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

Fatty Wang's eyes were bloodshot.

"brute."

Zhao Shijiang glanced at him dismissively.

Go ahead and curse.

"Swearing won't kill me."

Zhou Ran didn't waste any words with him.

He raised his hand, and the phantom of the Underworld ledger unfolded with a roar inside the core cabin.

One by one, the faces of the wronged souls, blurred and indistinct, emerged from it.

The female soul whose lifespan had not yet ended was mistakenly drawn into the Soul Refining Furnace.

After being hit and killed by Zhao Tao's car, the case file changed the description of the male's soul as "accidentally falling."

There are countless ordinary people whose lives were bought off by Zhao Shijiang, and who didn't even have the qualification to enter the underworld for reincarnation after death.

They silently surrounded Zhao Shi-jiang, watching him intently.

Zhao Shijiang's face twitched, then turned into even deeper disdain.

"Just a dead man."

"Useless while alive, even more useless after death."

The female spirit whispered, "Zhao Shijiang, my lifespan is not yet over."

Zhao Shijiang scoffed.

"So what?"

"Even if one or two of you ants die, this city will still function."

"I'm different."

"I can open the gate for Holy Light, I can help a great being descend!"

"I can live a very, very long time."

"My life is worth more than all of yours combined!"

The cabin fell silent.

Zhou Ran nodded.

"very good."

Zhao Shijiang's vigilance was evident through the two cracks in the door.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhou Ran opened the communication.

"Chen Ya".

Chen Ya's calm reply came immediately:

"Medical system access is being cracked, 20 seconds remaining."

"Qingxue".

Lin Qingxue's reply is as follows:

"Life connection has been located."

He only had 1,482 actual patients registered with him.

The rest are all fake nodes.

"Xiao Rou".

Xiao Rou's Gu worms have quietly crawled all over the floor and walls of the core module.

"The Gu worm has entered the interface."

"But the core piece in his chest is protected by a virtual dimension; forcibly removing it would cause it to explode."

Zhou Ran said, "No need to pull it out."

Zhao Shijiang's unease grew stronger.

"What exactly do you want to do?!"

Zhou Ran walked to the gate of flesh and blood and raised the white bone pen.

Zhao Shijiang screamed, "If you dare write that, I'll cut off all your lifelines right now!"

The core of his chest suddenly lit up with a red light.

On the screen, the life curves of all patients plummeted simultaneously.

Fatty Wang shouted urgently, "Brother!"

Zhou Ran's movements did not pause at all.

The white bone pen fell fiercely.

The first sentence.

The patient is the creditor.

The entire ship shuddered violently.

All the gray lifelines connecting patients were stained with a dark yellow, turning into chains that demanded repayment.

Zhao Shijiang's expression changed drastically.

"What is this thing?!"

Zhou Ran wrote down the second sentence.

Zhao Shijiang is the debtor.

The phantom of the underworld's ledger crashed down.

Every life debt Zhao Shijiang had incurred in the past through money, power, underworld connections, and the Shenghui channel was now transformed into nails of rules by the White Bone Pen, firmly driven into his soul.

The third sentence.

Those who owe money must not seek revenge on their creditors.

The instant the blood-red characters took shape.

Zhao Shijiang suddenly let out a scream that was not human.

His original procedure for extracting life force from patients was completely reversed by these three ironclad rules!

On the screen, the patient's life curve stopped falling and began to rise slowly and steadily.

Zhao Shijiang's body, which had merged with the door, was rapidly withering away at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The CT scan on his chest was flashing alarms wildly.

"Reverse! Quickly reverse the program!"

Eileen was deathly pale.

"We can't do it... Our system privileges have been taken away!"

Chen Ya's reply came calmly from the communicator.

"The healthcare system has been fully taken over."

"All life support devices have been disconnected from Sheng Hui's internal network."

"The patient's lifeline is safely detached from Zhao Shijiang's main body."

Lin Qingxue added, "The last three hundred connecting lines are hidden in the core of his chest, and they are the most stubborn."

Xiao Rou raised her hand.

"Signal for Gu worm replacement."

Countless tiny worms burrowed into the core chip's intricate interface.

Real lifelines were replaced by false Gu worm signals.

Zhao Shijiang tried desperately to cut the lines, but found that he was only cutting empty lines disguised by the Gu worms.

The real patients are being safely removed one by one.

Zhou Ran stared at him calmly.

"You think you're standing behind three thousand lives."

"Wrong."

"They are now standing before you, demanding repayment of their debts."

The gate of flesh and blood contracted violently.

The life force within Zhao Shijiang's body is being reversed and transferred to the bodies of every patient he is holding hostage.

A child with a faint heartbeat miraculously stabilized his life trajectory.

An elderly man who was on the verge of death has been brought out of danger.

A pregnant woman who had been suffering from oxygen deficiency regained stable breathing.

Zhao Shijiang's face was aging rapidly; his skin clung tightly to his bones, his eye sockets were sunken, and his hair was withering and falling out strand by strand.

His face was drained of color, his voice trembled uncontrollably, and he was no longer the arrogant man he once was.

"Zhou Ran! I have intelligence!"

"Stop...stop writing! I know Marcus's backup plan!"

"I know the Moon Emperor—"

Zhou Ran interrupted indifferently.

"Keep it."

"Go to the underworld and tell them."

Zhao Shijiang struggled frantically, and the entire Gate of Flesh and Blood trembled.

"I can't die!"

"I am no longer Zhao Shijiang!"

"I am the one who opens the gates of Holy Radiance!"

Zhou Ran raised his knife.

Instead of aiming for Zhao Shijiang's head, he aimed at the door frame connected to the ship's hull behind him.

The Great Wilderness Black Blade fell.

Where the knife passes, the boundary is severed.

The connection between the flesh-and-blood door frame and the bottom of the giant ship was severed cleanly with a single stroke.

The supply of energy from the ethereal realm has been cut off.

The core of Zhao Shijiang's chest emitted a piercing screech and went completely dark.

He opened his mouth wide and suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood.

A small black storage chip rolled out from the black blood.

The chip landed, lit up on its own, and a projection popped up.

Marcus Weber.

He was still wearing his white coat, his face showing the weariness and fervor typical of scientists.

"If you see this video, it means that Zhao Shijiang, that good-for-nothing, has failed."

"This also shows..."

Marcus in the projection looked up, his eyes piercing through the barrier of time, meeting Zhou Ran's gaze directly.

"The Moon Emperor lied to me too."