Wait a minute, where is my master?

Following the call of the young Taoist,

a light golden sphere silently appeared outside the Golden Spiritual Power Shield.

However, judging by the gray fog that freely passed through its body, and the absence of any "attachment," it seemed that what appeared here was a projection of the rules of the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces.

As this projection appeared, the Taoist noticed that the gray fog outside the Golden Spiritual Power Shield began to tremble violently.

Then, a pale golden spatial barrier, even more immense and radiant than the barriers of the Spirit Realm Space, slowly emerged into his field of vision.

"What is this?"

"Nine... Provinces."

The light golden sphere projection responded emotionlessly, then began to blink and drift away in a certain direction.

Jin Xu hurriedly controlled the Golden Spiritual Power Shield to follow, while the two women and the elephant curiously observed the vast spatial barrier of the Nine Provinces Realm.

After all, not everyone had the opportunity to observe the Nine Provinces Realm directly from the Chaos Space.

"Temple master, look quickly, the place we just came out from the Spirit Realm!"

After following the light golden sphere projection for about eight or nine breaths, Jin Xu suddenly heard Little White pointing outside the Golden Spiritual Power Shield and shouting loudly.

He turned his head back curiously to check.

The Spirit Realm Space barrier, which they couldn't discern earlier due to its proximity, appeared to be of an irregular apple-shape.

Moreover, the Spirit Realm Space barrier, since a part of it had already merged into the Nine Provinces Realm, looked especially like it had been bitten by someone.

Clearly, after Jin Xu had taken the Spirit Realm's Origin back to be absorbed by the Heavenly Dao, this small world was slowly and steadily returning to the embrace of the Nine Provinces.

"This shape..."

The young Taoist looked at this strangely familiar form and didn't know what to say for a moment.

He turned around, ignoring the shouting of the two women, and started to focus on following the light golden sphere's projection.

A stick of incense time passed quickly.

During this journey, Jin Xu saw many small worlds of varying shapes, some like hammers, some like bricks, and even some like blooming petals!

Apart from these diversely shaped small worlds, he also saw several fine, almost imperceptible cracks on the softly glowing golden barrier of the Nine Provinces Realm.

According to the other side, these cracks were bigger before and were caused during the great war between immortals and demons a thousand years ago. However, as more and more Origins of the shattered small worlds were collected, the cracks on the spatial barrier of the Nine Provinces Realm were almost repaired completely.

As for why Jin Xu and others, when they first came out, saw the outer barrier of the Nine Provinces as gray and misty, in the words of the light golden headed projection.

It's because the Chaos Space contains numerous untraceable, irresistible dangers, and a Small Thousand World like the Nine Provinces Realm, which already has a complete set of Heavenly Dao rules and is capable of nurturing life and allowing cultivators to ascend,

is powerful in this space but not invincible.

Thus, such Small Thousand Worlds usually use various methods to conceal themselves, trying to minimize their presence as much as possible.

And Jin Xu's evaluation of this was—it somewhat resembled the Dark Forest Law, but not quite.

"Ahead… ahead."

After flying through a curve, the light golden sphere projection stopped.

Following closely, the young Taoist also saw what lay directly ahead, a strange small world with a spatial barrier emitting a faint, inky darkness.

"Okay, Little Jin, you've worked hard. I'll make the rest of the way on my own."

Jin Xu said, making a daoist salute to the sphere's projection, then controlled the Golden Spiritual Power Shield to dart towards the barrier emitting the faint, inky darkness.

And the pale golden orb didn't bother with niceties either; upon hearing the Taoist say he needed to come over himself, it decisively dispersed the projection.

Similarly, the grey mist began to cover back over the pale golden space barrier of the Nine Provinces Realm.

About the time it took for 'Little White to eat a bun' had passed.

Jin Xu and his group had already arrived in front of the dark space barrier.

He didn't waste words, briefly evaluating the appearance of this unfamiliar small world, then he thrust out one hand emitting a golden spiritual power shield, and forcefully smashed it against the barrier's surface.

With a crack, the sound of some object shattering emitted from the dark space barrier.

Afterward, a space passage enough for the Taoist and his group to traverse was forcefully opened by him.

Upon seeing this, Jin Xu first sent his Spiritual Sense into it, and after ensuring that there was nothing unusual on the other side of the space passage and that it was also very safe, he then led two women and an elephant into it.

...

Within the unfamiliar small world.

The sky was bright, an object similar to the sun was hanging high directly above.

It seemed that the current time in this small world was noon.

And the spot where Jin Xu, the Taoist, and his company landed was within an endless desert.

"Temple Master, what do we do now, how do we go find the Elder Master!?"

As soon as they landed, Little White excitedly started to ask.

"My Spiritual Sense is already spreading around, and this item should also be of some use,"

As he spoke, Jin Xu took out the 'Old Friend Locator' that the Old Dean of Qingmu Academy had specifically given him before he entered the Demon Realm.

"Senior Yan said that if Master's power appears within a thousand miles, the gem on this device will light up. I am not sure if my Spiritual Sense might miss something, so let's use the Flying Escape Skill while we search."

"Yes, it would be best to find a native of this realm to inquire," he said.

Having finished speaking, he rummaged through the storage bracelet for some previously prepared artifacts and talismans with tracking and searching powers that he wanted to keep close at hand.

Just as the Taoist's attention was on the storage artifacts, his expression suddenly changed.

At the same time, Shiqi exclaimed.

"Temple Master, something's glowing on your waist!"

With a swish of his arm leaving an afterimage, Jin Xu quickly took out the glowing jade plaque from his waist.

This item was the Communication Jade Token left to him by Tianxing Taoist, which, sadly, had only reacted once at the entrance of Xuanxu Temple and had not lit up since.

But unexpectedly today, as soon as he entered this unfamiliar small world, the jade token lit up once again.

"It's the Communication Jade Token left by Master!"

Jin Xu's calm voice trembled slightly.

And this long-silent Communication Jade Token, still flickering continuously with light as he held it in hand,

Clearly, this signified that Tianxing Taoist had sent him more than one message.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart, forcibly settled his spirit, and then activated the Communication Token.

Afterward, the long-missed, comforting voice of Tianxing Taoist appeared inside the Golden Spiritual Power Shield.

"Disciple, there's been a change in plans,, I might need fifty years to return to the Nine Provinces. You must cultivate diligently in the Taoist temple, and if you encounter difficulties..."