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

Mo Lie stared intently at Chu Xiu, who had been tricked but remained completely unfazed, his eyes gleaming with an eerie red light. The more he looked, the more satisfied he became with this disciple he had taken in.

He reached out and patted Chu Xiu on the shoulder, grinning as he said, "Disciple, five thousand miles further east lies the western border of the Eastern Continent."

“Our Demon Yan Sect has always had a rule that newly recruited disciples from outside must rely on themselves to complete the final five thousand miles of journey.”

"Only those who survive are qualified to truly enter the field!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu knew something was wrong and focused intently on preparing for any unexpected situations that might arise.

Sure enough, before the old demon could finish speaking, he grabbed Chu Xiu's arm and threw him straight out of the protective black mist!

Chu Xiu held his breath and, the instant he was flung out of the black mist, channeled the imperial energy from his dantian to envelop his entire body, thus avoiding being completely enveloped by this endless, eerie mist.

"Hehehe...Good disciple, your master will be waiting for you at the ancestral land of our sect."

"Don't even think about running away. You have a divine soul mark I planted on you. If you don't come to find your master within six months, the mark will detonate on its own!"

"Even if you are already dead, you will be left with a mangled corpse!"

"……Good luck!"

As Chu Xiu's body plummeted rapidly, Mo Lie's voice gradually faded into the distance.

Only then did Chu Xiu realize that it was impossible to fly through the air using his Qi on the Misty Sea!

Even though his divine sense couldn't reach beyond ten meters around him, he could still see countless dark shadows lingering around him with his blurry vision.

Chu Xiu tried to use the Vortex Technique to create a spatial vortex beneath himself to escape the danger, but he was unable to do so due to the rapid descent.

Left with no other choice, Chu Xiu had to risk being discovered by Mo Lie, who might not have gone far away, and release his imperial aura completely, condensing it into several golden thunder dragons to dispel the mist within a thousand meters around him.

After descending for several dozen breaths, Chu Xiu finally saw the calm sea surface a thousand meters below him.

Without hesitation, he unleashed his indestructible golden body, only to discover that, restricted by some kind of celestial law within the Misty Sea, he could only unleash a dharma body that was exactly the same size as his original form…

Such a physical body can only slightly increase the strength of the physical body to cope with the impending fall damage.

With a loud crash as Chu Xiu plunged vertically into the water, his body slammed into the misty sea. Just as his tense heart was about to relax, a gaping maw emerged from the pitch-black depths of the sea and lunged to devour him!

Fortunately, this sea monster's method of swallowing was no different from that of ordinary wild beasts and whales. After Chu Xiu was swallowed, he immediately chose a place to land, used the Vortex Technique to create a spatial vortex, set the opposite coordinates to six thousand miles to the east, and then stepped into it.

Just as Chu Xiu's figure was about to be completely engulfed by the vortex, a bloody hand suddenly reached in from outside the vortex and slapped Chu Xiu on the back!

Even though Chu Xiu was aware of this and slightly turned his body, this palm strike almost dented Chu Xiu's right shoulder and shattered his shoulder bone, which was still in the Golden Body state!

This attack severely injured Chu Xiu, and even his soul was almost shattered!

"Damn it!"

Chu Xiu cursed inwardly. He had assumed that Mo Lie had discovered his use of imperial aura.

But when he struggled to turn around and try to see the face of the person who attacked him, a pale, cold, and stunningly beautiful face appeared before him.

She was a woman who was completely naked, but whose body was covered in blood.

Her grey eyes were fixed on Chu Xiu, who was gradually disappearing from her sight as the spatial vortex merged.

"Give me back the imperial aura..."

Chu Xiu only heard the gray-eyed woman's stammering words before he saw the surrounding space rapidly shift. In less than three breaths, his figure appeared high in the sky under the setting sun, and then plummeted downwards.

Beneath him lay an endless continent of black earth.

It's free fall again!

Chu Xiu was on the verge of tears. Now, severely injured, unable to lift his right arm, and with his mind unstable, he had no power left to mobilize. He could only rely on his still indestructible golden body to tough it out...

