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

Although Chu Xiu's injuries were enough for the high priest in charge of the Demon Luo Sect to see that his appearance was definitely not a manifestation of the Demon Lord.

However, Chu Xiu's aura instilled a genuine fear in the high priest who was at the peak of the Void Breaking Realm.

It was as if the person standing in front of her was not just a Transcendent Realm expert who was a realm higher than her, but a... unfathomable god!

With this feeling lingering in his mind, and given that Chu Xiu had indeed intervened and averted the imminent annihilation of the Demon Luo Sect, the high priest naturally dared not neglect Chu Xiu.

He immediately instructed everyone to arrange a secluded retreat for Chu Xiu, one with the most abundant spiritual energy in the world, to heal his injuries. He even provided countless rare and precious medicinal herbs.

These rare and precious materials are extremely rare and hard to come by for this group of Void Breaking Realm cultivators, but they are of little use to Chu Xiu.

To prevent any unforeseen incidents from occurring here while I am recovering,

Chu Xiu immediately activated the Lesser Thousand Heavenly Dao Formless Power within his body, transforming it into an invisible protective barrier that prevented anyone below the Transcendent Realm from taking even half a step inside, covering an area of ​​a thousand miles, including the Demon Luo Sect's territory.

He then gave dozens of wooden tokens imbued with Chu Xiu's magical power to the high priests in charge, allowing members of the Demon Luo Sect to enter and exit.

Afterwards, Chu Xiu ignored the situation caused by his appearance among the Demon Luo Sect members and officially entered a state of seclusion to heal his injuries.

The injuries that mysterious woman inflicted on Chu Xiu were extremely serious.

The flesh and bone injury in his right shoulder was the easiest part to treat.

Even with all his might, he could not stabilize his divine soul, and the damage to it was Chu Xiu's greatest hidden danger of injury!

It should be noted that the only one who can draw upon the imperial aura within his body is Chu Xiu's divine soul.

If one's soul is unstable, one will be unable to unleash one's strongest techniques.

Without the imperial aura, Chu Xiu would only be a slightly stronger Transcendent Realm expert, completely insignificant compared to a Reincarnation Realm expert.

According to Chu Xiu's estimate, even with the help of all the rare and precious materials in his storage space that stabilize his soul, it would still take him at least two years to repair the damage to his soul.

However, the mark that Mo Lie planted in his body will detonate on its own in six months!

At that time, he will surely die...

With things having come to this, Chu Xiu had no choice but to first heal his physical injuries and completely restore his soul before seeking another method.

Once you enter a state of seclusion, it becomes difficult to truly feel the passage of time.

By the time Chu Xiu's physical injuries had fully healed, four months, a full one hundred and twenty days, had passed in the outside world.

As Chu Xiu finished his seclusion and carefully examined his physical body for any remaining hidden dangers, a barely audible sigh came from outside the secluded stone chamber, accompanied by a quiet conversation between two women.

Chu Xiu recognized the sigh as coming from the high priestess in charge of the Demon Luo Sect.

"Sect Master... the Demon Lord has been in seclusion for four months, and there's still no sign of him emerging..."

"The magical barrier that the Demon Lord cast before going into seclusion could not withstand the combined attack of dozens of Transcendent Realm experts from the Flame Demon Kingdom; it has been broken!"

“Now my Demon Luo Sect only has a hundred Void Breakers left, and you and I are only at the early True Transcendence stage. How could we possibly withstand the invasion of the entire Flame Demon Kingdom…”

The priestess, listening to the complaints of another woman dressed smartly in the night beside her, turned to look at the stone chamber with its tightly closed stone door and sighed.

"Sister Xueye...is that person inside really the Asura Demon Lord we worship and believe in day and night...?"

Upon hearing the woman beside her question, the high priestess immediately said sternly, "Frostfall! Shut up!"

"I don't want to hear such remarks a third time!"

Dressed as an assassin, Shuangluo could only obediently lower her head and admit her mistake when she saw her sister's anger: "I understand..."

Dressed as a priestess, Xueye saw her younger sister's aggrieved expression and, filled with concern, pulled her into her arms to comfort her:

"...Even if he isn't, what hope can we possibly have..."

