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

During the final stretch of their journey, Chu Xiu and Xiao Hei encountered no demons or monsters blocking their way.

Perhaps because they were near the Flower and Fruit Mountain, there were almost no other creatures within a radius of ten thousand miles except for the two of them, a man and a cat.

This situation was exactly what Chu Xiu had expected.

After all, if a conflict were to break out with some scattered soldiers on the outskirts of Huaguo Mountain, it would be inevitable that one's whereabouts and cultivation level would be exposed to the demon generals guarding the perimeter.

According to Xiao Hei, if they want to enter the territory of Huaguo Mountain, they can only try to "join" the force that currently occupies Huaguo Mountain - the Yu Ling Sect.

The way to join the Spirit Control Sect is actually very simple: just find an insignificant demon and replace it.

"You mean, I should just kill any demon soldier first, and then use that soldier's identity to infiltrate the group?"

Chu Xiu glanced at a hundred-zhang-high wall stretching for tens of thousands of miles several miles away, then turned to look at the black cat.

The black cat licked its front paws and nodded: "Every demon general of the Spirit Control Sect has a demon soul mark left with their direct demon commander."

"If you want to take a shortcut and replace a demon general, it will probably take a lot of effort."

Chu Xiu pondered, "But the area that a mere demon soldier can reach is probably pitifully small."

Black Cat nodded: "You're right, that's why I specifically said 'now,' after all, compared to the three thousand demon generals who are quite powerful, those miscellaneous soldiers are just a handful."

Chu Xiu frowned and shook his head, saying, "Let's look for an opportunity to see if we can encounter a lone demon general. I don't have the time to go to the battlefield to kill fodder and accumulate military merits."

Upon hearing this, the black cat was about to say something more, but suddenly its gaze paused as it saw several beams of light suddenly appear on the slope behind Chu Xiu, several miles away.

"That's... a teleportation array?"

"A demon has emerged from inside the wall!"

Chu Xiu turned around and saw that after the light dissipated, several figures with different shapes appeared.

Without exception, they were all demons.

The leader of the demons was much taller and stronger than the other lesser demons, and his face was also more ferocious.

However, the appearance of this demon was very similar to a type of reptile that Chu Xiu had seen before—a crocodile.

The moment the teleportation array light dissipated, a fierce glint flashed in the demon leader's eyes. He turned his head to look in the direction where Chu Xiu and Xiao Hei were, and at the same time, he instantly swung his sword in their direction.

In an instant, a blade of light, accompanied by a wave of blazing flames, swept across the area for dozens of miles, but it did not hit anything.

The demon leader frowned: "Strange... I clearly sensed an unknown aura, could it be my imagination?"

The little demon behind him stepped forward and said, "Lord Tuolong, you are probably overthinking it. This place is only a hundred miles away from the Great Emperor's territory. What little demon would dare to linger here and seek death?"

The demon general known as the Alligator Dragon glanced at the little demon: "Let's hope so."

"Since the Demon Commander has sent us to the borderlands to join forces with representatives of other demon sects to set up a sub-array of the intercontinental teleportation array, we cannot afford to make any mistakes."

"Otherwise, no matter how many military merits you accumulate, you won't have enough heads to chop off!"

"Little one understands, little one understands."

As soon as the words faded, several demons used their escape techniques and sped off to the west.

After they left, Chu Xiu and the black cat slowly reappeared in the air above where they had been standing.

Even though they were several miles apart, Chu Xiu could hear every word of the conversation between the demons through his divine sense.

"It seems that the Spirit Control Sect is going to join forces with other demonic forces to open an intercontinental teleportation array?"

"Their ambitions are no longer limited to one continent."

Chu Xiu looked at Xiao Hei: "That intercontinental teleportation array, does it have a mother and child component?"

Xiao Hei nodded: "According to my grandfather, in this era, if one wants to overcome the limitations of the Misty Sea and forcefully cross the void to reach the other three continents, the only way is to rely on the so-called intercontinental teleportation array."

"The activation of this intercontinental teleportation array requires the combined efforts of an entire continent to be possible."

"Besides the main array set up on Flower Fruit Mountain, which requires a powerful being at the level of a Demon Emperor to preside over it, the other ten sub-arrays also require top-tier experts who are slightly inferior to Demon Emperors to infuse spiritual energy to assist in activating the teleportation arrays."

Chu Xiu frowned: "Could it be that these forces are raising living beings and collecting spiritual essence just to activate this energy-intensive intercontinental teleportation array?"

"If the goal is simply to invade other continents, this move would likely be counterproductive..."

"These forces must have bigger goals!"

Chu Xiu suddenly thought of something and looked at the black cat: "Could it be... Mount Sumeru?"

The black cat nodded emphatically: "That's right, their true purpose is the blissful holy land that the spiritual mountain of Niuhezhou leads to—Mount Sumeru!"

Chu Xiu's gaze sharpened. Since this world was the homeland of all living beings in the Heavenly Continent, it was no longer as simple as a so-called secret realm.

If I could use the teleportation array to find Ye Wujiang and the others who have already gone to the fragment of the Sumeru Mountain world, and get their protection, I would be less likely to perish here.

But before that, he still wanted to do everything he could to find a way to his two great homelands—the ancient realm connected to this world and the continent of Jambudvipa where Blue Star is located—so he could go home and visit.

"You stay out of the way for now, I'll follow them and see!"

"understand!"

Chu Xiu put Xiao Hei into his storage space, then used the Concealing Breath Technique to transform into a beam of light, maintaining a distance from which he could not be detected, and quietly followed behind the group of demons.

After flying for two whole days, the demon general named Tuolong finally stopped his escape technique and led the other soldiers to land on the ground.

With the help of the Concealing Breath Technique, even though Chu Xiu was only a few hundred meters away from them, these demons did not notice his whereabouts.

The strength of this alligator dragon demon general was only at the mid-stage of the Qiankun Realm, which was not much different from the Peng bird that Chu Xiu had killed with a single sword strike.

That's why Chu Xiu dared to get so close. Even if he were discovered, he could kill all these demons within a few breaths and take over the identity of the alligator dragon as a demon general.

"This is it."

The alligator demon general squatted down, grabbed a handful of yellow soil, and casually tossed it out.

"Hurry up and set up the sub-arrays."

"Once the sub-formation is completed, other forces will send people to guard it."

At the command of the alligator dragon demon general, several demon soldiers it brought took out a large pile of materials and began to set up the formation.

"These little monsters do know quite a bit about the basics of formations..."

Chu Xiu watched quietly from a short distance away.

Half an hour later, the demon soldiers had finished carving the array patterns on the ground.

Before they could even get up and report, the alligator demon general swiftly beheaded them all without exception, his demonic blood spraying onto the array patterns, adding to the eeriness of the scene.

After the alligator dragon killed the lesser demons used as sacrifices, it first carefully spread its demonic power. Only after finding nothing unusual in its surroundings did it take out a formation flag and insert it into the formation pattern.

The corpses and blood of these lesser demons moved slowly on the ground, gathering under the array flag, then slowly dissolving into a pool of blood, which was eventually absorbed by the array flag.

The next second, a red light flashed, and an array covering a radius of 100 meters was automatically constructed and completely stabilized.

Chu Xiu clicked his tongue in praise:

"...It can activate array patterns and construct an array on its own using only array flags..."

"There must be demons within the Spirit Control Sect who are well-versed in the art of formations!"