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

After thinking for a moment, in order to reach the depths of the Blood Demon's lair and avoid any further incidents or even casualties along the way, the Butterfly Queen immediately expanded the energy field beneath her to a size large enough to accommodate the other three.

When the energy field expanded to Chu Xiu's location, he immediately felt the turbid blood energy around him being driven away by an unparalleled force, restoring him to a state of free movement.

He could vaguely sense that the power seemed to originate from the royal aura possessed by the Butterfly Queen.

Chu Xiu asked curiously, "Is this a spell cast based on the aura of an emperor?"

The Butterfly Queen nodded slightly: "That's right, this technique is called the Emperor's Domain."

"The emperor is nearly invincible within his own domain."

Chu Xiu's eyes lit up: "Invincible?"

"Teach me how to do it."

The Butterfly Queen glanced at him, intending to tell him that this technique could only be used by those at the Qiankun Realm, but seeing Chu Xiu's rather excited appearance, she sighed and used her divine soul power to imprint the method of using the Emperor's Domain onto a blank scroll, which she then gave to Chu Xiu.

"Thank you very much!"

Chu Xiu eagerly opened the scroll, and after carefully reviewing it, he memorized the spell casting steps and requirements.

"To condense 50,000 strands of imperial aura into a single thunder pearl... that's a piece of cake for me."

"The only thing I lack is the Qiankun Realm cultivation level required to detonate the Thunder Pearl and integrate the imperial aura into the surrounding space."

Chu Xiu raised his sword finger, and a golden thunder pearl condensed from fifty thousand strands of imperial energy appeared and spun at his fingertip.

The Butterfly Queen looked surprised. Back then, it had taken her a lot of effort to condense 50,000 strands of imperial energy into a thunder pearl, but Chu Xiu could do it so effortlessly.

Is he really a genius that even I, in my youth, couldn't compare to...?

To Chu Xiu's surprise, while he was idly playing with the Thunder Bead during his journey,

The Azure Flame Cone, a soul weapon nourished in his upper dantian by his divine soul power, suddenly stirred and then manifested on its own, embedding the Thunder Pearl in his hand into its cone.

"Qingyan! What are you doing?"

Chu Xiu was startled and didn't have time to stop the Azure Flame Cone's actions. By the time he reacted, the Azure Flame Cone had already merged with the Thunder Pearl.

Just then, the system's mechanical voice rang in his mind:

[The ancient soul weapon Azure Flame Cone wielded by the host has been condensed and combined with the Heavenly Dao Imperial Qi Thunder Pearl. The host can use the high-grade attributes of the Azure Flame Cone to unleash the Emperor's Domain.]

[The area within a ten-meter radius of the Azure Flame Cone is entirely within the Emperor's Domain.]

"Good guy!"

Chu Xiu was overjoyed. If the Azure Flame Cone had not possessed sentience and could act autonomously, he would never have imagined that it could merge with the Imperial Aura Thunder Pearl, and even use its ancient soul weapon quality to bypass the realm requirements for casting spells and directly unleash the Emperor's Domain.

In this way, even if he encounters an enemy stronger than himself, he will have a better chance of counterattacking and winning.

With the help of the Butterfly Queen's expanding territory, no Blood Demon could stop them until they reached the end of the nest passage.

The strongest of the blood demons encountered on the journey was only at the late stage of the Reincarnation Realm; there was no trace of blood demons with higher cultivation levels.

The Butterfly Queen closed her eyes, carefully sensing the location of her true form.

But at that moment, countless thin, fleshy tentacles suddenly sprouted from the wall at the end of the nest passage, actually reaching into the Butterfly Queen's royal domain, forcibly dragging Chu Xiu, A Nu, and Mo Lie out of the domain and slamming them into the wall.

The incident happened so suddenly that even the Butterfly Queen didn't have time to react before Chu Xiu and the other two were captured by the fleshy tentacles and disappeared without a trace.

"Damn it!"

The Butterfly Queen attacked the direction where Chu Xiu crashed into the wall of flesh and blood, but even though she smashed the wall of flesh and blood blocking her way out of the nest in her rage, she still couldn't sense where Chu Xiu was.

With things having come to this, the Butterfly Queen forcibly suppressed her anger and sped toward the location of her true form that she had sensed earlier.

