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

In ancient times, before the concept of immortals existed, there were only five kinds of beings: gods, demons, spirits, monsters, and monsters—which were later referred to as cultivators.

The demons, spirits, and monsters in the story all rely on and use various spiritual energies or products of spiritual energy generated in their respective worlds as their means of cultivation.

The term "demon" was an additional title for the evildoers among these three. However, in later generations, it evolved into a term used by humans to uniformly describe spirits, monsters, and strange beasts. Even the creatures themselves followed suit and called themselves demons.

However, a considerable number of the deities are different from others.

These ancient deities did not cultivate using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but relied on the origin of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth—the mysterious power that constitutes a world, a life-bearing planet, and a brilliant star, which is the power of stars, and can also be called the true laws of heaven!

Without these mysterious forces, there would be no dazzling, magnificent, and colorful universe as we know it today!

They chased stars and hunted the sun, becoming the most powerful beings of that era!

What Chu Xiu is pursuing now is their path of cultivation!

A magnificent road to heaven, a road that has stood the test of time for countless years and has never been climbed by anyone!

The power of his natal star was far purer and stronger than the immortal and demonic power that Chu Xiu had cultivated, and the difference was particularly obvious within this Fallen God Palace.

He even vaguely sensed that the so-called immortal power and demonic power were merely branches of these stellar powers.

The power of the stars can be considered the origin of all techniques!

This entry into the Fallen God Palace is arguably the best opportunity for Chu Xiu to improve his Star Arts cultivation.

This is his best chance to enhance his hidden strength!

After traveling in the Heavenly Palace World for more than ten days, Chu Xiu still had not reached the end of this world, nor had he found any way to leave the Heavenly Palace.

Before uncovering the secrets of this Heavenly Palace, even though his desire to light up his natal star was urgent, Chu Xiu still held back and did not rashly attack those star beasts. He only passively killed them, for fear of violating the world laws that he had no way of knowing.

Ultimately, he discovered a colossal island, or rather, a continent, spanning millions of miles above the sea of ​​stars.

As soon as Chu Xiu set foot on the island's coastal outskirts, he sensed that something was wrong.

Everywhere you look, there are ruins and traces of the great battle, but there is not a trace of the remains of the participants in the fight, or even their presence, as if someone deliberately cleaned up the area after the battle.

Whether it's to hide his whereabouts, avoid being hunted down by enemies, or something else, all these signs indicate that there are outsiders like him on this island!

Chu Xiu used the technique of concealing his aura to the extreme. Even if a fellow cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm stood in front of him, they would absolutely not be able to detect his presence until Chu Xiu made any move!

This is the power of the technique bestowed by the system. It becomes even stronger as Chu Xiu's own cultivation level advances, making it a top-tier technique!

However, just like the Human Palace and the Earth Palace, his divine sense, which he was so proud of, was useless for detection here. But perhaps because he possessed his natal star, he was able to vaguely sense the locations of some powerful star beasts.

That's why Chu Xiu found the island.

Using this vague perception, Chu Xiu stalked across the island's surface for several days. Finally, in a certain canyon, besides a star beast whose cultivation had reached the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm, he also sensed the presence of other life forms.

These people were being chased by a star beast at the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm, causing the entire canyon to tremble.

Because he was in a dense forest with limited visibility, Chu Xiu concealed his aura, rose into the air, and finally spotted the source of the commotion from a kilometer away—

A white wolf, nearly a hundred feet tall and covered in armor with countless mysterious emerald green patterns and runes, was seen traversing mountains and valleys, searching for something.

Several thousand meters ahead of the white wolf, a woman dressed in a deep blue scale-like garment, covered in wounds, was fleeing frantically towards the outer edge of the island.

Seeing her evading the white wolf's pursuit, Chu Xiu guessed that this woman must also have some kind of means to conceal her aura for a short period of time; otherwise, given the unstable aura that appeared and disappeared on her body, she should have been caught by the white wolf long ago.

The distance was too great for Chu Xiu to see clearly with his naked eye, but upon seeing her clothes, Chu Xiu immediately felt that they were somewhat familiar.

