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

"How dare you, a mere True Immortal Realm cultivator, spout such nonsense before me!"

The Dharma King Dongzhen opened his blood-red mouth and laughed silently.

"Then I'll devour you whole, and refine you along with that heavenly lightning aura, and see if it's delicious!"

The Dharma King Dongzhen extended his long, thin tongue and licked his sharp teeth. His six-fingered giant hand grasped a thunderbolt, condensing wisps of black electricity into his palm.

In an instant, a huge ball of lightning condensed and crashed towards Chu Xiu's location like a meteorite.

The aura of a peak third level of the Profound Immortal Realm can influence the power of heaven and earth, causing the wind and clouds to change color suddenly with the spell!

The lightning power contained within this enormous ball of lightning is enough to terrify any cultivator below the Profound Immortal Realm!

Dongzhen Dharma King is the number one person in the Heavenly Demon Sect to control lightning. In his opinion, only he can receive the favor of heavenly lightning and refine the heavenly lightning essence that even he does not possess!

The soldiers of the Beijing garrison were already pale and slumped on the ground.

Only Chu Xiu, sword in hand, stepped forward, shielding the Jing garrison soldiers behind him.

This Dharma King Dongzhen appeared for him!

No one will die because of him today!

Chu Xiu looked coldly at Dharma King Dongzhen.

He is no longer the lowly Earth Immortal who could be bullied by anyone who was at the Xuanxian Realm.

Although the lightning ball was powerful, when it hit Chu Xiu, it was as if it was blocked by an invisible barrier and could not move.

Then, without warning, it burst apart and disappeared completely.

From beginning to end, he couldn't even get close to Chu Xiu's body.

"how is this possible?"

King Dongzhen's eyes widened in surprise. His lightning ball technique had been able to kill a cultivator who had just entered the first level of the Profound Immortal Realm when he was still at the peak of the ninth level of the True Immortal Realm!

It was fully aware of its power!

There is absolutely no cultivator below the Xuanxian realm in this world who can stop him in the slightest!

"Could it be that Nangong Yijian hasn't gone far yet?!"

Dharma King Dongzhen looked around in alarm.

Chu Xiu ignored its panic, took a step forward, activated the true meaning of the Five Elements Wood, transformed into ten thousand thunderbolts, and then disappeared into the void, leaving no trace.

The next moment, his figure appeared in front of Dharma King Dongzhen and he threw a punch.

With his external martial arts cultivation at the peak of the ninth level of the True Immortal Realm, coupled with his powerful body tempered by heavenly lightning, this punch has already broken through the limit of the True Immortal Realm's power!

The power of this fist strike was aimed directly at the head of Dharma King Dongzhen.

will die!

Really will die!

The Dharma King Dongzhen was horrified, realizing that if he were to take Chu Xiu's punch with his head, even he would surely die!

Dongzhen Dharma King hurriedly covered his hands with lightning to block in front of him, and gritted his teeth to take the blow.

But in just one exchange, the bones of Dongzhen Dharma King's arms, which he was protecting in front of him, were shattered, and even his flesh and blood were torn apart and destroyed by the power of heavenly thunder contained in Chu Xiu's fist!

Under intense pain, he could no longer withstand the residual force of Chu Xiu's punch. With the powerful impact, his obese body was knocked off the sky and fell to the ground!

Now, both of his arms are broken, and even his ribs are shattered.

Chu Xiu's single punch had already severely injured him!

"Impossible! Even a fifth-level Xuanxian cultivator couldn't possibly have beaten me to this state with a single blow!"

The Dharma King Dongzhen felt a chill run down his spine, and there was no trace of his previous domineering and arrogant demeanor.

escape!

If you don't run, you'll die!

At this moment, Dongzhen Dharma King had no other thoughts but the thought of escaping.

He immediately climbed out of the deep crater created by the fall and used his lightning escape technique to flee the place.

Chu Xiu gave him no chance to escape. To use a stealth technique in front of someone who possessed the true meaning of the Five Elements was simply like showing off one's skills before an expert!

