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

Faced with the questions from the demon who had bound him, Chu Xiu simply closed his eyes and ignored them.

Mo Lie glanced at him with suspicion. Just as he was about to ask this newly recruited human disciple what had happened here, a phoenix's cry came from the north, causing Mo Lie to frown.

"Tsk, the old woman from the Azure Phoenix Clan arrived so quickly?"

Mo Lie looked at Chu Xiu and chuckled, "Kid, you haven't been to the Eastern Continent yet, have you?"

"I will take you across the Misty Sea to return to the ancestral land of our sect in the Eastern Continent!"

Eastern Continent?

Is there such a good thing?

Chu Xiu suddenly opened his eyes and nodded repeatedly.

Mo Lie had no doubts. He transformed into a cloud of black mist, enveloping and protecting Chu Xiu within it, before leaving the tomb and taking to the air.

Upon arriving outside the tomb, Chu Xiu saw through the black mist a dozen or so late-stage Reincarnation Realm experts and two Great Perfection Reincarnation Realm experts standing in mid-air, with Yang Yue among them.

With just one glance, he saw Chu Xiu enveloped in the black mist, and he was so shocked that he almost cried out.

Upon seeing Mo Lie appear, the powerful figures of the Southern Continent were about to launch an attack.

Yang Yue quickly spoke up, reminding the beautiful woman in green at the head of the group, "Clan Chief Luan, please wait! Our Cultivator Alliance has a talented young man trapped in that black mist!"

The beautiful woman in green furrowed her brows, but her hand, which was gathering a killing move, did not stop:

"That's 'Blood Slaughter' Mo Lie!"

"Once we fall into their hands, there will be no way we can survive!"

"Are we supposed to waste the opportunity to join forces and kill this fiend just to save a mere junior in the Transcendent Realm?"

Yang Yue hurriedly said, "The person who is trapped is Chu Xiu!"

"Chu Xiu? It's him?"

"The junior that Yao was talking about... who inherited his will?"

The beautiful woman in green, who had already finished preparing her spell, abruptly interrupted and dispelled it, and raised her hand to stop the attack of her companions.

"Stop! Don't hurt that young man!"

The white-robed man beside the beautiful woman in green roared angrily, "Luan Ying! Have you lost your mind?"

"He was just a Transcendent Realm cultivator. Killing him by mistake is no big deal. What's there to regret?"

"That's Mo Lie! Killing him could save countless lives on the continent in the future!"

The beautiful woman in green, whom the white-robed man called Luanying, merely glanced at him with a furrowed brow. The white-robed man, like a wilted cucumber, swallowed back the words that were about to come out, turned his head, waved his sleeve, and snorted coldly.

Seeing that the white-robed man, who was at the same level as the beautiful woman in green, dared not object anymore, everyone had no choice but to give up and watch as Mo Lie led Chu Xiu away towards the Misty Sea.

Chu Xiu used his divine sense to nimbly avoid the black mist and sent a divine thought to Yang Yue's ear:

"Thank you so much, Brother Yang, for speaking up and saving me. I will repay this great kindness if I survive and return!"

"If Brother Yang encounters those dear friends I teleported away in the future, please inform them that they can go directly to the Eastern Continent. If I survive, I will go to find them!"

After hearing Chu Xiu's telepathic message, Yang Yue nodded emphatically.

Seeing this, Chu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief and let Mo Lie lead him away.

Mo Lie, who had been on high alert, suddenly became suspicious when the person blocking his path stopped attacking. He glanced at Chu Xiu a few more times and asked:

"Kid, who exactly are you?"

"When that kid from the Cultivator Alliance mentioned your name, even the patriarch of the Azure Phoenix Clan didn't dare to target me."

Chu Xiu stroked his chin and replied, "That kid's master is Master Ciyun of the Cultivator Alliance."

"Master Ciyun saw that I had a special physique and intended to take me as his disciple..."

"Oh I got it!"

As Mo Lie drove the black mist, carrying Chu Xiu towards the Misty Sea, he laughed and cursed:

"Not bad, not bad. I can't beat Ciyun, but today I snatched the disciple she wanted to take on. The genius that the righteous path wanted will grow into a pillar of our demonic path. It's good to annoy her. That's satisfying!"

Lifted by the black mist that Mo Lie had transformed into, Chu Xiu traveled through the Sea of ​​Mist. Seeing that Mo Lie seemed to genuinely intend to take him as a disciple, Chu Xiu asked, "Senior... no, Master!"

"Are you the same kind as those ghosts in the Misty Sea?"

Seeing how quickly Chu Xiu accepted reality, Mo Lie felt comfortable hearing Chu Xiu's change of address, and he found this adopted disciple increasingly pleasing to the eye.

"Don't confuse your teacher with those beasts."

"The only similarity between me and them is that the energy I use for cultivation is holy breath."

Chu Xiu suddenly realized: "Then Master, is from the Eastern Continent?"

Mo Lie didn't reply. He looked at Chu Xiu, his eyes darting around, and chuckled, "Kid, try absorbing the surrounding mist into your body and refining it."

Chu Xiu exclaimed, "No way! Is this something I can just inhale?"

Mo Lie urged, "What are you chickening out for?"

"You can even directly devour the holy energy I've refined, so why would you be afraid of this holy energy that hasn't been refined and purified yet?"

"Are you saying that the mist covering the entire sea is the holy breath exhaled by that supreme being?"

Chu Xiu was greatly shocked.

Mo Lie grinned: "For us, this mist is an inexhaustible source of cultivation resources!"

"As long as you can absorb and refine energy for your own use, you can have as much as you want!"

Chu Xiu suddenly realized.

It is precisely because of such a large amount of cultivation resources that the cultivation levels of the ghosts in the Misty Sea, as well as those like Mo Lie who collude with the ghosts, are so high...

Faced with Mo Lie's urging, Chu Xiu had no choice but to carefully control his magic power, retrieve a small wisp of mist from the fog, and refine it in front of Mo Lie.

After a few breaths, Chu Xiu removed the impurities from the mist, and the extracted substance was just like the ghostly energy inside those ghostly objects.

Chu Xiu opened his mouth and swallowed the small ball of ghost energy in his hand. Without Chu Xiu's deliberate effort, the imperial energy in his body absorbed the ghost energy that had entered his body, instantly transforming it into pure and harmless energy, which was stored in Chu Xiu's lower dantian for later use.

Chu Xiu opened his eyes, smiled and nodded at Mo Lie's curious gaze.

"Good lad! I've really struck gold!"

"You actually managed to refine, purify, and absorb this mist that was mixed with countless random impurities!"

In front of Chu Xiu, Mo Lie opened a gap in the black mist surrounding him, letting in a wisp of fog.

The moment this wisp of mist touched Mo Lie's arm, it corroded his skin, leaving a bloody wound.

Chu Xiu frowned, suppressing his anger and killing intent with all his might, trying his best to make his expression appear calm.

That old bastard actually deceived me!

If I didn't actually have the ability to refine mist, I would probably have been corroded into a pool of blood by that mist long ago!

Chu Xiu dared not lower his guard against Mo Lie again.

A beast will always be a beast!

This old man is wicked; we must be wary of him...