Jialan Realm.

Calamity Extermination Island.

With a thunderous boom, the stone gate of the cell exploded.

Through the roiling dust, Luo Xiu walked out unhurriedly, as if strolling into an unguarded domain.

The hundreds of Prison Guards waiting outside had already formed an attack formation. They drew their swords and blades, poised to strike.

However, Luo Xiu's invisible spiritual pressure was so immense that none of them dared to take a single step forward. Their knees grew weak, and sweat drenched their backs.

Luo Xiu suddenly stopped. With a single glance, lightning erupted in The Void.

The bolts of lightning instantly coalesced into Thunderfish and Thunderworms that flew into the crowd. Shrill screams followed in their wake, leaving behind nothing but charred corpses.

Hua Muyan sighed, "I never thought these Thunderfish and Thunderworms would be this powerful."

"But Master, you mustn't delay. You've just stripped away the Green Lotus, and you need to find a place to recuperate."

Luo Xiu nodded lightly. He suddenly reached out and grabbed a half-dead Prison Guard, pulling the man before him.

As a cold light flickered in his left eye, countless particles of dust materialized from thin air, gathering from all directions to envelop the Prison Guard. This was one of the abilities of the Eye of the Reaper: Elysian Nether Earth.

A moment later, the resurrected Jiu Ye stood before Luo Xiu, glaring at him through gritted teeth.

If he could, he would have lunged forward to devour Luo Xiu piece by piece.

But now, his entire being was under Luo Xiu's control. Even his thoughts could not escape Luo Xiu's senses. For Luo Xiu to command him, all it took was a single whim.

"Why did you revive me with such a technique?! What do you want?!"

Luo Xiu ignored him, disappearing in a flash.

Just as Hua Muyan had said, he had just stripped away his Life-bound Green Lotus. He urgently needed to find a place to recover and had no time to waste.

...

BOOM!

Not long after Luo Xiu left Calamity Extermination Island, a world-shaking explosion ripped through the sky, rattling the heavens.

Luo Xiu couldn't begin to imagine the destructive power generated by a Red Emperor self-destructing their Dantian. However, it was more than enough to destroy Calamity Extermination Island.

And if one self-destruction wasn't enough, he would simply do it again.

Luo Xiu stood high in the sky. He continuously controlled Jiu Ye to self-destruct five times. He only stopped once the entire island chain where Calamity Extermination Island was located had been thoroughly pulverized and had sunk to the ocean floor.

Finally, he used the Soul Capturing Technique to retrieve Jiu Ye's Residual Soul.

"What have you done to Jiu Ye?!" a furious roar suddenly echoed through The Void.

Immediately after, four figures tore through the air and appeared before Luo Xiu.

They were none other than the four Emperor Realm Prison Guards.

Luo Xiu scanned the four men with a blank expression and slowly raised his right hand.

The mere sight of this gesture terrified the four Prison Guards, who scrambled back in retreat.

"I'm surprised you dared to follow me."

The four Prison Guards gritted their teeth, filled with a rage they dared not express.

After all, the man before them was the Azure Emperor.

In the Three Thousand Worlds of the Upper Realm, if Emperor Hao wasn't present, who could possibly stop him?

Suddenly, countless straight lines of lightning shot up from the seabed. They arrived in an instant, piercing the bodies of the four Prison Guards from every direction and crisscrossing like a woven net of thunder.

Luo Xiu only lowered his raised right hand after the four Prison Guards' flesh and blood had disintegrated, leaving behind nothing but charred skeletons. The countless 'thunder lines' then transformed back into a large swarm of Thunderfish and Thunderworms and returned to his Spiritual Ocean.

Luo Xiu watched the four charred skeletons fall, a faint smile playing on his lips.

I didn't expect these little guys to be so useful.

Afterward, Luo Xiu activated the Soul Capturing Technique, pulling the four Residual Souls of the Prison Guards before him.

"I'll hold onto your Residual Souls for now."

"Go back and tell Luo Hao... since he likes that lotus so much, he can have it to play with."

"Tell him to cultivate diligently and not let his Cultivation stagnate. The day will come when I personally visit the Lingtian Plateau and raze the Heaven Azure Empire to the ground!"

A short while later, after the four Prison Guards' Residual Souls departed, Luo Xiu could finally hold on no longer and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The indescribable pain racking his body nearly brought him to the point of collapse.

In truth, he had been forcibly enduring it ever since he had stripped the Creation Green Lotus from his body.

He slowly closed his eyes, his consciousness fading.

"Yan'er, from here on out... it's up to you."

A Flower Vine sprouted from his wrist, instantly transforming into the figure of Hua Muyan.

Hua Muyan caught him in her arms and sighed softly.

"There's no guarantee this area is safe from other masters. It seems our only choice is to return to that lake. The spatial rift there should lead us back to the Tianhe Secret Realm."

"..."

「Jucui State. Wan Yao Forest.」

"What are you trying to do?!"

"Don't you come any closer! I'm warning you, I'm super strong, you know!"

Early in the morning, the Snow Kirin's robust, middle-aged man's voice startled Lin Shanshan from her meditation.

After leaving the tree hollow, Lin Shanshan's expression tensed. She was completely surrounded by a dense horde of Demon Beasts.

Suddenly, a boy who looked to be in his teens descended from the sky, landing with a deafening crash.

It was Ai Kun, returned from the Jialan Realm.

Ai Kun looked at Lin Shanshan and the Snow Kirin with a jeering gaze, a smirk spreading across his face.

"Alright, lads! If you can capture them alive, you can have your fun with these two wenches!"

"If you can't take them alive, then whoever brings me their corpses, I will reward handsomely!"

Hearing Ai Kun's words, the pack of Demon Beasts howled with excitement.

"My king, I love young human wenches like this. So fresh and tender!"

"But the other one seems to be some kind of powerful Divine Beast! If we ate her, our cultivation would probably soar!"

"Let's get 'em, brothers!"

"..."

Faced with such a large number of Demon Beasts, not to mention the Emperor Realm Ai Kun, the Snow Kirin didn't hesitate for a second. She immediately took out the Green Lotus Petal Luo Xiu had given her before he left.

She knew if she didn't play her trump card now, she wouldn't get another chance.

"I dare any of you to come closer!"

"Take one more step, and you die!"

Sensing the powerful aura emanating from the Green Lotus Petal, the Demon Beasts instantly froze.

Ai Kun also frowned slightly, his expression growing solemn.

At that moment, he couldn't help but think of Luo Xiu.

"This just goes to show how important you two are to His Majesty, the Azure Emperor. I never thought he'd be willing to give you something like this."

Hearing this, Lin Shanshan's eyes trembled. "What did you say? The... Azure Emperor?"

She had known since she was a little girl that her father was the Azure Emperor.

Ai Kun raised an eyebrow. "What? Don't you know? The human boy who was with you earlier *is* the Azure Emperor."

Hearing this, something seemed to explode in Lin Shanshan's mind, leaving it completely blank.

Immediately, the image of the young man named Lin Luo surfaced clearly in her mind.

Ai Kun shook his head gently. "Ah well, it doesn't matter anymore. He's probably dead by now anyway."

Lin Shanshan stared at Ai Kun. "What did you do to him?"

Ai Kun smiled indifferently, ignoring her, and turned his gaze to the Demon Beasts.

"What are you all waiting for? Kill them!"

"..."

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