After I stopped trying, a rich woman trained me into a demon emperor.

Zhou Ran tucked the Grand Commander's Order into his palm and slammed it directly to the ground.

boom!

A burst of golden light erupted.

The entire floorboard was shaking, but it didn't break.

That's not force, that's the rule.

Zhou Ran's idealistic nascent soul fully opened at this moment.

He uttered four words in a low voice.

"Yin blood returns to Yin."

The next instant, the particles of illusory laws within the blood rain suddenly froze.

The Grand Commander's decree was filled with golden light, and the power of Yin laws poured into the earth's veins, turning over everything that should have been polluted.

The blood that had been buried underground began to flow back.

It's not about returning to the air, but returning to the yin energy.

The yin energy spread rapidly along the array patterns outside the manor, adding a new layer of framework to the barrier.

On the other end of the bone fragment, Li Zhiyao took a short breath.

"The gray line... has stopped."

Zhou Ran didn't let up; instead, he pressed down another point.

"How far has it stopped?"

"More than nine thousand eight hundred."

Li Zhiyao's voice was still trembling.

"It's still falling."

Zhou Ran closed his eyes briefly.

enough.

As long as it doesn't break 10,000, there's still hope.

But the next moment, the Grand Commander's Order in his palm suddenly trembled slightly.

Zhou Ran opened his eyes, his gaze instantly falling on the surface of the token.

A thin, almost invisible crack silently appeared.

The color is neither gold nor black.

It's gray.

It was exactly the same as the six gray lines in his dantian.

"How could this be...?"

Old Xu saw it too, and his expression completely changed.

"Gray stripes?"

How could the Grand Commander have such a thing?

Zhou Ran ignored him.

The Grand Commander's decree is connected to the origin of Yin Law, and now it is tainted with the laws of the Void Realm, indicating that Yama King's blood rain was not actually killing people.

It's a power grab.

It is polluting the yin law.

"Good tactic."

Zhou Ran said coldly,

Even if it's dead, I'll still take a bite.

In the bone fragment, Li Zhiyao's voice suddenly became urgent.

"Zhou Ran, Qingxue has moved again!"

"What happened?"

She's crying.

Li Zhiyao lowered her voice.

"His tears were bluish-white, and he kept calling Yue Zhao's name."

Zhou Ran's eyes turned cold.

Yue Zhao's will remains.

She didn't intend to take over the body; it was the bloodline connection that was acting up.

The King of Hell's blood rain, the Jiangcheng earth veins, and the Heavenly Corpse's heart—these three threads are now all intertwined around Lin Qingxue.

"Take her away."

Zhou Ran's voice was even colder.

"The farther away from the manor, the better; the farther away from the underground city of East City, the better."

"They're already withdrawing."

Li Zhiyao said,

"But she was like she was being watched by something, she was trembling wherever she went."

Zhou Ran looked at the Grand Commander's Order in his hand and remained silent for a moment.

Hiding won't help.

The nails are already embedded in the earth's veins; the only way to pull them out is to go to the underworld and chop off the hand that drove the nails in.

"Wang Pangzi, Qin San, Xiao Rou."

Zhou Ran spoke,

"Guard the manor. Anyone who dares to enter again will be crippled and then killed."

"And what about you?"

Fatty Wang asked.

Zhou Ran looked up at the dark slit in the sky.

"I'm going to the underworld to settle accounts with Emperor Song."

Old Xu's eyes flashed:

"Are you going now?"

"If we don't go, Jiangcheng will be demolished a second time today."

Zhou Ran took the Grand Commander's Order back into his palm.

"If he dares to use the blood rain of Yama, the King of Hell, I dare to tear down the door of the Third Hall."

Old Xu stared at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled.

This time, the smile no longer held that previous hint of probing.

"Young friend Zhou, you're a complete madman."

"each other."

Zhou Ran replied casually.

He turned to leave, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The gray lines on the Grand Commander's order lit up again.

It didn't crack open; it crawled into the token like a living thing.

At the same time, the hundred-foot-long heart deep underground, within the Heavenly Corpse, suddenly throbbed.

thump.

