The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

One after another, figures streaked towards Shouchun City like streaks of light.

The leader was a young man dressed in bright armor, with a majestic appearance and a burly build. He had a long sword hanging at his waist and held a twelve-foot-long, blood-red halberd. His black cloak fluttered behind him, exuding an aura of dominance and majesty.

It was Yang Xuance, the governor of Xuzhou.

Behind Yang Xuance were dozens of experts at the Earth Immortal Realm, consisting of elders from the Hongnong Yang Clan, the Tianjian Sect, and the Dongyang Family Clan.

however!

Yang Xuance stopped before he even reached the Huai River in Shouchun City, Jiujiang Prefecture.

On the banks of the Huai River, Chu Xiu, a man of unparalleled handsomeness, dressed in the robes of a champion marquis, stood with his hands behind his back.

"Champion Marquis Chu Xiu!"

Yang Xuance looked down at Chu Xiu with utter indifference and said in a cold voice.

"Yang Xuance, Governor of Xuzhou".

Chu Xiu looked at Yang Xuance with a calm expression and said.

"Chu Xiu, your elite Imperial Guards haven't arrived yet, have they?"

"How dare you stand here alone and block my way!"

Yang Xuance said with a chilling aura.

"Because I alone am enough to stop you!"

Chu Xiu said calmly.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"What a fine champion!"

"Are you really not afraid of death?"

Yang Xuance sneered and said.

"I'm afraid, but you can't kill me."

Chu Xiu smiled calmly and said.

Using his aura-gazing technique, Chu Xiu was able to discern the cultivation levels of Yang Xuance and the others at a glance.

Yang Xuance was at the peak of the ninth level of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Behind him were a peak ninth-level Earth Immortal, two peak eighth-level Earth Immortals, three peak seventh-level Earth Immortals, and the rest were below the seventh level of Earth Immortal.

Such strength is indeed considerable.

However, with Chu Xiu's current strength, he is not afraid of Yang Xuance and the others.

"Chu Xiu, whether you're afraid of death or not, you're going to die today."

"Elder Qiao, kill him!"

Yang Xuance looked down at Chu Xiu with murderous intent in his eyes and said in a low, powerful voice, "Remember, leave his head behind."

I will use his head to pay tribute to my father!

"Yes."

An elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect, at the peak of the seventh level of the Earth Immortal Realm, responded, gripped the hilt of his sword at his waist with his right hand, and transformed into a beam of sword light, attacking Chu Xiu with a single sword strike.

This sword strike is a perfect union of man and sword!

He is the sword!

The sword is him!

"That's it?"

"Yang Xuance, he's not strong enough!"

"You should take action yourself."

Chu Xiu shook his head. He clenched his right hand, and the Taiqing Zhenyue Blade appeared in his palm. He moved and went to meet the elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

"Chu Xiu, you are not qualified to fight against the young master!"

Upon hearing this, the elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect showed a hint of anger on his face, and the longsword in his hand burst forth with a shocking sword light.

Yang Xuance stared at Chu Xiu with an unchanged expression.

The gazes of dozens of Earth Immortal Realm experts were also turned towards Chu Xiu.

They also wanted to know just how strong Chu Xiu really was.

Previously, they wouldn't have known what level of cultivation Chu Xiu possessed.

But in that instant.

They felt they had already figured it out!

Chu Xiu is definitely more capable than the intelligence they previously knew.

His cultivation level has definitely reached the Earth Immortal realm!

At Chu Xiu's age, he has already reached the Earth Immortal Realm. Such talent and aptitude are no weaker than Yang Xuance's.

At the very least, his cultivation speed is no less than Yang Xuance's.

If Yang Xuance were given more time, he might also be able to reach the peak of the ninth level of the Earth Immortal Realm.

only.

The speed of cultivation progress does not represent true combat strength.

Suddenly!

A flash of light appeared between heaven and earth!

Boom!

A deafening roar echoed throughout the heavens and earth.

The longsword in the hands of the Heavenly Sword Sect elder shattered inch by inch, and he was sent flying backward!

