Urban Demon Refining System

"Brother Blackhead, are you sure this is the place?" Zhao Baichuan asked, looking up at the mountain peaks at the foot of Jade Plate Mountain.

"No mistake, I saw them fly over here with my own eyes!"

"What is Ninth Master doing here? Is there some secret here?" Xiao Yang was also puzzled. She didn't understand why, if Ninth Master really was the Nine-Headed Insect, he would choose to come here first.

"This place is called Jade Plate Mountain, which means 'pearls falling onto a jade plate.' It is named after a pool here that resembles a jade plate under the moonlight." Blackhead pointed and introduced, "The older generation said that this pool was originally the lair of an ancient demon. Ninth Master may very well have come for that pool."

"The pool is the lair of a great demon?" Xiao Yang's interest was immediately piqued. "I'd like to see for myself!"

He smiled slightly upon hearing this, without saying anything more. He understood her personality; although she appeared quiet on the outside, she actually had a restless heart.

Zhao Baichuan seemed somewhat worried at this moment, "My sealing stone was swallowed by that Ninth Master, will something happen to me?" Although he could vaguely sense Baihua Xiu's aura through the blood pact, the Nine-Headed Insect's reputation was too great. Even Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen had to join forces to defeat him. Baihua Xiu's strength was not even in the same league as him.

"Xiao Chuan, don't worry. Even if Ninth Master is the Nine-Headed Insect, he has been sealed for thousands of years and his strength is not what it used to be. Even if he wants to use the sealing stone to achieve something, he won't succeed for a while. Besides, didn't we borrow Grandpa's Demon-Revealing Mirror? Dealing with that guy this time won't be a problem!" Xiao Yang said, pointing to the mirror on his back.

"Hmm." Zhao Baichuan nodded, but the worry in his heart did not lessen in the slightest.

On the other side, Ninth Master, who had returned to his cave, opened a secret room and instructed Benboerba and Baboerben beside him: "I need to go into seclusion for a while now. Try not to disturb me if anything happens outside. Also, that human is of great use to me, so please take good care of him."

"Yes, Your Highness!" The two fish monsters, Benboerba and Baboerben, bowed and took their leave.

Looking at his two subordinates' obsequious expressions, Ninth Master nodded in satisfaction. It seemed that his former power still lingered. In fact, in terms of strength, he was not much stronger than these two little demons now.

With a "thump," the door to the secret chamber of the Water Mansion slowly closed, leaving Benboerba and Baboerben staring at each other in bewilderment.

"Benboerba, the prince consort asked us to settle that human. How should we settle him?" Benboerba was a catfish monster, but a piece of his lip had been gouged out, so his voice sounded a bit lisp.

“Of course we’ll bring him to the Water Palace!” Baboerben said matter-of-factly. His true form was a black fish, but he had no ears.

"Humans aren't as adept at swimming as we are, so how do they survive in the underwater realm?"

"That's easy. There was a water-repelling pearl in the old Dragon King's palace treasure vault. We can just give it to him!"

"But the Dragon King's palace has been abandoned for a long time, and the treasures inside are probably gone!"

"You don't know this, do you? Ever since the Great Sage destroyed the Dragon Palace, no aquatic creature has dared to approach it, simply because the Yin energy of the Wansheng Dragon King's family is too heavy, and they are afraid of getting into trouble. But now that the Prince Consort has returned, the situation is different. We are now working for him, so I suppose that Yin energy won't make things too difficult for us."

"Then let's take a trip through the Dragon Palace ruins!" Benboerba picked up the harpoon, and together with Baboerben, they left the water mansion and swam towards the Dragon Palace ruins.

"Achoo!" Zheng Xiaowu, who was guarding outside the pool, sneezed. He wondered to himself why the pool suddenly felt colder. Little did he know that Ninth Master was a creature that preferred cold. Now that he had returned to his lair, his body was being warmed, and the coldness within him was naturally being released.

"Why aren't they coming out yet? Didn't they say they'd come to pick me up?" Zheng Xiaowu was also puzzled. After Ninth Master and the two fish demons went in, they said they would come to pick him up soon, but there was no sign of them for a long time. Little did he know that the two demons had already gone along the waterway to find the water-repelling pearl.

"Huh? Isn't that Zheng Xiaowu?" Just as Zheng Xiaowu was staring at the movement in the pool, two heads suddenly popped out from the hillside. It was Hei Tou and Zhao Baichuan who were coming up the mountain.

"Oh no!" Zheng Xiaowu thought to himself, realizing he was in trouble. Although he had managed to latch onto Ninth Master's coattails, his own strength was truly lacking. The only demon he possessed that was relatively powerful had been dealt with by Zhao Baichuan. Now that there were two of them, Zheng Xiaowu didn't hesitate and turned to run.

"Brother Blackhead! He's trying to escape! Let's stop him!"

"Don't worry! He can't escape!" Blackhead said confidently. "Go! Snowwalker!"

The image of Tianma Taxue roared out from the phone screen, chasing after Zheng Xiaowu.

"Xiao Chuan, wait here for Teacher Xiao, I'll go after her first!" Hei Tou instructed Zhao Baichuan before following Ta Xue.

Yupan Mountain is not very high, but the mountain road is quite rugged. Xiao Yang, who was slightly less physically fit, fell behind.

"Huh? Why is there a pool of water here? I remember this was a rocky area!" After waiting for a while, Xiao Yang, who was climbing at a slower pace, caught up and pointed at the pool with some confusion.

"A pool?" Zhao Baichuan then noticed that there was a pool about the size of a well not far from them.

“No mistake! This place used to be a rocky area, I remember it very clearly.” Xiao Yang thought carefully and said with certainty.

"And this pool?" Zhao Baichuan walked curiously to the edge of the pool, peered inside, and saw that it was bottomless.

"Glug!" Suddenly, a bubble rose to the surface of the water and burst quickly, and Zhao Baichuan shuddered as if he had been electrocuted.

"What's wrong, Xiao Chuan?" Xiao Yang looked at him in confusion and asked.

“There’s something at the bottom of this pool!” Zhao Baichuan said. He had a blood pact with Baihua Xiu, and the two had a very mysterious connection.

"You mean to say that Ninth Master is hiding at the bottom of the pool?"

"It should be right, my intuition tells me this is the place!" Zhao Baichuan said after sensing with his eyes closed. He couldn't reveal the truth about Baihua Xiu, so he could only attribute it to his mysterious intuition.

"Haha! You're really funny! But even if there's something at the bottom of this pool, we can't go down!" Xiao Yang said, looking at the still water.

"Who are you! How dare you be so presumptuous at Bibo Pool!" Just as the two were racking their brains for a solution, the pool water suddenly became murky, and a small blue dragon, more than a meter long, darted out from it, speaking coldly.