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

As for the so-called Reverse Star Technique, Chu Xiu only knew that it possessed extreme healing effects.

No matter how severe the injury, as long as one does not die on the spot, the Reverse Star Technique can reverse the power of one's natal star chart, keeping one alive.

Could there be some shady secret behind this kind of technique?

Ling Guang chose to ignore Chu Xiu's curiosity.

"With your current strength, there's no need for you to know too much; it won't do you any good."

Chu Xiu sighed: "I understand."

"You came back just for this?"

“That’s one reason,” Ling Guang said, looking at the two people and one beast fighting fiercely a few miles away. “The second reason is for that beast.”

"Blood Demon Emperor?"

Chu Xiu asked in doubt.

"What do you want to do?"

Ling Guang frowned slightly in thought: "I've observed it for a long time, but I haven't found anything unusual about it. I thought this beast was just a demon I'd never seen before..."

"But it suddenly occurred to me after I left that this monster, which is based on blood, is probably not a demon, but rather the essence of the bloodline of some being!"

"And this being is very likely an ancient god!"

Chu Xiu was taken aback upon hearing this; Ling Guang's guess was indeed accurate.

The thousands of blood demons within this flesh and blood lair were indeed transformed from the blood essence of the eight-star ancient god who bestowed upon him his inheritance, and the Insect Queen was the lord of the blood demons.

"That woman, a new face, do you know her?"

Ling Guang suddenly asked, his gaze fixed on the Insect Mother, whose spellcasting was strange and whose every move was linked to the blood energy filling the sky.

“I don’t know him. Like me and the Butterfly Queen, he came here to fight the Blood Demon and has temporarily joined forces with us.”

After thinking it over, Chu Xiu decided to temporarily conceal the identity of the Insect Queen.

After all, it was just a secret about an ancient god that almost cost him his life.

If Ling Guang were to learn the true identity of the Insect Mother, he would likely meet a tragic end.

Since the Insect Queen had a past relationship with that eight-star ancient god, she chose to treat her well.

To him, she was an elder, even though her true form was not human.

Chu Xiu could never stand by and watch the people around him fall into an abyss of no return.

"Oh?"

A dangerous glint flashed in Ling Guang's eyes.

"She seems to be able to control the blood energy within this Blood Demon's lair, preventing that big guy from regenerating the body that was injured by that little butterfly..."

Little butterfly...

Chu Xiu's lips twitched.

"However, as a Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm, it seems she is proficient in blood-related arts and can control this sky full of blood energy, which is not surprising."

"However, that big guy's shell tightly protects its heart meridian, and the two of them are not strong enough to break through its shell."

Ling Guang withdrew his gaze and looked at Chu Xiu: "The two of them are fighting the Blood Demon Emperor over there, what are you doing hiding here?"

Chu Xiu smiled slightly and summoned the Azure Flame Cone: "Waiting for an opportunity."

"The chance to break through that tortoise shell."

"Just you?"

Ling Guang raised an eyebrow and smiled: "Although it has only been the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, your cultivation level has suddenly advanced from the early stage of the Reincarnation Realm to the late stage of the Reincarnation Realm, and you can even reach the level of the early stage of the Qiankun Realm with the help of star techniques."

"But if the two of them couldn't do it together, what makes you think you can?"

Chu Xiu smiled slightly: "I'm not entirely confident. Why don't you give it a try?"

Ling Guang narrowed his eyes slightly: "Come!"

Chu Xiu's figure flashed, and when he reappeared, he was already hundreds of meters away.

He touched his brow, and his natal star chart appeared before him. As it slowly unfolded, the ferocious figure of the star beast Jingmu Han leaped out from the star chart and merged with Chu Xiu's soul.

Chu Xiu's aura suddenly surged, and in just an instant, he had already stepped into the early stage of the Qiankun Realm.

With a wave of his hand, the 100,000 strands of imperial energy in his middle dantian transformed into 10,000 golden thunder dragons. Under the guidance and condensation of the power of the Heavenly Dao in the Lesser Thousand Worlds, they transformed into a three-foot-long sword wrapped in golden lightning and exuding an aura of unknown laws, which appeared in Chu Xiu's hand.

The appearance of the golden longsword made Ling Guang's eyes narrow.

Upon closer inspection, the longsword was remarkably similar to his own.

Ling Guang's face darkened.