The Butterfly Queen knew that she shouldn't waste time here. As long as she killed the Blood Demon Emperor, Chu Xiu and the other two who had been kidnapped would be out of danger!

On the other side, after Chu Xiu was dragged into the writhing flesh wall by the fleshy tentacles, his head was violently hit and he fell into a brief coma.

Fortunately, the Azure Flame Cone within Chu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness sensed its master's unconscious state, appeared on its own, severed the tentacle that was pulling at Chu Xiu, and used the domain technique it had just comprehended, thus allowing the unconscious Chu Xiu to preserve his physical body.

Chu Xiu remained unconscious for a full hour before slowly waking up.

When he opened his eyes, all he could see were fragments of tentacled flesh scattered everywhere. The Azure Flame Cone was surrounded by lightning dragons, which protected him from the previous coma, leaving him completely unharmed.

Upon seeing Chu Xiu awaken, the eerie green flames of the Azure Flame Cone burst into flames and swirled around Chu Xiu several times, as if it were seeing a delighted child.

It then landed in Chu Xiu's arms, and the eerie green flame gradually shrank into a small flame, as if telling Chu Xiu that it had burned out.

Chu Xiu laughed and said, "Luckily I have you, otherwise I'm afraid I would have become food for the Blood Demon long ago."

He reached out and transferred the still abundant spiritual power within his body to the Azure Flame Cone, which had been consumed by those fleshy tentacles for a full hour.

Having regained its strength after receiving the replenishment of soul power, the Azure Flame Cone immediately sent a message to Chu Xiu.

"baby?"

"What treasures could there be in this godforsaken place?"

Chu Xiu stood up, and the Azure Flame Cone automatically activated its Emperor's Domain, enveloping Chu Xiu within it, signaling Chu Xiu to follow closely.

Chu Xiu immediately nodded, indicating that he understood.

The Azure Flame Cone spun rapidly, drilling a passage through the flesh and blood wall in the northeast direction.

Chu Xiu's eyes flickered slightly. He didn't know where Butterfly Queen, A Nu, and Mo Lie were. He could only follow the Azure Flame Cone, which was meant to lead him to find treasure, so that he wouldn't wander into danger like a headless fly.

If there are indeed treasures here, they are either items left behind by the Butterfly Queen or left here by the person who built this tomb of gods and demons.

If it's the former, I can simply return it to its rightful owner; if it's the latter, then I'll gladly accept it.

It took a full half hour, without pausing for even a moment, for the Azure Flame Cone to finally pierce through the wall of flesh and blood in front of it.

But the thick, pungent smell of blood that followed almost made Chu Xiu faint.

He emerged from the cave with the Azure Flame Cone, only to find himself enveloped in a blood mist. Everything before him was crimson, and even when he extended his divine sense, he could not perceive anything.

The Azure Flame Cone excitedly swung towards the depths of the blood mist.

Where is the treasure?

"I can't see..."

Chu Xiu shook his head helplessly. The blood mist was too thick. With his early-stage Reincarnation Realm divine sense, he could only observe within five meters of him. Beyond that, he couldn't see anything at all.

The flames on the Azure Flame Cone dimmed for a moment, as if it had suddenly come up with a solution. Several divine senses that Chu Xiu had sent out from all directions blocked one of them, causing the divine senses to stay on the cone itself. Then it sped towards the depths of the blood mist.

"good idea!"

The intelligence displayed by the Azure Flame Cone greatly amazed Chu Xiu.

By placing his divine sense on the Azure Flame Cone, he could explore a five-meter radius around it through the connection between the cone and himself.

After a few breaths, the Azure Flame Cone stopped moving and ceased its advance.

Chu Xiu closed his eyes and received the image transmitted by the divine sense on the Azure Flame Cone—a blood-red longsword that was a foot deep in the ground, bound by several iron chains, and at the point where the longsword met the ground, countless blood mists were constantly gushing outwards.

Upon closer inspection, Chu Xiu could also vaguely see large areas of incomplete and obscure symbols on the hilt and blade of the blood-red longsword.

The Azure Flame Cone told him that this blood-red longsword was also a soul weapon.

Like it, it is also a soul weapon of the Azure Flame Demon God Emperor!