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

Chu Xiu stood in mid-air, facing the sky full of stars.

With a wave of his hand, his natal chart appeared before him, rapidly magnifying a hundredfold.

Once the natal star chart is displayed, it unleashes an extremely strong suction force, transforming into an invisible void vortex that disrupts and crushes the rain of arrows, destroying them into formless stellar power, which is then absorbed into the star chart!

The star power that condensed into a rain of arrows was too immense for Chu Xiu to absorb alone. He had to fill his natal star chart before spewing out the remaining star power, transforming it into a dazzling beam of light that directly struck the light screen!

boom!

The array of light, constructed from the combined power of tens of thousands of star beasts, couldn't withstand the bombardment of the beam from the natal star chart.

After several violent explosions, the array of light shattered layer by layer, and the reaction force of the destroyed array directly sent tens of thousands of star beasts flying!

Even worse, some were directly affected by the aftershocks of the explosion, their bodies reduced to ashes!

Although the formation had been broken, Chu Xiu did not choose to kill all the severely injured star beasts.

Instead, he was on high alert, manipulating his natal star chart to protect himself, while summoning the Azure Flame Cone and unleashing his Imperial Aura Domain to maximize his defensive power!

"Huh? He actually discovered our whereabouts..."

"It must have been the upheaval caused by the breaking of the formation that exposed my whereabouts..."

A murmured sound suddenly rang out, and a hunched figure clad in crimson fire armor slowly appeared, no more than three hundred meters away from where Chu Xiu was.

Chu Xiu looked closely and saw that the newcomer had flames wrapped around his hands and a pointed mouth and monkey-like face. He must be the remnant soul of the Zixiu Star Envoy - the Zi Fire Monkey!

The Fire Monkey, carrying a long, thin, red-hot stick on its shoulder, looked Chu Xiu up and down with great interest.

He felt no hostility toward the human in front of him who had rammed into and even destroyed his own army formation. On the contrary, he was quite surprised by Chu Xiu's previous use of the army formation's power to retaliate against him.

The Fire Monkey was very self-aware. He asked himself, if he had been the one trapped in the army formation and the target of everyone's attacks, even if he had the means to escape, he would never have been able to escape unscathed like this human!

"Human, I know your secrets..."

The Fire Monkey narrowed its eyes and said, "You came here today not just to take the power of the stars within me as nourishment for your natal star chart, but to use it as a source of nourishment?"

"That was indeed the case."

Chu Xiu smiled slightly, making no attempt to conceal his true intentions.

He did have this plan at first, but now that his natal chart is saturated, it's a pleasant surprise, so he naturally doesn't need to bother with the Fire Monkey anymore.

"But now, I no longer need the power of the stars in the hands of the Star Envoy. How about we each take a step back?"

Instead of getting angry, the Fire Monkey laughed: "You broke my army's formation and injured tens of thousands of my star beasts, and you think you can just leave with your words?"

Chu Xiu frowned: "What do you intend to do?"

I truly hadn't expected that these few star envoys who defected from the White Tiger Star Palace would each have such a large army under their command.

If it's a one-on-one fight, with the added power of one's natal chart, one naturally has nothing to fear.

However, it is now difficult to rely on one's natal chart to draw upon the power of the military formation to fight back. If one tries to confront the entire military formation alone, it is unlikely to yield any benefits.

The Fire Monkey seemed to sense Chu Xiu's hesitation, grinned, and explained, "How about you do me a favor, and I'll let you leave safely and guarantee that the other two Star Envoys won't attack you? What do you say?"

Chu Xiu raised an eyebrow. "Tell me more."

The Fire Monkey put away its fire stick, crossed its arms, and said:

"The information about you was given to us by that guy Kui Mulang via telepathy, so there's no need to hide it from you."

“The four of us who betrayed the Star Palace all have deep-seated grudges against those two great witches. Even the three who have not yet defected are merely suppressing their true feelings.”

"The thing I need you to do for me is to give us your help and assist us in bringing down Qingyang and Fenghong from their self-proclaimed positions as Star Gods!"

