At the foot of Yin Demon Mountain.

After a fierce battle.

Chen Mufan and his four companions sat on the ground, panting heavily.

Around them lay the bodies of about thirty demon clan members, sprawled in disarray.

Chu Xiu extended his right hand, grabbing the mane on top of a pig-faced demon's head, lifting it as if it were a chick.

The pig-headed demon, pretending to be dead, realized it had been discovered and struggled violently.

With a vicious expression, it snarled, "Human, let me go, or I'll eat you."

Smack~

Chu Xiu slapped its face.

With his Archaic Sacred Body, his physical strength was immense.

The pig-headed demon was stunned by the slap, its already swollen face turning even redder, resembling a monkey's behind.

Seeing Chu Xiu's cold eyes, it dared not struggle any further.

"Why did you conspire with other demons to ambush us?"

The pig-headed demon's eyes flickered.

It wanted to concoct a lie to deceive this terrifying human.

Rip~ Chu Xiu raised his hand, tearing off the pig-headed demon's ear as if it were paper, blood spurting out.

"Ah..."

The excruciating pain made the pig-headed demon scream to the heavens.

Chen Mufan and the others winced at the bloody scene.

"Dare to lie, and I'll turn your five limbs into four." Chu Xiu said with a gentle smile, but his words sent chills down their spines.

The pig-headed demon's pupils trembled, "Anyway... even if I tell you, you won't let me live."

"Hmm~"

Chu Xiu nodded, smiling, "If you confess honestly, I can let you die peacefully."

"Cough cough... Senior Brother Chu Xiu, we can observe its Divine Bridge..."

Qin Min spoke weakly.

Chu Xiu frowned but did not respond.

Without reaching the Divine Bridge Realm, without forming a Sea of Consciousness, soul-searching was impossible.

These five were all in the Divine Bridge Realm and could perform soul-searching, but Chu Xiu didn't trust them. It was safer to ask himself.

Chen Mufan tugged at his junior sister's sleeve, shaking his head to signal her to stay silent.

They had already witnessed Chu Xiu's terrifying combat strength.

Killing demons in the Divine Bridge Realm was as easy as slaughtering chickens.

If they angered him, the five of them wouldn't be enough for him to kill.

The pig-headed demon, looking at Chu Xiu's eerie eyes, shivered and began to speak hesitantly.

Throughout, Chu Xiu watched its expression. If it dared to lie, he would immediately tear off its other ear.

After listening to its account.

Everyone was shocked, their faces turning pale.

In the past few hundred years.

The Desolate Demon Secret Realm, originally suppressed by Emperor Taisu's great path.

For unknown reasons.

A Beyond Shore Realm demon emerged, crushing and uniting all demons in the secret realm with absolute strength, becoming the chief leader.

Under its command, the demons had been biding their time for hundreds of years, avoiding conflict with human cultivators entering the secret realm.

The plan was to wait for the Taisu Holy Land to open the secret realm, then lead all demons to break through the blockade and escape the Desolate Demon Secret Realm.

The reason for hunting humans was not only for their flesh but also to eliminate future threats and collect human essence blood to set up a blood sacrifice formation at the initial teleportation square, using the Taisu Holy Land's teleportation light gate to escape to the outside world...

"The secret realm is suppressed by the Great Emperor's path, with the highest level being the peak of the Divine Bridge Realm. How did your chief leader break through to the Beyond Shore Realm?" Chu Xiu asked.

He felt this matter was not simple; the waters of the Desolate Demon Secret Realm seemed very deep.

The pig-headed demon shook its head, looking pained, "I'm just a small soldier, how could I know such secrets?"

Splat~

Chu Xiu, expressionless, decapitated it, blood spurting, a few drops of crimson blood staining his pale cheek, making him look even more eerie.

The pig-headed demon died peacefully.

Throwing the bloody pig head aside.

Chu Xiu stood up, gazing at the dusk sky, realizing he needed to accelerate the ripening of the Infant Soul Demon Fruit.

