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

The Grand Elder appeared above the ruins of the Heavenly Demon Sect, dodging the sword immortal's attack, and sneered at the three powerful enemies before him:

"If Liu Feibai were here, along with the three of you, I might not be able to defeat him..."

"If it were just the three of you, today, you would surely die while I live!"

"Seven Star Bone Sacrifice Formation!"

Having said that, the Grand Elder reached out towards the ancestral tomb in the forbidden area of ​​the Heavenly Demon Sect, channeling his absorption power upwards.

Countless skeletons burst from the earth, forcibly piecing together six enormous skeletal bodies. With the Grand Elder as the main array eye, they were positioned in six directions, surrounding him. Instantly, crimson array light soared into the sky.

"Don't let him complete the formation!"

Chu Xiu blurted out, once again unleashing his Undying Golden Body, and punched towards the formation eye where the Grand Elder was located.

Nangong Yijian and Gai Wushuang also attacked simultaneously, unleashing their full power.

However, the Grand Elder within the array of light seemed to have entered an invincible state, with any attack being blocked by the array of light and unable to cause him any harm!

"Keep attacking! Even if we can't break through, we must weaken the formation!"

Chu Xiu said coldly. Nangong Yijian and Gai Wushuang exchanged glances and nodded. The three of them continued to attack the array of light.

"Damn it!"

The Grand Elder cursed under his breath and sped up the formation.

All the skeletons and the Grand Elder simultaneously formed hand seals, and a smaller white bone array diagram appeared at each array eye.

A series of blood-red rays of light connected all the array diagrams together, forming a huge Seven Star Array!

Then, a bright red light shone, and crimson beams of light burst forth from the six secondary array eyes, converging above the main array eye where the Grand Elder was located, and merging to form a huge skeleton phantom.

Chu Xiu and his two companions felt a bone-chilling aura emanating from the mere light emanating from the skeletal figure.

If it weren't for the sword and saber intents within the three of them desperately resisting the Yin energy, their spiritual power would almost have been frozen by it.

Even so, his body was frozen in place, unable to move an inch.

"This formation is incredibly powerful... even the Formless Sword Intent is finding it difficult to withstand!"

Chu Xiu cursed under his breath and increased his sword intent output, barely managing to keep the Yin energy of the formation a centimeter away from his physical body.

At this moment, even the space within a thousand miles was frozen by the skeletal figure, preventing him from using the fourth level of the Formless Sword Scripture to escape the formation's range.

He looked at Nangong Yijian and Gai Wushuang. Even these two veteran experts at the eighth level of the Xuanxian realm were restrained by this light and could not easily escape.

Chu Xiu had a premonition that once the array light touched his physical body, he would be instantly frozen into ice, and even his primordial spirit would be frozen. With his current strength, there was absolutely no chance of him surviving!

"Chu Xiu!"

Gai Wushuang suddenly cried out in surprise. Nangong Yijian looked closely and saw that the skeletal figure reached out and grabbed Chu Xiu. The Seven Star Array shone brightly, and the Yin energy broke through the defense of the Formless Sword Intent. Chu Xiu's long hair instantly froze, and his body was completely covered with a layer of frost!

Chu Xiu felt the Yin energy invading his body, surging into his upper, middle, and lower dantian, and even his primordial spirit was gradually frozen!

"This formation was created by the sect leader over a century! It is specifically designed to counter Liu Feibai's Formless Sword Scripture!"

"Chu Xiu, blame yourself for becoming the successor of the Formless Sword Scripture, and even surpassing Liu Feibai in comprehension, becoming the only one who can threaten me and the sect leader with just the technique."

"You! Must die!"

The Grand Elder's sinister laughter echoed throughout the heavens and earth.

The Seven Star Array activated once more, channeling most of its power into Chu Xiu, while merely binding the physical bodies of the Sword Immortal and the Blade Saint.

Chu Xiu felt as if his primordial spirit had been completely frozen, and his thoughts were gradually coming to a standstill!

At that moment, a hallucination suddenly appeared before his eyes, as if he were alone in a frozen world.

All memories of past and present lives will be buried in this dark and frozen world as one's life force fades away!

But he was unwilling to die like that!

Of course he will die, and of course he can die!

But he definitely didn't die at the hands of a vicious and utterly depraved villain!

Even in death, he would not allow a villain to continue living in this world!

