Wait a minute, where is my master?

"The third time was when I was sixteen, a junior sister actually spoke ill of me behind my back in front of our master..."

"The fourth time happened at the age of thirty, inside a Golden Core relic..."

"The fifth time..."

"The sixth time..."

"The seventeenth time..."

Zhou Shuling became more and more enthusiastic as she spoke; the time for the "Truth-Telling Skill" had already passed, yet she seemed to know that she was bound to die, so she wanted to vent as much as possible before her death.

She began to recount her past endlessly.

On the other side of the floating ice...

Muted by a physical silence, Senior Sister Mi listened to her own junior sister's confession through Spiritual Sense, word by word.

She was so shocked she started blowing bubbles.

Si Yinyin's face also turned ashen at this moment.

She had just confidently thought that Jin Xu wronged a good person.

But now, she was being wildly slapped in the face.

With each incident Zhou Shuling mentioned, Si Yinyin felt as if her face was being fiercely slapped with a ruler.

"The eighteenth time..."

Zhou Shuling wanted to continue, but Jin Xu couldn't be bothered to listen anymore.

It wasn't anything good; she was bragging with enthusiasm. What was she thinking?

He summoned a sliver of Golden Thunderbolt at his fingertips, flicked it lightly, and the Thunder Arc pierced through the brows of the person in front of him.

A blazing flame then condensed from the air and burned the White Emperor Pavilion female cultivator whose hands were stained with blood, leaving nothing behind.

The salty sea breeze gently blew, scattering what was left of her into the vast ocean before him.

After accomplishing this, Jin Xu habitually dusted off his hands, and turned his attention toward the Deep Sea Abyss.

Little White, seeing Si Yinyin's ashen face, approached with her usual warm hospitality and hugged her, comforting:

"Miss Si, don't be too upset. Look, although the other party has killed many, she has only killed those from her own sect, which can indirectly be considered as rooting out demons to protect the Tao. She nipped the demon cultivators in the bud.

Rounding up, she can be regarded as somewhat of a good person, right?"

The less Little White tried to comfort, the better; upon hearing this, Si Yinyin's ashen face turned the color of liver.

She remained silent for a long while, walked to the tail end of the floating ice, then sat down cross-legged and began to meditate quietly.

Seeing that her attempt to comfort had no effect, Little White didn't mind and ran to the edge of the floating ice, planning to see if there were any unaffected fish still in the sea.

But just as she reached the edge of the floating ice, a golden Spiritual Power barrier suddenly fell down, turning out to be the work of the little Taoist sealing the area completely with Spiritual Power.

"Little Yu, Little White, and Grandma Yu, please wait here for a moment. I've just probed with my Spiritual Sense and discovered that the adversary seems to have gathered most of the filth inside the Nine Provinces Sea Eye. I do not know what they are planning, but I intend to go down alone and take a look," said the Taoist.

Yu Yaoer and Husky obediently nodded; they were not at all worried about Jin Xu.

The Shui Clan Elder, unaware of the little Taoist's identity and strength, despite having witnessed the terrifying Golden Thunderbolt that he wielded at the Sea Eye,

still kindly offered her advice.

"Jin Taoist, are you sure you can handle it?

"That Mad Woman, although insane, truly possesses substantial cultivation strength. Now she somehow controls some of the filth in the Sea Eye and, with her water attribute Spiritual Power being enhanced in the sea..."

"Therefore, if you want to fight her, it's best to find a way to lure her to the sea surface.

Or, we can leave first. Once I and Taoist Si have recovered, we can inform others from the Three Great Immortal Sects and the Kunlun Immortal Palace to come here together and eradicate this Mad Woman."

Grandma Yu, not understanding the extent of the little Taoist's strength, felt deep concern because she was responsible for the seal on the Nine Provinces Sea Eye for many years and knew all too well the terrors within.

It was a confluence of the negative emotions and darkness of countless living creatures from the Nine Provinces.

Even though Jin Xu's Golden Thunderbolt was incredibly domineering, as if it was divine punishment,

there were limits to human strength.

Grandma Yu truly worried that the seemingly endless filth might exhaust the little Taoist to his demise.

"Rest assured, it's no trouble. If it cannot be helped, I'll just employ the Escape Technique to ascend, and we can devise a plan at length."

In the face of this old acquaintance of his master, Jin Xu was very polite.

However, polite as he might be, he had no intention of heeding the other party's suggestion.

Right now the Sea Eye had just begun to leak, and the contaminated creatures were likely only lingering near the East Sea.

If he were to go by what Grandma Yu said, waiting until everyone was assembled before taking action once more,

then would he still be able to eat the seafood from the Four Seas!

"Although there's the Body Purification Skill, eating seafood that has been tainted just doesn't sit right with me,"

the little Taoist muttered quietly in his heart.

Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Grandma Yu did not persist.

After giving a few warnings,

she sat cross-legged in front of the group of Shui Clan Cultivators who had already been purified by the Body Purification Skill.

She took out a pill, swallowed it, and quietly began to regulate her breath. This way, should any emergency arise, she would still have the strength for one last battle.

Witnessing this, Jin Xu walked to the edge of the ice floe, gave a light leap, and entered the sea. Then he rapidly made his way towards the bottom of the Deep Sea Abyss.

Five breaths passed.

The breath of the little Taoist had already vanished from above the sea surface.

In Yu Yaoer's mind, who had been idly chatting with Little White about nothing in particular, the voice of her Grandma Yu suddenly echoed.

"Yaoer, what is the identity of this little Taoist, is he your Dao companion?"

Elsewhere.

The husky saw that Little Yu, with whom it was discussing whether bean curd should be eaten sweet or salty, suddenly had two patches of red bloom on her face.

It scratched its ear perplexedly.

"Grandma, the gentleman is not my Dao companion; he's my master!"

Little Fish Demon lightly ground her toe against the ice floe.

"It's just that he won't let me admit it publicly."

After transmitting her message, Yu Yaoer added resentfully in her heart.

"Master!?"

Grandma Yu, who was sitting cross-legged, felt her breath become unstable for a moment, nearly leading her into deviation.

It was only after a while that she realized there were no abnormalities on her granddaughter's Life Lamp, so she likely hadn't entered into any master-servant contract.

"I should never have let Little Ying play with you. Look at you now, you don't study Alchemy Technique diligently, and you're not serious about cultivation.

"All day, you're interested in studying cooking and acknowledging a master."

After regulating her breath for a moment and steadying herself, Grandma Yu began to reprimand her granddaughter for past grievances.

"Grandma, don't talk about Sister Xiaoqing like that,"

Yu Yaoer glanced reproachfully at the Shui Clan Elder who was sitting cross-legged nearby and transmitted a whining message.

"Alright, alright, I won't say more. Tell your grandma what exactly is the identity of this little Taoist and how you got to know him?"

At this point, Grandma Yu was obviously more interested in this powerful little Taoist who had a close relationship with her granddaughter, so she temporarily set aside the matter of bringing up past grievances.

"Well... I can't tell you about how we met,

However, I can tell you about his identity, grandma.

"He is currently the temple master of Xuanxu Temple, and he is the disciple of the Tianxing Taoist whom you told me to invite."

"What!?"

At the news, Grandma Yu's eyes shot open in shock!

A trickle of blood flowed down from the corner of her mouth...