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

In the southern lands, beyond the abandoned imperial tombs.

A void rift quietly opened, and a man and two women emerged from the space on the other side of the rift. They were none other than Chu Xiu, Murong Si, and Tu Shanling.

Tu Shanling turned around and glanced at the rapidly merging void rift, then asked Chu Xiu, "Who was that just now?"

Chu Xiu looked at him with admiration and said, "A senior member of the human race has a past connection with your Tushan clan."

"He told me that there is still one of your clansmen living in seclusion in the Tushan area, guarding the ancestral land."

"What?" Tu Shanling exclaimed in surprise, confirming again and again, "Is that senior's old friend really from my Tu Shan clan?"

Chu Xiu nodded with a smile, then turned to Murong Si and asked, "What are your plans now?"

Murong Si pursed her lips. "My Murong clan's ancestral home is located in the Northern Continent, where a branch of the clan remains. I want to go and take a look."

Tu Shanling looked at Chu Xiu with equal reluctance: "Since there are still my clansmen in Tu Shan territory, I naturally have to go and see them..."

After the two women finished speaking, they both looked at Chu Xiu in silence.

The three of them are currently in the Southern Continent, while the ancestral home of the Murong clan is in the Northern Continent, and Tushan is in the Western Continent. The two women's goals are in different places, and although they are eager to achieve them, they still maintain a reserved demeanor on the surface.

They all wanted to know what choice Chu Xiu would make.

Should I go to the Northern Lands with Murong Si, or to the Western Lands with Tu Shanling?

"In that case, all good things must come to an end!"

"I need to go to the Eastern Continent first. The three of us will part ways here, and meet again another day!"

With a smile, Chu Xiu clasped his hands in farewell to the two beautiful women in front of him, who both looked speechless.

Before leaving the tomb, Chu Xiu asked Yao Zhong for a detailed understanding of the current main layout of the Tianlu continent.

The so-called Tianlu is composed of five continental plates: east, south, west, north, and center.

The Southern Continent, where the three of them are now located, is a place where various races of beings from the Heavenly Continent live together, and it is also the most chaotic and disorderly region.

The Western Continent is known as the Demon Realm.

The Northern Lands are known as the Human Realm.

The Eastern Continent is known as the Demon Realm.

The Central Plains, on the other hand, is revered as the "Gateway to the Three Realms".

Chu Xiu wanted to go to the Eastern Continent because the Asura clan, the peerless expert who had given him the demonic fruit, was located in the Asura territory of the Demon Realm.

This demonic fruit contains enormous energy, and Chu Xiu doesn't know how to safely refine and absorb it.

The only option is to go to the Asura territory and ask that Asura female senior.

After all, to fulfill Senior Yao's request, one must first possess a certain level of ability.

Both Murong Si and Tu Shanling's ancestors were from Tianlu. After returning to their ancestral lands, their own opportunities awaited them.

Chu Xiu was different; he was all alone, and the only person he could rely on was himself.

The two women never tried to hide their feelings for him; even a stone could see it.

Chu Xiu dared not respond, and could only show the appearance of a straight man with a heart of stone.

He has no time to think about romantic love between men and women these days.

He yearns to become stronger; he only wants to become stronger!

Murong Si and Tu Shanling were not the type to pester or cling on relentlessly.

Since Chu Xiu had his own things to do, they wouldn't hinder their beloved's progress.

The two left very decisively, without any lingering reluctance or regret.

They believed that the sooner they left, the sooner they could see each other again!

Chu Xiu watched the two figures disappear into the distance, one heading north and the other west. He sent each of them a telepathic message, wishing them well, and then headed towards the border between the Eastern and Southern Continents without looking back.

Yu City, the border crossing between the Southern and Eastern Continents.

In front of the largest clinic in the city.

A carriage bearing the flag of the Lin family, one of the four great families of Yucheng, sped from the north of the city.

The driver's imposing physique, standing nine feet tall, was exceptionally rare even in Yu City, which bordered the Eastern Continent Demon Realm, attracting the attention of passersby on the street.

"Holy crap, who is that? It's so big, is it even human?"

"Him? He's Lin Meng, the dog kept by the Lin family. He's a hybrid of a demon giant and a human."

"Since this vicious dog is here, the person in the car must be his master, Lin Chongyang, who is known as the 'Number One Simp of Yucheng'."

"Dude, why are you shouting like that? Do you want to die?"

Whispers rose and fell among the crowd.

Lin Meng, who served as the censor of the Lin family, ignored the gossip of these commoners.

He got out of the car, bent down, and leaned his upper body into the carriage.

As he exited the carriage, a refined young man in a silver robe sat upright on his shoulder.

At the second-floor window of the restaurant opposite the clinic, Chu Xiu leisurely sipped a glass of peach blossom wine, a specialty of Yucheng, but his attention was drawn to the young man from the Lin family.

Chu Xiu had been in Yu City for more than half a month. He had heard on his way to the border between the two continents that if he wanted to cross the Sea of ​​Misty Clouds, which was hundreds of thousands of miles apart, he would need to go through the Demon Realm Teleportation Array in Yu City.

The right to operate this teleportation array is held in rotation by the four major families of Yu City.

This year, it's the Lin family's turn in the north of Yucheng.

After half a month of investigation, Chu Xiu had a pretty good understanding of the current situation in Yucheng.

He looked at the young man from the Lin family, whose forehead bore a faint, cauldron-shaped mark.

As is widely known, this is the unique clan crest of the Lin family, a symbol of power.

Among the younger generation of the Lin family, only this young man before us—Lin Chongyang—is unique.

Lin Chongyang was pale and rubbing his furrowed brows, seemingly enduring excruciating pain.

Just as Chu Xiu watched as the mixed-race servant Lin Meng carried his master and was about to step into the clinic, a series of harsh, mocking remarks directed at Lin Chongyang came from the table next to him:

"Hey, isn't that Lin Chongyang, the biggest sycophant of the eldest daughter of the Chu family in Nancheng? Why does he look like he's about to die?"

"Don't you know? This simp found out yesterday that the eldest daughter of the Chu family was engaged to the young master of the Li family, the number one human family in the Southern Continent, and actually brought people to the Chu family to cause trouble!"

"A mere Void Breaking Realm cultivator is no match for Miss Chu, who is at the True Transcending Realm. Look, besides her legs, even her dantian has been shattered! That's the dantian! A martial artist's lifeline!"

"real or fake?"

"I and dozens of others witnessed it with our own eyes, how could it be fake? It was Miss Chu who stopped Young Master Li and took action herself!"

"Tsk tsk, the Lin family's number one prodigy, it's unbelievable that he's ended up like this."

Chu Xiu smiled and took a sip of peach blossom wine.

What those people sitting next to me said in their sarcastic remarks was true.

When Lin Chongyang was kicked out of the Chu family by Miss Chu, Chu Xiu was also present and witnessed it firsthand.

Chu Xiu raised his eyes and looked at the young man sitting in the main seat at the next table. He was none other than the young master of the Li family.

He was also only at the Breaking Void Realm, far inferior to that young lady of the Chu family.

Chu Xiu had a premonition that, having already seen through the illusion of breaking through the void, although he seemed to be at the same level as this young master of the Li family, he could destroy him in a single breath!

This is the difference between Shattering Void and Breaking Void!

Chu Xiu turned his head and looked at the young master of the Lin family.

He could sense the same aura of the Shattered Void Realm emanating from him!

This young master of the Lin family is definitely not simple!