"Golden Core! Explode! Ignite!"

A surge of spiritual power far exceeding that of the eighth level of the Profound Immortal Realm emanated from Chu Xiu's frozen lower dantian and spread outwards, then spontaneously combusted!

A violent energy, powerful enough to incinerate everything around him, rapidly spread outward from Chu Xiu's body, even melting the frost that imprisoned Nangong Yijian and Gai Wushuang.

At this moment, Chu Xiu's eyes were bloodshot, he was exhaling smoke, his long hair was dancing wildly with the heat wave, and the heat around him completely melted the ice inside and outside his body!

"Chu Xiu! He's detonated his Golden Core!"

Nangong Yijian's pupils contracted, shocked by the scene before him.

"At this moment, Chu Xiu is already very close to the ninth level of the Profound Immortal Realm!"

Gai Wushuang roared, "Go! You and I will seal off this area within a thousand miles. We can't let that old bastard escape! We can't let Chu Xiu's choice be in vain!"

Without any hesitation, the two of them vanished in a flash, arriving a thousand miles away. They used all their skills to completely seal off the thousand-mile space centered on the Heavenly Demon Gate, ensuring that no one could leave this place in a short time!

Even the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect is no exception!

Having detonated his martial arts golden core, Chu Xiu was no longer restricted by the yin energy of the skeletal phantom.

The turbulent spiritual energy swirled wildly around him, but Chu Xiu activated the Concealing Breath Technique, absorbing all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the surrounding area into his body, assimilating it into turbulent energy, and then suppressing it towards the magic array presided over by the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Without the support of the surrounding天地 (heaven and earth) energy, the Seven Star Bone Sacrifice Array gradually stopped operating. The bone figure swayed and dissipated, and the cold aura between heaven and earth was also reduced to nothingness under the influence of violent energy!

The next second, Chu Xiu waved his hand, and the frenzied energy he controlled completely shattered the array of light!

With the formation broken, the Grand Elder in the main formation eye coughed up a mouthful of blood. Looking at Chu Xiu, who was going berserk like a demon, even someone as strong as him couldn't help but feel a chill.

The First Elder's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Chu Xiu, gritting his teeth and saying hatefully, "Impossible! How could a mere fifth-level Profound Immortal possibly take that step that I couldn't achieve in a hundred years just by exploding my core?!"

"How could the life of a mere ant possibly be exchanged for such a promotion?!"

Nine levels of the Mysterious Immortal Realm!

Chu Xiu in his current state is definitely at the ninth level of the Profound Immortal Realm!

Only those at the ninth level of the Profound Immortal Realm have a chance to break the freezing of the bone figure's yin energy!

"Ants?"

"In my eyes now, you are nothing but an ant!"

Chu Xiu reached out and grabbed the elder, who was already severely injured due to the broken formation. The elder struggled incessantly.

Suddenly, Chu Xiu unleashed an extremely strong suction force, instantly sucking the Grand Elder, along with his soul, into a dried-up corpse. Then, under the violent energy fluctuations, he turned into dust.

Chu Xiu took a deep breath and looked inward. His whole body was filled with turbulent energy of heaven and earth. At this moment, he was invincible in the world!

Before he detonated his inner core and forcibly raised his realm, he never expected that his strength would actually rise to the ninth level of the Profound Immortal Realm!

The fact that his inner core contained such abundant spiritual power must be due to the cultivation level that the system usually rewarded him with.

The moment Chu Xiu forcibly raised his strength to its limit, he immediately sensed that there was another being in the Heavenly Demon Sect ruins with the same aura as him, at the ninth level of the Profound Immortal Realm!

The leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect is not dead at all!

However, he is still unconscious and his breathing is extremely unstable. He could fall from the eighth level of the Profound Immortal Realm at any time.

Such cultivation can only be described as half a step into the pinnacle!

Only in this way could Chu Xiu become the only person in the world to reach the ninth level of the Profound Immortal Realm by detonating the power of his inner core!

Of course, all of this is temporary.

Once the spiritual power of the Golden Core that was detonated is exhausted, he will surely die and his cultivation will be extinguished!

Chu Xiu's eyes sharpened. He had to hurry and completely eliminate the Heavenly Demon Sect's biggest trump card—the sect leader who was at the half-step limit!

"The Heavenly Demon Sect, today, shall be annihilated!"