If he didn't break through to the Divine Bridge Realm, encountering that Beyond Shore Realm chief leader would be very dangerous, even for him.

"Senior Brother Chu... can you help us detoxify?"

Chu Xiu turned back, saying indifferently, "No rush, move these bodies to the mountain top first..."

Seeing his attitude, Chen Mufan's heart sank.

Exchanging glances with his four teammates.

They knew Chu Xiu would definitely not spare them.

"Chu Xiu, you swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao, do you want your master's cultivation to stagnate?" Qin Min's face twisted.

"Hehe... haha!"

Chu Xiu's laugh was strange, licking the blood drop from the corner of his mouth.

He didn't care whether his master's cultivation progressed.

Nor did he want to continue pretending with these people.

"You all understand."

"Too bad, you could have lived a bit longer."

As Chu Xiu spoke, he walked toward them.

"Chu Xiu... you... will die a horrible death."

Qin Min screamed.

Chu Xiu raised his hand, taking out the Azure Blood Sword, stepping into the Xing Secret, moving like a ghost, and pounced.

"You demon..."

"Ah..."

Cold, sword light crisscrossed.

"You will die a horrible death..."

"You will be struck by lightning!!"

"Don't blame me, blame yourselves for knowing too much."

"Spare me..." Chen Mufan, face pale, knelt and begged, "Senior Brother Chu Xiu, I can be your servant, just spare my life."

"Please, don't kill me!!"

Splat~

A merciless scarlet sword light slashed across his neck.

Leaving a shallow blood mark.

Chen Mufan's eyes dimmed, his face filled with terror, collapsing lifelessly to the ground.

Chu Xiu stood alone among the corpses, shaking the blood off the Azure Blood Sword with a flick of his right hand, slightly shaking his head. He had expected them to resist.

Unexpectedly, these disciples of the Holy Land didn't even dare to resist him.

"Sigh, truly disappointing."

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He began to deal with the bodies, transporting them to the mountain top to nourish the Infant Soul Demon Fruit.

----Gazing at the demon fruit tree in the formation, continuously absorbing blood.

For a long time.

Chu Xiu turned and descended the mountain, beginning his hunt.

Two days later.

The Infant Soul Demon Fruit was finally about to mature.

"Finally ripe!"

In an unknown mountain hollow.

Chu Xiu sat on a black rock, a diamond-shaped crystal floating before him, displaying a real-time image of the Infant Soul Demon Fruit atop Yin Demon Mountain.

The fruit glowed with a rosy light, its fragrance permeating the air, making one's pores relax, the whole body comfortable, as if about to ascend to immortality.

Its current appearance was like the ginseng fruit from Journey to the West, exuding a sacred aura, no longer a trace of evil, turning evil into good, a sign of the demon fruit's maturity.

He had just stood up, ready to return.

His ears twitched, and he quickly hid behind a rock in the mountain hollow.

Before long.

A familiar figure flew in from afar, standing on the rock where he had been sitting.

Ye Fan held a beast skin map, his face filled with joy.

Perhaps too excited, his whole body trembled, unable to hold back laughter.

"Found it, finally here."

"The treasure of the Quasi-Demon Emperor..."

A year ago, in the Holy Land's Scripture Repository, he found a treasure map in an unremarkable Qi Refining manual.

This mysterious treasure map, left by someone unknown.

Actually recorded the location of the Divine Crow Quasi-Demon Emperor's treasure.

At first, he didn't believe it, but upon entering the Desolate Demon Secret Realm, the map underwent a strange change, emitting a rosy light pointing to an unknown direction, finally convincing him to search for this treasure site.

The Desolate Demon Secret Realm was vast, with countless mountain ranges, yet he found this place in just over ten days.

One must admit, the protagonist's fate is truly extraordinary.

Hidden in the shadows, Chu Xiu watched Ye Fan, whose face was flushed with excitement.

A smile gradually formed at the corner of his mouth.