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

A'Nu and Mo Lie exchanged glances and nodded, stopping their attacks and flashing back to Chu Xiu's side.

Chu Xiu also stopped, took out a drop from the jar of Blood Demon Source in his storage space, and used his spiritual energy to flick it into the largest pool of turbid blood not far away.

The instant the drop of Blood Demon Source hit the ground, all the low-level Blood Demons present, whether they remained in their ferocious beast forms or had been defeated by Chu Xiu and his companions and turned into a pool of blood, seemed to be starving to the extreme, howling as they rushed toward the location of the Blood Demon Source.

As countless blood demons continued to gather and merge, soon a gigantic blood demon, tens of thousands of feet tall, appeared before Chu Xiu and his companions.

Upon its appearance, the ten-thousand-foot-tall blood demon let out a deafening roar and lunged toward the three of them with a fierce glint in its eyes, its target Chu Xiu.

"So what if he's huge? He's still only at the early stage of reincarnation!"

Mo Lie sneered, took a step forward, shielding Chu Xiu and A Nu behind him, and pointed towards the towering Blood Demon.

The divine power within his body, stirred by divine thought, transformed into a dazzling golden light, which shot out from his fingertips and hurtled towards the ten-thousand-foot-tall blood demon.

With just this one finger, the power blasted most of the ten-thousand-foot-tall Blood Demon's body into dust!

As Chu Xiu had predicted, the remaining corpse of the Blood Demon did not revive, and no new low-level Blood Demons were produced in the lava lake.

Immediately after the Blood Demon died, a teleportation portal appeared inside the palace behind the three.

"That's it?" Mo Lie flicked his sleeves, looking disdainful.

Chu Xiu said helplessly, "This ten-thousand-foot blood demon is only a mid-level blood demon. It's best to be careful."

A mere Blood Demon at the early stage of the Reincarnation Realm is no match for Mo Lie, who, even after suppressing his cultivation, is still at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm.

If Mo Lie hadn't accompanied them this time, Chu Xiu and A Nu alone would have inevitably had to fight a bloody battle with him.

Chu Xiu looked at A Nu. When he was taken away from the Southern Continent by Mo Lie, A Nu, who appeared to be a little flower fairy but was actually the progenitor of the Blood Burial Flower Fairy under the Phoenix Emperor, did not show any strength.

Now, when they meet again, she is already a Great Perfection Realm Transcending Truth Realm cultivator. It must be the Phoenix Emperor who helped her awaken her Fire Phoenix bloodline...

Chu Xiu leaped to the Blood Demon's half-dead corpse and said to Mo Lie:

"Old Demon, try your technique to see if you can refine the Blood Demon's corpse."

Mo Lie nodded and immediately tried to activate the sub-version of the Supreme Heaven and Earth Technique, but it had no effect whatsoever.

"I'll try."

Chu Xiu stepped forward and activated the complete version of the Supreme Heaven and Earth Technique, but he could only barely refine a pure energy ball the size of a palm. This amount of energy was negligible compared to the consumption of the three of them.

But it was better than nothing, so Chu Xiu divided the small ball of pure energy into three equal parts and distributed them to Mo Lie and A Nu.

"What kind of technique is this? It can extract such pure and unclaimed energy from the bodies of other creatures?"

A'Nu took the ball of energy that Chu Xiu handed over and asked curiously.

Chu Xiu smiled slightly: "It's a secret."

Anu rolled her eyes at him, not intending to press the matter further. She immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, opened her mouth and swallowed the energy ball, restoring her reserves of magical power and spiritual power.

Chu Xiu and Mo Lie exchanged a smile and sat down to recover their energy.

Half an hour later, the three of them stepped into the teleportation tunnel together. A blinding light flashed before their eyes, and when they opened their eyes again, they were already in another palace.

Chu Xiu did not experience any confusion during this teleportation, which was enough to show that this space was still in the second level of the inner palace of the underground palace, and their teleportation was just a horizontal teleportation.

