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

Chu Xiu was speechless upon hearing this. What kind of father would belittle his own daughter like that?

"Brother Chu...you're not still a virgin, are you?" Ye Wujiang laughed.

Chu Xiu's face darkened. Too lazy to bother with such a shameless person, he turned to look at Miao Yin and asked, puzzled:

"There must be quite a few great practitioners in the world who meet the Venerable One's requirements for a spiritual companion. Why must the Venerable One force a junior like me to comply?"

Miaoyin smiled and shook her head: "Even though those people have achieved far more than you now, none of them can match what you possess."

Chu Xiu frowned. Could it be that Ye Wujiang had already discovered his secret?

Is it the system?

The position of the Lord of Heaven and Earth in the Ancient Realm?

A considerable amount of imperial aura?

Or is it the bloodline of an ancient god?

Chu Xiu looked at the two people in front of him with great vigilance.

If these two want to force me to stay, I am absolutely powerless to resist with my current strength...

"That's right, Brother Chu."

Ye Wujiang stepped forward and explained, “Miaoyin was one step ahead of me in this world, and touched the barrier above the universe first. To break through that barrier, strength alone is not enough. The Heavenly Dao fortune you possess is what we both lack.”

Chu Xiu looked at Miao Yin and asked, "So, Venerable One, you want to use your sect's techniques to create a deep karmic connection with me, and in this way, use my luck to break through the shackles of your cultivation realm?"

Miaoyin nodded: "That's exactly right."

Ye Wujiang laughed loudly, "Do you think I would use you as a furnace to sell to Miaoyin? Hahahaha!"

Chu Xiu ignored the man and said, "Let me go first."

Miaoyin waved her sleeve to remove the spell that bound Chu Xiu's body, and gracefully sat down.

Chu Xiu plopped down in the guest seat next to Miao Yin, frowning as he asked, "Besides... dual cultivation, is there no other way?"

"Have."

Miaoyin tilted her head slightly, a smile playing on her lips, "Then I would like to invite Young Master Chu to serve as my furnace cauldron."

Chu Xiu quickly waved his hand and shook his head.

What a joke! He has been cultivating diligently all this time, not to be a stepping stone for others.

“Then there is no other way but to cultivate together.” Miaoyin closed her eyes.

Chu Xiu looked at Ye Wujiang in confusion: "Then why did you ask me to stay in the Demon Yama Sect before, and why is there no other way to use my luck? What's the point of keeping me here?"

Ye Wujiang laughed and said, "I need to build up our relationship first... I can't very well have to cultivate with you, can I..."

Chu Xiu rolled his eyes, feeling a chill run down his spine.

Ye Wujiang continued to explain, "If Miaoyin successfully breaks through to the Qiankun realm with the help of your luck, I can use my cultivation technique to extract additional Heavenly Dao luck from her and refine it for my own use."

"Sigh, I have no other choice at the moment."

"Of course, the most urgent task now is to help you improve your cultivation. Even if you are willing to cultivate the Great Dao with Miaoyin, you will have to wait until you reach the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm."

After Ye Wujiang finished speaking, he looked at Miaoyin.

With a flick of her sleeve, Miaoyin revealed a beautifully crafted token to Chu Xiu.

"This is a token of the Secret Realm of Life in the Wood Demon Kingdom. With this token, you can freely enter and leave the now-closed Wood Demon Kingdom."

Chu Xiu frowned as he looked at the token in front of him.

Miaoyin opened one eye and smiled, "Young Master Chu, you can rest assured. This is my reward to Sect Master Ye for finding the best dual cultivation partner for me. I will not use it to coerce you into doing anything you do not want to do."

"We can discuss the matter of cultivating the Great Dao together after you reach the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm."

Chu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief and put away the token: "In that case, thank you very much, Venerable One."

"Between you and me... there's no need for formalities." Miaoyin smiled slightly.

Although the smile was exquisitely beautiful, Chu Xiu only glanced at it before turning his head away, not daring to look any longer.

Those who practice unorthodox methods are definitely not good people...

Chu Xiu felt he had fallen into a trap, and now he was powerless to escape on his own.

