Wait a minute, where is my master?

Meanwhile,

Jin Xu sensed that something had gently bumped into the interior of the Spiritual Power Shield.

But the action was so subtle, it was almost negligible, akin to "who threw the knife handle."

Moreover, the Golden Spiritual Power Light Shield fortified the space within.

Thus, the spatial rift that should have appeared in front of the little Taoist and the others did not materialize.

"Is this... an attempt at a sneak attack by getting up close?"

Jin Xu glanced at the spatial rift outside the shield and, considering the scenes he remembered from the Spirit Realm, instantly grasped the intentions of the Chaos Clan member before him.

At that moment, the Chaos Clan member with the largest mouth skillfully opened a spatial rift with his spear and then thrust it inside.

However, once the spear was thrust in, he noticed that the spatial rift, which was supposed to abruptly appear within the Golden Spiritual Power Shield for a surprise attack, hadn't appeared at all.

"???"

As confusion filled the mind of the Chaos Clan member, he felt his spear 'ding' against something substantial. Then, a massive rebounding force ejected the primitive spear that had been inserted into the spatial rift.

At that moment, the spearhead, which had a Black Crystal Stone affixed to it, was broken, leaving only half remaining.

"Roar!!?"

Although the Chaos Clan member had only a mouth for a face, the one who had attacked seemed to realize the damage to his weapon and, after a moment of stunned silence, began to let out unintelligible roars from his massive mouth.

Similarly, the multitude of Chaos Clan members behind him, upon seeing that the spear in the hands of their leader had been damaged, also started to grow restless.

"Little White, Little Yu, can you understand what they're saying?"

Looking at the group of creatures whose coloring was reminiscent of traffic signs brought to life,

Jin Xu couldn't help but raise an eyebrow and turn to ask the two women.

"Temple Master/Young Master, no idea/I can't understand,"

Upon hearing this, the two women simultaneously shook their heads while their eyes, filled with curiosity, sized up the odd-looking creatures.

It must be noted that some of the Chaos Clan members outside the Spiritual Power Shield didn't even have a cultivation as high as Little Purple Spirit Elephant's.

Yet the various primitive weapons they held, inlaid with Black Crystal Stones, were enough to send shivers down the spines of the two women.

"Well, it seems we can't figure out what they're saying. I also have no idea how Nan Taoist and the others learned that these creatures are called the Chaos Clan or where they got that information. But fortunately, it's not too important whether we can communicate with them or not,"

Jin Xu murmured softly and, as he continued to stride forward, slightly raised his left hand in a loose grasp.

In an instant, several small fires appeared out of nowhere outside the Golden Spiritual Power Shield.

"Hiss~"

"Hiss~"

"..."

The fires scattered like moths, and the Chaos Clan members, looking like traffic signs brought to life, were the 'moths'' flames.

In just a moment,

The group of Chaos Clan members who had been blocking Jin Xu's path, along with their weapons, were reduced to ash.

The young Taoist felt no burden upon killing these members of the Chaos Clan. They were inherently in opposition to him, and each of them had dark Qi red on their heads.

Clearly, regardless of their cultivation levels, those from the Chaos Clan present had countless wrongful deaths and innocent spirits on their hands.

"Just now, Nan Taoist mentioned that there are survivors from other small worlds that have remained in this realm. Who knows how many large and Small Thousand Worlds these Chaos Clan people have ravaged before they turned their hands against the Spirit Realm."

After clearing the obstacles in his way, Jin Xu's pace didn't falter as he headed towards the Formation where his master was, all the while silently contemplating in his heart.

Through his Spiritual Sense, he noticed that the Formation his master was in seemed to perform some kind of filtering, absorbing, and transmitting function. It included many different cultivators, like Tianxing Taoist, whose physical bodies were filtering the power emanating from countless Black Crystal Stones within the Formation.

"This Formation... these Crystal Stones... why do they feel so similar to the things in the coconut grove at Little Hong's old home?"

When he first discovered his master's whereabouts, Jin Xu was so excited that he didn't pay much attention to the function of the Formation or what was within it.

Now that his mind had calmed down a bit, he began to think more soberly while speeding along.

"However, even though the Black Crystal Stones in this Formation feel similar to the piece in the coconut grove's box, their power seems much weaker in comparison. If the power I absorbed from that piece of ink jade back then was a desert, then...

"Are these Black Crystal Stones merely a grain of sand in the desert? Eh! According to the words on the silk in the box, I remember..."

At this thought, the young Taoist felt a twitch in his heart and began to control his Spiritual Sense to cover the entire Formation, tracing the path of power transmitted by the Formation.

As expected, upon a brief investigation, he found underneath the Formation, in a secret chamber with no apparent door, a large gate made entirely out of ink jade.

This Ink Jade Gate had no traces of power and lacked the familiar aura that Jin Xu knew.

However, the gate had a tiny, nearly indiscernible crack open, and the power faintly emanating from within excited and felt familiar to the young Taoist.

"Could it be that there is an unexpected discovery to be made on this trip?"

With this thought, he continued to move forward while controlling his Spiritual Sense to cover the Ink Jade Gate.

Just then, the sound of cutting air suddenly arose.

To the front and side of Jin Xu's path, several giant arrows with heads made of Black Crystal Stone and as thick as a baby's arm whistled through the air, shooting toward the Golden Spiritual Power Light Shield mountain.

The shooters were some members of the Chaos Clan hidden in the darkness.

"Boom!"

"Crack!"

An explosion and shattering sounds occurred simultaneously. A large part of the internal pathways in the abode of the Chaos Clan was constructed from various darkly colored Crystal Stones.

As such, when those arrows struck the Golden Spiritual Power Shield and exploded, they also shattered many surrounding structures.

For a moment, the surroundings of Jin Xu and his group, reflected by the fragments of Crystal Stones, became glittering with golden light.

"These arrows..."

The young Taoist didn't let these distractions stop him. He casually threw out a Golden Thunderbolt in the direction from which the arrows had come, and as he continued to move forward, he pulled out the purple-gold box from his storage bracelet.

With one hand, he opened the box and took out the soft silk, unfolding it before his eyes, ignoring the pretentious words on top of it.

Frowning slightly, his gaze moved towards the third rune at the bottom of the silk.

"Indeed, it feels the same."

Yes, the moment the Golden Spiritual Power Shield absorbed the attacks of those few arrows, Jin Xu sensed on the arrows the same energy that was found in the third rune on the silk.

Sharp, incredibly sharp!