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

Following the guidance of his divine sense, Chu Xiu arrived at the side of the unconscious nine-tailed spirit fox Tu Shanwan.

As Chu Xiu approached Tu Shan Wan's demonic form, he suddenly stopped, his brows furrowed, as if he sensed something was amiss.

Tu Shanwan's current state is extremely strange.

Golden chains extended from the array beneath her, firmly sealing Tu Shanwan's demonic body and draining her already dwindling spiritual power.

"Is this a demon-locking formation?"

"It's actually a demon-locking formation that can even imprison a powerful demon at the pinnacle of cultivation..."

Using his Qi-gazing technique, Chu Xiu immediately discerned the origin of this formation.

"What kind of place was this before its decline... that it had such a powerful demon-locking formation..."

Chu Xiu looked around and saw a desolate landscape, with battlefield-like ruins and traces of magical bombardment everywhere.

However, in this dimension, there was not a trace of magical energy or corpses left from the battle.

"Never mind that, let's help Aunt Wan get out of this formation first!"

Chu Xiu spread his divine sense, covering the entire plane's surface, to prevent being ambushed while breaking the Demon-Unlocking Formation.

He then used his Qi-observation technique to its fullest extent to analyze the Demon-Locking Array.

After Chu Xiu advanced to the pinnacle, the art of observing qi he studied was no longer just for simple geomancy.

When Chu Xiu uses his divine sense to perform the Qi Observation Technique, he can clearly perceive all the energy fluctuations and directions around him.

The essence of an array is simply the setup of array eyes, array flags, and spiritual runes. What sustains the array is the energy of heaven and earth that the array eyes automatically absorb and store.

As long as the formation is activated, Chu Xiu can analyze and break it using his Qi-observation technique!

A formation below the Void Breaking level can be broken in just ten breaths!

With a flick of his sleeve, Chu Xiu shattered the demon-locking array that had trapped Tu Shanwan, causing it to dissipate into starlight and vanish into the world.

No, it didn't just dissipate, it vanished completely!

Chu Xiu's eyes sharpened. He saw the faint energy of heaven and earth, transformed into specks of starlight, being enveloped by an imperceptible demonic aura as it fell to the ground before vanishing completely.

Instead of scattering with the wind and merging into the world as usual.

"Demonic energy... all of this energy has been devoured by something underground!"

At this moment, Chu Xiu lowered his head in deep thought, seemingly having figured out the many strange things about this space.

This shattered space must be the battlefield ruins of a great battle between cultivators from some realm.

The two sides in the battle should be the demon race and the cultivators who are good at dealing with demons.

The outcome of the great battle should have been a crushing defeat for the cultivators, while some demons survived in this shattered space, clinging to life on the remaining energy of heaven and earth.

Their hiding place was right beneath their feet!

Although the formation was broken, Tu Shanwan still did not wake up.

Chu Xiu stepped forward to investigate, and his expression suddenly darkened.

Aunt Wan's demon spirit is missing a soul and a spirit!

Who took advantage of Tu Shanwan's predicament when she was trapped by the formation?

Chu Xiu's mind raced. He glanced coldly at the ground, withdrew his divine sense that covered the entire plane, and gathered it into a single thread. This thread penetrated the surface and went deep underground to search for the survivor's hiding place.

Half an hour later, Chu Xiu suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes.

"It's actually a Void Breaking Realm Great Demon..."

"No wonder he was able to attack Aunt Wan, who was at the same level as me, without me noticing."

Chu Xiu temporarily stored Tu Shan Wan's unconscious demon spirit body in his storage space.

He knew very well that even if he didn't know the details of the survivor underground, he still had to retrieve that soul and spirit for Tu Shanwan.

In Chu Xiu's heart, he had long regarded Tu Shanling as a friend, and he would never sit idly by and watch her mother remain in a coma and unable to recover.

"Above the Void Breaking Realm..."

Chu Xiu's eyes blazed with fighting spirit, and a bloodthirsty smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Let me test you against the spirit of the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler, and see who is stronger!"

"Undying Golden Body, activate!"

