What they called a Minor World was just an informal term passed down among the cultivation practitioners of the Primordial World.

Using Li Changshou’s knowledge from his previous life, the great war led by the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes could be understood as—

Ancient reptiles, birds, and mammals with immense power fought for supremacy over Heaven and Earth, ultimately shattering the world that God Pangu had worked so hard to create.

The area centered on Mount Buzhou was protected by the Dao Ancestor, forming today’s Five Great Continents.

Those fragments of the Primordial World that were thrown into the void became the Three Thousand Worlds. Those with complete Five Elements were called Major Worlds, technically named—Complete Five Elements Heaven and Earth.

Those worlds with imbalanced Five Elements were called Minor Worlds, mainly to distinguish them from the Complete Five Elements worlds.

Gradually, the definitions of Major and Minor Worlds shifted, evolving into a simple classification based on the world’s volume.

The Minor World that Li Changshou and the others were approaching now had balanced Yin and Yang, complete Five Elements, and intact Great Dao—it just had lower spiritual energy concentration than the Five Continents’ lands, making it an excellent place for cultivation.

Just after passing through the magnificent lightning waterfall on the outskirts, True Lord Taiyi sighed:

“The human race is truly formidable, leaving so many traces even at such true edges of Heaven and Earth.”

Zhao Gongming smiled: “When ancient Xuandu City was in dire straits during the war, many soldiers who followed the Human Emperor came here to provide support after the demon tribe retreated. Their descendants settled in this small world nearby.

Elder Brother, where should we start?”

Master Many Treasures looked toward Ground Bound and Diktat to the side, and Diktat spiritedly stepped forward.

Ground Bound spoke seriously: “This humble one and Diktat will monitor from the center. Please, fellow Daoists, move about in all directions—at least make those beings whose dao hearts have been invaded by Outer Demons show some mental activity.

When the time comes, this humble one will transmit notifications to everyone.”

“Then I’ll go south,” Master Many Treasures said with a smile, riding his cloud southward on his own.

Li Changshou smiled: “Shall we go north?”

Zhao Gongming reflexively answered: “Good!”

But when Elder Brother Zhao looked up and saw Li Changshou and his second sister looking at him somewhat awkwardly, he quickly changed his words: “Elder brother will go west, elder brother will go west.”

After speaking, he rode his cloud swiftly away, chuckling halfway through.

Li Changshou decisively stepped forward at this point, showing a man’s proper ‘face responsibility,’ made a gesture of invitation, and stood shoulder to shoulder with Fairy Yun Xiao two feet apart as they rode their cloud northward.

True Lord Taiyi clicked his tongue and smiled: “Look at Water God, his situation is completely different from ours.

Ding, let’s go east.”

True Lord Yuding swept his sleeve and went forward alone, saying indifferently: “Let’s ride clouds separately.”

“Don’t be like that,” True Lord Taiyi smiled and moved closer, “Brother’s cultivation is profound, being close to you makes me feel safe!”

On Diktat’s back, Ground Bound seemed to want to speak but held back.

The Outer Demons had varying levels of strength, and he actually wanted someone by his side for protection too…

Never mind, it was already fortunate that the Water God hadn’t schemed against them today, making him and Diktat face the demons alone.

On a distant cloud, Li Changshou’s divine consciousness locked onto the tribe ahead as he frowned in thought.

Yun Xiao asked softly: “Are you thinking about how to outmaneuver Ground Bound?”

Li Changshou said: “We came today to resolve the hidden danger of the Outer Demons, we must focus on the greater good.

If Ground Bound naturally dies in battle, that has nothing to do with us, and their Western Teaching can gain some fortune from it.

But we shouldn’t trip him from behind, let’s let him off this once.”

Yun Xiao’s eyes gained some amusement: “You’ve had killing intent toward Ground Bound several times before, yet today you can hold back—truly not easy.”

“There’s no need to rush things, we can achieve victory through stability.”

Li Changshou said: “I’ve already detected several people with abnormalities. Later when I mark them out, you should immediately collect them into the Primordial Golden Measure, don’t let them harm others by mistake.

According to Master White’s words, Outer Demons excel at bewitching and controlling dao hearts, but we should still be careful.

We don’t know exactly how many Outer Demons broke in this time.”

Yun Xiao extended her snow-white left palm, the Primordial Golden Measure in her palm gently flickering with light as it slowly rotated.

“Let me handle it today. I’ve fought with these beings from beyond the heavens dozens of times and have some understanding of them.

In ancient times, before the Heavenly Dao appeared, these outer beings often came to cause trouble at the edges of the Primordial World.”

