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

Chu Xiu used his body as a sword, transforming into a streak of sword light, and swept towards Xuzhou at low altitude.

Heading eastward, the sword light made no attempt to conceal itself from the gazes of ordinary people and cultivators, startling countless individuals.

How could Chu Xiu care about such things? His purpose in coming here was to awe the world with his absolute strength!

At the border between Xuzhou and Yanzhou, a hundred-man squad belonging to the elite troops of Yanzhou was fighting against another group of Maitreya sect members from Xuzhou. There were already many corpses on the ground.

This group of Maitreya sect followers numbered only a dozen or so, but most of them were cultivators at the Earth Immortal or Heaven Immortal level, with a Heaven Immortal at the ninth level leading the group.

The strongest member of this hundred-strong elite force from Yanzhou was only at the fifth level of the Celestial Immortal Realm, while the rest were at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm or the initial stage of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Most of the corpses on the ground belonged to soldiers from Yanzhou.

Clearly, this group of Maitreya followers has an absolute chance of winning.

The young leader of the Maitreya Sect, who was at the ninth level of the Celestial Immortal Realm, naturally thought so too.

With a cold smile, he was about to order his followers to slaughter the entire group of state soldiers when…

Suddenly, an incomparably powerful sword light shot in from the west with unstoppable force.

Behind the sword light, the void shattered, and the heavens and earth trembled.

The sword light suddenly stopped as it swept across the battlefield.

The crowd on the ground couldn't help but look up at him, and after the sword light dissipated, a handsome young man full of vigor appeared before them.

Chu Xiu lowered his head and scrutinized the group of Maitreya followers.

He never expected that the Maitreya sect, which had been resurrected from the dead, would still have members with such high levels of cultivation.

It seems the Yang family has been hiding their true intentions for far too long!

"Who are you! The Maitreya Sect is on business here. Leave at once! Do you also want to die with these soldiers?"

The young leader of the Maitreya sect pointed at Chu Xiu and cursed.

Although he could tell that the young man was somewhat capable, he couldn't discern the extent of his skill.

In this region, who could possibly be stronger than the Yang family's elite from Xuzhou?

He intended to reveal his family's wealth to scare the young man away and avoid causing trouble.

Unexpectedly, the young man sneered and appeared in front of him in a flash.

Chu Xiu sneered, and a monstrous sword intent spread from his body, enveloping all the Maitreya followers present in the sword aura generated by the formless sword intent, and then forcefully pressing the followers to the ground.

Those who put up a stubborn resistance were instantly reduced to a bloody mist under the suppression of the sword's power!

"He is...he is Champion Marquis Chu Xiu!"

"It's Lord Chu!"

"Lord Chu has arrived! Xuzhou is saved!"

A shout suddenly erupted from the group of elite soldiers from Yanzhou who were standing there in a daze. Only then did they gradually realize that the one who came to their aid was none other than the famous Marquis of Champion!

Chu Xiu nodded with a smile, then with a flick of his sleeve, his sword intent erupted, shattering the golden cores of all the surviving Maitreya followers present, turning them into cripples.

"I trouble you all to take these rebels back and detain them."

"I will personally go to Xuzhou and make sure the Maitreya Sect is wiped out!"

After saying this, Chu Xiu transformed into a beam of light and disappeared, leaving behind a group of elite soldiers from Yanzhou with eyes full of admiration and worship, raising their arms and shouting.

Champion Hou Chuxiu has long been a deity worshipped by the soldiers and people of the Great Zhou!

Traveling westward, after entering Xuzhou, Chu Xiu realized just how serious the rebellion in Xuzhou was.

Countless people were displaced and became refugees. With the Maitreya sect heavily guarding the border, the people had nowhere to go and had no choice but to become bandits.

Chu Xiu knew very well that Yang was the culprit behind this situation.

If the Yang family is not completely subdued, more followers of the Maitreya sect will appear in the future, and the people will never have peace again.

"The Yang family has an ancestor who is at the peak of the eighth level of the Profound Immortal Realm..."

The Hongnong Yang clan, which Chu Xiu had previously destroyed, was merely the largest branch of the once-dominant Yang clan on the surface.

The real Yang family members all remained behind the scenes, never revealing their true identities.

If Chu Xiu hadn't broken through his limits and learned of the existence of the true ancestor of the Yang family, a peak expert at the eighth level of the Profound Immortal Realm, through his divine sense, he would have also believed that the Yang family had already submitted.

