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

"So you're the one who said you'd beat me to a pulp, right?"

A soft, alluring, and captivating question reached Chu Xiu's ears, causing him to involuntarily shrink back.

She looked sheepishly at the nine-tailed fox that had pulled the tearful Tu Shanling into its warm embrace after a thousand years of separation.

"How dare I, kid..."

"If I had known that the guardian of the second level was you, a senior member of the Tushan clan, I wouldn't have dared to say such foolish things even if I had a hundred thousand lives..."

Chu Xiu was covered in cold sweat.

After he took Tu Shanling's hand and stepped into the teleportation array on the second floor, the two fell into a mesmerizing illusion.

Even someone as powerful as Chu Xiu was momentarily trapped by the illusion, almost mistaking the stunningly beautiful Tu Shanling for the love of his life...

If it weren't for the nine-tailed spirit fox that set up this illusion array, which saw Tu Shanling's face in time and recognized her as her young daughter when she was being jointly annihilated by the enforcers of the Heavenly Dao,

It's likely that Tu Shanling, lost in her delirium, has already consummated her marriage with Chu Xiu, who is also affected by the illusion...

"Phew! That was close..."

Chu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. He had never imagined that someone with his temperament would be so easily ensnared by the bewitching illusions of this fox clan elder…

He almost committed a grave mistake against a mother's daughter in front of her...

Chu Xiu used his Qi-gazing technique to observe the true form of this fox clan elder.

He could clearly sense that this senior's actual cultivation level was almost the same as his own...

Wouldn't the one on the first floor be stronger than me?

"'That was close'? What do you mean, you human brat?"

"My daughter is the most talented person in the Tushan clan since ancient times. Is she not good enough for a young boy like you?"

The nine-tailed fox senior immediately labeled Chu Xiu as arrogant, which even Chu Xiu found difficult to deal with.

"senior……"

"Mother... Chu Xiu didn't mean that..."

Tu Shanling spoke first, wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes. Her eyes were filled with the joy of reuniting with her loved ones, but when she glanced at Chu Xiu, there was still a hint of shyness in her eyes.

As the most senior member of the existing Tushan clan, Tushan Wan had lived for tens of thousands of years. How could she not see the subtle affection her daughter showed for the human boy in front of her?

Perhaps it was the bewitching spell he had set up beforehand, specifically targeting those attempting to break into the tower, that unexpectedly caused his daughter to develop inexplicable feelings for that human boy...

Thinking about it this way, it seems that I, as the mother, was in the wrong...

Tu Shanwan sighed and hugged her daughter Tu Shanling.

Now, she has long lost her physical body, and only her spirit remains in the world. She can only express her longing for her long-lost daughter in her true form.

"Uh……"

"Senior, what brings you here?"

Chu Xiu waited for several hours, but seeing that the mother and son in front of him showed no signs of stopping their conversation, he couldn't help but interrupt them.

Tu Shanwan glared at Chu Xiu, while Tu Shanling lowered her head slightly and smiled apologetically.

"How did I end up here?"

"You'll have to ask the spirit of that broken ruler!"

Chu Xiu raised an eyebrow: "That self-proclaimed spirit of the Heavenly Dao here, its original form was actually a ruler?"

Tu Shanwan glanced at Chu Xiu with some surprise: "You actually know that the Heavenly Dao here is a spirit of an artifact..."

"It seems you are no ordinary person either, and are indeed worthy of my Ling'er..."

"Ahem!" Chu Xiu quickly interrupted Tu Shanwan's imagination and continued to ask, "What kind of magical artifact is that ruler?"

"A celestial artifact? It dares to call itself a celestial artifact?"

Tu Shanwan scoffed, "It's nothing more than a counterfeit made to imitate a real immortal artifact!"

"However, the original owner of this counterfeit product was indeed a divine artifact capable of changing the world!"

Tu Shanwan looked at Chu Xiu and said, "Boy, do you know that with our cultivation levels, we are not worthy of being called true immortals in the Upper Realm?"