Chu Xiu stomped heavily on his feet, and his figure transformed into a golden body ten thousand feet tall.

As his body grew taller, his energy and aura surged, reaching the peak of his strength!

"Get out here and show yourself!"

Chu Xiu let out a cold shout, condensing his overwhelming Formless Sword Intent into a gigantic sword of energy ten thousand feet long, and infusing it with the power of lightning tribulation.

The ten-thousand-foot sword energy, like a bolt of lightning traversing the sky, was slammed into the earth by Chu Xiu.

boom!

The ten-thousand-foot-long sword of energy shattered the ground surface, crashing into the earth as if it were unimpeded, until it was suddenly blocked a thousand meters underground.

Chu Xiu gave a cold laugh, "Found you!"

Chu Xiu leaped up, stepping onto the obstructed sword of energy, causing the entire ten-thousand-foot-long sword of energy to completely sink into the earth, piercing through the entire shattered plane continent!

Then, Chu Xiu made a hand seal and detonated a ten-thousand-foot-long sword of energy!

boom! boom! boom!

With a deafening roar, the detonated, ten-thousand-foot-long sword of energy blasted the entire shattered plane into countless fragments, scattering in all directions.

A giant ape, also ten thousand feet tall, suddenly appeared in front of Chu Xiu's avatar. Its fists slammed into Chu Xiu's chest, sending Chu Xiu flying thousands of meters away until it crashed into countless fragments of the earth before finally stopping its backward flight.

Suffering such a heavy blow, Chu Xiu couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. He looked down at his chest and discovered that his Dharma body had already shown signs of shattering under the giant ape's attack.

"What terrifying demonic power..."

Chu Xiu became highly vigilant. The giant ape before him was the most powerful enemy he had encountered since entering the Limitless Realm!

"Human race?"

"Below the Void Breaker... utterly vulnerable!"

The giant ape seemed too lazy to waste words with Chu Xiu. It roared and a terrifying sound wave, as if it were a physical entity, spread from its mouth to thousands of miles away and struck Chu Xiu's face directly!

Wherever these demonic roars passed, countless fragments of the earth exploded into dust.

We must hide!

You can't just bear it!

Alarm bells rang in Chu Xiu's mind. He unleashed the power of formlessness and boundlessness, maximizing his escape speed and disappearing from the spot, thus dodging the giant ape's demonic roar.

His figure appeared in a secluded place thousands of miles away. Even though he dodged the terrifying sound wave, he still felt dizzy.

This was because the demonic roar was aimed directly at the cultivator's soul.

Once struck head-on, the soul will immediately dissipate, leaving only an unclaimed flesh and blood body, which is no different from death!

"So strong..."

Chu Xiu was somewhat surprised.

The Void Breaker and the Lower Realm are only one step apart, yet the difference in strength is so vast...

If my cultivation were not restricted by the constraints of heaven and earth, and I advanced to the Void Breaking Realm, I should be able to fight this giant ape...

A sudden flash of inspiration struck Chu Xiu: "Now that I'm no longer in the lower realm, perhaps I can try to break through the shackles of the lower realm!"

Chu Xiu immediately sat cross-legged to regulate his breathing and calm his mind.

With a focused mind, the barrier of the boundary suddenly appeared in his perception.

"The shackles are still there..."

Despite his best efforts, Chu Xiu was still unable to break through this barrier.

It seems that even after leaving the lower realm, the shackles of heaven and earth still exist within one's physical body and soul.

Just as Chu Xiu was deep in thought, he suddenly noticed that a formless sword intent, carrying the power of lightning tribulation, had transformed into a sword blade without his knowledge and was relentlessly slashing at the barrier of realm.

He tried to withdraw the sword intent into his body, but found that the sword intent struggled back and forth a few times, still stubbornly slashing at the barrier of his realm, as stubborn as a child.

"Can sword intent develop its own sentience?"

Chu Xiu looked puzzled, but after seeing the power of the lightning tribulation, he suddenly understood.

It wasn't sword intent, it was that bolt of heavenly lightning!

"It wants me... to break through this barrier with the Sword Intent of Formlessness?"