Chapter 1 Now?

“Hmm? Leaving now? Is it that urgent?”

Tu Shan Che frowned slightly, clearly not expecting Chen Xiao to be in such a hurry.

Chen Xiao looked into the distance and sighed, “Time waits for no one. The reason the Seven Gods are willing to follow me is because they are coming soon.”

“Hmm? The Seven Gods communicated with you? What did they say to you?”

Tu Shan Che looked at Chen Xiao in disbelief.

“No.”

Chen Xiao shook his head. “As you know, the Seven Gods’ trial realm is just chaos. But when they followed me, I could feel their will. It’s hard to explain, but that’s generally the idea.”

“Oh, I understand.”

Tu Shan Che nodded slightly, then asked, “Brother Chen, do you have a way or channel to go to the Xianyin Realm (Hidden Immortal Realm)?”

Chen Xiao shook his head again, “Not yet. I plan to ask a few old friends from the ancient martial arts sects.”

“Ancient martial arts sects?”

Tu Shan Che curled his lip in disdain. “A bunch of uncouth martial artists. What could they possibly know?”

Chen Xiao was speechless. Well, what was with this blatant contempt?

Tu Shan Che had no personal grudges against martial artists, he just purely looked down on them.

Simply because the martial arts they practiced were, in his opinion, simply not worth mentioning.

“Brother Chen, actually, I do have an old friend in the Xianyin Realm.”

“I can send you to the Xianyin Realm through her channel.”

Tu Shan Che hesitated for a moment, then suddenly said.

Chen Xiao was slightly stunned, then overjoyed, “Brother Tu Shan, since you have this friend, why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“Hehe, it’s not too late to say it now.”

Tu Shan Che forced a smile, with a hint of guilt in it.

Chen Xiao didn’t think much about it, cupped his fist, and said, “Then I’ll have to trouble you, Brother Tu Shan, to introduce me to that friend.”

Tu Shan Che pondered for a moment, then took out a jade hairpin from his wide sleeve.

Chen Xiao’s mind flickered. This jade hairpin wasn’t taken from his clothes, but… Oh, so Tu Shan Che’s cyan robe was a magical artifact with storage space.

No wonder he was always wearing this outfit. He just changed his close-fitting undershirt from time to time.

“Brother Chen, I’ll give you this jade hairpin.”

Tu Shan Che’s voice interrupted Chen Xiao’s random thoughts, “Keep this token safe. Go to Lvwu Mountain in Xuzhou. There is a Taoist temple in the mountains called Lotus Temple. Upon seeing this token, the Daoist priests in the temple will naturally send you to the Xianyin Realm.”

Chen Xiao carefully put away the jade hairpin, cupped his fist, and bowed, “Thank you, Brother Tu Shan!”

“You’re welcome…”

Tu Shan Che smiled awkwardly, looking a little strange. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something but stopped.

Seeing that Tu Shan Che didn’t say anything in the end, Chen Xiao didn’t care and immediately said goodbye, “Brother Tu Shan, let’s say goodbye. We’ll meet again someday!”

“Brother Chen, I’ll see you off.”

Tu Shan Che sent Chen Xiao to the exit of the demon race’s holy land, and the four demon kings also came.

Seeing that his father was leaving again, Xiao Hei was reluctant to part, “Father, why are you leaving after only half a day? I haven’t spent enough time with you!”

Xiao Hei was like a left-behind child lacking paternal love.

Chen Xiao smiled slightly, “I have an important task, so I can’t stay here for long. I’ll come to see you next time.”

“What important task? Father, where are you going? Can I go with you?”

Compared to this demon race’s holy land, Xiao Hei seemed to prefer the outside world.

Before Chen Xiao could reply, the Demon Venerable said first, “Your father is going to the Xianyin Realm, do you dare to go?”

“Never mind, never mind.”

As soon as he heard the words ‘Xianyin Realm,’ Xiao Hei stuck out his tongue and gave up the idea of going with Chen Xiao.

Demon cultivators and human cultivators were mortal enemies. If he, this little black fox, dared to go to the Xianyin Realm, it would be like delivering food to their door.

“Brother Chen, this trip to the Xianyin Realm is extremely dangerous. You must be careful in everything you do and come back safely!”

The Demon Venerable instructed.

“Don’t worry! Farewell, everyone. The green hills remain, and the green waters flow forever. We’ll meet again someday!”

Chen Xiao cupped his fist at everyone, then turned around and stepped into the teleportation formation.

“Mr. Chen, may you return in triumph!”

The three demon kings cupped their hands and said in unison.

…

After leaving the Qingqiu Secret Realm, Chen Xiao could use the Judge’s Pen to teleport again.

“I am in Xuzhou!”

Chen Xiao swiped and wrote a line of words. After the streamer flashed, Chen Xiao arrived on the streets of an unfamiliar city.

Xuzhou was just a third- or fourth-tier city in the country, and it was already past midnight, so there were hardly any pedestrians on the street.

Not only were there no pedestrians, but even vehicles were rare, as if the entire city had fallen into a deep sleep.