Chu Xiu smiled awkwardly. He was indeed inspired by Ling Guang's sword body to create this longsword formed from imperial aura and the power of the Heavenly Dao.

After all... he hadn't seen many good swords. Apart from Chixiao, the coolest sword in his memory was the Lingguang sword.

"Although I don't know where you got the power of the laws of the Lesser Thousand Worlds, it is a good idea to fuse it with the lightning formed from the imperial aura to create a formless sword that can be dispersed and gathered and is not afraid of damage."

Although Ling Guang looked down on Chu Xiu for plagiarism, he still offered his appreciation in a fair way.

"With just this sword and your current early-stage Qiankun Realm power, you still won't be able to break through the Blood Demon Emperor's shell."

Ling Guang looked at his former comrade-in-arms—Qingyan Cone.

"But with its help... it's worth a try..."

The Azure Flame Cone is the most lethal weapon in the hands of the Azure Flame Demon Emperor.

In terms of sheer destructive power, even the sword spirit Ling Guang, who possesses the realm above Qiankun, cannot match it.

Under the command of the Azure Flame Demon Emperor, it once pierced the heads of its master and the Demon Dragon Emperor, two powerful beings above the Qiankun Realm, with a single strike.

Of course, all of this is predicated on the fact that it can only be done under the command of the Azure Flame Demon Emperor.

As for its current owner, Chu Xiu, he is only at the early stage of the Qiankun Realm.

"bring it on!"

With a wave of her hand, Ling Guang set up several magical barriers in front of her. According to her rough estimate, the defensive power of these barriers combined was almost equivalent to that of the Blood Demon Emperor's tortoise shell.

Chu Xiu nodded slightly.

With the Formless Sword in hand, he swung it around his body, and the sword shadows appeared behind him one after another, multiplying from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, from a thousand to ten thousand, and from ten thousand to endless!

Countless formless sword shadows slowly formed behind him, and a terrifying aura and sword intent suddenly gathered on Chu Xiu's body.

"This technique was created by me in a short time based on the defensive power of the Azure Flame Cone."

"Its name is—Ten Thousand Swords Return to One!"

The countless sword shadows behind Chu Xiu overlapped and multiplied under his control.

Originally, the technique relied on quantity to create killing power, but Chu Xiu deliberately combined the fragments into a single, massive, formless sword.

Chu Xiu reached out and pointed at Ling Guang.

The Azure Flame Cone hovering beside him instantly transformed into a beam of azure light, spinning its sharpest tip before crashing violently into the barrier erected by Ling Guang.

With Chu Xiu's current strength, the Azure Flame Cone alone cannot cause much damage, but he can utilize the Azure Flame Cone's inherent armor-piercing properties, combined with his current strongest self-created technique, Myriad Swords Return to One.

The two complement each other perfectly, which is Chu Xiu's strongest attack.

"The Fall of Formlessness!"

Chu Xiu wielded the formless giant sword, which suddenly plummeted towards Ling Guang's head!

Ling Guang's expression gradually turned serious.

The immense force of the giant sword falling, combined with Chu Xiu's all-out effort in driving it, resulted in a falling force powerful enough to crush and kill any cultivator below the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm!

This greatsword technique has a flaw: it can only attack enemies who cannot leave the area where the greatsword will fall.

However, the restraint provided by the Azure Flame Cone completely eliminated this flaw.

If the opponent is not on guard against the Azure Flame Cone and only thinks about escaping the range of the giant sword's power, then they will be injured by the killing power of the Azure Flame Cone;

If we can defend against the Azure Flame Cone, we will be powerless to stop the giant sword from descending!

Ling Guang crossed his arms, letting the power of the Azure Flame Cone and the power of Ten Thousand Swords Return to One strike the magical barrier that enveloped him.

"Sigh... It's a bit of a waste to waste it on me."

"In that case, I'll help you one more time."

Ling Guang glanced at Chu Xiu, whose eyes were full of hope, smiled slightly, and snapped his fingers with his right hand.

The next second, her figure disappeared from the spot.

Instead, the Blood Demon Emperor's enormous body took its place.

Under Chu Xiu's shocked gaze, the barrier that Ling Guang had previously set up shattered heavily. The Azure Flame Cone and the giant sword that fell from the sky attacked the Blood Demon Emperor at the same time, shattering his hard shell, which even the Butterfly Emperor and the Insect Mother, both at the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm, could not break through, inch by inch!