He raised his hand and used the Five Elements True Meaning to freeze Dongzhen Dharma King's lightning strike.

Then, his five fingers bent into claws and grabbed at him from a distance. The lightning around Dongzhen Dharma King suddenly shattered and transformed into a series of lightning cages, trapping his body inside.

Spare my life! I will offer up all the thunder magic I have learned!

Dharma King Dongzhen immediately spoke up, pleading for mercy in a pitiful voice.

Although he had lived for hundreds of years, he had never faced such a crisis. Overwhelmed by fear, he lost all his pride.

But how could Chu Xiu spare a man who was so bloodthirsty?

When he was robbing treasure and killing others, did he ever think of giving them a chance to survive?

Chu Xiu's eyes flashed with a cold light as he clenched his fist and crushed the small cage formed by lightning arcs in his palm!

boom!

The lightning cage that imprisoned Dharma King Dongzhen was also crushed by an invisible force, and his physical body was reduced to nothingness.

Chu Xiu reached out and captured the primordial spirit of the Eastern Zhen Dharma King in his palm.

Without giving him a chance to beg for mercy, Chu Xiu directly activated the Soul Searching Technique.

As the Dharma King, he must know to some extent the details of the collusion between the Heavenly Demon Sect, the King of Qi, and the Governor of Liangzhou.

If you're lucky enough, you might even find out where the other private soldiers are hiding in advance!

Unfortunately, it backfired.

Even Dongzhen Dharma King, a high-ranking member of the Heavenly Demon Sect, was completely unaware of the plot in Liangzhou.

"Even the Dharma King isn't qualified to know this..."

At the third level of the Profound Immortal Realm, he was already a high-ranking Dharma King in the Heavenly Demon Sect.

As for those at the fifth, sixth, or even eighth level of the Profound Immortal Realm...

"This time, the Heavenly Demon Sect has truly come out in full force!"

Just then, a strong fluctuation of spiritual energy emanated from the direction of Liangzhou.

Chu Xiu turned around abruptly and called to the dumbfounded soldiers of the Beijing garrison: "You go first! Reunite with General Zhao!"

"I'll be there shortly!"

After saying that, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and headed towards Liangzhou.

Such earth-shattering fluctuations in the heavens and earth are definitely not something that Chu Xiu's current level of cultivation could produce.

Could it be that Nangong Yijian fought with that Xuanxian Realm Eighth Level cultivator?

At the same time, the system's mechanical voice came through:

"The Heavenly Demon Sect's Dongzhen Dharma King, a peak third-level Xuanxian realm cultivator, has been slain! The host is rewarded with a hundred years of True Immortal power!"

"Host's current cultivation progress is sufficient to break through to the first level of the Profound Immortal Realm!"

Chu Xiu stopped abruptly, standing in mid-air.

In his mind, he could see the power of a hundred-year-old True Immortal, rewarded by the Positive Energy System, completely filling the last bit of his cultivation progress bar at the peak of the ninth level of the True Immortal Realm.

Chu Xiu knew that the so-called "power of a true immortal for a hundred years" was in units of years, but it did not refer to a person's lifespan. Instead, it referred to the amount of cultivation a true immortal could accumulate by doing nothing but meditating and regulating their breath for a whole year.

After Chu Xiu visualized his cultivation progress, he could clearly see that it would take thousands of years of True Immortal power for a True Immortal at the ninth level to advance to the peak of the ninth level!

If a true immortal were to improve their cultivation solely through meditation and breath regulation, how slow that process would be.

The saying goes that fortune favors the bold; the greater the risk, the greater the reward. The best ways to improve one's strength are to engage in life-or-death battles with cultivators of the same or higher realms, refine rare and precious materials, study unique techniques, and consume elixirs.

Of course, for Chu Xiu, the rewards he received for promoting good and eliminating evil far outweighed those from other sources.

With a breakthrough imminent, even someone as powerful as Nangong Yijian shouldn't need his help at this moment.

"Now, let's break through to the Profound Immortal Realm right here!"

"Once reinforcements arrive, we will return to Liangzhou and capture the Prince of Qi!"