Wait a minute, where is my master?

As the little Taoist threw his punch, a large web-like crack spread across the midair.

Then, a series of sharp crackling sounds followed, and an entrance large enough for a person appeared in the void, smashed open by a single punch.

"Little White."

Jin Xu stared at the space portal he had just opened and called out to someone beside him.

"Temple master, it's the Demon Realm."

Shiqi, after a brief inspection, immediately confirmed with an excited expression.

Assured that he had struck the right place, the little Taoist slightly nodded, clasped his hands towards the people who had hurried over upon hearing the commotion, and said.

"Everyone, wait for my good news."

Having said that, he lifted his Taoist robe, and golden spiritual power spread from his feet, enveloping the two women beside him, as he prepared to fly towards the space portal in the midair.

However, before Jin Xu's Golden Spiritual Power Shield had closed, a voice suddenly halted him.

"Little Taoist, please wait."

He stopped what he was doing and turned toward the voice, finding that the speaker was the old dean of the Qingmu Academy.

"Senior Yan, do you have something else to explain?"

"Little Taoist, I have something here that I haven't had the chance to give you yet."

The old dean said and took out a golden token inlaid with seven gems from his sleeve.

"Senior Yan, what is this?"

The little Taoist noticed the token looked somewhat similar to the Seven Star Token carried by Xia Yunzhao before, though the colors were different, and this token was also slightly larger.

"A few days ago, Little Taoist, you mentioned that the fishing rod didn't trigger the transportation effect. So, in addition to retrieving the Origin from the various realms during this trip to the small world, you also have the purpose of searching for that old Taoist, Tianxing.

"Therefore, I had Qingyun send this token over a few days ago and made some modifications to it.

"I hope it will be of some use during your journey."

The old dean said, injecting a stream of spiritual power into the golden Seven Star Token in his hand.

In an instant, the seven gems embedded in the token lit up, releasing multiple strands of spiritual power that linked the gems together into a coherent whole.

At this moment, if someone used their Spiritual Sense to observe carefully, they would find that the seemingly delicate strands of spiritual power were actually lines of tiny Confucian scriptures, invisible to the naked eye.

"This token was originally sealed with Tianxing's full-strength strike. Now, it has been modified with runes and prohibitions into a small, mobile detection treasure.

"As long as spiritual power is injected to activate it, within a thousand miles, if there is a force that shares the same origin as the one sealed inside, the gems on it will emit a dazzling light.

"And the closer you are, the more gems will light up.

"If all seven gems light up simultaneously, that means the source of the power is definitely within a hundred meters around."

The old dean finished speaking, withdrew the spiritual power he had been channeling into the token, and passed it to the little Taoist.

"Senior Yan, you are thoughtful."

In this month's time, he had also made quite a few preparations for the trip to the small world, naturally including some treasures and methods for locating his master, though such things are never too abundant.

Jin Xu expressed his gratitude and respectfully received the item.

After making sure no one else around had anything to give him or any instructions, the Golden Spiritual Power Shield closed up, and he suavely stepped into the space portal with the two women.

...

...

It took but a blink of an eye.

Yu Yaoer and the others had barely reacted when Jin Xu had already taken them across the barriers between worlds and successfully brought them to the Demon Realm.

"Crack."

The trio landed, and a crisp sound of something brittle shattering came from beneath their feet.

The Taoist looked down and discovered that the source of the noise was the skeleton of an unidentifiable animal, which happened to be partially buried right where they landed.

He shook his head with a hint of resignation, stepped back half a step, and immediately sealed the spatial passage they had used to arrive with golden spiritual power and a pillar of fire.

This was a precautionary measure in case some unwary demon beast tried to cross through.

After completing this, the Taoist then looked around and secretly spread out his Spiritual Sense, hoping to locate the item he had used previously to pinpoint this realm.

However, as he looked up, he suddenly froze.

On the black plain in front of them, there was a white skeleton every few steps on the ground, and about twenty yards from the trio, a huge mountain of skeletons, a hundred yards tall, was quietly piled up.

At first glance, one might think it was some kind of mutated giant beast.

At this moment, the two women behind Jin Xu also noticed the gigantic mountain of bones.

Yu Yaoer blinked at the sight, then turned to Little White, who seemed a bit astonished, and said,

"Little White, is the competition in the Demon Realm so fierce? Why is there a corpse every few steps, and even a mountain of them?

"If one didn't know better, they might think this is someone's graveyard."

Upon hearing this, Little White's expression shifted from astonishment to peculiarity, then she nodded her little head seriously and said.

"Sister Little Yu, you're not wrong, we might actually be in a graveyard, and judging by the size of it, it seems to be someone's ancestral graveyard..."

Yu Yaoer: "Σ(ﾟ∀ﾟﾉ)ﾉ"

The Husky didn't bother with Little Fish Demon's surprised expression but quickly turned to Jin Xu and said,

"Temple master, we should leave this place quickly.

"Otherwise, we might cause some misunderstandings. If I'm not mistaken, this place should be the elephant graveyard of the Purple Spirit Elephant Clan.

"This clan has a tradition of gathering in one place before death, and because the Purple Spirit Elephants' tusks are naturally hard without the need for processing, many tribes in the Demon Realm sneak here to steal the ivory, so there must be Purple Spirit Elephants patrolling the area."

Little White spoke rapidly.

Jin Xu thought that they still had important matters to attend to and indeed, there was no need for unnecessary complications.

Thus he hesitated no longer and activated the Golden Spiritual Power Shield to envelop the two women once more, then a golden light soared to the sky, disappearing in an instant.

Eight or nine breaths later.

Two cultivators, both with elephant trunks on their faces and robust statures, flew in from the high sky on a cloud.

They had sensed a severe disturbance in space and thought someone was stealing the Purple Spirit Elephant tusks again, which is why they hurried over from afar.

However, when they arrived, they didn't see anyone stealing the tusks but instead found a strange spatial entrance encased in a golden light shield and fire columns in the void.

...

...

After the Taoist summoned dry land to spring from the Purple Spirit Elephant graveyard.

While continuously spreading his Spiritual Sense all around to compare the information he saw on the jade slip with the reality of the Demon Realm,

under the direction of Little White, they headed north, planning to first visit the territory of the Snow Wolf Clan to ask her father about any clues related to the origin of the Demon Realm.

A quarter of an hour later.

Outside the Golden Spiritual Power Shield, heavy goose-feather-like snow had begun to fall.