Wait a minute, where is my master?

"Senior Nan, there's no need for further words, it's just a trivial matter. Oh, when you return to the Nine Provinces, please remind my master on my behalf, just say I'll go meet that lady's master and I'll be back soon."

Jin Xu's tone was relaxed, as if he was talking about something as simple as visiting a neighbor.

He wanted to take advantage of this time outside to directly visit the location marked by his Spiritual Sense, which is why he interrupted Nan Wubo's words.

Of course, besides this, during their half-hour together, he realized that the usually reticent Senior Nan, once he recovered his memories and started chatting with friends, turned out to be a chatterbox!

Jin Xu had already finished all his tasks in less than an hour.

The extra half-time was all spent listening to the other party.

"...Alright, I will be sure to pass on this message to Senior Tianxing. Taoist Jin Xu, I never imagined I would be able to return to the Nine Provinces Realm in my lifetime, this feeling is truly..."

Seeing that his interruption had failed, and the other party seemed to be gearing up for a long-winded speech, the Taoist did not hesitate to raise his hand and toss something.

A diamond-shaped object wrapped in golden spiritual power was thrown obliquely towards the spatial gateway.

However, after throwing it, Jin Xu suddenly remembered there was something he hadn't said, so he hurriedly transmitted a message with his Spiritual Sense.

"Senior Nan, when you go back, please remind the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces to take note, just say I've discovered that this unfamiliar small world has not given birth to an Origin Will, and it's perfectly suitable for the Demon Realm's Origin to reside in. Oh, and also, I'll fulfill my promise when I return."

Within the spatial gateway.

Nan Wubo, who had just stabilized himself, showed a clear expression of confusion upon hearing the message.

"Elder Nan, what's wrong?"

The bearded man and the female cultivator looked at him with concern upon seeing his odd expression.

"Nothing much, just that I think I heard the message wrong. Taoist Jin Xu told me to relay a message to the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces Realm after I get back."

"To relay a message to the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces Realm!?"

The bearded man and the female cultivator were clearly startled.

The Heavenly Dao wasn't some street vendor selling buns, how could you relay a message? By shouting loudly towards the sky?

With their doubts, the trio wrapped in a golden spiritual power shield smashed through the gateway that led to the Nine Provinces Realm.

...

Two flowers bloomed, each showing a different beauty.

Now, returning to the Four Symbols Great Thousand Realm.

Half an hour earlier.

Ye Fudao, harboring thoughts of fishing in troubled waters, had forcibly resisted the surrounding Four Symbols Power for half a day, only to find that the powerful and mysterious young Taoist had not appeared.

Instead, it was the Four Divine Monarchs, who had been eroded by the Forget Law for quite some time, who had arrived.

"Ye Fudao, could it be that you've grown tired of living!"

Accompanied by the sound of azure lightning, a roar resembling the cry of a dragon was the first to echo above the four-colored ponds. As this voice emerged, one of the Four Symbols Power, which had been evenly matched with Ye Fudao's Rune, suddenly surged violently!

"BOOM!!!"

After a burst of furious Thunder of Green Wood, Ye Fudao was tightly bound atop the small platform by the large net woven from lightning. His original pure white cloth robe, though still shimmering with light, had begun to show signs of damage.

"Heh, true to your nature as Divine Beasts who have achieved enlightenment, thirty thousand years have passed, and it's admirable that you can still speak my name!"

Underneath the azure lightning net, the suppressed Ye Fudao struggled to lift his head, his tone strangely wistful.

From his demeanor, it seemed as if it was not him who was at a disadvantage, but rather the refined middle-aged man floating above the four-colored pond, surrounded by the Azure Dragon Illusion.

"Nonsense! Thirty thousand years have passed, and you still dare to provoke this Four Symbols Power that has suppressed you, it seems we four have been too lenient with you on regular days!"

After Ye Fudao finished his taunting, the middle-aged man surrounded by the Azure Dragon Illusion did not respond.

