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

Chu Xiu looked in the direction Chi Xiao pointed and saw a huge stone coffin emerging from the deep mud and sand.

That's why Chu Xiu hadn't noticed the existence of the stone coffin before.

Around the stone coffin were several unidentified giant demons, frozen by the cold air of the lake.

Just as Chu Xiu and Chi Xiao attempted to approach the giant coffin, the ice blocks suddenly trembled, the demon inside emitted a red light from its eyes, and the ice on its body rapidly melted.

These enormous monsters revealed their true forms in the blink of an eye and charged towards Chu Xiu and Chi Xiao.

"court death!"

Chi Xiao stood in front of Chu Xiu, and with a casual wave of her hand, several sword energies shot out. With her powerful Reincarnation Realm cultivation, she did not need to use any supernatural powers or spells to cut down these demons who were at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm.

However, after the five demons were cut down and sank into the mud, their bodies quickly dissolved and then mixed together, transforming into ten more demons that charged towards the two of them.

Chi Xiao raised his hand and destroyed it.

But those ten demons then multiplied into twenty.

Chu Xiu frowned. These demonic creatures were not physical entities; the more he killed, the more there were.

If things continue like this, they will only be held back by thousands of demons. Even if Chi Xiao has the cultivation of the Reincarnation Realm, he will be unable to deal with himself, who only has the cultivation of the Shattered Void Realm.

Chu Xiu stared intently at the bodies of the demons slain by Chi Xiao, then his eyes suddenly lit up:

"The things these demons transformed into after death seem to resemble the ghostly aura of the misty spirits..."

"Chixiao, let me give it a try!"

Chi Xiao nodded, stepped aside, and allowed nearly a hundred snarling demons to rush towards Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu circulated a thousand strands of imperial energy within his body; even with all his strength, he could only mobilize this many at a time.

With a flick of his finger, a thousand strands of imperial energy transformed into golden dragons, encircling the nearly one hundred demons before him. This created a massive vortex of imperial energy at the bottom of the lake, sucking all the demons into it and rapidly refining them.

As expected, the strange energy that constructed these demon bodies was gradually exhausted under the refinement of the imperial aura, and the demons no longer split apart, turning into mud.

"It really works!"

Chu Xiu was overjoyed. After refining these nearly one hundred demons formed from strange energy similar to that ghostly aura, his cultivation level skyrocketed to the peak of the Shattered Void Realm!

We are only one step away from reaching the realm of truth!

"These monsters must be the guardians protecting the stone coffin..."

"With demons as guards, could the owner of this stone coffin also be a demon?"

"But why does this monster look so much like the ghosts of the Misty Sea?"

"Go up and take a look!"

Chi Xiao stepped forward first to examine how to open the stone coffin.

Just as she touched the stone coffin, a vortex suddenly appeared beside her, rapidly expanding to the area where Chu Xiu was, sucking in Chi Xiao and Chu Xiu who were unable to react in time.

In the blink of an eye, the two found themselves in a palace that had been enchanted with water-repelling magic.

This palace, which has existed for countless years, was protected by a water-avoidance method and was not eroded by the lake water. It still retains its magnificent appearance, which makes Chu Xiu quite fascinated.

"That vortex was actually a teleportation spell? Could this be inside the stone coffin?"

Chu Xiu looked around and admired the palace.

Chi Xiao, on the other hand, looked worried and somewhat annoyed.

The vortex was so strange that even she, at the Reincarnation Realm, couldn't react in time.

Fortunately, the other side of the vortex was not a dangerous place.

If I were to put Chu Xiu in a dangerous situation, I would be guilty even if I were to die a thousand deaths!

Chu Xiu noticed that Chi Xiao's mood was off and quickly came over to comfort him: "It happened suddenly, it's not your fault."

Chi Xiao forced a smile and took his sword from Chu Xiu's hand. Since the vortex technique could make him, who was in the Reincarnation Realm, completely unaware, there was enough evidence to show that the master of the stone coffin and palace was definitely stronger than himself in the present.

Chi Xiao dared not let his guard down, and followed Chu Xiu, who was strolling through the palace, with his sword in hand.

The Crimson Sky Sword is at its strongest when its blade is in the hands of the sword spirit.

Inside the palace, there was an abundance of exquisite ornaments, crystal items, gold and jade vessels, which perfectly reflected the wealth and luxury of the palace's owner.

As Chu Xiu walked along, he increasingly felt that the layout and arrangement of this palace resembled a woman's boudoir.

The owner of this stone coffin must have been a powerful female demon from the ancient era.

However, there were demons with energy-based bodies guarding the outside of the stone coffin, but there was no danger inside the palace, which was beyond Chu Xiu's expectations.

Chu Xiu stopped and frowned when he arrived at a closed door.

There was a hint of life in this room!

The life force unique to living things!

Could it be that the owner of this stone coffin is not completely dead?!

Chu Xiu took several steps back, his vigilance reaching its peak.

He used his divine sense to penetrate into the room.

Inside the room, an array concealed its aura. Chu Xiu, who was outside the room, would not have been able to detect the existence of this array unless he first used his divine sense to probe it.

A fox, its white fur dull and its breath weak, lay sprawled within the formation, barely clinging to life.

"That's... a nine-tailed spirit fox!"

Chu Xiu never expected that he would encounter Tu Shanling's clansmen here!

However, this nine-tailed spirit fox seemed to have been imprisoned here for countless years, and its aura was like that of a dying tree.

The nine-tailed fox inside the house seemed to sense Chu Xiu's divine sense, and a glimmer of light appeared in its dim fox eyes.

A weak, feeble female voice drifted intermittently from the mouth of the nine-tailed fox outside:

"It's...who is it?"

Upon hearing this, Chi Xiao felt a sense of familiarity with the woman's voice.

She frowned, a sense of foreboding creeping into her heart.

After obtaining Chu Xiu's consent, he cleaved open the door with a single sword stroke and entered.

Unexpectedly, the nine-tailed spirit fox exclaimed in surprise the moment it saw Chi Xiao:

"It's...you! What are you doing here? Could it be that he..."

Chi Xiao frowned, never expecting that this nine-tailed spirit fox was actually an old acquaintance of hers.

Shouldn't she be living in seclusion in the ancestral land of the Tushan clan right now?

How could they be trapped here, their lamps burning out and oil running out?

Chu Xiu stepped forward and asked, "Is this fox clan senior an old friend of Emperor Yao?"

Chi Xiao nodded: "That's right, it's her."

"The only remaining member of the Tushan clan on the Heavenly Continent—"

"Tushan Bright Moon".

Chu Xiu and Chi Xiao stepped forward, approaching the formation that had imprisoned Tu Shan Mingyue here for a thousand years.

Inside the formation, Tu Shan Mingyue didn't even have the strength to lift her head. She watched helplessly as Chi Xiao stepped into the formation as if it were empty and came to her.

Chu Xiu then realized that this formation seemed to be able to trap the demon race, but had no effect on the human race or Chi Xiao, who was a spirit of an artifact.

"Why are you here?"

Chi Xiao circulated the extreme yang power within his body, transforming it into gentle life force, and slowly channeled it into Tu Shan Mingyue's body to maintain the last remaining flame of life within her.

With Chi Xiao's support, Tu Shan Mingyue was finally able to move her body with difficulty.

However, Tu Shan Mingyue did not respond to Chi Xiao's question. Instead, she looked at Chu Xiu and asked in confusion, "Who is this?"

Chi Xiao smiled gently: "Him... he is my master now."

"The next Human Emperor!"