Wait a minute, where is my master?

The woman's Divine Soul was missing, and her thinking was naturally slow.

At this moment, when she saw this scene, she actually stood up from the stone chair in a daze, raised her hand, and pointed to the side.

"There's a door over there, why don't you use it?"

"Ah???"

Jin Xu, who had just arrived at this place, was taken aback by her words and felt somewhat inexplicably guilty as he glanced back at the roof he had broken through.

Meanwhile, the temple master and the two girls also spoke up one after another.

"Disciple, is this the person behind the Ink Jade Sect that you spoke of on the way here?"

"Temple Master, she seems not as smart as me."

"Young Master, could this person's intelligence possibly be..."

Yu Yaoer hadn't finished her sentence when the last one spoke.

The Taoist saw the woman next to the stone chair suddenly disappear along with the chair from the spot. Right after that, hundreds of naked bodies standing in the southeast corner of the vast hall rose to their feet.

Each shot toward Jin Xu and the others like arrows released from a bowstring.

In mid-air, sharp runes faintly appeared on the bodies of the hundreds of snow-white figures. What should have been an overwhelmingly sensual scene now sent an involuntary shiver down one's spine.

"Pa, pa, pa!"

Unsure whether it was because they thought the scene was inappropriate for children or because the sharpness was too damaging to the eyes, Yu Yaoer and Little White covered their eyes the moment those bodies shot towards them.

At the same time, they each still remembered to spare one hand to cover the eyes of the Little Purple Spirit Elephant as well.

"Infinite Heavenly Venerable!"

Seeing this scene, the Tianxing Taoist furrowed his brow and chanted a Taoist name, but he did not close his eyes.

However, that was to be expected, since he was already a few thousand years old and had seen all kinds of scenes.

Reflecting on the past, that Elder Pavilion Master of the White Emperor Pavilion...

As for Jin Xu, he merely raised his left hand and gently snapped his fingers.

With the sound of a crisp snap, a thick pillar of fire condensed out of thin air in the center of the hall. Then, with a wave of his robe, he sent the thick pillar of fire crashing into the hundreds of bodies marked with sharp runes.

However...

After executing the Fire Condensing Skill, the little Taoist who thought he had everything under control was trying to sense his Spiritual Sense, to ascertain where that disheveled woman had gone with the chair,

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The loud noise was not caused by the fire pillar colliding with those bodies.

Before the two could even make contact, the grand hall where the Taoist and the others were located twisted inward like a piece of paper being crumpled by a firm hand,

collapsing inward with a violent explosion!

These hundreds of human bodies made of the same material as the entity behind the Ink Jade Sect were nothing but a decoy.

"Disciple, be very careful. Although this person looks simple-minded, her decisiveness indicates she is someone with a ruthless and cunning mindset."

Within the Spiritual Power Shield, the Tianxing Taoist, who was unaffected by the collapse and explosion, anxiously instructed Jin Xu.

He had just stealthily spread out a wisp of his Spiritual Sense to feel the intensity of the explosion, to judge whether he could help his disciple in a moment.

However, the wisp of Tianxing Taoist's Spiritual Sense was nearly wiped out the instant it left the Spiritual Power Shield by the explosive force.

Thus, the Taoist master, certain that he couldn't be of any real help, decisively chose to offer reminders with his words.

"However, even such explosive force couldn't cause the slightest impact on Little Jin Xu's Golden Spiritual Power Shield... What exactly has my disciple gone through in this last year?!"

On the way here, Jin Xu had already briefly told Tianxing Taoist about the strange small world and the different flow of time compared to the Nine Provinces.

"Master, rest assured, your disciple understands," the young Taoist responded gently, and then took a step out of the golden spiritual power shield.

He covered his nose and mouth, his gaze calm as he surveyed the thick dust swirling around from the explosion, his left hand's fingers moving ever so slightly.

The large column of fire that Jin Xu had previously condensed suddenly expanded a hundredfold and then vanished into thin air.

Following this disturbance, the original dense dust was directly burned away to nothing.

The environmental cleansing was complete.

The young Taoist, relying on the sensation of his own Spiritual Sense, turned his head to look towards the upper left.

At this moment, due to the explosion of the great hall, they were now suspended within the Chaos Space among the floating stone belt, with countless stones of various sizes floating densely thousands of yards away.

And the woman in the golden silk feather robe, who had disappeared straight out of the hall, didn't attempt to flee, but was instead sitting upright on a stone chair, her hands raised high, muttering incantations.

It seemed she had sensed Jin Xu's gaze.

Maintaining the raised hand position, the woman's chanting, however, stopped.

She looked down below, her tone now noticeably more logical as she said, "Unharmed? Then it seems we'll need another explosion."

Before her words finished, the stones within the floating stone belt, as if drawn by some invisible force, began swirling chaotically, converging towards the center where the young Taoist and his companions were, squeezing inward at high speed.

During this process, Jin Xu noticed that from the cracks on some of these stones, there emanated an aura both sharp and frenzied.

Clearly, this seemingly ordinary belt of floating stones had already been tampered with by the graceful woman seated on the stone chair.

"Quite a spectacle, but the power doesn't seem to be great," commented the young Taoist as he watched the stones approaching, opting once again to take the brunt.

He wasn't someone who would just take hits without retaliating. If the opponent had caught Jin Xu off guard by blowing up his house in the beginning, then now, this move of hers...

He had at least three ways to easily neutralize it!

However, the woman's increasingly apparent state of impaired intellect, along with what he had just seen in her eyes, forcibly stopped the young Taoist from making his next move.

In Jin Xu's eyes...

At this very moment, the woman in the golden silk feather robe sitting atop the stone chair was connected to the depths of the surrounding chaotic space by hundreds of invisible threads.

As she sat with her hands raised high, chanting her incantations, seven or eight threads were retracted from the deep reaches of chaotic space, merging back into the woman's body.

And with the retraction of each invisible thread, the Divine Soul at her brow grew stronger.

"It seems that behind each invisible thread, there might very well be a person similar to those behind the Ink Jade Sect," he thought.

It was with this idea in mind that Jin Xu decided to delay a bit longer to avoid startling the enemy and causing her to stop withdrawing these invisible threads.

Of course, relying entirely on the enemy, hoping she would recall all her scattered spirits so he could identify her master after using the Truth-Telling Skill and capture them all in one go...

That was not something the young Taoist would do.

So...