Wait a minute, where is my master?

"Roar!!"

Little Golden Spirit Elephant felt this breath and at first was slightly stunned. In an instant, it raised its head, threw its trunk to the figure in midair, and let out an anguished howl.

"All right, calm down. Once this golden spiritual power ball is snapped at him, your vengeance will be fulfilled, remember that?"

No translation was needed by Little White for Jin Xu knew well what the roar meant from the mouth of Little Zi.

After consoling with a word, he placed the golden ball filled with flames and thunder on Little Zi's long trunk, then gently patted its head before turning towards the half-empty space.

Looking at the one who kept howling earlier, but now, due to the extraction of his undying nature, had become weak and feeble from the chains inside him in just a moment.

"Without that trace of the Undying Tao Principle, you shouldn't be able to recover now. Of course, even if you could, you probably wouldn't withstand this next strike for long.

"By the way, the Demon Sect of the Nine Provinces Realm was founded by you, right? Before you die, I thought I'd let you know they have been committing evil deeds and have also been destroyed by me. You, the Sect Hierarch, seem to be the last high-ranking person left alive."

The little Taoist paused for a moment in his speech. Perhaps fearing he lacked evidence, he thought for a moment and then took out the ink jade puppet he had gotten from the Great Elder of the Demon Sect from his storage magic treasure, tossing it up and down in his hand.

"Hmm... alright, Little Purple Spirit, get ready to make your move."

After pondering a bit, Jin Xu found that apart from destroying the Demon Sect, there wasn't much else to deeply condemn.

So, he directed Little Purple Spirit Elephant to take action.

However, just as he carefully controlled the golden spiritual power, lifting the Purple Spirit Elephant into mid-air.

The eyes of the Demon Lord, no longer as bright as before, opened to speak.

"To the victor belong the spoils, I admit defeat. However, could you tell me where you obtained that soft cloth? And whether the Undying Tao Principle you casually drew was an inheritance you received from that ink jade puppet in your hand?

"And why could you extract that trace of the Undying Tao Principle from my body! And..."

As the feeble Demon Lord kept on asking, his eyes followed the ink jade puppet being tossed up and down by Jin Xu's hand.

Now devoid of the protection of the Undying Tao Principle, his heart was already far from calm. However, from the look in his eyes, he seemed still to be hoping for some sort of miracle to happen.

"Too many questions, are you trying to stall for time?"

Facing the Demon Lord's barrage of questions, Jin Xu calmly pointed it out.

"It's not that I can't answer your questions, but... it would have to wait until you have withstood Little Zi's strike first."

Before his words had a chance to settle,

The little Taoist had already raised Little Golden Spirit Elephant to a position level with the other.

"Wait! I don't mind if you refuse to answer my questions, but after all, I, the Sect Hierarch, was once a figure who commanded the winds and the clouds in the Nine Provinces Immortal World.

"There are always greater powers, and if I die by your hand, I accept it. But why must you use a mere Foundation Establishment Realm little demon to humiliate me!"

After glancing at Little Golden Spirit Elephant in front of him, wrapped with a Spiritual Power Ball on its trunk, a deep-seated fear appeared in the Demon Lord's eyes, then his gaze shifted back to the ink jade puppet in Jin Xu's hand.

He couldn't help but shout desperately in his heart,

"Show yourself, will you! I am your line of inheritance in the Nine Provinces; will you just stand by and watch me die?"

And hearing the Demon Lord's words that seemed intended to delay, a flicker of disdain passed through the little Taoist's eyes as he spoke, his tone carrying a trace of scorn,

"Commanding the winds and the clouds in the Cultivation World? Ha, since when does indiscriminately harming the innocent, allowing subordinates to slaughter the cultivators of the Righteous Path and common folk, qualify as being esteemed?

"Also, you've reminded me that, since it's Little Zi's vengeance, it only makes sense for you to die a clear-headed death."

Then, Jin Xu took a few more moments to explain to the Demon Lord that because an avatar, puppet, Divine Soul Fragment, or something of his had committed genocide in the Demon Realm, he had ended up here today.

"You wish to die by my hand?

"Ha, on a normal day, I wouldn't mind doing away with a demon cultivator like you with a single chop. But today, it seems much more satisfying for you to die at the hands of the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator you've always looked down upon.

"Little Zi, use the ball to smash him!"

"Oh, right, the Demon Realm is in fact He State within the Nine Provinces Realm."

It's unclear if the Demon Lord heard this, but just in case he had been suppressed here for too long and didn't know where the Demon Realm was,

Jin Xu still went out of his way to give a 'thoughtful' reminder in the end.

"The disaster today is actually caused by my Divine Soul Fragment!?"

"When the ink jade puppet passed on the legacy to me, it was described as extremely important, but today, when it's within reach, why did he..."

These were the only two thoughts that crossed the Demon Lord's mind before his head came into contact with the Golden Red Thunder Fire.

"Bang!!"

"Boom!!!"

The Little Gold Spirit Elephant, with its trunk coiled around the Spiritual Power Ball, lifted it high with endless sorrow and rage, the hatred for the unjust death of its own parents and clan, and smashed it heavily towards the Demon Lord's face.

The moment the Spiritual Power Ball touched the opponent's facial bones, its shell instantly dissolved under the distant control of the young Taoist.

The two types of powers, compressed to the extreme inside, suddenly exploded outwards.

The first to bear the brunt was the Demon Lord's head.

Then the neck, chest, and legs, and in an instant, the golden red thunder fire completely burst open within this space.

On the stone path.

Watching the two mighty forces sweeping down, Senior Chi was instantly filled with shock.

Without time to think, he tried to urge the surrounding prohibitions to protect the space as much as possible.

However, just as Senior Chi's arm was raised, he was calmly stopped by the young Taoist beside him.

"Senior Chi, there's no need."

As these words were spoken, the surroundings of the stone path and the cliffs all appeared to be covered with a layer of golden spiritual power film, seemingly out of nowhere.

Even now, if someone could look through the golden red thunder fire to the sky, they would find that the bright silver chains around the Demon Lord's body were also wrapped in the golden spiritual power film.

The reason Jin Xu talked so much to the Demon Lord before taking action,

was not only to destroy him mentally but also to secretly protect everything in this space.

Lest, by accident, he would reduce the nine thatched huts in the prohibited area of the Kunlun Immortal Palace to eight.

...

...

In the Upper Realm,

at a place where the Four Symbols Power converges,

in the center of a pond,

a mysterious being with disheveled hair and wearing hemp clothes, who was meditating with their eyes closed, suddenly opened their eyes.

After continuously calculating with their fingers for a while,

they said with a startled face,

"Hiss, could it really be the blessing of the Four Symbols? The contingency that the Nine Provinces arranged on a whim has also been erased by someone!?"