Wait a minute, where is my master?

"Of course, all of this is just my speculation.

"But I just want to find out the origins of the purple-gold skull and why it mistook me for its master. So let's not take such unnecessary risks."

Jin Xu said, taking the purple-gold box from Yu Yaoer's hand, covering it with the soft silk, and then added.

"If you are really curious about whether the inheritance is real or not, and whether those three runes contain any traps, once we return to the Nine Provinces, we can capture a few Demon Sect followers and let them test the waters first."

Having said that, he threw the purple-gold box into the storage artifact on his wrist.

After the little Taoist finished speaking, both the elderly Age Chicken and Yu Yaoer nodded in agreement.

As for Little White, she didn't quite understand.

However, since the temple master had made a decision, she would follow his lead.

The group quickly gathered their belongings and left the coconut grove.

During this process, Jin Xu had silently spread out his Spiritual Sense.

He scanned the Age Chicken's domain, the coconut grove saturated with formations on the ground, the dense forests and rivers of the Mountain and Sea Realm, and where he had left off... in order to block the spatial fissure.

Wait a minute!!! There are people in the Fire Pillar Prison!

And several of them are acquaintances!

...

...

Where the spatial fissure was located, it had now started pouring rain.

Inside the Fire Pillar Prison.

The Shui Clan Elder, with yellow paper attached for invisibility, was silently watching the several people who were meditating and regulating their breathing.

Like a ghostly wisp in the night.

When he first entered the Fire Prison Pillar, he thought he had been detected and had wandered into a trap set by the little Taoist.

But keeping his cool, the Shui Clan Elder quietly listened to the exchange among his "cellmates" for a while. It became clear to him that the appearance of the Fire Prison Pillar must've been an accident.

Furthermore, that little Taoist Jin Xu was indeed in this small world, he hadn't come to the wrong place.

Thus, the Shui Clan Elder began to wait patiently within this Fire Prison, ready to catch the hare while guarding the stump.

However, after waiting for over half an hour and still no sign of the little Taoist,

He looked at the group of Righteous Path cultivators in front of him, who were defenseless, restoring their spiritual power by regulating their injuries, and his mind gradually harbored strange thoughts.

Of the individuals present, aside from the pink-clad woman he had encountered en route, they were all top-ranking and well-known Righteous Path cultivators of the Nine Provinces Realm.

Kunlun Immortal Palace, the Four Great Immortal Sects – these had not hesitated to instruct their disciples to suppress the development of their Demon Sect over the years.

Beyond the deep-seated enmity accumulated over years,

These were also the villains responsible for participating in the battle to seal the Demon Lord millennia ago!

It was for this reason,

That the more the Shui Clan Elder looked at them, the more he felt a voice whispering in his ear,

"Revenge! Avenge the Demon Lord!"

If he were to attack now, leaving aside other considerations, by virtue of their current defenseless state and due to the over-consumption of spiritual power,

The Shui Clan Elder was confident that he could easily kill the weaker Shui Clan Elder and the gaunt old man in one strike, and even if not fatal, the other three would at least sustain severe injuries.

"If after I take action, the invisibility effect of the yellow paper continues to exist... No, that mysterious being didn't inform me whether the effect would persist after taking action.

"Moreover, stealing the fishing rod to help the mysterious being release the Demon Lord is the real task at hand – must not lose sight of the greater goal for a small gain.

"Once the Demon Lord is freed, ha, dealing with these people one by one will just take some effort."

As the Shui Clan Elder thought about this, he suddenly recalled Granny Meng, who had left on her own and took away a jar of soup that had been simmering for a millennium.

"After I steal the fishing rod, I must make another trip to retrieve that jar of soup. Otherwise, once the Demon Lord breaks the seal, relying solely on absorbing Spirit Stones and Spiritual Liquid will be far too slow for recovery."

The idea of the Demon Lord's imminent unsealing caused an internal surge of excitement within the Shui Clan Elder, to the point that even the sight of these culprits seemed somewhat more pleasing to the eye.

And just at that moment,

Jin Xu, forced to stand and regulate his breathing due to the confined space within the Fire Prison Pillar, suddenly opened his eyes as if sensing something.

The Great Elder of the Demon Sect, standing opposite him, tensed up at this action.

Fortunately, the other wasn't aware of his presence.

For when Jin Xu opened his eyes, he first looked down with confusion at the increasingly yellowed grass beneath his feet—wilted from the intense heat—and then turned to look into the distance to his left side.

The Great Elder of the Demon Sect, observing Jin Xu's actions, mimicked him and looked in the same direction.

But he saw nothing.

However, it was only two breaths later, when he felt a faint vibration emanating from beneath his feet, that he understood why Jin Xu had opened his eyes.

"This old fellow's senses are indeed sharp, worthy of someone who could hold his own against the Demon Lord back in the day."

While the Great Elder of the Demon Sect was feeling sentimental, he also didn't forget to praise his own Demon Lord.

In the next moment, his eyes suddenly flashed with surprise.

Through the gaps in the Fire Pillar Prison, the Great Elder of the Demon Sect saw a giant Snow Wolf as swift as the wind running towards them from beyond the Golden Spiritual Power Shield.

On the back of that wolf was none other than Jin Xu, the Taoist he had been daydreaming about.

"Demon Lord, just wait a little longer; Little Yin stole a fishing rod and will rescue you!"

At this time,

the others meditating within the Fire Pillar Prison also felt the tremor on the ground and opened their eyes one after another.

...

...

On the swiftly running Little White's back,

"Young master, is my Granny Meng really trapped inside that Fire Prison Pillar you mentioned?"

Yu Yaoer asked incredulously with a curious look on her face.

This was the third time she had confirmed it with Jin Xu on their journey.

"Yes,"

Jin Xu nodded lightly, his face wearing a perplexed expression as he replied.

He had left behind the Spiritual Power Shield and Fire Pillars just in case there were any issues with the spatial rift in his absence.

But in just half a day, it seemed like dumplings were dropping in there - so many people had suddenly appeared! Fortunately, on a whim, he spread his Spiritual Sense into the outside world and discovered this group. They hadn't been trapped for long.

If he had stuck to the original plan, they would have stayed in the Age Chicken clan's territory for three to five days...

"But if they can't break my Fire Pillars, why didn't they just use the spatial rift to return directly to the Colorful World? I didn't leave any obstacles on that side."

The Taoist, for whom crossing realms was as easy as stepping through a doorway, clearly couldn't understand why this group was sitting inside the Fire Pillar Prison.

And while he pondered this, Little White had already arrived right in front of the Fire Pillar Prison.

Seeing the location, Jin Xu quickly raised his hand, and the Golden Spiritual Power Shield outside the Fire Pillar was instantly retracted into his body. Then, with a spread of his five fingers, the blazing Fire Pillars instantly transformed into butterflies of flame that gently dissipated into the air.

The Taoist jumped off the back of the wolf and faced the people who had been trapped for a long time within the Fire Pillar Prison. He opened his mouth, momentarily unsure of what to say.

The five individuals opposite him, who had not expected to be freed so quickly, felt the same.

After pondering for a while, Jin Xu cleared his throat and said,

"Ahem, the weather is quite nice today, isn't it?"

Upon hearing this, all five uniformly looked up at the sky where the heavy rain seemed more likely to intensify.

They nodded in agreement, saying,

"Yes, the weather is nice."

"Very nice."

"Indeed, quite nice!"