Two days later.

The eighty-eighth floor of the Taisu Tower.

Chu Xiu punched through the chest of a woman at the early stage of the Divine Bridge Realm.

Blood mixed with fragments of organs sprayed from the bloody hole in her back.

With a wave of his arm, he flung the corpse away.

"Huff~"

"On the eighty-eighth floor, the opponents are three at the early stage of the Divine Bridge Realm."

Chu Xiu nodded to himself.

He began to predict.

Opponents above the ninetieth floor would be at the mid, late, or even peak stages of the Divine Bridge Realm!

Having been in the Taisu Tower for almost a week, he had already accurately assessed his current combat strength.

With swordsmanship and combat experience, he could kill those at the early stage of the Divine Bridge Realm.

With swordsmanship, combat experience, and the Archaic Sacred Body, he could kill those at the peak of the mid-stage Divine Bridge Realm.

With swordsmanship, combat experience, the Archaic Sacred Body, and the Heaven-Slaying Sword Intent, he could slay those at the late stage of the Divine Bridge Realm.

"Encountering someone at the peak of the ninth layer of the Divine Bridge Realm would likely be a tough battle."

Such terrifying combat strength would be hard for anyone to believe.

"The trial of the eighty-ninth floor begins."

At the Primordial Plaza.

The number of disciples did not decrease over time; instead, it increased.

Most were observing the changes in the Taisu Monuments.

Among them was Chu Xiaoran.

She knew Chu Xiu was already inside the tower.

However, before he emerged, the Taisu Monuments would not change.

"Sister Chu, do you really think that Chu Xiu can reach the eightieth floor and obtain the Emperor's Silver Sand?"

A young man in a yellow robe frowned and asked.

Chu Xiaoran looked up at the Wheel Sea Monument, silent for a long time.

Whether Chu Xiu could reach the eightieth floor, she wasn't sure.

Maybe he could, maybe he couldn't.

Her expectations were about fifty-fifty.

A female cultivator dressed in colorful clothes, her face covered in pimples, smirked.

"Even Su Ruxue, at the ninth layer of the Wheel Sea Realm, could only reach the seventy-eighth floor. Chu Xiu is only at the fourth layer of the Wheel Sea Realm, right? Can he reach the eightieth floor?"

"Chu Xiaoran, I think you might be disappointed," she said with a hint of schadenfreude in her voice.

"If anyone here knows Chu Xiu's strength best, it should be Sister Ren Hongying, right?"

Several people turned their gaze to Ren Hongying, who had been silent.

Ren Hongying, dressed in red as usual, frowned and said, "I'm not clear about his strength."

"Just a mere Wheel Sea Realm, not worth my attention."

"Haha~"

Qi Ming, the young man in the yellow robe, couldn't help but laugh.

Three years ago.

Chu Xiaoran's mother was poisoned by the demon clan's Nether Demon Poison, which could only be cured with the Emperor's Silver Sand.

And the Emperor's Silver Sand could only be obtained in the Endless Fire Domain on the eightieth floor of the Taisu Tower.

Qi Ming had been pursuing Chu Xiaoran.

He wanted one of his highly talented junior brothers to suppress his cultivation and not break through to the Divine Bridge Realm, waiting for the Taisu Tower to open, to fetch the Silver Sand for Chu Xiaoran.

Of course, the premise was that Chu Xiaoran agreed to his pursuit.

But Chu Xiaoran resolutely refused three years ago.

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She wanted to cure her mother, but she couldn't accept Qi Ming's threats and condescending attitude.

Today, Qi Ming, angry and embarrassed, came to see Chu Xiaoran's embarrassment.

"Brother Qi Ming~" Ren Hongying smiled at Qi Ming and said, "Recently, our master has been particularly kind to Chu Xiu. When Chu Xiu is teleported out later, it's best not to mock him too much."

"Otherwise, our master might get angry if she hears."

Qi Ming waved his hand and laughed, saying:

"He's my aunt's chief true disciple, so he's like a brother to me."

"We're all family, no need to... no need to..."

Indeed, Qi Ming was the nephew of Qi Mengdie, a powerful female cultivator about to break through to the mid-stage of the Great Saint Realm.

"Over thirty years without breaking through to the Beyond Shore Realm."

A sarcastic voice came.

It was Xiao Yifeng, the second true disciple of Cloudmist Peak, who had somehow arrived among them.

He cupped his hands to Qi Ming and said, "Greetings, Brother Qi Ming."

Despite being at the mid-stage of the Divine Ability Realm, he called Qi Ming, who was at the mid-stage of the Dao Palace Realm, "brother" without feeling the slightest embarrassment.

It seemed so natural.