Instead, a girl with the Vermilion Bird Illusion behind her, looking somewhat brash, loudly berated him.

The fiery girl Yan Bi acted without hesitation; two bright red feathers shot out from behind her back, piercing through the blue thundernet around Ye Fudao, heading straight for his brow and Dantian!

"Ha, thirty thousand years and you're still as fiery as ever, Vermilion Bird. I was merely sighing at the sight of an old friend, yet you resort to using your Vermilion Bird Fire Feather so readily," he said lightly.

The two feathers, fast approaching Ye Fudao's Dantian and brow, were met with two runes emanating a sense of life and death from within him, firmly holding back the Vermilion Bird Fire Feathers.

Clearly, his tone might have been casual, but his actual actions and the grave look he gave the feathers signified that he didn't dare to allow them to touch his body as easily as the blue thundernet had.

"Lao Bai, Hei Dageng, he's using the Law of Life and Death against my feathers, hurry up and teach him a lesson!"

Seeing her attack was ineffective, the headstrong girl immediately turned to the slender man in white clothing with short sleeves and the brawny, bare-chested man beside her to enlist their help.

She knew that ordinary tactics wouldn't significantly harm Ye Fudao.

With the Law of Life and Death at his side, inflicting a deep enough lesson would require nothing less than the specialty moves of the Four Symbols.

Although the girl was brash, she dared not command the middle-aged man whose presence was wrapped in the illusion of the Azure Dragon; instead, she sought help from the other two.

The slender man in white upon hearing the call, scoffed disdainfully, making no move.

As the White Tiger of the Four Symbols, known for his fierce combativeness, he seemed dismissive of ganging up on the outnumbered.

Meanwhile, the dark-skinned, brawny man grinned, flashing his white teeth; suddenly, a snake's head rose calmly behind him, a dense and cold current of water starting to form at the top of the snake's head.

On the small platform.

Ye Fudao, who was firmly suppressed, grew heavy eyelids as he sensed Xuanwu's action.

Drained of Immortal Essence and under duress for many years, he was already struggling to withstand the two symbols, Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird.

And now Xuanwu was preparing to strike with full force...

"Damn it, why isn't that mysterious little Taoist showing up yet? Could it be he didn't learn of my location from Little Jin?" he cursed under his breath, realizing Xuanwu was about to make a move, he had no choice but to invoke the rune symbolizing the Forget Law.

"Buzz!!"

This mysteriously powerful rune floated out from his brow, and after shaking forcefully twice, it suddenly spread throughout the space.

In almost an instant!

The blue thundernet on Ye Fudao disappeared, and the man surrounded by the illusion of the Azure Dragon looked around confused, as if wondering how he had ended up there.

The two Vermilion Bird Feathers, originally aiming for his brow and Dantian, zipped away from the platform, automatically retreating to catch the fiery girl who fell from mid-air, seemingly having temporarily forgotten how to fly.

As for the slender man in short fighting gear and the burly Hei Dageng.

One appeared just as confused as the man surrounded by the Azure Dragon, while the other suddenly turned to grasp the snake's head behind him, puzzled as to why such a thing was growing there.

"Heh, seems like thirty thousand years of erosion has had some effect, although it can't last. But why hasn't that little Taoist appeared yet? Could he have divined my plan?" he mused.

Taoists are often skilled in Divination, prompting Ye Fudao to speculate thus in his mind.

By his estimate, the Forget Law rune could hold for at most half an hour, and that too only if the Four Symbols didn't perceive any threat to their lives, or else the effect would dissipate immediately.

He had no choice; their true forms were Divine Beasts, exceedingly difficult to erode.

"If the little Taoist doesn't show up in this half-hour, not only would my efforts for the past thirty thousand years have been in vain, but my own life might also be at risk," Ye Fudao frowned deeply and muttered to himself, looking up to make contact with the momentarily forgetful Four Symbols.

To temporarily pacify them.

However...