"Life or death are irrelevant!"

Chu Xiu asked doubtfully, "Aren't you White Tiger Seven Constellations and those two Fate Masters colleagues? How did things come to this point where you're killing each other?"

"Hmm? How do you know Qingyang and Fenghong's positions and identities?"

The Fire Monkey looked doubtful, then suddenly realized and said, "Was that Star Explosion Technique that shook the entire Star Island sky your doing?"

"It seems you've already had contact with that gibbon... but I never expected him to impart his most treasured star arts to you..."

Gibbons?

If I'm not mistaken, this must be referring to the Messenger of Orion...

Chu Xiu smiled helplessly, and this smile confirmed the thoughts of the Fire Monkey that had been watching his expression.

“Since you have spoken with Bi Su, you should know that all of us White Tiger Seven Constellations, except for him, are just remnants of souls, clinging to life by the star power gathered in this Fallen God Palace.”

"Since you possess a natal star chart, it is enough to prove that you are the successor of the Lord of this Fallen God Palace. If you had not died here, this Fallen God Palace would soon be at your disposal..."

"Have you and Bi Su reached an agreement on our future fate?"

The Fire Monkey looked at Chu Xiu with a worried expression in its eyes.

Chu Xiu nodded slightly. "I promised the Bi Su Star Envoy that if I become the master of the Fallen God Palace, I will take the Fallen God Palace away from its current location to avoid the impending catastrophe."

The Fire Monkey nodded silently. Without Chu Xiu saying anything more, he could guess what Chu Xiu meant by the catastrophic disaster.

The threat posed by the explosion of Bi Su's true form would have resulted in the death of any one of the seven constellations' true forms even if they were present. How much more so for a mere wisp of a wretched soul clinging to life.

Reason and experience tell the Fire Monkey that one should never completely believe what humans say.

But now, they can only place all their hopes for the future on the human being in front of them.

Of course, this is all predicated on him being able to survive under Qingyang and Fenghong!

The Fire Monkey sighed and explained, "Before the collapse of the Heavenly Court's order, we were indeed colleagues with the two Fate Masters, Qingyang and Fenghong."

"But since we have fallen to this state, these two are ambitious and uncontrollable. Taking advantage of our vulnerability, they trampled us, the Seven Constellations of the White Tiger, under their feet with our intact divine souls and bodies, and they were still not satisfied."

"They actually dared to try to control the inheritor of this Fallen God Palace, to seize the natal star chart that represents the power of their inheritance, and to use it to refine all the remnant souls of us Seven Constellations and ascend to the position of Star God!"

"They have been hovering above us for tens of thousands of years, and finally they have waited for you. Little did they know that we, the Seven Mansions, have also been waiting for you!"

The Fire Monkey looked at Chu Xiu with a solemn expression: "Those two have monopolized the resources in the Fallen God Palace for a long time and have already cultivated their strength to the Heavenly Sovereign Realm. If you were to rely on your own strength, I'm afraid you would not be able to survive under their hands, and your natal star chart would have to change hands!"

"Although we, the Seven Constellations, are remnant souls, the four Star Envoys who broke with those two before us have already broken through to the Earthly Sovereign Realm with the help of the star power on this island. The remaining three are at the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm. If you and your natal star chart help us, we may not be unable to win!"

Chu Xiu frowned and said, "I have fought with Bi Yuewu before. Why is his cultivation only at the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm?"

The Fire Monkey scoffed, "That guy's the most cunning. He loves to hide his strength. He probably recognized you and just doesn't want to fight you."

Chu Xiu was speechless. This monkey in front of him wasn't much better than Bi Yuewu.

After all, the reason he dared to rashly confront these two star envoys was because he had only sensed the Great Perfection of the Qiankun Realm emanating from them.

How could he, who had only met them by chance, know that this monkey and the crow were both Lao Liu? If they insisted on being his enemies, he would probably have no choice but to ask Ying Wuyou or Tengyu to save the day.