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

Zhou Ran turned around.

At the edge of the deathly gray void, a sliver of bluish-white light emerged.

The light was being dragged along by the remnant in the left eye, while simultaneously struggling to break free.

Within Zhou Ran's Forgotten River Seal, half of the Dharma Eye Origin began to vibrate.

The other half is emerging from the deepest part of the Heavenly Corpse's left eye.

The bluish-white surface was covered with cracks, from which thin black lines emerged.

That wasn't external erosion.

That was the black will that Lin Qingxue's Dharma Eye later awakened.

Zhou Ran raised the white bone pen.

The right hand holds the pen.

The right to the left eye in Hsu Yu-Wei's palm.

The Heart Imprint left by Meng Po in the River of Oblivion.

The three fragments of power overlapped in front of his palm, interlocking and vibrating with a soft crackling sound.

The Yin-Yang Communication Bone Fragment lit up.

Li Zhiyao's voice came through.

"Zhou Ran, something happened to Qingxue."

Jiangcheng, the basement of the Xiao family manor.

Lin Qingxue lay on the cold jade bed.

The white blindfold was soaked with bluish-white light.

In the center of the white silk, the silver eye that had previously grown out was spinning rapidly, tearing at the silk as if trying to crawl out.

Su Qingling and Su Qingwu stood guard on either side of the Tide Array, their faces drained of color.

Xiao Rou's Gu worms covered the ground, all lying flat and motionless.

Fatty Wang clutched his prayer beads, his forehead covered in sweat.

"Ran-ge, hurry up over there."

"Something's wrong with her eyes; they're not open, and they're bleeding."

Lin Qingxue raised her hand and pressed down on the white silk.

She didn't cry out in pain.

But the back of her hand was taut, her knuckles bulging out one by one.

Zhou Ran asked through the bone fragment, "Qingxue, can you hear me?"

A few breaths later.

Lin Qingxue spoke, her breath very weak.

"I can hear you."

Zhou Ran looked at the two halves of the Dharma Eye Source in front of him.

"I've found my other half."

"Once you're brought back, the Moon Emperor will set his sights on you again."

"You don't have to answer."

There was a brief silence on the bone fragment side.

Lin Qingxue smiled.

"My things."

"Why should we leave it in her hands?"

Zhou Ran smiled too.

"That's right."

"Ready?"

Lin Qingxue said, "Zhou Ran."

"Um?"

"Don't let her make decisions for me anymore."

Zhou Ran picked up his pen.

"Won't."

He wrote four words in the air.

Return it to its rightful owner.

The moment the white bone pen fell, the two halves of the Dharma Eye's origin vibrated simultaneously.

The Heart Imprint of the River of Oblivion supports the left half.

The left eye, with its limited power, is holding onto the right side.

When the white bone pen wrote the word "myself," Lin Qingxue's aura appeared from beyond the boundary.

That was Lin Qingxue from Jiangcheng.

It was Lin Qingxue who, when the gray line broke ten thousand, gritted her teeth and used her blood to rebuild the earth's veins.

The pure white essence transformed into a beam of light, passing through the Yin-Yang bone fragments and heading straight for the manor in the mortal realm.

At the same moment.

The Heavenly Corpse opened its left eye a crack.

Silver-gray divine thoughts were forced out from the slits of his eyes.

The Moon Emperor has arrived.

There were no words, only a command was given.

Return to its place.

The source of the Dharma Eye paused in mid-air.

The bluish-white light was invaded by the silver-gray light, and its direction changed, bypassing the manor and heading towards the heart of the Heavenly Corpse.

The Moon Emperor wanted to change "return" to "return to its rightful place".

Xu Youwei stepped forward.

The silver eye in the palm opened.

Her face was frighteningly pale.

"I'll block it this time."

Zhou Ran said, "Don't try to fight back."

Xu Youwei gritted her teeth.

"I'm paying off my debts."

Silver Eyes erupted.

The power of the left eye collided with the divine thought of the Moon Emperor.

Xu Youwei was forced back half a step.

Zhou Ran raised his hand to support her back.

"Li Zhiyao!"

Li Zhiyao has already made her move regarding the bone fragments.

The ancient musical instrument plate hung above Lin Qingxue.

She formed a mudra with her hands, and ancient characters flowed from her fingertips.

"Ancient laws protect the soul."

"This body and this soul belong to the person who owns it."

Su Qingling and Su Qingwu reversed the tide formation at the same time.

Aquamarine patterns covered the cold jade bed.

"Tidal Blind Array, Blocks Visibility!"

Xiao Rou bit her fingertip and dripped her blood into the swarm of Gu.

"The Gu (a type of poison) recognizes its master and locks the soul's root!"

Fatty Wang slammed his palm on the ground, and the phantom of the golden Buddha supported the dome of the basement.

"The Moon Emperor, is it?"

"The Buddha isn't giving a sermon today; he's just blocking the door!"

Chen Ya stood outside the formation, holding a communicator in her hand.

"All surveillance has been cut off."

"Reflective surface masking complete."

"The demonic army outside the manor has formed a battle array, and no outsiders are approaching."