But this was normal. After all, Xuzhou was located inland in the north, with poor economic conditions and lagging urban development, so it was normal for its nightlife to not be so rich.

Chen Xiao initially wanted to go directly to Lvwu Mountain to find Lotus Temple, but he suddenly recalled the expression on Tu Shan Che’s face when he handed him the jade hairpin.

That expression was a bit like being constipated, with lingering emotions and a desire to cover something up…

Wait… Lotus Temple… What kind of Taoist temple would be called that?

The head of this Taoist temple was most likely a Daoist nun.

Combined with Tu Shan Che’s constipated expression, could it be that there was something between that female Daoist head and Tu Shan Che…

Thinking of this, Chen Xiao imagined a brilliant story of love that defied worldly ethics between a talented female Daoist head and a male fox spirit.

Yes! It must be like this!

Chen Xiao became more and more certain of this.

Since he had this relationship with Tu Shan Che, it would be inappropriate to visit at night. He should wait until dawn.

Anyway, it wouldn’t be long before dawn.

Chen Xiao made a decision and thought about finding a hotel or something to stay for the night.

Although Xuzhou’s nightlife was not developed, it was still a city, and it wouldn’t be a problem to find a hotel.

Chen Xiao walked leisurely on the deserted street. He didn’t find a hotel, but he did find a porridge shop that was still open.

This porridge shop was open 24 hours a day, and there were quite a few diners in the shop.

Most of them were people who had been drinking heavily all night and came to sober up, as well as taxi drivers and the like.

The not-so-small porridge shop was bustling with noise and lively.

Chen Xiao walked into the porridge shop, ordered a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, three steamed buns, and a few side dishes, and began to eat.

In fact, with his current cultivation level, he could completely abstain from food, as he no longer needed to rely on food to absorb energy.

The reason why he ate was simply to satisfy his appetite.

And this also made him seem more like a person.

As the warm and smooth fragrant porridge entered his mouth, Chen Xiao’s expression remained unchanged, but he silently gave it a thumbs up in his heart.

It was really delicious! No wonder there were so many diners so late!

Just as Chen Xiao was slurping down the hot porridge and feasting, he heard a bang, and the glass door of the porridge shop was violently kicked open from the outside.

A slender figure fell into the porridge shop and collapsed on the ground.

“Help! Help!!!”

The slender figure was a woman, and as she fell to the ground, she let out a shrill cry for help.

She was wearing a black silk suspender dress, and two white peaks on her chest were about to burst out. The hem barely covered her delicate and round buttocks.

However, her attire and her current embarrassed situation made it difficult to imagine what had happened.

The cry for help attracted the attention of the diners in the shop, and at the same time, a series of question marks floated over everyone’s heads.

But regardless of why, a woman wearing such sexy clothes rushed into the porridge shop in the middle of the night and called for help, which immediately aroused the sympathy and love of a group of male diners, and aroused their bursting sense of justice.

“Big sister, what’s wrong with you? Tell me!”

“Yes, get up quickly, have you been bullied? Don’t be afraid, there are so many of us men, we can protect you!”

“Looking at this situation, you were beaten by your boyfriend, right? Big sister, you met an unworthy person. Your boyfriend is not a good person. If I had such a good-looking girlfriend, I wouldn’t be willing to hit her!”

A group of men stepped forward one after another to show their concern to the slender woman. Although they didn’t take the opportunity to take advantage of her, pairs of greedy eyes were firmly locked on a certain part of the woman’s body, without wavering.

The woman looked flustered and couldn’t care less about those unscrupulous gazes.

Before she could explain what had happened, a group of punks also broke into the porridge shop.

“Damn it, the little bitch runs pretty fast, damn, run, keep running, let’s see where you can run this time?”

The leading punk was wearing a suit, tight pants, and loafers. He was also wearing brown sunglasses in the middle of the night, not knowing what he was trying to be.

“Save, save me…”

The suspender dress woman looked terrified and timidly leaned towards the crowd behind her.

The crowd of ‘righteous people’ consisted of more than a dozen people, while the punks on the other side numbered only five. They had a numerical advantage.

However, their momentum was completely different.

When the loafer shoes guy glared, the group of ‘righteous people’ couldn’t help but step back.

Some people even quietly left the crowd, returned to their seats, and pretended to just be watching the fun…

The loafer shoes guy looked at the crowd with disdain and sneered, “Those who don’t want to die, get out of my way. Honestly drink your porridge and mind your own business!”

Although the ‘righteous people’ were unconvinced and unwilling, they ultimately lacked the courage to continue ‘upholding justice’ in the face of these aggressive punks, and quietly returned to their seats, continuing to drink porridge and pretending that nothing had happened.

The suspender dress woman smiled bitterly, her eyes filled with despair.

She had long expected this result. Men were simply unreliable.

Her husband, who had a marriage certificate with her, was pushing her into the fire pit, let alone these unrelated strangers?

But apart from this, she had no other way, because she had been running all the way and couldn’t run anymore.

This group of punks were not ordinary punks.

To her, they were a group of fierce devils who could take her life.

But she had no other way and fell into deep despair…