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

Chu Xiu stood in mid-air, swallowed up by the sky full of tribulation clouds.

Surrounded by thousands of thunder dragons, he closed his eyes, letting the lightning strike his flesh and blood mercilessly.

Despite the excruciating pain his body was enduring, Chu Xiu's heart remained at peace.

In his mind, the killings he had committed in the past, along with the fragmented memories of Yan Shenbing, replayed over and over again.

A full day had passed, and Chu Xiu's body was already a bloody mess under the erosion of the lightning tribulation power, yet he remained unmoved.

If the three people below hadn't been able to sense Chu Xiu's presence from afar, they would have almost thought he had fainted.

"What is he doing?" Mo Lie finally couldn't help but ask.

Ah Nu shook his head, puzzled.

Cultivators who normally undergo reincarnation and advance through the Heavenly Tribulation cherish the time when the Heavenly Tribulation descends, using the lightning tribulation to temper their physical bodies and attempting to extract a trace of the power of law from it for their own use.

If one can successfully seize a trace of the power of the laws of heaven and earth, one will have a greater chance of winning in battles against cultivators of the same realm.

But Chu Xiu simply stood there foolishly amidst the heavenly tribulation, letting the lightning strike his body...

If this continues unchecked, the very foundation of one's being will be destroyed by the lightning tribulation, which would be a great loss!

Unlike Anu and Molie, who were filled with doubt and confusion, Butterfly Queen could vaguely see that Chu Xiu was still in a state of enlightenment.

In this state, which even she rarely witnessed, Chu Xiu was able to more fully and thoroughly comprehend the power of the Heavenly Dao Laws brought about by the Tribulation of Reincarnation.

Perhaps Chu Xiu can truly achieve a miracle that even she, as one of the three great emperors of the demon race, could not accomplish—stripping away cause and effect!

“Stripping away cause and effect…if he can really do that, perhaps he can help me too…”

The Butterfly Queen's gaze gradually turned serious. She suddenly realized that the human youth in front of her was becoming increasingly difficult to understand and predict.

Just how far has his potential reached...?

The Butterfly Queen instructed A'Nu and Mo Lie:

"Spread out your guard and protect Chu Xiu. Do not allow anyone or anything to disturb Chu Xiu!"

"understand!"

time flies.

Chu Xiu has been suspended in the air for ten days!

If the Butterfly Queen hadn't been able to sense the power of the Heavenly Dao Laws emanating from him from time to time, she would have almost thought that Chu Xiu had lost consciousness.

The clouds of reincarnation had long since dissipated, and Chu Xiu's battered body continued to repair itself.

Chu Xiu, however, remained immersed in a strange state.

He knew only that even with his eyes closed, he could see the killings committed by Yan Shenbing, A Nu, Mo Lie, Die Huang, and everyone else slumbering in this underground palace.

Countless bloody images replayed endlessly in his mind.

He felt desolate; apart from desolation, he couldn't feel any other emotion of his own.

This sorrow stems from the helplessness of having to face fate and commit murder; it is also from the realization that once these people, including oneself, commit murder, there is no way to escape the consequences for eternity.

No living being comes into this world with the intention of committing murder and staining its hands with blood.

Every living being has its own reasons for doing this!

This is cause and effect.

All grudges and causes should vanish with the complete death of one party!

This cycle of cause and effect should not be allowed to continue, lingering through lifetimes!

But in this world, no one can truly sever ties with cause and effect, or completely cut off all grudges...

People are forever obsessed with blood feuds, generation after generation, all becoming slaves to hatred!

Since no one else can do it, then Chu Xiu will become the number one person in this world!

After a full ten days, Chu Xiu finally opened his eyes, his gaze filled with determination.

He could feel that the power of the Heavenly Dao within his body was more abundant and powerful than ever before.

It seemed that the hundreds of thousands of emperor-like auras within him were constantly providing energy to the power of the Heavenly Dao, making him feel as if he were the Heavenly Dao itself at this moment!

Chu Xiu reached out and summoned the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler, which had been dormant in the storage space for a long time, and it finally saw the light of day again.

He allowed the power of the Heavenly Dao within him to fill his entire body and the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler. At this moment, even the Butterfly Queen, a peerless expert of the Qiankun Realm, was captivated by the aura emanating from Chu Xiu.

At the same moment, both A'nu and Mo Lie were struck in the soul and instantly fell unconscious.

"That's... the Celestial Emperor's Ruler of Heaven?!"

"No...it's the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler, how could it be in Chu Xiu's hands..."

The Butterfly Queen steadied herself and recognized the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler in Chu Xiu's hand.

However, Chu Xiu was unable to answer her questions at the moment.

In a daze, Chu Xiu found himself holding the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler, but with all his cultivation gone, appearing in the memory scenes he had seen from the Flame Divine Weapon.

Everywhere you look, there are bloody scenes of countless demons and monsters killing each other.

What I heard was the abuser's maniacal laughter and screams, and the victim's cries of pain and wails.

Chu Xiu found himself immersed in this infernal world of demons and monsters fighting, until only one demon and one monster remained on the battlefield, barely clinging to life.

Both of you are above the Qiankun Realm!

This powerful demon was none other than the former master of the Flame Divine Weapon—the Azure Flame Demon God Emperor, the supreme ruler of all demon gods in the demon realm, and the strongest demon in that era.

Chu Xiu, however, was unaware of that powerful demon.

The only clue that could be gleaned from his dragon-shaped true form was that this powerful demon was a peerless expert from the dragon race.

Someone who can fight the strongest in the demon realm to a standstill cannot be an unknown figure.

The two peerless experts in the flashback seemed to have exchanged a few words, but Chu Xiu couldn't hear them no matter what he tried.

The final scene freezes on two peerless powerhouses locked in hand-to-hand combat, with the Azure Flame Demon Emperor wielding his Flame Divine Weapon to utterly crush both the dragon clan's peerless powerhouse's head and his own...

Chu Xiu was utterly shocked...

This great battle between demons ended with not a single participant surviving...

The Flame Divine Weapon, as the end point of this bloody war, has remained to this day.

"No wonder... the newly sentient Flame Divine Weapon is so engrossed in slaughter; it turns out it's been corrupted by the killing intent of this battlefield and the two peerless experts!"

Chu Xiu noticed with his sharp eyes a thin, almost invisible, blood-red line connecting the Flame Divine Weapon in his hand to the two peerless powerhouses in the frozen scene before him.

A piece of information immediately flashed into Chu Xiu's mind—this crimson line was the cause and effect that led the Flame Divine Weapon to fall into slaughter!

With lightning speed, he swung the Heaven-Suppressing Ruler in his hand, channeling the power of the Heavenly Dao to sever the blood-red line in one strike!

The frozen memory before my eyes shattered and vanished along with the disappearance of the crimson line.

Chu Xiu looked gently at the Flame Divine Weapon floating in his hand, radiating a ghostly green flame.

"The past is gone. Your karmic entanglements with the Demon Emperor and your old enemies are now settled and wiped clean!"