Zhou Ran raised his eyelids and stared into the depths of the dark slit.

"Emperor Song was not testing us."

His voice was cold.

"He's looking for the door."

The next second, a very faint cracking sound came from the dark crack in the sky.

Something deeper was pushed open from behind the underworld, creating a crack.

What was revealed behind the seam was not a ghost soldier.

It is an eye.

The moment the eyes appeared, the Grand Commander's order cracked again.

The gray lines seeped inwards along the edges.

The Yin law is being assimilated.

It's not just surface contamination; it's rotten to the core.

Old Xu tightened his grip on the bamboo cane for a moment, then loosened it.

"Young friend Zhou, if this token is rendered useless, the authority of the Ten Courts of the Underworld will be in jeopardy."

Zhou Ran didn't look at him.

"So you were trying to steal Yue Zhao just now?"

Old Xu, shut up.

Zhou Ran pressed the Grand Commander's Decree into his palm, his Nascent Soul True Essence pressing down on the gray patterns inch by inch.

But the next moment, Li Zhiyao's exclamation came from the bone fragment.

"Qingxue is awake!"

Zhou Ran suddenly looked up.

Tell her to stay still.

"We can't stop them."

Li Zhiyao's voice was strained.

"She's opening a dharma channel!"

The basement of the Xiao family manor.

Lin Qingxue leaned against the array platform, half of her hair still tinged with silver.

A bluish-white line of blood seeped from the corner of her eye, and deep within her pupil, a thin vertical line was slowly opening.

Li Zhiyao pressed down on her shoulder.

"You cannot use the law now."

Lin Qingxue did not answer.

She looked at the bone fragments; her lips were very pale.

"Zhou Ran".

Zhou Ran lowered his voice.

"I am here."

Lin Qingxue's throat was dry.

"The gray line... isn't nine thousand eight."

Li Zhiyao's expression changed.

"What did you see?"

Lin Qingxue raised her eyes, and bluish-white blood slid down her cheeks to her chin.

"Underground in Jiangcheng, the gray line has exceeded 15,000."

The basement fell silent for a moment.

The next moment, a loud noise came from afar.

It was the dull thud of a load-bearing wall and steel reinforcement breaking.

Through the image projected by the bone fragment, Zhou Ran saw the bridge across the river in the eastern district of Jiangcheng suddenly leave the river surface.

The entire bridge deck, along with the traffic flowing on it, floated up more than ten meters.

The car lights were swaying wildly.

The crowd screamed.

Several buses flipped sideways in mid-air, and people inside the buses reached out and smashed the glass.

Three seconds later.

Gravity has returned.

The bridge deck was about to collapse.

"Certainly!"

Zhou Ran roared from the depths of the Heavenly Corpse, and the golden light of the Grand Commander's Order surged out from the bone fragments in his palm.

The world of the living.

The bridge, suspended in mid-air, suddenly froze.

The bridge deck, weighing hundreds of tons, the overturned bus, and the screaming crowd were all suspended half a meter above the river.

It didn't hit the ground.

Zhou Ran, separated by two realms, forcibly locked the gravity rules of a local area in the eastern district of Jiangcheng using the authority of Yin Law.

Wang Pangzi was dumbfounded by what he saw in the bone fragments.

"Ran-ge..."

"You held up the bridge across the divide between the living and the dead?"

Old Xu stared at the sky, his eye twitching violently.

Change the rules remotely.

Such methods are simply appalling.

Zhou Ran ignored their shock and tightened her grip on her fingers inch by inch.

He can kill a Nascent Soul cultivator and slay Yama, how could he watch the city he protects be demolished?

"Fatty Wang!"

Mr. Xu!

Zhou Ran roared at the bone fragments.

"Let's go to the riverbank!"

"Stabilize the bridge and evacuate everyone!"

"Anyone who dares to let the bridge collapse even an inch, I'll skin them alive when I get back!"

"clear!"

Wang Pangzi shuddered, and the golden Buddha phantom crashed through the roof and sped towards the riverbank.

Old Xu sighed and followed, leaning on his bamboo cane.

In the basement.

Chen Ya rushed in, clutching a tablet in her hand, her fingertips turning white.