That's right. Otherwise, how could the Murong royal family tolerate the existence of these powerful clans?

Chu Xiu's target was the location where the Yang family's ancestor, who was at the peak of the eighth level of the Profound Immortal Realm, was in seclusion.

However, the sword light that his figure transformed into was stopped by an old man after it rushed straight into the city of Xuzhou.

"So fast!"

"Young man, hand over this escape technique, and I will forgive your crime of trespassing in the city and spare your life!"

Chu Xiu stopped, and a hoarse voice came from in front of him.

A sword aura carrying the power of the peak of the seventh level of the Profound Immortal Realm blocked Chu Xiu's path.

Chu Xiu frowned and with a flick of his sleeve, he dispersed the sword energy.

"what?"

With a question, an old man in a yellow robe appeared before Chu Xiu with a gloomy expression.

"Good lad, your cultivation is not low; even this old man can't quite see through you..."

"It doesn't matter. In Xuzhou, I, Yang Rong, have never failed to get what I set my sights on!"

"Hand over the cultivation technique, or... die!"

The old man looked at Chu Xiu, who resembled a young man, with a cold smile on his face, but he secretly put his hands behind his back and began to circulate his internal energy through hand seals.

Instantly, a colorless and odorless poisonous gas burst forth from his palm, spreading out and sweeping towards Chu Xiu's location.

Although the old man looked down on Chu Xiu's cultivation level, he didn't take this young man, whom he had never met before, seriously because of his own background.

"Kill me? You're not qualified!"

"Go away!"

Chu Xiu let out a cold shout, and his voice, amplified by the power of the Limitless Realm, transformed into sound waves that resounded throughout the entire state city.

The pressure of the Limitless Realm cultivation erupted from Chu Xiu's body, like Mount Tai pressing down, knocking the old man from mid-air and pressing him to the ground a hundred feet below, leaving him prostrate and unable to move.

As for the remaining poisonous gas, Chu Xiu, with his cultivation level, naturally couldn't be bothered with it.

However, considering that if ordinary people accidentally inhale the toxic gas after it is spread by the wind, it could cause a plague.

Chu Xiu then used the technique of concealing his breath to gather the poisonous gas into a ball of energy, refining and dissipating its toxicity.

He then flashed forward and appeared in front of the old man whose aura he had suppressed.

When his gaze met Chu Xiu's cold stare, the old man broke out in a cold sweat, feeling that if he didn't beg for mercy, he would die at the hands of this young man in the next second!

Damn!

Where did such a young master at the eighth level of the Xuanxian realm come from in Xuzhou?

Let alone Xuzhou, there isn't one in the entire Great Zhou, is there?

Could it be some old monster disguised as a young man?

"Fellow Daoist, please forgive me!"

"I am Yang Rong, from the Yang family of Xuzhou. Please forgive me for not recognizing your greatness, fellow Daoist. I hope you will spare me out of respect for my Yang family..."

Unexpectedly, before the old man could utter the last two words, "life," Chu Xiu had already raised his knife and beheaded the old man!

"Yang Rong, right? I recognize you. Your name is on the old records of the Embroidered Uniform Guard..."

"Seventeen years ago, the massacre of sixteen households in a fishing village near Yangzhou was your doing!"

"Given the prestige of the Yang family, the Imperial Guards at that time naturally dared not interfere and had no choice but to let the matter drop."

"Now, I've settled this score for the dead!"

Chu Xiu coldly watched as the old man's head rolled to the ground, then reached out and extracted the old man's still-dissipating primordial spirit, directly performing a soul search.

"The Maitreya sect is indeed backed by the Yang family!"

"Behind the rebellion in Xuzhou, there was also the involvement of the Yellow Heaven Sect and other powerful families and clans in Xuzhou!"

Chu Xiu sneered. With two old rivals, whose old scores were not yet settled and new ones had been added, both here, this trip would certainly not be in vain!

He flashed to a height of a thousand feet in the sky and used his divine sense to investigate all the cultivator forces gathered in Xuzhou.

The Yang family of Xuzhou, the Xiao family of Yangzhou, the Maitreya Sect, the Yellow Heaven Sect, the Dongyang Family, the Heavenly Sword Sect, and many other powerful families and sects, large and small, have all gathered here, wreaking havoc on Xuzhou!

"Most of them are here, great! Saves me from having to go door-to-door to settle scores with them one by one!"