Chu Xiu came to the outside of the palace and looked out.

Far to the north, almost indistinguishable in location, lies a massive, erupting volcano.

That should be the location where the three of them were before.

Chu Xiu turned his head and looked eastward.

About a hundred miles away, there were more than a dozen huge tombs, three of which had strange divine light shooting into the sky.

"...Before the Butterfly Queen arrived, who exactly was the master of this tomb..."

"This place... is like a cemetery, with so many graves."

Anu came to Chu Xiu's side and explained, "The divine light shooting into the sky means that the tomb has not yet been opened or explored."

"Your intelligence gathering is quite good." Chu Xiu smiled slightly. "What else do you know?"

Anu replied, "It should be noon outside the underground palace."

"The gates to the underground palace have been opened, and a large number of cultivators have poured into this place. It is inevitable that they will have to fight with other cultivators next."

Mo Lie laughed heartily: "It doesn't matter! I'll kill one if one comes, and I'll wipe out a pair if two come!"

Chu Xiu said helplessly, "Elder Demon, if the other cultivators don't start trouble first, then don't go looking for trouble."

"Hey, I understand."

"Let's go, let's take a closer look."

As soon as Chu Xiu finished speaking, the three of them took off and flew towards the nearest Divine Light Tomb.

Even before reaching the tomb, murmurs of discussion could be heard.

Chu Xiu and his two companions stood suspended in mid-air above the tomb, looking down at the more than thirty cultivators gathered in front of it. These cultivators seemed to have formed a team and were still recruiting passing cultivators, seemingly wanting to join forces to explore the tomb.

Chu Xiu scanned the area with his divine sense and was quite surprised.

These thirty-odd cultivators were all powerful individuals at or above the late stage of the Transcendent Realm.

The five leading cultivators had all reached the highest cultivation level required to enter this underground palace—the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm.

There was even a cultivator whose true cultivation level could not be detected by Chu Xiu and Mo Lie using their divine sense!

Chu Xiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration: this cave world was only accessible to cultivators at the highest level of the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm.

But it remains to be seen whether someone at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm, already within a cave-heaven, will be able to break through their cultivation level within that cave-heaven world…

If so, wouldn't that mean that among the cultivators who entered this world thousands of years ago when the cave world first opened and have not left, there might be cultivators at the Reincarnation Realm?

Chu Xiu shared this idea with A Nu and Mo Lie. Upon hearing it, the two nodded in unison, and looked at the only one among the group of cultivators who they couldn't see through, becoming more vigilant.

"Everyone!"

"Today, all of you fellow cultivators have gathered here solely to conquer this underground tomb, which has remained unexplored since the opening of the inner palace!"

"I, along with the other four fellow Daoists at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm, hereby guarantee that whoever is the first to obtain any rare and precious materials or treasures within this underground tomb during our exploration will be entitled to possess them! No one may contest them before we leave the tomb!"

"Anyone who violates this rule will be killed by me and the other four fellow cultivators at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm! The relics will be divided equally!"

Chu Xiu listened to the sounds coming from below and couldn't help but sneer.

This promise is utterly ridiculous.

If those five cultivators at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm joined forces, they would be able to wipe out all the other cultivators.

If the five of them wanted to kill and steal the treasure, who could stop them?

Chu Xiu looked at A Nu: "Do you know anything about this tomb?"

Anu nodded: "The owner of this tomb was from the Asura tribe of the Demon Clan, and it seems that he was at the late stage of the Reincarnation Realm before he died."

"So... these tombs are the graves of the demons who once dominated the demon realm..."

Chu Xiu warned, "The corpses of these tomb owners are very likely to have been corrupted by blood demons, otherwise this place could not possibly breed an endless stream of low-level blood demons. We must be careful!"

Seeing that Anu and Molie nodded, Chu Xiu looked down at the tomb.

"Let's go in and see if there's a way or route to the next level."