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

Just as Chu Xiu and the others were about to set off, a commotion suddenly came from the spatial teleportation channel behind them, and then a dozen or so cultivators appeared.

Chu Xiu frowned. These suddenly appearing cultivators were the same people who had gathered in front of the entrance to the Rock Demon Tomb.

"Could it be that the death of the Rock Demon caused the tomb entrance to open...?"

Before Chu Xiu could offer any advice, the leader of the group of cultivators, a cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm, caught a glint in his eyes as he spotted the area where blood energy was gathering in the distance, and exclaimed in surprise:

"There really is a treasure here!"

The other cultivators were also drawn to his exclamation. Only one of the elders who had spoken with Chu Xiu earlier noticed Chu Xiu and the others and flew over.

Unexpectedly, the Butterfly Queen suddenly frowned, glanced at the man sideways, and coldly shouted, "Get lost!"

A powerful aura of the Qiankun Realm swept over the old man, knocking him from mid-air and crashing him to the ground, creating a human-shaped hole.

The old man, his face bruised and swollen, crawled out of the hole in the ground, bowed to the Butterfly Queen from afar, and then turned back to his own group without daring to look back.

"Old Huang?"

"What... what's wrong with you?"

"Damn it, how come that kid in the Transcending Truth Realm has a Reincarnation Realm expert by his side, and a woman at that! I misjudged him..."

"Her? Doesn't that mean that kid has two Great Perfection Reincarnation Realm experts by his side?"

"Let's continue our treasure hunt as a group and not provoke them..."

With Chu Xiu's current perception after entering the Reincarnation Realm, the whispers of those leading True Transcending Realm cultivators could not escape his ears.

He glanced at the restless group of people and said, "Those people probably think that the strange phenomenon caused by the Blood Demon Emperor gathering blood energy in the underground palace is a rare treasure."

The Butterfly Queen gave a cold laugh: "Let them go. It's a good opportunity for them to investigate the true nature of that nest for us."

Before the Butterfly Queen finished speaking, the group, led by their leader who had reached the Great Perfection of the True Realm, flew towards the lair of the Blood Demon Emperor.

However, the closer one gets to the Blood Demon's lair, the thicker the surrounding blood energy becomes.

Blood energy is formed from the corpse of a demon god; if a cultivator accidentally inhales it, it will cause mental confusion and spiritual turmoil.

The dozen or so people had only flown a few miles when several cultivators at the early stage of the Transcendent Realm were corrupted by the blood energy and fell unconscious.

The leading group of Perfected Transcendent Realm cultivators merely glanced at it coldly before ignoring it and continuing to fly towards the location where the blood energy was gathering.

Chu Xiu and the Butterfly Queen simultaneously launched their divine sense probes, covering the nest from the left and right.

According to my divine sense, after entering the Blood Demon's lair, the number of cultivators dwindled to only five within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

Half an hour later, only the three leaders, who were at the peak of the Transcendent Realm, remained, their auras weak.

"Even those at the Great Perfection of the True Realm can't last an hour..."

Chu Xiu looked at A Nu. As far as he knew, although A Nu had awakened the foundation of her first life as the progenitor of the Blood Burial Flower Demon, her current cultivation level was only at the Transcendent Realm.

Anu smiled mischievously: "Don't worry about me."

She formed a mysterious and obscure hand seal and pressed it into her heart. The next moment, the aura within her body gradually surged, and within a few breaths, her cultivation level rose from the Transcendent Realm to the early stage of the Reincarnation Realm, making her comparable to Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu looked surprised. It seemed that this girl had been hiding her strength all along.

Mo Lie's eyes widened even more: "What's wrong with this little flower fairy?"

Anu glared at the old demon and jumped up, punching him: "You're the little flower demon! When I was born with intelligence within the Emperor's body, you probably weren't even born yet!"

Mo Lie looked incredulous: "How could that be? I'm almost ten thousand years old. How could you, a little girl, possibly be more senior than me?"

Chu Xiu shook his head helplessly: "Let's not argue about this."

He looked at Mo Lie: "Old Mo, I know you came here with me for another purpose."

