Chapter 458 - 212: The Jin Family’s Mistaken Encounter with Red Peony, Smoothly Attending the Spirit Medicine Banquet
Chapter 458: Chapter 212: The Jin Family’s Mistaken Encounter with Red Peony, Smoothly Attending the Spirit Medicine Banquet
The process of exchanging for the Immortal Ganoderma Soul Cleansing Pill was not complicated.
In Tideng True Monarch’s temporary cave residence, Xiao Chen completed the transaction directly with the True Monarch’s Child.
The anticipated problem—drawing the attention of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, or even having the source of his Spirit Medicine coveted—never materialized.
To a Golden Core True Man, Tier Four Spirit Medicine was important, but Tier Four Spirit Pills were even more so.
In reality, however, a single Purple Gold Bodhi was not nearly enough to attract Tideng True Monarch’s attention; he was busy catching up with City Lord Huo.
BOOM!
On the way back to Hundred Herbs City after leaving the magnificent temporary cave residence, a sudden, deafening clap of thunder echoed.
Xiao Chen looked up. About six hundred li to the north, a hundred zhang up in the sky, bolts of electricity ran wild. Barrel-thick lightning descended from the heavens, vaguely striking something.
Immediately after, strands of golden light bloomed in the sky, so brilliant one could hardly open their eyes.
Below, the seawater from several li around flowed backward into the sky, transforming into a majestic Divine General that stood over a hundred zhang tall.
The two sides had already exchanged seven or eight moves before the violent Spiritual Qi Tide finally swept over. It was clearly a Magical Combat between Golden Core Cultivators.
On Hundred Herbs Island, figures immediately landed on clouds to watch from afar.
Some busybodies even took the initiative to move more than a hundred li closer in that direction, just to get a clearer view.
Xiao Chen joined the crowd, standing in mid-air and sizing up the distant battle.
’Great, I finally get to watch some Magical Combat!’
’Judging by the commotion, the people fighting are no simpletons.’ Unfortunately, the area was already a blur of flashing Spiritual Light and flying Magic, severely obscuring the view and making it impossible to see who was actually fighting.
But that was no matter. There were naturally people who could identify the different Cultivators by their Magic.
"Whoa, isn’t that the Jin Family’s Hundred Refinement Golden Carving Pearl? Why are the Jin family suddenly making a move? Don’t tell me they caught the culprit?"
"Damn, they live up to their name as one of the seven great families of the Ten Thousand Immortals Archipelago. It’s only been a few days, and they’ve already found their person."
"Fellow cultivators, that Divine General in the sea looks rather familiar. Does anyone recognize its origin?"
"In this old man’s opinion, that looks like the ultimate technique of the Peng Family from Ten Thousand Immortals Island."
"What? If that’s the case, could the other party be a Sword Cultivator?"
Unlike the large-scale commotions of a Magic Cultivator’s battle, which could be seen clearly from afar, the intense killing intent within a Sword Cultivator’s Sword Qi could only be felt by cultivators at close range.
However, in the next moment, the sky in the distance suddenly darkened.
Then, people saw a monstrous flame erupt, spreading and sweeping a thousand zhang in every direction.
Like a blooming Red Peony, the rolling heatwave evaporated a vast expanse of seawater, instantly filling the sky and land with boundless white steam.
"Stop!"
A fierce shout echoed between heaven and earth. Soon, two figures broke through the steam, but they looked around in confusion, unable to find any trace of their enemy.
At the same time, the distant spectators were all astonished.
"Holy shit, what a powerful Fire Technique!"
"Hiss~ If I’m not mistaken, that flame just now was a good thousand zhang wide, wasn’t it?"
"So it was Red Peony who attacked the Jin family. I knew that white-faced scholar wouldn’t have the guts."
Red Peony was ranked fourth on the bounty list, with a cumulative bounty of two million, eight hundred fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
With her signature Magic exposed, someone knowledgeable immediately recognized the attacker’s identity.
This immediately sparked even more heated discussion.
"So that’s Red Peony. I heard she’s a female cultivator. Wonder if that’s true."
"Hmph, what does it matter if a Tribulation Cultivator is male or female? They all deserve to die. How come no one has caught that bastard?"
"It’s strange. I’ve never heard of Red Peony making a move here in our Nanlao Sea. Why target the Jin Family all of a sudden?"
"Yeah, and I heard the Jin Family lost some Treasure. Could it be a Tier Four inheritance?"
"How could it be a Cultivation Technique? To attract someone like Red Peony, I bet it has to be something good, like a Purple Heart Barrier-breaking Pill."
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The Purple Heart Barrier-breaking Pill was a Tier Breakthrough Spirit Medicine, said to increase a Cultivator’s chance of successful Nascent Soul Formation by twenty percent.
The rest of the conversation devolved into all sorts of unrealistic speculation, so Xiao Chen didn’t listen any further and discreetly descended into the crowd.
Although he didn’t know why Red Peony had suddenly appeared here and clashed with the Jin Family, it was definitely a good thing for him.
If the Jin Family now focused all their attention on capturing Red Peony, he could just sit back and watch the show.
In truth, the reason for the conflict was quite simple.
Red Peony was simply passing through, but as she was leaving Hundred Herbs Island, she alertly discovered she was being secretly tailed by Jin Family cultivators lying in ambush outside the island.
The two parties already had a grudge, so she couldn’t help but be suspicious.
Red Peony decisively turned tail and fled, and the Jin Family cultivators immediately gave chase.
And that’s what led to the scene just now.
The subsequent events unfolded just as Xiao Chen had hoped.
Soon, the Jin Family updated the original Bounty Order, adding an extra one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to the price.
At the same time, they pulled their personnel from the vicinity of Hundred Herbs Island and sent them north to hunt down Red Peony.
A cultivator did the math: with this new bounty, Red Peony’s total reward now reached three million, two hundred fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
This surpassed the original third-place holder, the Ghost-faced Monk, by fifty thousand Spirit Stones, pushing her into the top three.
Hearing this news in the plaza, Xiao Chen silently turned and left without a word, hiding his deeds and his name.
The threat from the Jin Family was over for now. The matter was far from finished, of course, but the final reckoning could wait.
Furthermore, it was still not a good time to go out hunting for Demon Pills in the next few days. The good news, however, was that the Spirit Medicine Banquet was still on as scheduled, and it was the day after tomorrow.