Wait a minute, where is my master?

Inside the lotus leaf, the Great Elder clad in green armor glanced at the Golden spiritual power tendrils binding around with some bewilderment.

"Who is that little Taoist? Is this Yaoyao real? And what was that Golden Thunderbolt just now that rivalled divine punishment?"

Under such unexpected changes, these three questions circled in her mind like birds soaring through the sky.

Logically speaking, with her position as the Shui Clan Elder, her age, her cultivation,

there should be very few things in the Nine Provinces Realm that could shock or surprise her.

Yet the recent trip to the Deep Sea Abyss where she encountered the Mad Woman, the slightly sentient unclean things in the Nine Provinces Sea Eye, and the sudden appearance of her seemingly real or fake granddaughter and the mysterious little Taoist,

all agitated her usually very calm heart realm.

"Grandma, did you just try to stab me?"

While the Great Elder was bewildered, the lotus leaf had already been dragged back in front of the golden light orb.

Meanwhile, a slightly aggrieved voice also entered her ears.

"...Are you really Yaoyao?"

Hearing the familiar voice, the Great Elder put away the already damaged green spear and looked at the real Yu Yaoer in front of her with a solemn and slightly peculiar gaze.

"Grandma, I am real, of course."

Seeing the Great Elder on the lotus leaf was slightly doubtful of her identity, Little Fish Demon tilted her head, thought for a moment, then clenched her right fist to her left palm. She then took out a few pill-like objects from the storage ring and handed them over, saying,

"Here, if you don't believe me, look, these are the Crispy Fried Earth Dragon Balls I made.

"Grandma, didn't you say when you saw me learning to cook that my skill was best suited to making various ball-shaped dishes? After hearing your encouragement, I made red balls, white balls, southern fried balls, fortune balls..."

Yu Yaoer seemed ready to launch into a traditional barrage.

"Stop!"

The Great Elder interrupted in time and reached out to pick up a Crispy Fried Earthworm Ball.

She examined this thing closely in front of her eyes, sniffed it in front of her nose, and finally threw it into her mouth and chewed it thoroughly.

A moment later.

The Great Elder silently extended her head out of the lotus leaf and started to retch...

"Tsk, tsk...ugh, alright, I believe you are the real Yaoyao."

Seeing that her Grandma believed in her identity, Yu Yaoer felt she should be happy, yet somehow, she just couldn't bring herself to feel it at the moment.

On the side, witnessing the whole process of this granddaughter-grandmother recognition, Jin Xu was somewhat dumbfounded.

"Can identity verification really be done this way!? Also, Little Yu's quirky and exuberant nature that strangely matches with a Husky, I think I finally found where it comes from!"

He silently complained to himself.

Then he stepped forward, first respectfully bowed to Yu Yaoer's grandma, then politely said, "Grandma Yu, I am a friend Little Yu met during her travels in the lands of the Nine Provinces, named Jin Xu.

"Earlier, Little Yu received a message you sent to her, and she was extremely worried, so we immediately rushed over to rescue you.

"This isn't the place to talk, and these cultivators who have undergone mutations from the attack also need treatment. Why don't we talk about this after we move out of the Nine Provinces Sea Eye?"

As the little Taoist spoke, he also briefly glanced at those Shui Clan cultivators who were bound and wriggling on the grasping tendrils.

The Shui Clan Elder heard that the person who had just unleashed a heavenly punishment-like Golden Thunderbolt was actually a companion her granddaughter had met during her travels on the Nine Provinces mainland and couldn't help but give Yu Yaoer a surprised look.

Previously, the Little Fish Demon had silently disappeared from the Water Mansion, and later sent a message explaining that she was traveling on the Nine Provinces mainland and had found a promising opportunity to pursue.

She had thought that the other party was just making up an excuse to have fun outside.

But how long had it been? Could it be that her granddaughter really had made a formidable friend!

"Hiss... could it be!"

The Elder felt a shock in her heart, a bad premonition rising in her mind.

She sank her spiritual sense into another storage treasure of hers and began to carefully observe the Life Lamp belonging to Yu Yaoer.

"Sigh... The Life Lamp shows no suppression by the rules of the Heavenly Dao, it seems Yaoyao has not signed a servant contract with this mysterious young Taoist. Besides, even with a servant contract, I doubt many cultivators would venture to the perilous Nine Provinces Sea Eye to rescue the grandmother of their demonic servant, huh."

The Elder secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then couldn't help but let her thoughts run wild again.

"But Yaoyao has only been out training for less than half a year, how exactly did she manage to persuade such a powerhouse to act? Could it be..."

Her gaze involuntarily shifted back and forth between Jin Xu and Yu Yaoer.

"Ahem... Grandma Yu?"

After waiting a considerably long moment in silence, the young Taoist, seeing that she hadn't responded and her expression had changed several times in just that short interval, couldn't help but cough lightly as a reminder.

"Grandma, why are you spacing out?"

The Little Fish Demon also couldn't resist speaking up.

And casually fed the last few Crispy Fried Earth Dragon Pills to Little White who was nearby.

"Oh... oh... The continuous fierce battles and drifting inside this Sea Eye for a while have greatly depleted my spiritual power, causing me to wander off in thought, which must have amused Jin Taoist,"

The Elder quickly found an excuse, apologizing with a smile, then continued, "Jin Xu was right just now; this is indeed not the place for discussion. However, at the bottom of the Deep Sea Abyss, there is a Mad Woman guarding the crack, and this is some distance from the seal exit where Si Taoist and I initially planned to leave.

"So, should we discuss at length how to depart from here?"

Having said that, she briefly shared their original plan with Jin Xu and others, also introducing Si Yinyin briefly.

She stated that if it weren't for her righteous intervention, she might have been captured by the Elder Pavilion Master of the White Emperor Pavilion.

On hearing this, Yu Yaoer immediately bowed to Si Yinyin, who sat cross-legged and soaking wet on the ground, expressing gratitude for saving her grandmother's life.

The young Taoist and Shiqi also followed suit in bowing, showing their goodwill.

However, Jin Xu, not sure if he was overthinking, felt that the gaze of this seated female cultivator was somewhat strange towards him.

"No need for formalities; I just happened to save a person.

"However, the Mad Woman is ugly, has a sinister character, and spews venomous words. Even if I had just happened to encounter her, I would definitely have taken action to teach her a lesson. If it weren't for my cultivation..."

Thinking of that Mad Woman of the White Emperor Pavilion Elder, and recalling the great losses she had suffered at her hands, Si Yinyin became somewhat emotional.

Fortunately, she still had some sanity, and seeing that she was about to unintentionally reveal her identity, she promptly stopped her speech.

Jin Xu looked at her with a somewhat surprised gaze.

He hadn't noticed the part of the sentence she hadn't finished; instead, it was the earlier part of her speech that left him with an initial impression of this soaking wet female cultivator.

"This person... seems rather fierce."