"Those people in the lower realms who claim to be human immortals, earth immortals, heaven immortals, or even true immortals and mystical immortals are nothing but self-deceiving arrogance!"

"To reach the higher realms, one must first break through the void!"

"The 'illusion' that is broken is precisely the delusion created by sentient beings in the lower realms!"

"What the Void Breaker relies on is the tangible reality represented by the Void Breaker himself!"

Chu Xiu stood there, his mind replaying the two sentences Tu Shanwan used to explain Po Xu.

Are the immortals in the lower realm not true immortals?

Is it just self-deception by the beings in the lower realms?

Is the 'illusion' that is broken by the breaking of illusion the illusion created by sentient beings in the lower realms?

Are all beings in the lower realms... illusory?

Chu Xiu's heart began to be affected by the questions he had raised, and he began to doubt his actions since he came into this world.

"Was everything I did also in vain?"

"Could it be that the suffering of the common people in the lower realm, and the slaughter of the people of Weiwu City by the Heavenly Demon Sect, were all illusions?"

Chu Xiu recalled the bloody scene that was etched into his memory in Weiwu City...

How could this be a delusion?

How could the suffering endured by ordinary people in the lower realms, caused by the harm inflicted by unscrupulous cultivators in the lower realms, be a mere illusion?

Chu Xiu would rather this be an illusion!

But all of this was clearly laid out before him, visible and tangible!

Thinking of this, Chu Xiu's body couldn't help but tremble.

At this moment, he was filled with boundless rage!

Seeing Chu Xiu's red eyes, Tu Shanling frowned and was about to step forward to speak when her mother stopped her.

Tu Shanwan shook her head, signaling Tu Shanling not to disturb her.

"Ling'er, your taste is far superior to your mother's..."

"He actually managed to elevate his mental state to the Void Breaking Realm in this heavily constrained lower realm..."

"Moreover... I'm only one step away from the next realm!"

Upon hearing this, Tu Shanling was stunned and looked at Chu Xiu in disbelief.

As the current head of the Tushan clan who inherited the memories of the Tushan people, Tushan Ling naturally knew that above the highest realm in the lower realm—the so-called Xuanxian realm—lies the Breaking Void realm.

Beyond breaking through the void lies the path to enlightenment!

However, given her current cultivation level and state of mind, she is entirely constrained by the Heavenly Dao of this place, completely unaware of what it means to break through the void, let alone cross over to the true realm...

But his own mother said that Chu Xiu... had actually comprehended the Void Breaking Technique and was only one step away from Crossing the True Realm!

Tu Shanling looked at Chu Xiu with a mixture of surprise and admiration.

Is this the ability of the person who made me fall in love for the first time in my life...?

"you are wrong!"

Chu Xiu's roar interrupted Tu Shanling's reverie and Tu Shanwan's sighs.

He glared fiercely at Tu Shanwan and shouted angrily:

"The lower realm is not all illusion!"

"What is truly illusory is the self-deceiving arrogance of cultivators in the lower realms; their actions are the truth!"

"What I, Chu Xiu, face and what I seek to eradicate has always been real! How can there be any falsehood?"

"I am real, I am true! Why bother breaking through illusion?"

boom!

An invisible surge of celestial energy erupted from Chu Xiu's body, spreading out of the Tower of Babel and extending hundreds of thousands of miles away!

Chu Xiu and Tu Shanling neither knew what this meant.

Only Tu Shan Wan, who was demoted to the lower realm with the Tu Shan clan when she was young, knew that the fluctuation of heaven and earth was evidence of Chu Xiu's resonance with the will of this world!

"This kid... he actually raised his mental state to the Transcendent Realm with his cultivation level below the Void Breaking Realm..."

"This...is unbelievable..."

Even someone as knowledgeable as Tu Shanwan couldn't help but marvel at the genius boy before her.

She believed that even in the Upper Realm, there were no more than five people who could achieve such results at Chu Xiu's age and with such cultivation!

With cultivation below the Void Breaking Realm and the True Heart Transcending Realm, he resonated with the will of the world...

As far as she knew, only the current Celestial Emperor possessed such a glorious history!