Chapter 1680: True Words Return

Even through the domain mirror, she could feel how terrifying the poison pellet was. A two-star Giant King would die upon contact. What was terrifying was that this was still a poisonous mist!

Her expression became slightly serious as she said, "You really did bring back something terrifying from the Primordial Hunting Grounds. If you had mastered this alchemy before the Ancient Giants arrived, and had enough time, it truly could have caused devastating destruction to us Ancient Giants. Unfortunately, it's too late."

Jiang Fan put away the Misty Dispersion and said, "Your words reassure me. It seems this pellet's toxicity is sufficient for you Ancient Giants."

Princess Zijiang relaxed, her shoulders shaking slightly. "Hmph. It takes more than half an hour to refine one pellet. What's the point? Our reinforcements will arrive in just over two hours at most."

Jiang Fan smiled without speaking, took out a temporal hourglass, and inverted it, planting it in front of him. Inside, the snow-white sand slowly fell downwards. The next instant, an invisible temporal domain enveloped an area of ten meters around him. Princess Zijiang cultivated the essence of time, making her perception of it the most acute. Her face suddenly changed, and she gasped, "A ten-fold time acceleration law? Where did you get that?" Her voice suddenly rose, sharp and panicked.

Jiang Fan smiled calmly, "You have plenty of time to slowly enjoy the gift I've prepared for you Ancient Giants." With the previous experience of preparation, he became skilled, able to refine one pellet in about half an hour. Under Princess Zijiang's increasingly anxious gaze, one Six-Vessel Misty Dispersion after another was prepared.

One hour later in the outside world, Jiang Fan had already spent a full ten hours under time acceleration. Twenty Misty Dispersion pellets were arranged in a line before him. Princess Zijiang bit her lip tightly and asked, "How many giants can one poison pellet kill?" Jiang Fan put them away and said, "If they're densely packed enough, one pellet could kill over ten."

"Ten?" Princess Zijiang's heart constricted. With twenty-one pellets in total, wouldn't that mean over two hundred Giant Kings could be poisoned to death? The five central armies comprised at most a little over four hundred giants, with three hundred of them being one-star and two-star. Could Jiang Fan alone poison a majority of them?

She said gravely, "That's just a theoretical scenario. Our Giant Kings aren't foolish; why would they gather around you..."

"Wait!" She suddenly froze. She remembered how she had previously reminded her father to kill Jiang Fan first at all costs during the major battle! At that time, wouldn't the Giant Kings gather around Jiang Fan?

Her face contorted drastically, and she frantically pounded the domain mirror, exclaiming: "You intentionally made me warn my father! Just to make it easier for you to use your deadly poison and cause greater casualties?"

Jiang Fan shrugged. "Otherwise?"

Princess Zijiang clutched her head, screaming frantically, "Jiang Fan!!! You set me up again! You demon!!!" Her suggestion would cause the deaths of many, many Ancient Giants! Far more than she had killed herself last time! Why was she so foolish, falling for Jiang Fan's tricks again and again? How could someone like him allow her to warn her father, or allow her to cause him trouble? If he allowed it, it must be because he was concocting an even larger scheme!

Jiang Fan picked up the domain mirror, tapped on it, isolating her voice, and said calmly: "Next, experience the gift I've prepared for you Ancient Giants."

Amidst Princess Zijiang's desperate cries, Jiang Fan put the mirror into his embrace. Then he looked at the temporal hourglass, which had stopped dripping, with a regretful expression: "If the Giant Kings don't come, it'll be a waste."

No sooner had he spoken, a charming voice suddenly echoed from behind him: "Xiao Yan, didn't I tell you so? When men get lonely, they'll even glance twice at a passing sow. If you hadn't come, who knows what would have happened between him and this female giant?"

Jiang Fan was startled, then turned to look. Standing on the Giant King's corpse behind him was a breathtakingly beautiful woman in a yellow dress, with a slender figure and flowing long hair. Beside her floated a tattered Jade Paper Heavenly Tome, within which was embedded a shattered Cursed Sunwheel. On the book lay a palm-sized spirit-woman. She had a charming face with a beauty mark at the corner of her mouth, a languid expression, and was rolling her eyes at Jiang Fan. It was none other than the owner of the Jade Paper Heavenly Tome, the Lustful Sage. As for the woman in the yellow dress, that was naturally Venerable Zhenyan!

"Zhenyan?" Jiang Fan leaped up in excitement. "When did you arrive?"

Venerable Zhenyan gazed at the slightly haggard Jiang Fan, her expression holding a touch of apology. "I just arrived. Are you alright?" She had not expected that after entering the Fire Well of the Fire Worship Sect, the outside world would have changed so drastically when she emerged. She had missed the decisive battle in Taicang Prefecture, and also the decisive battle in the Central Plains. She had even missed Jiang Fan's wedding and his ascension to the God Transformation stage. In just two days, she had missed so much. Would Jiang Fan blame her?

Jiang Fan felt a little unaccustomed; Venerable Zhenyan rarely showed such a pleasant expression in his memory. She was much gentler today. "I'm fine, what about you? Did this Lustful Sage seriously pass on her legacy to you?"

"Hehe..." The Lustful Sage on the Jade Paper Heavenly Tome sat up lazily. "Lustful is lustful, it's not like you're not lustful. If you weren't lustful, why would you pick a beautiful woman like Xiao Yan to be your wife?"

Jiang Fan couldn't be bothered with the old woman and looked at Venerable Zhenyan with concern.

"Senior's kindness to me is as vast as a mountain; she has passed on all her life's knowledge to me. She also helped me comprehend the Dao of True Words and aided my soul's growth." Venerable Zhenyan looked gratefully at the little figure beside her.

Only then did Jiang Fan breathe a sigh of relief. He had always worried that this glib-tongued woman was unreliable. Since the other party had honored her promise to pass on the legacy to Zhenyan, Jiang Fan also kept his word. He raised his hand and retrieved the drop of his vital blood that he had infused into the Jade Paper Heavenly Tome.

The Lustful Sage was overjoyed. Because Jiang Fan had refined the Jade Paper Heavenly Tome with his vital blood, she couldn't return inside it. Now it was finally released. She instantly zipped back inside. "Oh, it's so good in here. It holds me so tightly, so warm and comfortable. I'm never coming out again; I love it in here."

Jiang Fan: ?Venerable Zhenyan: ???

Jiang Fan asked with some concern, "Zhenyan, will she be with you from now on?" Over time, wouldn't Venerable Zhenyan be led astray by her?

Venerable Zhenyan gave a helpless wry smile. "Apart from enjoying teasing me, Senior is quite good in all other aspects."

Jiang Fan's face showed distaste. How could there be such a sage? If it weren't for Venerable Zhenyan's sake, he would have kicked her away long ago.

"Jiang Fan, what's the situation in Hunyuan State? Why is there such dense righteous qi?" Venerable Zhenyan looked around, frowning slightly.

Jiang Fan recalled the blue wishing paper on which he had made a grand vow to heaven and earth earlier. The righteous qi contained within it was merely a small fraction of what was in Hunyuan State. He truly wondered what Grand Venerable Xingyuan intended to do by producing such an immense amount of righteous qi.

"I'd like to know too. How about we visit your father together?" Jiang Fan probed. He felt it was necessary for the father and daughter to have a frank conversation. Grand Venerable Xingyuan was definitely not the kind of callous person who would find a new love before his wife's body was even cold.