Li Changshou: …

Completely outmatched in experience.

At this moment, Yun Xiao was preparing to battle, her expression solemn, showing a bearing that rarely appeared before.

It wasn’t purely dignity, nor was it the pressure brought by an expert’s might, but rather gave people a sense of steady capability.

Fairy Yun Xiao usually dressed primarily in plain colors, and today was no exception.

A plain white long dress wrapped her graceful figure, a light blue waistband adorned with several ice-colored jewels, and behind two layers of thin cloud sleeves, a jade bracelet hung from her fair wrist;

Under the distant lightning barrier’s illumination, Fairy Yun Xiao’s skin appeared even fairer, and even though her beautiful face was solemn now, it didn’t reduce her gentle nature one bit.

Yun Xiao’s gaze shifted away as she said softly: “Why do you keep looking at me…”

“Let’s focus on the task at hand.”

The situation wasn’t appropriate, so Li Changshou didn’t say anything flirtatious, instead riding the cloud with Yun Xiao to hover above this tribe.

At this time, all the men, women, elderly, and children of the tribe had gathered together, watching Li Changshou somewhat uneasily.

They each had varying levels of cultivation, ranging from newly started practitioners to Heaven Immortal realm.

Li Changshou spoke in a clear voice:

“Please rest assured, we disciples of the Dao schools will never kill the innocent. We came here only to slay evil demons!”

After speaking, Li Changshou secretly marked five auras, quietly attaching them to five men and women.

In his first encounter with Outer Demons, Li Changshou naturally didn’t dare to be careless.

When several Dao school experts rushed to this Minor World, the Outer Demons here had all entered a state of hiding;

The demons trapped by divine lightning and unable to leave this place were now hiding in the shadows of the living beings.

Following the descriptions from White Marsh and Master Many Treasures, Li Changshou carefully discerned with his divine consciousness, confirming that these five men and women were possessed by Heavenly Demons.

When entangled by the auras marked by Li Changshou, these five men and women suddenly became confused, showing some nervousness and panic, completely indistinguishable from the reactions of the humans around them.

Yun Xiao raised the Golden Measure in her hand, and the measure shot out five golden beams, directly sweeping these five men and women into the Primordial Golden Measure.

Then, the palm-sized Primordial Golden Measure spun rapidly in front of Yun Xiao as she formed hand seals, brilliant light emanating from the measure, casting her in a somewhat divine radiance.

After nine seals, Yun Xiao gently pushed both hands forward, and another five golden beams shot out from the measure, returning the five men and women to their original positions.

These five people convulsed all over and foamed at the mouth, their faces extremely pale, their auras though weak had not been extinguished, having lost most of their vital energy.

Li Changshou enveloped five spirit pills with immortal power and pushed them into these five people’s mouths, and the five quickly calmed down.

An elderly woman made a Daoist salute to Li Changshou and Yun Xiao, calling out: “Thank you, Immortal Masters.”

Only then did all these humans here bow together, as if acknowledging Li Changshou and Yun Xiao.

Meanwhile, Li Changshou’s divine consciousness continued to lock onto this area, watching dozens of people who either had darkened eye circles or slightly abnormal dao rhythms, closing his eyes in concentration, carefully sensing.

Yun Xiao’s Primordial Golden Measure scattered streams of golden light, forming a wall of light that completely enveloped this area.

Yun Xiao spoke:

“Evil demons still lurk here, please remain calm everyone, let us carefully discern.”

The Heaven Immortal realm elderly woman called out: “Everyone, stay quiet, sit in meditation, and wait for the Immortal Masters to investigate.”

The group of men, women, elderly, and children all sat cross-legged, except for the children nestling in their parents’ arms, somewhat nervous at the moment, while most others were already very calm.

Compared to Outer Demons, they were more afraid of being [Better to kill wrongly than let one escape].

Just then, a thread of Ground Bound’s transmitted voice reached their ears, and Li Changshou acted again, three auras respectively falling on three people here.

The elderly woman who had just spoken was among them!

The elderly woman first froze, still saying: “Could the two of you have some misunderstanding…”

But behind her appeared a terrifying black shadow!

The black shadow shrieked at Li Changshou and Yun Xiao, seeming about to spread its wings and rush up!

This monster only had roughly human-shaped outlines, its body more like being composed of some fluid, with four crimson eyes emitting layer upon layer of ripples!

But how could Yun Xiao be ordinary among immortals and gods?