"But I don't want to be enemies with you or Brother Ye. My goal with Butterfly Queen is simply to take back her true form and all her belongings from Blood Demon. That's all."

Mo Lie was taken aback, then nodded heavily: "Don't worry, Young Master Chu."

Seeing that Mo Lie was still unwilling to reveal his true purpose, Chu Xiu had no choice but to give up for the time being.

Chu Xiu heard Mo Lie's mutterings in the tomb of the Fire Phoenix Demon Emperor perfectly.

He and the elder brother he mentioned must be inextricably linked to the suffering of the Phoenix Emperor and the Butterfly Queen from the Blood Demon's torment. It's just unknown whether Ye Wujiang was also involved...

For a Yaksha king like Ye Wujiang to be so attentive to a mere human like himself, aside from his supposed attempt to ride the coattails of fate, there must be some ulterior motive.

Chu Xiu simply did not believe that a peerless expert who had lived for ten lifetimes would be so kind to him without any other reason.

But for Chu Xiu now, accepting his kindness is definitely better than refusing it.

After all, the worst outcome of refusing is being killed by them...

At least there's enough time to process what's happening.

Chu Xiu looked at the Butterfly Queen, who was standing just a palm's distance away from him.

And so, he finally found a savior who could rival Ye Wujiang.

The Butterfly Queen noticed Chu Xiu's gaze and gave him a brief, indifferent glance:

"Ready?"

Chu Xiu nodded emphatically: "Let's go!"

The place where blood and energy gathers was originally the main tomb of this demon god's underground palace.

It has now been transformed into their lair by the Blood Demons, and the entire tomb is covered with endless flesh and blood.

The blood energy here is so dense that even a late-stage True Transcending Realm expert would lose their mind and become a puppet who only knows how to kill.

As Chu Xiu and the Butterfly Queen stepped into the nest, they turned their heads to look deeper into the left side.

That is the direction where the blood and qi surge.

Chu Xiu extended a divine thought, reaching the end of the passage, where there was a gap leading directly underground, presumably a passage to a lower level of the tomb.

"go!"

The group exchanged glances, then transformed into streaks of light and headed straight down the passage.

The blood demons they encountered along the way were all low-level blood demons with the cultivation level of the Transcendent Realm. Without Chu Xiu and the Butterfly Queen having to take action, A Nu and Mo Lie easily killed all the blood demons blocking their way.

As they descended several miles underground, the Blood Demons they encountered became increasingly powerful. A Blood Demon with the cultivation level of the mid-stage Reincarnation Realm appeared and blocked their path, forcing Chu Xiu to take action.

However, after he killed the Blood Demon who was in the mid-stage of the Reincarnation Realm, the blood mist that the Blood Demon exploded into covered his face.

Caught off guard, Chu Xiu mistakenly inhaled the blood mist. In that instant, streaks of crimson crimson climbed into Chu Xiu's eyes, and endless killing intent surged into his heart, as if to engulf his mind.

Fortunately, the imperial aura hidden in Chu Xiu's middle dantian erupted in time, forcefully repelling the murderous intent that was eroding his soul, and then expelling it from his body.

Chu Xiu shook his throbbing head and warned, "Be careful, don't inhale the blood mist. If you accidentally inhale it, you must expel it at all costs, otherwise your mind will be swallowed up in an instant!"

Anu and Molie were startled and quickly activated their protective techniques or magical artifacts, remaining on guard at all times.

The Butterfly Queen, confident in her cultivation at the Qiankun Realm, was naturally fearless.

She glanced at Chu Xiu with some surprise. For a brief moment, she had sensed an invisible pressure emanating from him.

Only rulers of other races could exert their aura on her, a demon king at the Qiankun Realm.

She hadn't expected that the amount of imperial aura stored within Chu Xiu's body would be so high that even she, an emperor who had stood at the pinnacle of the demon race for many years, felt a sense of threat...

"After tens of thousands of years of accumulation and development, the number of imperial aura within me has reached as high as fifty thousand..."

"Could he be even more... how did he do that?"