Since we're already here, we might as well make the best of it and find another way.

Chu Xiu exhaled a breath of stale air, feigning nonchalance, and looked at Ye Wujiang: "When do we set off?"

"No rush. In two days, the Water and Land Dharma Assembly of the Demon Zen Kingdom will be held. This is one of the grandest cultivation ceremonies in the Demon Realm. At that time, all the great cultivators of the Demon Realm will gather in the capital of the Demon Zen Kingdom."

"At the same time, a secret realm unique to the Zen Divine Academy of the Demon Zen Kingdom will also be opened to the outside world."

"Secret realm?"

"That's right, that secret realm is called the Zen Realm. It is said to be one of the broken spaces of Mount Sumeru, a sacred place of Zen Buddhism, and is scattered with countless Zen secret techniques, magic treasures and rare materials."

Ye Wujiang said, "I went in once a hundred years ago, and what I obtained was a secret technique for reincarnation that allows one to directly inherit the cultivation of their previous life."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu immediately straightened up.

Even if one dies, as long as one's soul remains, one can be reincarnated and inherit the cultivation of one's previous life...

These secret techniques are arguably the most advanced in the world.

And this secret method actually originated from the legendary Mount Sumeru...

Chu Xiu increasingly felt that this world was very similar to the world he had learned about in literary masterpieces and ancient books in his previous life.

Chu Xiu tentatively asked, "Since you two know about Mount Sumeru, do you know about the Four Continents?"

Upon hearing this, Miaoyin suddenly opened her eyes, and Ye Wujiang also looked sharply at Chu Xiu.

Where did you hear those four words?

Chu Xiu thought for a moment and explained, "When I was young, I heard the older generation tell stories about what are called myths..."

"Your hometown, the Ancient Realm..." Ye Wujiang pondered, "That's normal, after all, it's the legendary ancient land of the Three Realms and Four Continents."

"The old lands of the Three Realms and Four Continents?" Chu Xiu asked in confusion.

Miaoyin picked up the conversation: "Young Master Chu, have you ever heard of the legend of the ancient god creating the world?"

Chu Xiu nodded slightly. Of course he had heard of it, and there was more than one main character.

But who is the one known in this world as the creator of the world?

“I have only heard of this concept. If Your Excellency knows the secrets behind it, you may elaborate.”

Miaoyin shook her head: "I don't necessarily know more than you. I only know that this ancient god, whose name is unknown, died of exhaustion after creating the world. His body transformed into the first things in the world, and all things have multiplied to this day, which is how the ancient world came to be."

Chu Xiu lowered his head in thought, and this legend did indeed coincide with what he knew.

Both created the world, and both gave rise to all things after death...

"So the Ancient Realm was the world that the creatures of the Heavenly Continent relied on for survival countless years ago, but why did they ultimately choose to migrate here and abandon their homeland?"

Ye Wujiang said, "Because..."

"The ancient Heavenly Court, which maintained the order of the Heavenly Dao in the ancient realm, vanished overnight. Without the Heavenly Court and the balance of the Heavenly Dao, the ancient realm's spiritual energy was depleted and its order collapsed within a mere thousand years..."

"After that, the creatures of the ancient world placed their hopes on exploring other worlds where they could continue to live, and the Great Thousand World, which is adjacent to the ancient world, was found by the pioneers led by the Four Spirits."

"And here, the Four Spirits discovered the ancient Heavenly Court that had crashed, and in the entire world, there was no other land, only a sea of ​​mist covering the entire world..."

"The spiritual energy in this realm is extremely abundant, enough for all living beings in the entire ancient realm to survive for hundreds of millions of years, until the next great calamity of heaven and earth arrives."

"Therefore, the Four Spirits sacrificed themselves to protect the land transformed from the ruins of the ancient Heavenly Court, which became the Four Continents of Heaven today, standing above the Sea of ​​Mist."

Chu Xiu suddenly realized that long before the first batch of Sky Continent residents arrived, this world was already the domain of creatures from the Misty Sea.

"So that's how it is... The creatures within the Misty Sea are the original inhabitants of this world..."