"If it weren't for him, my Demon Luo Sect would have been destroyed four months ago, and that Dao Source Fruit would have fallen into the hands of the Flame Demon Kingdom Lord long ago..."

"Sister, why don't we give that Dao Source Fruit to the Flame Demon King to avert disaster..."

"Silly sister, my Demon Luo Sect has been a thorn in the side of the Flame Demon Kingdom's ruler for over a thousand years. Now that my sect has fallen into decline, the Dao Source Fruit is nothing but an excuse..."

"..."

"The Dao Source Fruit? This is indeed a good thing that can help me repair my soul!"

Inside the stone chamber, Chu Xiu learned about the background and causes of the current situation of the Demon Luo Sect from the conversation between the two sisters.

It turns out that the Demon Luo Sect is just a small demon clan sect in the Western Continent of the Eastern Continent, under the jurisdiction of the superior power, the Flame Demon Kingdom.

In a struggle for cultivation resources with a similarly powerful force in the Central Continent, the ruler of the Flame Demon Kingdom suffered severe damage to his divine soul and needed a large number of rare and precious materials to help repair it.

The Demon Luo Sect, which was on par with the Flame Demon Kingdom a thousand years ago but has now declined, was invaded by the Flame Demon Kingdom because it possessed an extremely precious Dao Source Fruit that could heal most of the Flame Demon Kingdom's divine soul injury.

Possessing a treasure is a crime; if it weren't for Chu Xiu's sudden arrival, the Demon Luo Sect would have faced annihilation four months ago.

Now, four months later, the entire Yanmo Kingdom has launched an attack, and the Moluo Sect has nowhere to retreat.

The members of the Demon Sect could only pray that Chu Xiu would emerge from seclusion soon and help them, the devout followers of the Demon Lord, to withstand this calamity.

Chu Xiu felt that he was a newcomer and had no connection with the Demon Luo Sect. He had already repaid the Demon Luo Sect for providing him with this secluded place by helping him, and he did not want to cause any more trouble.

But that Dao Source Fruit is what Chu Xiu desperately wants now.

However, according to the two sisters, dozens of experts at the Transcendent Realm have arrived from the Flame Demon Kingdom.

This scale was something that Chu Xiu, whose mind was currently unstable, could not fully handle...

Should they seize it by force... or should they grant the request of the Demon Sect...?

Just as Chu Xiu was considering how to obtain the Dao Source Fruit from the Demon Luo Sect, which was enough to heal his soul injuries—

Outside the stone chamber, the woman named Shuangluo suddenly proposed an idea:

"Sister...do you know why that person inside is in seclusion? Is it because of an injury?"

"Why don't we offer the Dao Source Fruit to that person and ask him to come out of seclusion and save the Demon Luo Sect..."

Upon hearing this, the high priestess Xueye's eyes darkened, and she sighed inwardly.

His silly little sister had no idea.

To absorb the Dao Source Fruit, which has been offered up for a thousand years by the successive high priestesses of the Demon Luo Sect, the current high priestess must offer her sacrifice and guidance in order to help the person consuming the Dao Source Fruit fully absorb it...

Even so, this is the only option left...

As Xue Ye reached out and flipped his hand, an apple-sized fruit, emitting white light, completely transparent, and exuding an enticing aroma, appeared in his palm.

As soon as the Dao Source Fruit appeared, Chu Xiu suddenly stood up.

His soul had already sensed the aura of the Dao Source Fruit and sent a message of longing to Chu Xiu's brain.

"That person, however, suffered considerable injuries..."

"This Origin Fruit, though it is the most precious treasure left by our sect's ancestor, we currently lack the strength to protect it..."

“You’re right. Rather than watching it be stolen by the Balrog’s minions, it’s better to…”

The priestess seemed to have made up her mind, holding the Dao Source Fruit in both hands, and came to the tightly closed stone door.

Little did they know, Chu Xiu, unable to suppress his inner turmoil, was also standing before this door.

The only distance between the two was the stone door, which was less than two meters thick.

"This maid, Xueye, requests an audience with the Demon Lord!"