Wait a minute, where is my master?

Jin Xu was resisting the explosion of the Floating Stone Belt while he waited for his opponent to retract the invisible threads.

Simultaneously, he divided his Spiritual Sense into hundreds of parts, following those unretracted invisible threads deep into the Chaos Space.

Nurture virtues diligently; eradicate evils from the root.

It was said that once a king ignored the advice of a sage with the surname Wu and later ended up being decapitated while biting a bitter gall.

Although the analogy is not quite appropriate, that's essentially what happened.

Thus, the little Taoist preferred to be cautious.

After all, he did not want someone to show up at the gate of Xuanxu Temple a thousand or ten thousand years later, shouting "Three thousand years on the east of the river, three thousand years on the west," demanding his death.

"Boom boom boom!!!"

Another series of violent and intense explosions followed.

A cloud of dust, a thousand times larger than before, erupted from the Chaos Space.

This time, the little Taoist did not summon fire pillars to purify the environment. With a faint silver light twinkling in his eyes, he first turned around and assured the three people inside the Spiritual Power Shield of his safety.

Immediately after, Jin Xu took a step forward and appeared ten zhang in front of the woman on the stone chair.

In that moment, ninety-eight percent of the invisible threads on the opponent's body had been retracted, and her condition was noticeably more lucid than before.

"In the territory of the Chaos Clan, you mentioned wanting to befriend me. But these two explosions hardly seem like you intend to be friends," Jin Xu said with a playful tone, his Spiritual Sense already spreading deep into the Chaos Space along those remaining threads that she clearly didn't plan to retract.

"Haven't you heard that women are fickle? But, these two explosions were not meant to antagonize you, it's just…" the alluring woman sitting on the stone chair interjected, now more lucid, maintaining a slight smile on her face.

But deep down, she couldn't help but be astounded.

"Where did that little Taoist who collided with my divided soul come from?!"

"The explosive might of the Sky Gold Palace didn't harm him at all, and why didn't the mechanisms I set up in the Floating Stone Belt over the millennia work?

"Moreover, the Golden spiritual power he used, why does it resemble so much the power painstakingly cultivated by our master?

"It shouldn't be, after all, to cultivate that power, the master had to forcibly refine six thousand Small Thousand Realms before he could get a chance to experience that power without stepping out.

"But the golden power in this little Taoist's hands is extravagantly used as a shield for others. Could it be... that the two powers are only extremely similar in spirit?"

As the alluring woman rapidly pondered in her mind, she couldn't help but glance down at the Golden Spiritual Power Shield.

While her divided soul was not recalled, her not-so-clever mind felt that discovering such a Taoist, she should keep an eye out for the master, who might find a significant use for him in the future.

Yet now, with her thoughts vividly clear, she was full of regret.

"The judgment of a divided soul was a bit lacking. I should have decisively retreated back then, and now I don't even know what method he used to track me here directly."

Beyond that, the alluring woman didn't just regret this; she regretted even more that in her unclear state, she had launched two attacks straight away, now leaving no room to maneuver.

Of course, her actions weren't wrong at that time; after all, the divided soul she usually used to control her body roamed among various Small Thousand Realms, and according to common sense, no cultivator should pose a threat to her real body... or even to her divided soul.

But the key point was, this little Taoist before her didn't play by the rules at all!

"Just what? Neither of the two explosions were acts of making enemies, so what is this? Fireworks?"

Jin Xu heard what the other had said and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows as he spoke.

He was inclined to converse idly because, although Spiritual Sense had entered the invisible threads, he still feared that the other party might sever the connection abruptly if threatened.

Thus, he wanted Spiritual Sense to follow the invisible threads deeper into the Chaos Space as much as possible.

"I must say, little Taoist. My parting soul had mentioned before that my duty was to pass on the teachings on behalf of my master. Indeed, those two explosions were one of the tests left by my master.

"Cough, by now you have passed my master's preliminary test, and you can already receive part of the teachings my master left behind."

After the woman finished her speech without a change in her facial expression, she actually took out a jade slip from the small booklet she had been holding all along and made a motion to hand it over to the small Taoist in front of her.

Upon hearing this, a flicker of 'Do I look that easy to deceive?' flashed through Jin Xu's eyes.

Then, upon further reflection, the corners of his mouth slightly lifted as he said,

"Oh? So it's like that, I thought the lady wanted to blast me and my master's companions to death right there."

The woman in the golden silk feather robe was taken aback and thought to herself, "No way, he believes such a clumsy lie? Also, why does he refer to those mere cultivators, capped at the Mahayana Realm, as companions? Could it be..."

However, before she finished her thoughts, she heard the little Taoist speak again.

"Still, the explosive power was so immense, it's hard for me to believe that you didn't want to put us to death. Well, if the lady wishes to prove her words are true, it's actually quite simple.

"I recently learned a Confucian Skill called 'Truth-Telling Skill.' It wouldn't hurt for the lady to experience it, to prove her innocence."

After all, Jin Xu had planned to use the 'Truth-Telling Skill' to interrogate her later, and he was taking advantage of the expansion of the Spiritual Sense along the threads to coax her a bit now.

It would be better if they didn't alert the snakes in the grass; if not, at least he had delayed some time.

"You mentioned the Confucian Skill 'Truth-Telling Skill'?"

The woman seated on the stone chair spoke with a hint of hesitation, her face also showing evident difficulty.

However...

Her heart was filled with immense joy!

The Confucian Skill 'Truth-Telling Skill,' the woman faintly remembered this skill was a hereditary Confucian skill passed down in the Lower Realm. In the Upper Realm, there existed a more vicious and powerful counterpart called 'Sincere Thousand Questions.'

Long ago, she had accompanied her master in the Upper Realm, and before her master's cultivation had fully matured, she had once followed this skill's path.

Therefore, once her master's cultivation succeeded and she freely traveled the Upper Realm, her master promptly secluded himself to develop a counter skill to this Confucian Skill—the 'Nine Curves Soul Falling.'

However, this skill had not been created long before her master was suppressed by the Four Divine Monarchs at the lake center platform.

Thus, it remained obscure.

"'Nine Curves Soul Falling' can even counter the advanced version of 'Truth-Telling Skill,' so it is surely more than a match for such lower realm skills.

"Yet, why is this little Taoist, with such terrifying cultivation strength, still using such lower realm skills, and ones he learned only recently?"

The graceful lady's fleeting doubt soon passed.

Then, feigning difficulty, she looked up at Jin Xu and said,