Wait a minute, where is my master?

Master Li looked at the little Taoist descending from the sky and burst into a wide grin.

"What did I say, here he comes!"

As he spoke, he led a group of fake city guards to surround the area.

The cultivators positioned themselves at various strategic points, clearly to prevent the little Taoist from escaping.

"Kid, you came to save your two demon pets, didn't you?"

Master Li walked forward with a careless demeanor and said.

"Are you the Mountain Master of Longevity Mountain?"

Upon hearing Jin Xu's words, the master burst out laughing heartily.

He said to a cultivator in armor beside him, "Hahaha, I made up a fake name, and he took it seriously."

His words clearly showed how little respect he had for Jin Xu.

The little Taoist looked at the armored cultivator in front of him with a slightly furrowed brow.

He then looked around.

Apart from the crater he had created, there were also signs of a battle on the ground.

A half-piece of iron rod was still stuck in a distant stone wall, the very one Little White had bought at the auction.

The other half was nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, Yu Yaoer and Little White were also missing.

"It seems they tried to resist."

The little Taoist pondered, activating the "Dongxuan Spirit Skill" to spread out his Spiritual Sense.

He decided to find the people first.

On Master Li's side, seeing Jin Xu silent and sullen, his expression darkened.

He, a cultivator from the Divinity Transformation Realm, looked down on a little Taoist who showed no fluctuations of spiritual power, guessing his cultivation couldn't be very high.

But what right did this Taoist have to ignore the words of a Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator?

Originally, Master Li intended to mock the opponent a few times, then threaten or deceive him into handing over the news about the Bone Marrow Cleansing Spirit Liquid or the source spring water.

But now, he changed his mind!

"Go take him down."

Master Li said to the Fire Spirit Root cultivator who had just come over to flatter him.

"Yes, my lord."

The cultivator agreed verbally but complained inwardly.

"Damn, he didn't show me a good face just now, but now he wants me to do the dirty work."

Complaints aside, his actions were prompt and precise.

He tugged at his armor with his right hand, and with his left hand formed a seal. A blue-red flying sword flew out from behind him, targeting Jin Xu's thigh.

At the same time, he opened his mouth and a greenish-red spiritual flame emerged, spinning towards the little Taoist.

The flame also contained several invisible green iron darts.

At this time, Jin Xu's Spiritual Sense had just finished encompassing the entire range of Longevity Mountain.

Before he even began the search, the enemy's attack arrived.

Instinctively, he covered his entire body with golden spiritual power, then used a technique of spiritual sense attack from the "Dongxuan Spirit Skill."

The Spiritual Sense in his Sea of Consciousness compressed into a stick and rammed into the mind of the cultivator in front of him.

"Ding ding ding!"

"Ah!"

Both noises sounded at the same time.

The flame expelled by the Fire Spirit Root cultivator struck Jin Xu before the flying sword, impacting him faster.

The green iron darts hidden in the flames hit the little Taoist one by one, deforming and falling off.

The little Taoist himself was unharmed.

He just felt a bit hot.

The cultivator, having been hit by Jin Xu's spiritual power stick, screamed in agony and immediately fell to the ground.

He looked like a young man falling asleep immediately after laying down.

The flying sword he released, having lost its control, fell at the feet of the little Taoist.

Seeing this result, Jin Xu scratched his head. He had originally intended to use the Gathering Spirit into Needle technique, but he could only compress his Spiritual Sense into a stick and no further.

He had to switch from Gathering Spirit into Needle to Gathering Spirit into a Stick on the spot and launched it.

Now it seemed, the effect was not bad?

On the side, Master Li saw the men he had sent out defeated without even finishing a single round, utterly wasted.

He couldn't help but feel enraged.

Yet, he was also secretly on alert, as he had vaguely felt the power of Spiritual Sense just now.

The little Taoist in front of him, devoid of any Spiritual Power fluctuation, seemed rather peculiar.

"Kid, your two demon pets are indeed in my hands.

If you want them to live, hand over the spring of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Spirit Liquid. Otherwise, not only will they not survive today, but neither will you.

This Longevity Mountain has good feng shui, just right to be the burial site for all three of you."

Master Li's face darkened as he finally revealed the ultimate motive behind kidnapping Jin Xu's two demon pets.

"This man kidnapped my demon pets to exchange them for our own well?"

Jin Xu's expression was indescribable; were the cultivators of the Nine Provinces Realm all somewhat flawed?

Ignoring the muscular cultivator's words, he closed his eyes and began to carefully search for Yu Yaoer and Little White's figures.

"There!"

With the manifestation of Qi, Jin Xu instantly pinpointed the location of the two women.

Yu Yaoer and Little White were in the lake behind this group of people.

And had they both transformed into the shape of fish?

He knew the Little Fish Demon's true form was a fish, but Little White's true form was a Husky!

How was this possible?

The secret sound transmission technique of Tingfeng Building activated.

"Little Yu, how are you? Little White, what happened to you!?"

The two fish aimlessly swimming at the bottom of the lake heard Jin Xu's voice and became instantly agitated.

"Temple master!"

"Master!"

"Don't rush; one at a time, slowly speak."

Fearing the two women would overlap in their responses, the little Taoist preemptively interjected.

"Yes, temple master, let Little Yu speak first!"

The Husky-turned fish did a flip in the water, then began to swim belly up.

"Okay, Little White, don't use your Spiritual Power for now, otherwise the side effects of the Transformation Pill might act up, and it would be easy for both of us to burden the master."

Yu Yaoer first warned the Husky, then proceeded to speak.

"Master, the opponent is a cultivator from the Divinity Transformation Realm, targeting the Bone Marrow Cleansing Spirit Liquid.

When they came to the inn to capture people, Little White and I couldn't contact you and didn't want to cause trouble.

So we left a note for the innkeeper and went with them.

But unexpectedly, this group of people was impersonating; they took me and Little White directly to Longevity Mountain.

We realized something was wrong and tried to escape, but we couldn't defeat the leading cultivator, so we had to take the Transformation Pill and dive into this lake to counter them.

Right, these people brazenly wore the city guard's armor when leaving the city gate, so there might be official backing from the Great Xia dynasty behind them.

That's why Little White and I weren't initially suspicious."

Yu Yaoer rushed out all she wanted to say in one breath.

Jin Xu was taken aback internally by the coherent, clear reasoning of Little Yu.

Is this still my demon pet that once appeared clear-eyed and foolish?

"Okay, I understand, wait for me a moment."

Knowing that the opponent's leader was up to the realm of Divinity Transformation, the little Taoist felt assured.

"Temple master, wait a moment!"

Little White transmitted the message, but by then, Jin Xu had already ceased the secret sound transmission technique of Tingfeng Building.

"What's wrong, Little White?"

Yu Yaoer asked curiously.

"I want to tell the temple master that the leader must let me hang and beat him a few times!"

The Husky was still brooding over the incident where his iron stick had been broken by the opponent.

On the shore.

Though this narration seems complex, it all took place in just a few seconds.

Opening his eyes again, the little Taoist looked toward Master Li, the leader.

He saw that the opponent was already preparing to make a move.