His body pierced through layers of clouds, plummeting rapidly from a height of thousands of feet.

In the Eastern Continent Demon Realm, within the protective formation of a demon sect located on the western coast, dozens of demon cultivators at the early stage of the Void Breaking Realm were bowing and worshipping a tall stone statue.

Not far away, hundreds of demonic cultivators at the Void Breaking Realm, led by three Great Perfection Void Breaking Realm cultivators, were fiercely attacking the sect's protective formation, causing the formation to tremble and seem unlikely to hold for long.

"Lord Asura above, the Flame Demon Kingdom has gone too far in bullying the Demon Sect, a branch of my Asura clan. Now the sect is in imminent danger of destruction. We beg the Lord Asura for mercy and divine punishment to annihilate our enemy!"

The priestess who presided over the ceremony was only at the Great Perfection of the Void Breaking Realm. She knelt on the ground, weeping and full of sorrow, praying for salvation from the Demon Lord she believed in.

The next moment, a golden light, reflecting the afterglow of the setting sun, descended from the sky, shattering the already crumbling protective array of the Demon Luo Sect. It crashed down on the Demon Lord's stone statue, which the members of the Demon Luo Sect were worshipping, and smashed it to pieces.

A young man in a tight-fitting outfit, whose right shoulder was sunken and who was seriously injured, appeared before the crowd, but whose body was covered in golden light.

Chu Xiu scrambled out of the human-shaped crater he had created, and before he could catch his breath, he saw two groups of people in front of him, one looking at him with surprise and the other with suspicion.

"The Demon...the Demon Lord has manifested?"

"The Demon Lord has manifested!"

The group of people closest to Chu Xiu changed from surprise to ecstasy, and then embraced the people next to them, weeping with joy.

The group of people further away from him still looked at Chu Xiu with surprise and doubt. Even though the protective formation that had previously blocked their progress had been shattered, they still dared not take a single step forward.

"Demon Lord! I pay my respects to the Demon Lord!"

The leading female high priestess of the Demon Sect was the first to recover from her shock and ecstasy. With a sob in her voice, she shouted loudly and led her disciples to kneel down in worship of Chu Xiu.

She was now at a loss and no longer cared whether the severely injured young man in front of her was the legendary Demon Lord.

Even if it's a lie, we can't let the hopes of our followers be completely shattered!

Only a deep-seated desire for life can help one's disciples turn the tide in such a desperate situation!

Chu Xiu was somewhat bewildered, but when he realized that the strongest among these people was only at the Great Perfection of the Void Breaking Realm, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if he was seriously injured, he was not someone that a mere monster in the Void Breaking Realm could easily take advantage of.

He glanced at the demons bowing and worshipping him in front of him, then looked at the group of demons in the distance, weapons in hand and covered in blood, and began to understand the plight of the demons around him.

"Is it really that difficult to wipe out an entire family..."

Looking at the crowd kneeling before him, pleading desperately, Chu Xiu couldn't help but think of the mortals he hadn't had time to save when he was in the lower realm, those who had died tragically at the hands of the elders of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

"That's all..."

Chu Xiu raised his left hand and pointed at the group of demons in the distance.

An invisible pressure from the Transcendent Realm appeared out of thin air above the group of people, then suddenly descended, crushing these demons into a pile of minced meat.

Having completed this step, Chu Xiu staggered forward, reached out his left hand to grasp the priestess's chin, lifted her beautiful face, which was brimming with tears, and whispered:

"Your enemies are dead, stop worshiping..."

"First, find me a secluded place to heal my wounds."

The priestess was taken aback, then nodded hastily. As she turned to look for her enemy, she only saw a pool of bloody flesh in the distance.

"He's really... dead!"

The despair in the priestess's eyes vanished instantly, replaced by the resolute determination of a decision-maker.

"The Demon Lord has appeared! The enemy has been annihilated!"

"Pass on my order: close the sect!"

"Recall all disciples and elders who are out on missions. Those who fail to return after being summoned will be considered traitors!"

"Yes!"