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

"What...is going on?"

Chu Xiu's face darkened. Could it be that Ye Wujiang had taken advantage of his absence to steal the inheritance relic that Master Antu had risked his life for?

Ye Wujiang had already sensed Chu Xiu's presence. He curled his lips into a smile and deliberately continued to play with the relic under Chu Xiu's gaze.

Chu Xiu rolled his eyes, casually found a tea stall by the roadside and sat down, choosing to temporarily observe the confrontation between Ye Wujiang and the Zen practitioners.

"Why do you possess items belonging to my Zen God Temple?"

The Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm meditator looked wary and clasped his hands in a fist salute towards Ye Wujiang:

"Please return it to my Zen Temple, or don't blame us for being impolite!"

"Oh? Really?"

Ye Wujiang smiled slightly, glanced at the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm, and then tossed the relic in his hand toward Chu Xiu, who was leisurely drinking tea below.

"This thing isn't mine, you should ask him for it."

Chu Xiu's eyes widened, and he almost spat out his tea. He quickly reached out and caught the relic that Ye Wujiang tossed to him.

But the next second, a fist enveloped in the aura of the Great Perfection of the Wheel House Realm and filled with intense killing intent slammed towards his face.

Chu Xiu frowned, caught the punch with his palm, and remained standing firmly in place.

But the magical energy generated by the sudden punch colliding with his palm directly blew away the tea stall behind him and the houses within a radius of dozens of meters, and a wail came from the ruins.

The Great Perfection of the Samsara Realm Zen cultivator, whose fist had been grabbed by Chu Xiu, was slightly taken aback. He then unleashed a powerful burst of energy from his arm, forcing Chu Xiu to release his grip.

He then stepped back several meters, clenched his fist, and sneered at Chu Xiu, "Good lad, you actually managed to take my punch head-on."

He first turned to his dozen or so disciples and ordered, "Go and find that brat Antu!"

Then, pointing to the relic in Chu Xiu's other hand, he said, "Give back the relic!"

"You say this relic belongs to your Zen Temple, so it must be?"

Chu Xiu's eyes were filled with coldness, and a murderous intent surfaced in them.

With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen sword lights suddenly appeared behind him, rushing towards the dozen or so disciples of the Zen Divine Academy who were about to storm into the restaurant.

With a flash of sword light, the dozen or so disciples of the Zen Divine Academy were decapitated and fell to the ground.

"court death!"

"How dare you kill a disciple of my Zen Divine Academy? Are you trying to oppose my Demon Zen Kingdom?!"

The Great Perfection of the Samsara Realm meditator's eyes flashed with murderous intent as he looked at Chu Xiu in disbelief and threw a punch at him.

Chu Xiu smiled disdainfully.

Since Ye Wujiang did not stop him from killing the Zen cultivators in the Demon Zen Kingdom, it means that he has enough confidence to settle everything for him.

If that's the case, then he doesn't need to swallow his anger here!

An extremely powerful aura erupted from Chu Xiu, pressing down on the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm Zen cultivator who was throwing a straight punch.

A sword light appeared behind Chu Xiu, rapidly gathering momentum. The sword quickly solidified, radiating an aura powerful enough to chill any expert at the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm.

"You're also at the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm!"

"Enough with the nonsense. You and your disciple shall leave your lives here!"

Chu Xiu pointed at him, and a flash of sword light appeared behind him. Without giving the Zen monk any chance to react, Chu Xiu met his fist and pierced and shattered it from his fist, arm to torso.

The Zen cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm barely escaped the onslaught of sword light, but now he had lost half of his body, and the foundation of his physical body had been destroyed by Chu Xiu's sword light.

"So strong...too strong...if we don't escape now, we'll die!"

The meditator was pale and his eyes showed fear. He turned around and transformed into a streak of light, about to flee to the north.

"Did I ask you if you could leave?"

A chilling voice rang out, and the meditator was terrified, feeling as if his body was locked onto by an extreme killing intent, with nowhere to escape.

He quickened his escape, and with just a slight turn of his head, he saw that the sword light that had destroyed half of his body was right behind him, and would catch up with him in just a few breaths!

"No!"

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"

The meditator broke into a wail.

No matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't figure out why, even though they were both at the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm, his strength was so much weaker than that of the young man.

Not only was his opponent able to easily parry his killing move, but he also nearly killed him with just one sword strike!

Just as Chu Xiu's sword light caught up with the Zen monk's escape speed and was about to pierce his back...

Suddenly, Ye Wujiang appeared behind him, grabbing the Zen cultivator from his escape technique with one hand. Ignoring the severe damage to his soul caused by forcibly stopping the spell, he imprisoned him in place.

With his other hand, he blocked Chu Xiu's sword light, grasped it in his hand, and then crushed it.

Such a scene terrified the already severely injured soul of the meditator, causing him to faint.

Chu Xiu flashed and appeared in front of Ye Wujiang, asking:

"Does Brother Ye have any other plans?"

Ye Wujiang nodded: "This person is a disciple of an old acquaintance of mine. His current superficial cultivation level of the Great Perfection of the Reincarnation Realm was achieved with the help of my old acquaintance, who had some blood ties to him."

"It just so happens that we need a token of qualification to go to the Wood Demon Kingdom, and the person in charge of distributing these tokens in the Demon Zen Kingdom is my old acquaintance."

Chu Xiu asked, "What kind of qualification token is needed to enter the Wood Demon Kingdom?"

Ye Wujiang nodded: "The Wood Demon Kingdom possesses a secret realm that can help cultivators comprehend the meaning of life, which naturally arouses the envy of surrounding forces."

"The ruler of the Wood Demon Kingdom is merely a late-stage Qiankun Realm cultivator, unable to withstand the siege of the surrounding forces on his own."

Therefore, they chose to cultivate distant alliances, befriending other powers that did not border their own country, offering them substantial benefits, and asking them to help restrain powers that coveted their power, thus maintaining stability in the surrounding area.

Chu Xiu suddenly realized, "This great benefit must be the qualification to enter that secret realm and comprehend the meaning of life, right?"

“That’s right.” Ye Wujiang nodded, looking at the relic in Chu Xiu’s hand, and explained his earlier behavior:

"That Antu was rejected by the lineage within the relics."

"It actually refused..." Chu Xiu raised an eyebrow, picked up the relic and examined it. "The inheritance within this relic can actually choose its own master. That's interesting..."

Ye Wujiang smiled slightly: "It rejected Antu, but chose his sister."

"How could this be..." Chu Xiu was stunned. "Didn't her sister have no talent for cultivation... how could she have been chosen by the inheritance?"

Ye Wujiang shook his head: "I don't know either. This relic originally intended to ignore that girl's injuries and force her to accept the inheritance. Although I don't know what you want from this girl, I still intervened to stop you."

"If someone without a foundation in cultivation is forcibly given the inheritance, they will likely meet a violent end."

"Thank you so much, Brother Ye..." Chu Xiu frowned. He hadn't considered that at all; Sister Antu had almost died because of his negligence...

"I sensed a strange aura emanating from that girl..."

Ye Wujiang looked at Chu Xiu, "Then that must be the reason you saved her, right?"

"Is it related to the insights into life and death you seek on this journey?"