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

Chu Xiu took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, calming himself down.

Now that I am in a dangerous place, I cannot allow my Dao heart to waver in the slightest.

He picked up the fallen soul weapon and, without hesitation, infused it with a strand of his divine soul essence.

The Soul Weapon is now ownerless. Chu Xiu only needs to plant his own Soul Imprint on the Soul Weapon to become its new master.

However, after completing the soul imprint engraving, Chu Xiu suddenly had an extremely dangerous premonition.

This Flame Divine Weapon seems to be more than just an unclaimed soul weapon!

The once dull and lifeless Flame Divine Weapon, after receiving the power of Chu Xiu's divine soul, reignited with the eerie green flames that the Butterfly Queen called the Demon-Slaying Flame, which floated up from Chu Xiu's palm.

The next second, it began to spin rapidly and shot straight toward Anu!

"careful!"

The first to react was the Butterfly Queen, who had the highest cultivation level present. After seeing that Chu Xiu was unable to stop the attack of the Flame Divine Weapon, she acted in time to knock the Flame Divine Weapon away from A Nu's face, preventing an accident from happening.

"Damn it!"

Chu Xiu was filled with anger and confusion. He couldn't understand why this soul weapon was not under his control and was instead searching for enemies on its own, nearly killing A Nu...

He reached out and summoned back the Flame Divine Weapon, but the soul weapon struggled in Chu Xiu's tightly clenched hand, as if it would attack the Butterfly Queen and A Nu again if Chu Xiu let go.

"Chu Xiu? What's wrong? Can't you control it?" Butterfly Queen asked, frowning.

Chu Xiu nodded emphatically: "I can't fully control this soul weapon. It has become sentient, and it seems that something is directing it to attack you!"

Chu Xiu gripped the Flame Divine Weapon tightly in his hand and probed it with his divine sense, but found no abnormalities that could be manipulated by others.

However, judging from the spiritual feedback received from the Flame Divine Weapon, it seems that apart from killing demons, it is at the mercy of its new master.

At that moment, fragmented memories flashed back within Chu Xiu's mind.

These fragments of memory come from the Flame God Weapon, which has already developed sentience.

The fragments all depict its former master, the Azure Flame Demon Emperor, driving it to annihilate countless demons in a great battle.

Chu Xiu suddenly realized: This Flame Divine Weapon, influenced by its former master's bloodlust and the demonic blood it was tainted with, had made killing demons its instinct and destiny.

Mistakenly believing that the only purpose of being awakened was to help the new master kill demons and enemies, she took the action of breaking away from Chu Xiu's control.

Chu Xiu fell into deep thought. He lowered his head and opened his palm.

These hands, seemingly spotless, are like this Fiery Divine Weapon, already stained with the blood of countless people, creating countless killings.

However, unlike Yan Shenbing, the killings he created were always the victims' just deserts.

His killings stemmed from good intentions and ultimately ended in good deeds; they were not acts of disregarding human life or indiscriminately killing innocent people.

Even though there are countless helpless situations in the world, and it is impossible to distinguish between good and evil by the words "good" and "evil," he has never committed murder with malice. His heart is rooted in goodness, and his original intention remains unchanged. Therefore, he will not be like this incomplete Yan Shenbing, who is controlled by killing.

For Chu Xiu, eliminating evil was merely a process; its cause was good, and its result was also good.

But the Flame Divine Weapon was created by its former master for the purpose of slaughter; its cause was evil, and its consequence was also evil.

Chu Xiu had a premonition that if he wanted to completely control the Flame Divine Weapon, he had to remove the cause and effect of the endless killing it had caused!

The cause was the Azure Flame Demon Emperor's manipulation, and the result was the slaughter inflicted by the Flame Divine Weapon.

The killing by the Flame Divine Weapon was the cause, and the deaths of countless demons were the result;

The cause is being burdened by the karma of killing, and the result is becoming a killing machine.

Chu Xiu opened his eyes, no longer suppressing his divine soul power, allowing it to break through the bottleneck of the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm and take the final step towards the Reincarnation Realm.

What he needs to do now is to use the power of the Heavenly Dao that he attracted when he broke through to remove these causes and effects from the Flame Divine Weapon!

"What happened to Young Master Chu?"

Chu Xiu had been lost in thought for a long time. Mo Lie couldn't help but ask a question. He looked at the Flame Divine Weapon in Chu Xiu's hand, but dared not go forward to examine it.

"He has had an epiphany; do not disturb him."

The Butterfly Queen could tell Chu Xiu's current state at a glance. From her perspective, there was a faint gathering of Heavenly Dao power on Chu Xiu's body, and it seemed that an extremely mysterious Dao essence was slowly condensing between his brows.

This is Chu Xiu's journey of understanding the Dao of Heaven, and also a sign that he is about to enter the realm of reincarnation.

"Retreat quickly!"

"Chu Xiu is about to break through!"

The Butterfly Queen pulled Ah Nu along, and their figures shot back dozens of miles before stopping.

Mo Lie followed closely behind.

Chu Xiu's robes fluttered without wind, his aura gradually surged, and finally soared into the sky.

Mo Lie looked up at the sky, then turned to the Butterfly Queen and asked, "This is the Rock Demon Tomb space. Can the laws of heaven and earth here support Young Master Chu in completing his breakthrough?"

The Butterfly Queen nodded slightly: "This world is not a closed small plane; it still has connections with the outside world, so it does not affect the flow of the power of heaven and earth."

She looked at Chu Xiu, her delicate brows furrowing slightly, realizing that what Chu Xiu wanted was not just a simple breakthrough to the Reincarnation Realm.

The Butterfly Queen looked at the Flame Divine Weapon in Chu Xiu's hand, and lowered her brows in deep thought:

"This soul weapon has been radiating hostility towards me and the little girl from beginning to end. This hostility seems to stem from its bloodlust..."

"Could it be that Chu Xiu intends to use the laws of heaven and earth to strip away the killing intent that affects the spirit of the soul weapon?"

"But this concerns severing causality, which is something that the Reincarnation Realm cannot accomplish..."

The Butterfly Queen asked herself honestly, even at her peak, she couldn't use the laws of Heaven to sever cause and effect.

If she could do that, she would have already severed the karmic ties for her people who had become demons and restored them to their true forms.

Chu Xiu looked up at the sky, where countless forces of heaven and earth converged, eventually forming a tribulation cloud that covered the entire plane's sky, with thunder dragons surging and ready to strike.

Without any hesitation, he leaped into the face of the calamity clouds.

If Chu Xiu wants to help the Flame Divine Weapon sever the karmic ties of killing, the first thing he needs to do is to sever the karmic ties of killing he himself created in the past.

This was the only method he had come up with in his mind; only by starting with himself and then extending to others could he achieve his goal.

He didn't know why he knew how to sever the causal link between killing and karma, but he was absolutely certain that he could do it if he did it...

"This feeling... is like going back to the time when I had the system..."

Chu Xiu smiled slightly and resolutely rushed into the tribulation clouds.

The sky was filled with furious tribulation clouds, which shot out thousands of lightning dragons towards Chu Xiu. Each lightning dragon was enough to kill a late-stage Transcendent Realm expert instantly!

The tribulation of reincarnation has arrived!