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

"Yes."

A glint of light flashed in Chu Xiu's eyes. No matter what, one's own cultivation level is the most important thing.

Ultimately, the Killing Blade Formation only works when the elite Imperial Guards form a united formation.

It belongs to external objects.

However, Chu Xiu did not absorb the cultivation he had plundered from killing the Star Guards. Instead, he distributed all of his cultivation to more than 8,000 elite Jinyiwei.

After all, the Star Guards' cultivation level had only reached the Grandmaster realm at the very least, making them even stronger than the Imperial Guards. However, they were outnumbered by the Imperial Guards, and with the support of the Zhou Tian Star Array, Yang Xuance's strength became incredibly powerful.

However, compared to the elite Imperial Guards, the Star Guards were somewhat weaker.

Furthermore, Chu Xiu didn't actually kill many Star Guards, so the cultivation he could plunder wasn't much. Even if Chu Xiu absorbed this cultivation, he wouldn't be able to break through from the peak of the first level of the Earth Immortal Realm to the second level.

After reaching the Earth Immortal Realm, each breakthrough in the Shangqing Divine Art requires an immense amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

The Earth Immortal power rewarded by the Positive Energy System is different; it is not only extremely pure, but it can also definitely help him improve his cultivation level.

Boom!

The words just fell!

The power of a twenty-year-old Earth Immortal appeared in Chu Xiu's dantian, allowing his cultivation level to naturally break through from the peak of the first level of Earth Immortal to the peak of the second level of Earth Immortal.

Followed by.

A picture appeared in Chu Xiu's mind.

Chu Xiu stood above the Milky Way with his sword in hand. With a single slash, stars turned to dust, and the Milky Way shattered completely at that moment.

"The Burial Ruins of Stars?"

"The burial of stars signifies the extinguishing of all light in the heavens, while the ruins represent the final annihilation of all things."

"If I had used that strike just now, it would have been enough to kill Yang Xuance."

"However, even with the support of the Killing Blade Formation, I can only unleash the fifth strike of the Heaven and Earth Suppressing Blade, which reverses Yin and Yang."

"I cannot unleash this strike. To unleash it, I must at least reach the Celestial Immortal Realm, and the cultivation levels of my more than 8,000 elite Jinyiwei must also advance further, producing a large number of Earth Immortal Realm and Human Immortal Realm experts before it will be possible to unleash it."

Chu Xiu said with a look of amazement on his face.

"That's enough. I've already attacked Yang Xuance once, so he definitely won't make a move easily next time."

"I will patiently wait for the great era of contention to arrive; I no longer have the opportunity to make a move."

Chu Xiu glanced in the direction of the Xuzhou governor's mansion, took a step, and disappeared from the banks of the Huai River.

If he were Yang Xuance, he certainly wouldn't give himself another chance.

It's likely that Yang Xuance, along with his key experts and the Star Guards, will go into hiding.

Xuzhou, the prefectural capital of Xuzhou.

hall.

Yang Chao, the Grand Commander of the Star Guard, walked into the hall with a heavy expression. He bowed to Yang Xuance, who was sitting in the main seat of the hall with an expressionless face, and said, "Reporting to the young master, I have completed the statistics of all casualties of our Star Guard."

"explain."

Yang Xuance raised his head and spoke in a steady and powerful voice.

"Reporting to the eldest young master, a total of 17,521 of our 100,000 Star Guards have died in battle."

"Among them, 3,135 were seriously injured."

"5,899 people sustained minor injuries."

"Only 73,445 soldiers remained unharmed!"

Yang Chao took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and said solemnly.

His voice, however, still trembled slightly.

Keep in mind that over 17,500 people died in the battle, and even if those who were seriously wounded were able to recover from their internal injuries, it would still take them a year and a half.

This is equivalent to losing 20,000 of the 100,000 Star Guardians as soon as they were born!

It should be noted that these 100,000 Star Guardians were cultivated at the cost of a great deal of time and cultivation resources for the Yang family of Hongnong.

If Yang Yan hadn't been in charge of the government for decades, the cultivation resources alone wouldn't have been enough to sustain the situation.

Now that Yang Yan is dead, Chu Xiu has razed the ancestral home of the Hongnong Yang Clan and the Tianjian Sect's mountain gate to the ground.

The cultivation resources available to them will certainly be greatly reduced.

Training another 20,000 people would be a major undertaking for Yang Xuance at his current level.

"Uncle Chao, mobilize the reserve battalion of our Star Guard."

“Select brothers from the reserve camp to supplement the Star Guard and ensure that the Star Guard is at full strength.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Xuance raised his hands, rubbed his forehead, and said in a deep voice, "Furthermore, take out a large amount of cultivation resources and give them to the Star Guard brothers and the reserve battalion brothers for cultivation."

The era of great contention is about to arrive. Once the era of great contention truly arrives, the rules of heaven and earth will become clearer, and the advancement of cultivation realms will become easier.

The reason we were defeated by Chu Xiu's killing blade formation is that our strength was not strong enough!

"As long as our strength increases, next time it won't be us who are defeated by Chu Xiu's killing blade formation, but him who dies within our Zhou Tian Star Formation!"

"But……"

A bitter smile appeared on Yang Chao's face as he said with a wry smile, "Our cultivation resources are basically supplied by the ancestral land of the Hongnong Yang clan."

Now that the ancestral land of the Yang clan in Hongnong is gone, our cultivation resources are being depleted to an extreme degree. If we continue to supply them in large quantities, they will likely be completely exhausted very soon.

"You don't need to worry about that."

“My father had foreseen all of this long ago.”

"Therefore, a treasure trove was left in Xuzhou."

"This treasure trove contains a vast amount of money, elixirs, and pills."

"Once we open the treasure vault, the spiritual herbs and pills inside will be enough for us to cultivate for a period of time."

"Moreover, with the money inside, we can also buy spiritual herbs and pills from Changchun Pavilion."

Yang Xuance waved his hand and said calmly.

"Great!"

"With the treasure trove left by the master, I can rest assured."

Yang Chao said with a look of surprise on his face.

He never imagined that Yang Yan had long anticipated the possibility of trouble and might have been planning it decades ago.

"Uncle Chao, remember, after distributing the cultivation resources, take all the Star Guards and hide."

"Although Chu Xiu may not attack again, we still cannot be complacent."

Yang Xuance suddenly stood up, a murderous glint in his eyes, and said with chilling murderous intent, "I will also lead all of our Xuzhou direct descendants and a group of experts to hide."

We cannot give Chu Xiu any chance to weaken our strength once again.

Once the great era of contention truly arrives, we will be able to produce a large number of masters.

"That will be the time for us to eliminate Chu Xiu and avenge our father!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Yang Chao bowed respectfully and left quickly.

Since he intends to hide with all the Star Guards, he must make proper arrangements for the seriously injured and lightly injured Star Guards.

Therefore, he had to make arrangements in advance to send away all the Star Guards, both seriously and lightly injured, to avoid any problems.

Even these wounded Star Guardians are a valuable asset to them.

These wounded soldiers are not dead; they still have a chance to recover.