She had already acted almost the moment the Heavenly Demon appeared, and before the golden light of the Primordial Golden Measure could burst forth, her delicate finger pointed forward, creating a ring of ice crystals around the Heavenly Demon’s space-time, instantly freezing it.

When the golden light struck, this Heavenly Demon was dissolved in an instant, while that elderly woman and the other two human men and women were directly collected into the Primordial Golden Measure.

To the side, Li Changshou, who had just drawn out the Heaven-Earth Ruler, smiled slightly.

There hadn’t been any chance to act at all.

In his heart, Tower Lord was continuously sighing…

“Little disciple, are you up to it? If you quarrel with Yun Xiao in the future, I won’t help you block Sister Golden Measure.

Hehe, Sister Golden Measure has grown again, ah, can you bring this Tower Lord out so we can have a chat!”

Li Changshou did as told, holding the Primordial Yellow Tower in his palm, guest-starring as ‘Tower-Bearing Li Water God.’

Li Changshou and Yun Xiao carefully searched this area again, only moving on after a while, continuously spreading their divine consciousness in this direction.

Fortunately, this small world wasn’t large, and the several Three Schools immortals spent half a day’s effort to completely investigate this place.

With Diktat’s help, they saved a lot of trouble, finding sixty-seven Outer Demons in the first search.

The strength of these Outer Demons couldn’t be measured by Primordial World standards, but to experts of Master Many Treasures and Zhao Gongming’s level, they were fragile enough to shatter at a touch.

Li Changshou and the others discussed via voice transmission for a bit, then carefully searched once more, bringing suspicious individuals to a small island in the middle of the great marsh, twenty-six people in total.

Master Many Treasures said seriously: “The lightning barrier hasn’t dispersed yet, which means there are still Heavenly Dao-locked outer demons we haven’t found.”

True Lord Taiyi asked curiously: “What exactly are these outer demons? They feel like primordial spirits, yet they seem to have physical bodies.”

Zhao Gongming smiled: “So-called Outer Demons are living beings.

Living beings are born from true spirits resonating with the Great Dao. The Dao arose from chaos, but the various Dao in the Chaos Sea interweave without order, thus producing bizarrely shaped living beings.”

From this perspective…

Li Changshou frowned as he watched the twenty-six suspects here—were these Outer Demons also Chaos beings, fundamentally similar to Primordial World beings?

He, who had crossed over from who knows which space-time, actually fit the definition of an Outer Demon better.

Just kidding, kidding.

He was a proper red-blooded disciple of the Dao schools, and Goddess Nüwa had said the Sages didn’t care about such things;

Moreover, Lord Heavenly Dao had acknowledged his identity—those heavenly punishments were basically his Primordial World household registration.

Yun Xiao said softly: “There are still two Outer Demons in the Golden Measure, not yet completely dissolved.”

Li Changshou’s heart stirred: “Elder Brother Many Treasures, do you have any treasures that can trap these Outer Demons? Why don’t we interrogate them?”

Interrogate…

From Ground Bound and Diktat to Taiyi and Yuding, to Many Treasures and Gongming, even Fairy Yun Xiao—all looked at Li Changshou with startled expressions at this moment.

Elder Brother Zhao stroked his beard in thought, and fearing his future brother-in-law would lose face, he helped out:

“Though this idea is bizarre and no one has ever tried it before, it’s not impossible.”

True Lord Taiyi couldn’t help muttering: “Interrogating Outer Demons? This is truly unheard of.”

Li Changshou slightly furrowed his brows, knowing he had misspoken, paying the price for lacking intelligence. He would punish himself by copying the Stability Scripture a thousand times after returning.

Well, he’d start writing when Ling’e returned to the mountain.

But at this moment, Li Changshou could only smile and respond: “Trying won’t hurt.”

“We can indeed try,” Yun Xiao nodded slightly, raising the Primordial Golden Measure, two golden lights completely enveloping two masses of black mist, placing them before the immortals.

True Lord Taiyi raised the Nine Dragons’ Divine Fire Cover, covering the two Heavenly Demons.

Li Changshou, still not at ease, raised the Primordial Yellow Tower, scattering streams of primordial yellow energy to block between the immortals and those twenty-six people.

Under the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover, the two black shadows constantly trembled, now extremely weak, gradually revealing their original forms.

They looked just like two water bubbles filled with ‘black oil,’ constantly extending numerous tentacles, with the tentacles containing some obscure dao rhythms.

Li Changshou muttered: “They’re somewhat similar to octopi, let’s try burning them with a bit of true fire first.”

“Good,” True Lord Taiyi carefully released a tiny bit of true fire, and these two weakened versions of Outer Demons immediately let out a series of shrieks, their black qi being burned away, their bodies burning with holes.

