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

"Don't want to die?"

"What does it mean?"

Chi Xiao and Tu Shan Mingyue turned their heads at the same time, looking at Chu Xiu with confusion.

Chu Xiu shrugged and looked at the ancient ruins from which a rapid heartbeat could be heard: "Perhaps only there can tell us the answer."

Right there, in a dense forest a hundred meters away, a faint sound suddenly came from there.

With lightning speed, Chi Xiao instantly captured a beautifully sculpted little girl from afar, who cried out in surprise as she flew out of the dense forest and landed in his hands.

The little girl was held in mid-air by Chi Xiao, struggling and flailing her arms and legs. Her pitiful appearance was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, which aroused Tu Shan Mingyue's love and pity.

"What an adorable little baby, quickly put her down."

Tu Shan Mingyue urged him on, and Chi Xiao rolled his eyes before gently placing the little girl on the ground.

The little girl was indeed adorable in appearance and mannerisms. Chu Xiu leaned forward, squatted down, patted the girl's head, and asked with a smile, "Who are you?"

The little girl shrank back in fear, but then seemed to remember something, reached out and grabbed Chu Xiu's clothes, pleading, "Brother, please save the clan leader!"

"Save the clan chief?"

Chu Xiu looked at Tu Shan Mingyue, who nodded slightly.

That's right, this cute little girl is also a member of the Blood Burial Flower Clan.

"Little sister, what makes you so sure I can save your clan leader?"

Chu Xiu smiled and asked a question.

The little girl pointed to her eyes and heart, then to the Fire Phoenix Feather in Chu Xiu's hand.

"My eyes and this place tell me that my brother and this feather can help the chieftain escape danger!"

The little girl's words did not resolve Chu Xiu's doubts.

Taking advantage of touching the little girl's head, he used his aura-gazing technique on her. What he saw startled Chu Xiu.

"This child... actually has a drop of pure Fire Phoenix essence blood within him!"

Both Chi Xiao and Tu Shan Mingyue were startled by these words.

Chi Xiao stepped forward, placed his hand on the girl's head, and then nodded slightly.

“That’s right. Although the extreme yang energy within her body is hidden very deeply, its concentration is even greater than mine… It is undoubtedly the essence blood of the Fire Phoenix!”

Tu Shan Mingyue murmured, "So, if we take this child away, Yao Lang's soul can continue for another hundred years... right?"

Chu Xiu and Chi Xiao remained silent, while Tu Shan Mingyue also realized what was happening and sighed softly.

Forcibly taking the Fire Phoenix Essence Blood from the little girl's body would surely kill her.

Even if it meant sacrificing a little girl for Senior Yao, none of the four of them would feel at ease with their conscience.

"Perhaps there is another way out. Why not agree to help the Blood Burial Flower clan save themselves from extinction first, and then find a way to leave?"

Chu Xiu spoke slowly.

Tu Shan Mingyue finally composed herself and nodded.

Chu Xiu reached out and handed the Fire Phoenix Feather to the little girl, then picked her up and said with a smile, "I promise you, I will help your clan leader."

"Tell your brother, what's your name?"

"My name is Anu."

Ah Nu answered crisply, her little hand gesturing in the air to draw the character "伮".

"Anu?" Chu Xiu frowned.

The character "伮" in her name alone is enough to show that A-Nu had a low status in her tribe.

When Chu Xiu examined A Nu's body earlier, he had already noticed that the drop of Fire Phoenix essence blood within her body had not brought her any benefit.

On the contrary, the extreme yang power contained in the Fire Phoenix's essence blood suppressed A'Nu's potential growth as a member of the Blood Burial Flower clan.

The magic power within her is now only enough to keep her in human form. As long as that drop of essence blood remains, she will forever remain an ordinary little flower fairy.

Chu Xiu didn't expect a child to tell him about the current situation facing the Blood Burial Flower Clan.

So he ordered Chixiao to go to a nearby outpost of the Blood Burial Flower Clan and capture an adult Blood Burial Flower Demon for questioning.

