Chapter 90: The Baffling Woman

Xu Ziyan left the valley where the Scarred One-Armed Man lived and flew on swords through the sky, feeling very confused.

After flying for three more days like this, she finally arrived at the edge of the Cangmang Mountain Range.

Looking down at Tongyou Valley beneath her feet, Xu Ziyan became lost in thought, filled with many emotions.

She descended from the sky on her sword and sat on the fortifications they had built before.

She played with the Storage Bracelet and Storage Ring the Scarred One-Armed Man had given her. She had already checked the elixirs inside the bracelet. It contained various kinds of elixirs used from the Qi Refining Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage. There were many types, and the number was huge.

The inner space of the bracelet was very large, about a hundred cubic meters, and it was completely packed with all kinds of elixirs.

From the size of this Storage Bracelet’s inner space, Xu Ziyan concluded that the Scarred One-Armed Man must have been a remarkable figure in his time.

A Storage Bracelet with such a big inner space was not something just anyone could possess.

What shocked Xu Ziyan the most was that she couldn’t detect even a trace of spiritual energy from the bracelet, which is typical for storage-type magic treasures. No matter how she checked, it seemed like an ordinary decorative bracelet from the mortal world. The Storage Ring was the same.

Based on the wide variety and astonishing number of elixirs inside, Xu Ziyan also judged that the Scarred One-Armed Man was a highly skilled Alchemy Grandmaster.

Otherwise, how could he have stored so many elixirs? Moreover, some of the elixirs clearly looked like they had just been refined not long ago.

She hadn’t checked the ring given to Xu Lin, but just by imagining, its inner space was definitely larger than her bracelet, and the number of elixirs inside would be greater than hers.

Such a figure was forced to hide deep in the Cangmang Mountain Range. Just what kind of experts existed on this continent? This made Xu Ziyan both somewhat fearful and filled with fighting spirit.

Ever since she came to this world not long ago, Xu Ziyan knew that this world was different from her original one.

Here, everything had to be solved by force. With force, one could have everything.

Direct! Violent!

Xu Ziyan’s unyielding nature had settled deep into her soul. She always felt a strong fighting spirit toward unknown dangers. Otherwise, in her previous life, she wouldn’t have taken up archaeology. The first thing she did after arriving in this world was to fight against fate, refusing a forced marriage by the powerful, and in anger, she killed the Village Chief.

Therefore, when Xu Ziyan encountered experts of another level, the fighting spirit in her heart outweighed the fear.

Unconsciously, her fighting spirit burst out from her body, startling the birds in the trees, which flew noisily high into the sky.

Xu Ziyan was suddenly startled awake. She looked up at the flock of birds circling in the sky and thought with bitter amusement:

“Can my fighting spirit only scare birds?”

After thinking for a while, Xu Ziyan checked her own cultivation level. She felt that although her cultivation had reached the peak of the late First Layer of Foundation Building Stage, it wasn’t stable yet because she had improved too quickly.

She calculated the time; it had been less than half a month. There were still over five months until the day of the Zhongdu City Grand Competition. She decided to first stabilize her realm in the Outer Hall. After all, it wouldn’t take much time.

Having planned everything, Xu Ziyan stood up. She moved most of the elixirs from the Storage Bracelet into the Kunpeng’s Heart, leaving only a small portion in the Storage Bracelet.

As she transferred them, she thought with a bitter smile:

“That Scarred One-Armed Man didn’t just give cultivation elixirs for me and Xu Lin. I think it’s enough for the entire clan’s cultivation.”

She put the bracelet on her wrist and stored the Storage Ring inside the bracelet. Then she took out a Talisman Brush and Talisman Paper from her own Storage Pouch and made a Breath-Concealing Talisman for herself.

She absorbed it into her body and adjusted her displayed cultivation level to the peak of the Twelfth Level of Houtian. After preparing everything, she headed toward Zhongdu City.

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Inside Zhongdu City.

The Xu Clan.

A tense atmosphere filled the place. The news brought back by Xu Wenli and Xu Yundong had shocked the higher-ups of the Xu Clan.

As the representative of the Taixuan Sect in the Northern Mortal Realm, the Xu Clan possessed a Flying Sword left to them by the Taixuan Sect for communication.

That very night, the clan’s higher-ups held a meeting to discuss the matter. Then, Xu Haoran recorded the message he wanted to send inside the Flying Sword and released it.

The Flying Sword shot through the air with a “swish” sound, heading toward the Taixuan Sect.

However, four days had passed, and there was no response from the Taixuan Sect. By now, the Xu Clan leaders realized that something must have happened to the Taixuan Sect.

This meant they had to face the alliance of the Zhou Family from Canglang City and the Yang Family from Nanlin City alone. Moreover, the immediate threats included the Zhongdu City City Lord’s Manor, the Xiao Family, and the Wu Family.

This made Xu Haoran and the others feel overwhelmed and exhausted.

Under these circumstances, the Xu Clan had also lost Xu Ziyan, who could supply the clan with talismans. Hearing from Xu Wenli and Xu Yundong about the power of Xu Ziyan’s talismans made them feel the pain of losing her even more.

However, Xu Haoran had learned his lesson this time. Without seeing Xu Ziyan’s body, he did not announce her death, and he certainly didn’t gather the whole clan’s disciples to honor her like last time. The incident from last time still made Xu Haoran feel embarrassed; he didn’t want to do something foolish again.

Outside the main gate of the Xu Clan, four people were now walking towards the entrance. There was a Middle-aged Woman and three young men. One of the young men clearly appeared to have an intellectual disability.

The Middle-aged Woman’s face was full of grief and resentment. The two normal young men also had dark, gloomy expressions and followed closely behind her. Only the one with the intellectual disability trailed at the back, giggling foolishly.

The woman walked straight to the front of the Xu Clan’s main gate. With a “thump,” she knelt on the ground and began wailing loudly:

“I want to see the Clan Leader! I want to see the Clan Leader! I’ve been wronged! My poor, unjustly dead husband!”

“Thump! Thump!”

The two young men behind her also knelt at the entrance, stretching their necks and shouting:

“We want to see the Clan Leader! We’ve been wronged!”

Only the one with the intellectual disability remained standing, watching his mother and brothers cry and shout, while he just laughed foolishly.

“Shut up!”

A man walked out slowly from inside the gate. His face was as dark as water, his eyes jumping with anger, and a flash of killing intent passed through his gaze.

This person was the manager of the Xu Clan’s Outer Hall. Although he didn’t know exactly what was happening within the clan, he had noticed that over the past few days, the Clan Leader, the various Hall Masters, and Elders at all levels all looked deeply worried and their tempers had become much more irritable. He had been scolded quite a bit lately. Now, these people came and knelt at the clan’s main gate, shouting about injustices and stretching their necks. Wasn’t this just adding to his troubles? If the Clan Leader found out, even if he wasn’t punished, a round of reprimand was unavoidable.

And right at that moment, Xu Ziyan also returned to the clan’s entrance. She saw three people kneeling at the gate and one person standing with his back to her. They looked somewhat familiar, but she didn’t know what was happening. Curious, she walked forward.

The Middle-aged Woman kneeling at the entrance also saw Xu Ziyan at that moment. She froze for a second, then suddenly jumped up from the ground and rushed at Xu Ziyan, flailing her arms and crying out:

“You little slut, give me back my husband’s life!”