True Lord Taiyi asked: “How about some lightning?”

Li Changshou activated the Five Thunder Method in his palm, several small electric arcs smashing into the divine fire cover, making the two demons convulse all over.

“Hey, this is interesting!”

Master Many Treasures rolled up his sleeves, moved to the divine fire cover, took out a pile of magical treasures, and placed them to the side, beginning to experiment one by one.

Things like heavenly thunder, earth fire, profound wind, flowing dust—these were all basic operations;

Li Changshou brought out several poison pills, True Lord Taiyi produced some alchemy residue, True Lord Yuding chanted several purification scriptures, and Ground Bound performed some Western methods…

Until True Lord Taiyi cut off a tentacle with his weapon, threw it in front of Diktat, and said: “Have a taste.”

Diktat’s eyes instantly became pale white, its whole body trembling, looking at this cold small world with confusion, helplessness, and distress.

Living was too difficult!

Just then, several shrieks sounded from the side as several Outer Demons shot into the sky, scattering in all directions to escape.

But Fairy Yun Xiao, who had been waiting, slapped her right hand on the Primordial Golden Measure, several golden lights shooting out to directly sweep these four Outer Demons back, melting them into masses of chaos energy in the golden measure.

At the horizon, the lightning barrier enveloping this small world instantly dissipated…

Master Many Treasures smiled: “Unexpectedly, this matter was completed so smoothly.”

“It’s all thanks to Diktat’s help,” Li Changshou smiled with narrowed eyes, glancing at Diktat over there.

Diktat’s throat emitted a series of whimpers, lowering its head wanting to swallow that tentacle, only to find the tentacle had already dispersed into black smoke on its own…

Li Changshou said: “Let’s go.”

All the immortals nodded, and Master Many Treasures opened an earthen cave, several people instantly disappearing.

Thus, moments later.

“Hmph!”

In a certain tribe, a young couple’s eyes revealed some coldness as they exchanged glances, their heart voices communicating:

‘The experts of the Primordial World’s cultivation practitioners are nothing special.’

‘We’ll hide patiently, and when our strength is sufficient, we’ll control more cultivation practitioners for our use and defeat Xuandu City.’

Suddenly…

“You two, if you want to laugh, just laugh.”

The young couple was startled in horror, about to stand up, but before either could move, they were already covered by the Primordial Golden Measure.

Fairy Yun Xiao and Li Changshou smiled at each other, and after dealing with the Outer Demons, returned the couple to their place, gave them medicine, and jumped back into the earthen cave.

Zhao Gongming praised: “Changgeng’s predictions are divine, truly formidable!”

Ground Bound to the side slightly pursed his lips—just now the Water God had simply spoken quickly, having them go out for a round and return, then letting Diktat monitor the entire Minor World, discovering three that had slipped through the net.

This point, Ground Bound had also thought of.

Master Many Treasures puzzled: “Why did the Heavenly Dao simply withdraw its divine lightning?”

“The Heavenly Dao’s power is relatively weak here, making it easy for demons to deceive it,” Li Changshou explained thus.

Ground Bound said indifferently: “We should wait another half day or several days.”

But Li Changshou said: “We can’t. If there are any that slipped through, they must already be alert—this would just be wasting time.”

He still needed to be busy teaching the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother’s tribulation bodies.

Li Changshou said, “Just now in True Lord Yuding’s scripture chanting, there was one passage that made these demons react strongly. Let’s split up as before and make another round through this world.

This time, chant demon-expelling scriptures with full force, use divine consciousness to search house by house, and Diktat, trouble you more to monitor everywhere.

If there are any oversights, you alone will be held responsible.”

Diktat’s whole body shuddered, almost throwing Ground Bound off, and growled lowly: “Water God, rest assured, I’ll show abilities even my master hasn’t seen, at full power!”

Ground Bound’s face turned black as a pot bottom as he casually grabbed an iron pot and pressed it down on Diktat.

Half an hour later…

Amidst scripture chanting filling the sky and earth, a somewhat terrifying huge black shadow shot into the sky, attempting to escape back to the Chaos Sea.

And this shadow, through the mouth of the youth it had wrapped around, cursed at this group of Primordial World experts:

“Who dares say we Outer Demons are treacherous! You’re the treacherous ones! You’re the demons! Dao demons!”

As golden light shone and several streams of light shattered this black shadow hundreds of zhang in diameter, that youth silently shed two pitch-black tears:

The Primordial World was too terrifying… what did we come here for… Master…