Upon seeing Anu, the adult Blood Burial Flower Fairy cried out in anguish, "Anu, what are you doing here?!"

Anu shrank back, stammering, "Sister...I..."

Chu Xiu turned to look at Chi Xiao, who snorted and turned his head away.

Chu Xiu was speechless. What a coincidence! He had just caught a grown-up Blood Burial Flower Fairy and ended up catching A Nu's older sister.

Now things are really messed up. He originally wanted to directly search her soul and explore her memories, but now, for the sake of the adorable A-Nu, he can't do that.

"Ah Nu, who are they? Why are you with them?"

Ah Nu's sister snatched Ah Nu from Chu Xiu's arms, took several steps back, and bombarded him with questions.

Ah Nu seemed very afraid of her sister, and after stammering for a long time, she finally managed to finish recounting what had happened.

"Do you have a way to save the clan chief?" A'nu's sister looked at Chu Xiu with suspicion.

"They have this!" Anu took the Fire Phoenix Feather from his bosom and held it high.

Unexpectedly, the moment A'nu's sister saw the Fire Phoenix Feather, she trembled violently and prostrated herself before it.

"The Emperor's Feather!"

"How do you possess the Emperor's Feather?"

Chu Xiu knew that the "Emperor" mentioned by A Nu's sister must be the Fire Phoenix Demon Emperor.

Chu Xiu stepped forward and said, "Since you know what this thing is, then you know that it can help your clan leader solve the current predicament to some extent, right?"

A'nu's sister knelt on the ground, tacitly agreeing with Chu Xiu's words.

"Then please tell the three of us in detail the current situation of your clan."

Chu Xiu patted A Nu's head and continued, "I have already promised this child that I will help your clan leader solve his predicament, but I need to know all the information and data about your clan, this place, and that Blood Demon."

"Otherwise, even if I wanted to help, I wouldn't know where to begin."

Anu's sister remained silent for a moment before nodding and beginning to speak.

“My name is Aman, Anu’s older sister.”

"As you can see, our true form is the Blood Burial Flower Demon."

"Before their lifespan is about to end, some powerful beings of the demon race will use their physical bodies as a base and their blood as nourishment to cultivate Blood Burial Flowers in order to forcibly prolong the life force of their physical bodies."

"When the Blood Burial Flower matures, a large number of Blood Burial Flowers that have been irrigated by its essence and blood can, according to the nurturer's will, transform into a decaying piece of flesh, limb, or even any organ in the nurturer's body."

Aman sighed, "As you can see, we Blood Burial Flower Fairies who have taken human form are actually reserves that have not yet been transformed into flesh and blood by our nurturers."

To become one with our caretakers was the ultimate destiny of our people, but this destiny came to an abrupt end tens of thousands of years ago.

"That emperor... who is also the nurturer of our race, suddenly stopped using our bodies as the foundation for maintaining his flesh and blood life force, and instead began to use a blood demon that appeared out of nowhere..."

"But from then on, the heartbeat in the temple became increasingly rapid..."

"What this means, even the clan leader doesn't know."

"Those blood demons feed on my race, and even on the flesh and blood of the emperors that my race has transformed into. Even though my race has now become sentient and humanoid because we no longer receive the command to transform, it is still difficult to withstand the onslaught of those blood demons..."

"Although the clan leader possessed immense power, he dared not kill the Blood Demons because of the relationship between them and the Emperor. As a result, he was attacked by the Blood Demons and was severely injured and on the verge of death..."

"If the clan leader dies, our clan will be unable to withstand the Blood Demon's offensive and will surely be wiped out..."

Aman looked at the phoenix feather with piety in her eyes and said, "This Emperor's feather contains a trace of the Emperor's bloodline power, which should be able to pull the clan leader back from the brink of death!"

Chu Xiu had finished processing the information A-Man had given him, and nodded, saying, "In that case, we should act without delay. Let's resolve the danger to your clan leader's life first, and then we can talk about the Blood Demon!"