After listening to the reports from each array point, Zhou Ran's eyes flashed with a fierce light.

At both ends of the bone fragment, all the array patterns lit up together.

The Moon Emperor's divine sense also detected the obstruction.

The silvery-gray light suddenly intensified.

The white bone pen began to shake erratically.

The pen tip wanted to change the characters itself.

The character for "person" in "return to the person" is forcibly elongated, almost turning into "door".

Zhou Ran sneered.

"You want to change my handwriting too?"

He pressed down on the white bone pen with his palm.

The nascent soul appeared.

Six gray lines lit up simultaneously.

The Forgotten River Seal, the Power of the Hand, and the Power of the Eye—three remnants of power overlapped in front of him.

Zhou Ran bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the words "myself".

I'm referring to myself.

"It's me."

The white bone pen remained stationary.

The character "门" was not written correctly.

The Moon Emperor's divine sense was repelled and sent back into the depths of his left eye.

The essence of the Dharma Eye broke free from the silver-gray pull, transforming into fine light of blue, white, and black, which crossed boundaries and landed between Lin Qingxue's eyebrows.

The manor's basement.

The white silk began to tear inch by inch.

Lin Qingxue opened her eyes abruptly.

His brows and eyes opened again.

The old blue and white have changed.

Deep within the pale blue-white depths, a dark light pressed down.

The black light fell.

The silver eye on the white silk shattered on the spot.

Silver Eyes let out a scream and turned into dust that scattered across the ground.

Fatty Wang collapsed to the ground.

"Did it work?"

Li Zhiyao stared at Lin Qingxue's brow.

"The origin has returned."

"But it has changed."

Lin Qingxue raised her hand and touched her brow.

She still couldn't see ordinary light and shadow clearly with the naked eye.

But the Dharma Eye can already see deeper.

She made an incision through a bone fragment.

"Zhou Ran".

Zhou Ran felt a little relieved when he heard that she could still speak.

"Does it hurt?"

Lin Qingxue paused for a moment.

"pain."

"Can endure."

Zhou Ran said, "Don't try to hold on."

Lin Qingxue said, "I'm not full."

I see you.

Zhou Ran was taken aback.

Lin Qingxue added, "I also saw Xu Youwei."

Xu Youwei stood to the side, her body still covered in blood.

She whispered, "I'm sorry."

Lin Qingxue quickly replied to the bone fragment.

"We'll talk about it when we get back."

"You owe me, and you can't get away with it."

Xu Youwei's eyes were red.

"Um."

Inside Zhou Ran's dantian, the six gray lines on the surface of his nascent soul stopped spreading.

Outside the gray lines, there is an extremely fine black and gold rune.

The rune resembled a door that was closing.

Ye Futian spoke in his mind, his voice low.

"The initial stage of closing the door."

"You've chosen the right path."

Zhou Ran has not yet responded.

The entire left eye area of ​​the Heavenly Corpse began to tremble.

The epicenter was not in the left eye.

From deeper within.

In the direction of the heart.

Yue Zhao's spirit looked up, her expression suddenly changing.

"broken."

On the other side of the bone fragment, Lin Qingxue's breath also paused for a beat.

Her newly restored eyes gazed into the depths of the void, her voice barely audible.

"Zhou Ran".

"The heart of the Heavenly Corpse..."

"Climbing in Chaojiang City."

Lin Qingxue's voice came from the bone fragment.

It's very light.

But everyone heard it from the left eye area.

Zhou Ran looked up.

Deep within the deathly gray sky, streaks of gray emerged.

Those gray lines are not straight lines.

They bend and twist, like feet extending from the heart, plunging into the other end of the void.

At the other end lies the city's geological features.

It's not the Heavenly Corpse that's moving.

Jiangcheng was being dragged over.

The dark gold in Zhou Ran's eyes darkened.

"Did you see clearly?"

Lin Qingxue paused for two breaths.

She has just regained control of the Dharma, and the origin is still being stitched back together.

With each word spoken, fine dust would seep from between his brows.

"I saw it clearly."

"East City, riverbed, hospital, subway, old city... it has captured all the earth's vital energy."

Li Zhiyao's voice immediately followed.

"The number of gray lines has increased again."

"Not 15,000."

"It's 23,000 now."

Fatty Wang cursed.

"This thing even has a speed-up function?"

The sound of keyboards clicking rapidly came from Chen Ya's side.

"The city's geomagnetic field is abnormal, causing the power supply system to trip three times."

"The authorities can no longer suppress it."

"Within three hours at most, the strange phenomenon in Jiangcheng will go viral across the entire internet."

Qin San's voice was cold and hard.

"Some of the remnants of Penglai are spreading rumors that Jiangcheng is a den of demons, and they are telling ordinary people to run to the east of the city."

Xiao Rou chimed in.

"The swarm of Gu has blocked a portion of it."

"But the gray line moves underground, faster than a person."

Zhou Ran did not speak immediately.

He looked at the not-quite-closed slit deep inside his left eye.

The Moon Emperor no longer hides.

He pried open the heart, hands, and eyes.

So she stopped playing chess slowly.

She's going to flip the table.