Qi Ming smiled and nodded, "Yifeng, you're here too."

Xiao Yifeng sneered, "I heard that my useless senior brother actually dared to enter the Taisu Tower."

"Of course, I had to come and see."

"Hehe~"

"This guy, does he think that just because he got lucky and killed someone at the Divine Bridge Realm, he's something special?"

"What a disgrace."

The tone clearly showed Xiao Yifeng's deep resentment towards Chu Xiu.

And rightly so.

He was the genius, at the fifth layer of the Divine Ability Realm, yet he had to call someone at the Wheel Sea Realm "senior brother." Just thinking about it was frustrating.

Everything happening at the Primordial Plaza was naturally unknown to Chu Xiu, who was on the ninety-fifth floor of the Taisu Tower.

He was currently undergoing a test of perseverance.

A massive block of ice had frozen his entire body.

An endless chill assaulted him.

If not for his Archaic Sacred Body, Chu Xiu would have long been unable to withstand it and been teleported out.

"This chill keeps deepening."

"At least minus five hundred degrees."

Frozen in the ice, Chu Xiu mused to himself.

The Archaic Sacred Body was truly formidable.

Although he still felt cold, the sacred blood within him was not frozen or slowed in the slightest; instead, it flowed faster and faster.

He could even feel the Sacred Body growing slightly stronger...

If only he could stay longer.

The next moment.

Chu Xiu disappeared...

Entering the next floor.

Half a day later.

Outside, under the night sky, two bright full moons hung high, and stars spread like a chessboard.

He finally reached the ninety-eighth floor.

A world filled with a sea of red Flowers of the Other Shore.

A blood-red setting sun hung on the horizon.

The scenery was desolate and lonely.

A thousand meters ahead of Chu Xiu appeared a woman in a white dress with silver hair, holding a strange ice crystal sword.

Initially, he guessed that the opponent on the ninety-eighth floor would likely be at the peak of the ninth layer of the Divine Bridge Realm.

Unexpectedly, the opponent's cultivation was identical to his own, also at the peak of the ninth layer of the Wheel Sea Realm.

The strangest thing was.

He couldn't describe her appearance, nor could he remember her face in his mind.

When he looked away, he even forgot the traces of her existence.

This bizarre anomaly...

Chu Xiu's heart began to race.

Unable to resist, he asked aloud:

"Could you be Emperor Taisu!!!"

The woman did not respond, only stood silently with her sword.

As if she was one with the heavens and earth.

"Hahahaha~"

Chu Xiu's eyes flashed with a demonic blood light, filled with endless battle intent, madness, and excitement...

The corners of his mouth unconsciously lifted.

He trembled with excitement.

"Ancient Great Emperor, hahaha, Ancient Great Emperor...."

"Great Emperor, come fight~"

Chu Xiu let out a long howl, and with a clang, the Azure Blood Sword was unsheathed. He activated his shadow technique, Origin Force attached to his legs, making him as light as a swallow, leaving seven afterimages behind, petals of the Flower of the Other Shore swirling in his wake, tragically beautiful...

A streak of red sword light seemed to descend from the heavens, carrying an aura of annihilation, aiming straight for the neck of the woman in the white dress.

He liked to decapitate, a habit ingrained in his bones.

The woman in the white dress slowly raised her sword.

Her movements were extremely slow, yet seemed to contain countless principles, countless paths....

The ice crystal sword tip lightly tapped the weak point of Chu Xiu's descending blood-colored sword light.

Clang~

Crack, the sword light shattered.

In mid-air, Chu Xiu's eyes narrowed.

His body, which should have been unable to leverage force, twisted ninety-eight degrees in a way defying physical logic.

"Die~"

His raised right leg, like a blood dragon forged, roared and howled, crashing towards the female cultivator's head, creating countless sonic boom ripples.

If such a powerful kick landed.

Even if the opponent was at the Beyond Shore Realm, it would be unbearable.

The woman in the white dress raised her right hand, meeting the attack with her palm.

Boom~ Crack

The terrifying shockwave blew away, shredded all the Flowers of the Other Shore within a hundred-meter radius, even plowing the ground beneath, pushing the soil a hundred meters away, forming a smooth circular pit.

Chu Xiu's body flew back ten meters, landing with a thud.

The woman in the white dress took half a step back.

Her previously expressionless eyes seemed to gain a hint of spirit.

"How is this possible~"

Covered in mud, Chu Xiu jumped up from the ground, looking at the sword-wielding woman, his face full of disbelief.

He, Chu Xiu, with Ultimate Ascension and the Archaic Sacred Body, was actually casually knocked away by someone of the same realm using physical strength?

Even if the opponent was a Great Emperor, it didn't make sense.