After sneaking several hundred meters toward the woman and getting a clear look at her face, his brows furrowed.

This woman is none other than Hai You, Chu Xiu's old flame in the Yu Ling Sect and the apple of the eye of the Yu Ling Sect's merman clan!

What is she doing here!

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"How long... are you going to keep chasing me...?"

Haiyou, covered in wounds, was once again forced to break free from his concealed state due to the exhaustion of his demonic power.

Each time she appears, it means that she has barely had half an incense stick's time to rest before embarking on what seems to be an endless journey of escape!

Hearing the roars and earth-shattering sounds coming from not far away, Haiyou struggled to get up from under a giant tree, took out a pill to restore his demonic power, swallowed it and refined it, and then continued to rush towards the direction he had been determined to escape in.

This was the 90th day she had been chased by that white wolf with the strength of the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm, almost three whole months!

Several years ago, after learning that Tuolong had gone out, she chose to go into seclusion because her own cultivation was close to a breakthrough.

However, even after she successfully broke through to the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm, the Crocodile Dragon still had not returned, and its whereabouts were unknown!

Upon learning that Demon General Pulao and his ten demon generals Ye were also missing, and after failing to find them using his own and the Merfolk's resources, Haiyou had no choice but to rely on his ancestor's influence to secure a meeting with the Demon Emperor.

She successfully used this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from the Demon Emperor the true identity and current location of the current Tuolong, who is also Chu Xiu, as well as the final fate of her true former fiancé, Tuolong.

After learning that Tuolong had been killed by Chu Xiu, she was very surprised, but she did not feel any hatred towards Chu Xiu himself.

She knew very well that her changed impression of the alligator dragon was entirely due to the actions of Chu Xiu, who was impersonating it, and had nothing to do with the real alligator dragon.

Therefore, the one she likes now is Chu Xiu, not Tuolong!

Therefore, she chose to enter the secret realm where Chu Xiu was located together with the two demon generals, Jackal Dragon and Ferocious Dog, under the instruction of the Demon Emperor.

Unexpectedly, the Jackal Dragon and the Ferocious Dog had ulterior motives from the very beginning. Not only did they join forces to slaughter the ten demon generals under the command of the Demon General Pulao behind the Demon Emperor's back at the entrance of the secret realm, but they also plotted to kill the Demon General Pulao and Chu Xiu together inside the secret realm!

What they didn't know was that since Chu Xiu had already emerged from seclusion, it meant that his cultivation had stabilized at the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm, and his strength was almost on par with these demon generals!

And since he had befriended Chu Xiu, he would inevitably become their target!

Therefore, when Haiyou entered the secret realm, he risked crossing a spatial rift to separate from Jackal Dragon and Ferocious Dog, attempting to find Chu Xiu's whereabouts before them and inform Chu Xiu of their plan.

Unexpectedly, after passing through that spatial rift, she was directly teleported to this incredibly mysterious star world. Moreover, because she was being chased by a large number of demonic beasts and accidentally entered the territory of that white wolf, she accidentally injured the wolf cub and has been being chased by it ever since, without escaping!

Haiyou struggled to escape, clearly feeling the extreme exhaustion of his mind and body.

She had been hunted by the white wolf for three months straight without a proper rest, and she didn't know how much longer she could hold on...

Perhaps today, she will die under the white wolf's claws...

"Chu Xiu..."

Haiyou's escape speed slowed down, and she could only barely move by relying on the dense bushes. Her consciousness became increasingly blurred, and in the end, she could not hold on any longer and fell to the ground, unable to get up again.

Is she going to die...?

Haiyou struggled to turn over and face the boundless starry sky. When she barely opened her right eyelid, wanting to take one last look at this beautiful starry sky before she died, she saw the figure she had longed for day and night.

A single tear rolled down Haiyou's right cheek.

Even when she was being chased by the white wolf, she never shed a single tear.

But now, upon seeing Chu Xiu's figure, he couldn't help himself.

"Chu Xiu...you've come?"

"Yes, I'm here!"