With a slight movement, a master at the Earth Immortal level caught the Heavenly Sword Sect elder.

However, this elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect had completely lost consciousness, clearly having been severely injured by Chu Xiu's casual strike.

next moment!

"As I said, his strength is insufficient!"

Chu Xiu, already high in the sky, looked at Yang Xuance with a calm expression and spoke.

If he hadn't wanted to avoid revealing too much of his strength, that Heavenly Sword Sect elder would already be dead.

"Peak of the ninth level of the Earth Immortal Realm!"

"Chu Xiu, you truly deserve to be called a prodigy among the younger generation of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, no less than me!"

"Having just stepped into the first level of the Earth Immortal Realm, his combat strength has already reached the peak of the ninth level of the Earth Immortal Realm, and his mastery of the sword has reached a state of perfection."

"With a casual strike, he killed one of my subordinates, a peak seventh-level Earth Immortal."

"Even among those at the peak of the ninth level of the Earth Immortal Realm, few can match your strength!"

Yang Xuance's eyes narrowed, and a look of surprise and doubt appeared on his face as he said, "I admit that I underestimated you just now!"

No wonder you dared to block my way here on the banks of the Huai River with only a sword, trying to keep me out of Yangzhou!

The group of Earth Immortal Realm experts behind Yang Xuance also looked at Chu Xiu with extremely solemn expressions.

"Yang Xuance, you probably only know that I killed your father and wiped out your Hongnong Yang Clan and the Heavenly Sword Sect, right?"

"But you probably don't know that when I killed your father and wiped out the ancestral home of the Yang family in Hongnong, I didn't rely on my Embroidered Uniform Guard's killing array at all."

"I, the Marquis, single-handedly suppressed your father and razed the entire ancestral land of the Yang clan in Hongnong!"

Chu Xiu smiled gently and looked at Yang Xuance.

The faces of the group of Earth Immortal Realm experts were filled with fear, and they looked at Chu Xiu with apprehension.

If what Chu Xiu said is true, then it is enough to prove that Chu Xiu's strength has definitely reached the level of the strongest in the world.

This was beyond their ability to resist.

In other words, Chu Xiu alone, with just one sword, was enough to suppress them all!

However, seeing Yang Xuance's back gave the group of Earth Immortal Realm experts enough confidence.

Chu Xiu is strong, but could he be stronger than Yang Xuance?

Yang Xuance said he was the second best among the younger generation of his time, so who dared to say they were number one?

Even Zhao Anmin, the second son of Zhao Yan, the governor of Youzhou, and Zheng Yunzhao, the eldest son of Zheng Min, the governor of Yizhou, dared not say that their strength was greater than Yang Xuance's.

These two are also among the most outstanding young talents of our time.

of course.

Yang Xuance had never fought against Zhao Anmin or Zheng Yunzhao, so no one knew who was stronger.

Before witnessing Chu Xiu's true strength today.

The three of them were practically the three greatest prodigies of the younger generation, prodigies who overshadowed countless other young geniuses in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty!

"very good!"

"Chu Xiu, you're very good!"

"Today, I will personally kill you to avenge my father!"

"Chu Xiu, watch closely, you will die by the Ghost God Halberd Technique, one of the two world-shaking martial arts of the Hongnong Yang Clan!"

"The first move of the Ghostly Halberd Technique: Mountain Splitting in the Netherworld!"

Yang Xuance's expression changed slightly, and a terrifying aura erupted from his body. He stared at Chu Xiu with overwhelming killing intent and said.

After saying that, Yang Xuance took a step forward, and his whole body transformed into an incomparably dazzling light, rushing towards Chu Xiu. The halberd in his hand slashed down fiercely at him.

This strike was like a demon god descending to earth!

Behind him, ghostly figures appeared, and when the halberd fell, the Huai River below shattered!

The waters of the Huai River surged skyward, creating a spray of water everywhere.

The entire world seemed to have been cleaved in two by Yang Xuance's halberd!