiu today was a surprise for them. The rice in Jiujiu’s fields had been ripe for two days. They had wanted to help her harvest it, but they couldn’t enter due to the Protective Array.

Xie Xu came over and asked, “Xiaojiu, you’re back. Are your parents well?”

“Very well, living comfortably.” Jiujiu smiled and started to harvest the rice.

Xie Xu, without another word, helped out, and other family disciples also came over.

The twenty mu of Spiritual Rice was quickly gathered. The yield was average, only about six or seven thousand catties.

Jiujiu didn’t see Xie Siniang; she might be in closed cultivation. She sought out Xie Xu and told him she might need to enter closed cultivation for a year and wouldn’t have time to manage the Spiritual Fields and Spiritual Fruit Trees.

She told Xie Xu to see to it.

If he was too busy, he could ask Shi Qi and others for help.

Jiujiu added, “Little Uncle, I won’t need a cave residence for this retreat. Don’t waste the remaining months; use them for your cultivation.”

“Where will Xiaojiu cultivate in seclusion?”

“The small courtyard under the waterfall.” Jiujiu made her arrangements clear, “I’ve agreed to give Bai Mudan thirty percent of the Spirit Fruits. The rest you can share among yourselves.”

“Then on behalf of everyone, I thank you, Xiaojiu.” Xie Xu was not polite with her.

Jiujiu went back to the cave residence once to gather the meditation cushion and table, and replaced them with Xie Xu’s Array Plate. Then she went to the small courtyard beside the waterfall.

She set up a Protective Array, a Small Isolation Array, and a Spirit Gathering Array.

In the grooves of the Array Plate, she placed one medium grade Spirit Stone each, and filled the rest with ordinary Spirit Stones, ensuring that under normal circumstances, the Formation could be activated for more than a year, creating the illusion of her in closed cultivation.

Jiujiu practiced her cultivation peacefully for half a month.

Until the day the Sect notified her to depart, Jiujiu changed into the disguise of a boy, carefully altering her facial features to look more like an energetic young man.

She was aware her disguise wouldn’t fool the leading Nascent Soul Elder, but as long as her identity and the Secret Realm Token were genuine, the Elder usually wouldn’t care about your appearance.

One hour before departure, she used an Invisibility Talisman to sneak out of the small courtyard and left Shihao Mountain.

Upon reaching the Sect’s gate.

A medium-sized Flying Boat was stationed there.

Elder Chaoyan, one of the leaders for this mission, was taken aback when he saw Jiujiu approaching the Flying Boat; where had the little girl obtained a spot?

Jiujiu approached respectfully and handed over the Token with both hands.

“Little girl, you’ve got some nerve, managing to get a spot,” Elder Chaoyan transmitted with his Divine Sense.

Jiujiu transmitted back with a grin, “My elder sister is Lord Ziyang’s disciple. I got the spot in exchange from her.”

“Hmm? The Tianshui Secret Realm…”

Follow current novels on ƒreewebηoveℓ.com.

Elder Chaoyan rummaged through his Storage Ring and pulled out a book and a Jade Token, handing them over to Jiujiu.

Jiujiu paused, “Elder, this…”

“Take it, you need to come out alive.”

“Yes! Thank you, Elder.”

Jiujiu felt somewhat moved as she reached out her small hand to receive the items, immediately hanging the high-grade Defense Jade Token at her waist.

This Jade Token was not to be underestimated; it couldn’t be crafted by anyone below Nascent Soul.

Each disciple wearing such a Jade Token signified at least one Nascent Soul Cultivator backing them, which could fend off a lot of trouble.

The other book was… the Secret Realm Map!

The very thing Jiujiu urgently needed.

She had wanted to obtain a copy earlier, but it wasn’t easy. She had to go to the Inner Sect. There was no reason for an Outer Sect Disciple to bother; going to the Inner Sect was quite troublesome, so she gave up the idea.

Now on the verge of departure, she unexpectedly received one. And a map obtained from a Nascent Soul Cultivator would surely not be rudimentary.

Jiujiu’s guess was correct.

The map she received was the most comprehensive one in the Cultivation World up to that point.