Wait a minute, where is my master?

Regarding the indistinct sensation within himself,

the Demon Lord was very perplexed.

A thousand years ago, after losing the war between immortals and demons, he was sealed and suppressed in this forsaken place.

The seemingly ordinary silver chains on his body were actually forged from ten-thousand-year-old ancient iron, each designed to suppress the recovery of Spiritual Power and continuously corrode and wear down his flesh.

Beyond that, on the cliff walls connected by these silver chains, were also spread Spiritual Power Monitoring Arrays that operated around the clock.

Should the power within him recover to a certain extent, the arrays would signal an alarm.

What followed would be the attacks within the space prohibition, imbued with endless Yin Yang Wind Thunder Power.

Each attack enveloped him, intending not only to deplete any recovered Spiritual Power but also to harm him as much as possible without triggering his undying nature's activation threshold.

This cyclical process had been endured by the Demon Lord for a millennium.

"Could it be that I'm about to die?"

The disheveled Demon Lord slightly shook his neck, his bones cracking from long periods of inactivity making sounds against the bright silver chains.

"Heh~"

After saying this, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Impossible, if those old fellows led by Senior Chi had a way to kill me, they would have done so a thousand years ago, not waited until now."

The Demon Lord was very confident in the Undying Tao Principle he possessed.

After all, the inheritance he received had stated that once this technique was cultivated, no one in the Lower Realm could truly kill you. And the events the Demon Lord had subsequently experienced had indeed proven that the words of the inheritance were no deception.

Though sealed and suppressed, constantly subjected to various attacks and torments over a thousand years, that trace of the Undying Tao Principle within him had always been protecting his core.

Even during the constant recovery over this millennium, the Demon Lord faintly felt that his trace of the Undying Tao Principle had actually grown stronger.

"Hmm, if it's unrelated to my life... then did the plan Little Yin and the others had to break the seal and rescue me fail? Or was the Divine Soul Fragment I tore off and left behind discovered by someone?"

Because of the numerous prohibitions in this place, the Demon Lord was unable to sense the condition of his Divine Soul Fragment.

Thus, he was unaware that the 'god' church he had established in the past, as well as the Divine Soul Fragment he had torn off, had both been physically purified by the same person.

"Forget it... whatever it is, given my undying nature, I'll be able to leave this damned place sooner or later."

The Demon Lord muttered to himself indifferently and then lowered his head again, having lifted it momentarily.

Silence returned to the space.

After a while, the disheveled Demon Lord voiced an enigmatic sigh,

"Sigh, I wonder if that ink jade puppet I gave to Little Yin has lit up again."

...

...

In Miao State, not far from the gates of the Kunlun Immortal Palace.

At the head of a huge city built halfway up a mountain.

The Kunlun Immortal Palace's Ancestor Senior Chi, having switched locations twice, was now standing here with his hands behind his back, looking into the distance.

Behind him, several middle-aged and young cultivators in uniforms bearing the logo of the Kunlun Immortal Palace stood with respectful expressions, carefully waiting.

"Senior Brother Liu, which powerhouse of the Nine Provinces Immortal World has such grandeur to make our sect's Ancestor wait here?"

A youthful cultivator looked at the back of Senior Chi admiringly, then transmitted his dissatisfaction to a middle-aged cultivator with a beard beside him.

"Yisheng, haven't you thought about it? In recent months, who has been the talk of the Cultivation World? I suspect that the person our Ancestor is waiting for is definitely that individual."

The bearded cultivator kept his gaze steady, silently replying through transmission.

"Brother, are you suggesting that the Ancestor is waiting for that noble from the Great Xia Kingdom?"

"Who else could it be besides him."

"But he..."

An old and a young cultivator discussed quietly through voice transmission behind the back of the Immortal Palace Ancestor.

Senior Chi held his head high and stroked his beard, gazing into the direction of Shangjing City. Sensing the movements of his two disciples transmitting messages behind him, he made no overt response but silently extended his Spiritual Power into the storage magic treasure.

He sent a few messages to the elder in charge of virtues class within the Kunlun Immortal Palace.

The butterfly effect that followed was this.

For several months afterwards, there were numerous compulsory virtues courses held within the Kunlun Immortal Palace. Particularly emphasizing the point of 'not transmitting messages privately in the presence of your Master and seniors'.

Of course, this is a story for later. Let's not talk about it for now.

After standing on the city ramparts for about an hour,

a golden and slightly reddish streak of light, like a fiery meteor, shot across the sky toward them.

"Whoosh!"

"Clang!"

"Ugh~~"

The golden-red light fell behind the enormous city ramparts, and Jin Xu, along with two women and an elephant, walked out from it.

"Senior Chi, I've kept you waiting,"

the young Taoist greeted, while handing over his smoking flying sword to Yu Yaoer in front of him, signaling her to put out the fire with water.

He had specially purchased a flying treasure from the city to speed up the journey here.

Indeed, the travel time had been considerably reduced.

But... the downsides of using a flying treasure for travel were quite apparent.

"So much for a 'treasure of the store,' it broke on its first flight,"

Jin Xu murmured to himself after the greetings, looking at the flying sword that, after being doused with water by Little Fish Demon, split in two and fell to the ground.

Then he looked up at the Immortal Palace Ancestor and spoke again.

"Senior Chi, we must not delay. Let us head to your sect's forbidden area now,"

"Eh... Young Taoist, there's no rush about the Demon Lord matter, but is your companion behind you alright?"

Senior Chi, who was witnessing someone in need of putting out fire after using an Escape Technique for the first time, awoke from his surprise after being addressed by Jin Xu. He hesitated a moment, then raised his hand to point at Little Purple Spirit Elephant, who was kneeling and retching on the ground, and asked.

The young Taoist turned upon hearing this and saw Little White's excited face and Little Purple Spirit Elephant beside her, too sick to even stand still.

"Hiss, we did travel a bit too fast this time to save time, Little Purple Spirit are you alright?"

In fact, back in Shangjing City, he had suggested that Little Purple Spirit Elephant could follow the Immortal Palace Ancestor on the Transmission Array to catch up, which would mean being dizzy only for a short while.

However, upon hearing that the Escape Technique would be slower while the Transmission Array would be much faster, some sort of understanding had formed in her mind.

In any case, despite Jin Xu and Little White taking turns trying to persuade her several times, Little Purple Spirit Elephant still insisted on choosing the slower option.

"Temple Master, don't worry. Our Demon Clan has strong adaptability, Little Purple Spirit will get used to flying after a few times,"

The Purple Spirit Elephant couldn't speak due to the retching, so an excited Little White answered for her.

Upon hearing this, Jin Xu looked at her condition and then at the eager expression on the husky's face, and couldn't help but doubt the truthfulness of that statement.

"Is it really the Demon Clan that has strong adaptability, or is it just the Snow Wolf Clan?"

In the end, the group spent another half an hour on the city ramparts. Only after Little Purple Spirit Elephant felt somewhat better did they begin their journey towards the forbidden land of the Kunlun Immortal Palace.