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

The bone nail pierced their hearts, instantly draining the demonic blood from their bodies.

Hundreds of Blood Demon soldiers fell to the ground on the spot.

The remaining soldiers stood frozen in place, no longer daring to move.

Lie Shan looked at Zhou Ran, his face finally turning cold.

"Morale of the army?"

"Their lives are in my hands. Whoever dares to disobey will die first."

With a single step, the bloodthirsty monster nearly shattered the dome of the main hall.

Zhou Ran, however, stepped ahead of her and pressed the Blood Sea Domain Lord's Seal into the military register.

"You've finally taken it out."

Lie Shan's gaze sharpened.

Zhou Ran had already discovered from the silvery-gray of the third cup of blood wine that those ashes could not only contaminate the blood wine, but also implant control bone nails along the bloodline.

Now, Lieshan has personally activated them.

All control paths are listed in the military register.

The golden Gu worm on Xiao Rou's hand raised its six wings, and the military register emitted a sharp cry.

"Found it."

She placed the Gu worms on the Blood Sea Domain Master Seal, and tens of thousands of tiny worm eggs surged toward the Twelve Cities of the Blood Sea along the military registration mark.

Lie Shan's expression changed drastically.

He stopped maintaining the projection, turned around, grabbed the imperial bone stuck in the center of the rebel flag, and stabbed it directly into his own chest.

Black and gold patterns instantly covered half of his body.

Beneath the Blood Bone River, the twelve protective arrays simultaneously reversed their positions.

The original black gold delivery route to the Nine Nether Well was forcibly changed, and a pitch-black rift was torn open above the sea of ​​blood, centered on Lieshan's physical body.

Lieshan spread his arms, letting the Emperor's Bone devour his flesh and blood.

"Zhou Ran, didn't you want evidence?"

"I will send the divine messenger to collect it personally!"

Behind the crack, a hand covered in black and gold scales slowly emerged.

The imperial envoy, who previously required three hours to arrive, used the body of the mountain-splitting creature as a coordinate to open the passage ahead of schedule.

The main seals of the Formless Domain and the Blood Sea Domain simultaneously issued piercing alarms.

Huanyin looked at Zhou Ran.

"He turned himself into a door."

Zhou Ran stared at the hand that had protruded from the crack, and slowly tightened his grip on the broken pen.

"Then let's close the door and beat the dog."

The divine messenger's hand crossed the crack, and before his five fingers were fully extended, the sea of ​​blood above lost its color.

The protective array patterns of the twelve cities extinguished layer by layer, the Blood Bone River stopped flowing, and the demonic energy within the hundreds of thousands of Blood Demon soldiers simultaneously stagnated.

Those with weaker cultivation levels immediately knelt down, and even commanders at the Integration Stage could only rely on their weapons to support their bodies.

The imperial bone in Lieshan's chest continued to grow, and bone spurs pierced through his shoulders and back, supporting his body into a human-shaped altar.

Lie Shan's face showed no pain, only fervor.

"Welcome, divine messenger!"

Li Ya and the other twelve commanders knelt down at the same time.

Before the rebels behind them could catch up, the evidence Zhou Ran had left in the military register lit up again.

The golden Gu eggs released by Xiaorou entered the sea of ​​blood along the military registration mark, following the exposed control path, and drilled into each black gold bone nail.

The first bone nail was hidden in the heart of a Blood Demon lieutenant.

After hatching, the Gu egg did not tear at flesh and blood, but instead lay on the surface of the bone nail and devoured the Emperor's bone ash thread inside.

The bone nail, having lost its support, was forcibly squeezed out by the demonic energy within the general's body, falling to the ground stained with blood.

Then came the second and the third.

In just a few breaths, tens of thousands of golden Gu worms hatched simultaneously.

The sound of bone nails hitting the ground echoed continuously within the Twelve Cities of Blood Sea.

The soldiers whose lives had been seized by Lieshan first touched their chests to confirm that the control had been lifted, then turned around in unison to look at the black rebel flag on the city wall.

Xiao Rou sat next to the military register, her face quickly turning pale.

Controlling the Gu worms across 370,000 miles was consuming her spiritual energy with every breath.

Her natal Gu had just stabilized Zhou Ran's primordial spirit, and now it was about to devour tens of thousands of Emperor Bone Nails, causing cracks to appear on its shell.

Qin San placed a Mind-Concentrating Jade in her palm.

"If you can't hold on, disconnect."

"We can hold on."

Xiao Rou didn't look up, her finger pointing to the twelve cities on the military register in turn.

"Those bone nails have consumed the blood of many people; the Gu worms don't like to waste blood."

Qin San glanced at her, then stopped trying to persuade her and simply drew his sword to stand guard beside her.

Above the sea of ​​blood, Lieshan also noticed that the bone nails were failing.

He looked down at the army formation at his feet and gave a stern order.

"Everyone, immediately perform a blood sacrifice to help the divine messenger open the gate! Anyone who disobeys will have their entire clan exterminated!"

The order was sent throughout the twelve cities, but not a single army unit responded.

A Blood Demon Captain raised his hand, pulled down the rebel flag, and severed the Emperor's Bone from the flagpole.

Immediately afterwards, more soldiers began to move, the black rebel flags fell one after another, and the Blood Demon Army, which had been kneeling on the ground, stood up again.

Lieshan only had over 60,000 loyal followers left.

Many people are still hesitant.

Zhou Ran looked at the crumbling mountain through the Domain Lord's Seal.

"You just said their lives were in your hands. And now?"

Lie Shan clenched his fists, attempting to detonate the bone nails again, but the Twelve Cities of Blood Sea remained unmoved.

Xiao Rou raised her head, and the golden Gu worm in her palm let out a burp.

Lie Shan's cheek twitched.

Huan Yin stood on the other side of the long table, her formless domain silently spreading out beneath her feet, shielding Xiao Rou from the divine messenger's oppressive aura.

"A soldier raised for hundreds of years will not recognize you in a quarter of an hour."

She looked at Lieshan, her tone indifferent.

"It seems it's not that Zhou Ran is good at bewitching people, it's that you're really not living a good life."

Bloodlust remained silent.

She stared at the main hall at the deepest part of the sea of ​​blood, and raised her hand to cut open her palm.

The blood did not fall to the ground, but instead formed a long line that connected with the ancestral pool below the main hall.

Zhou Ran looked at her.

"What you left here is not your original form."

"If I were to leave the sea of ​​blood in my true form, the mountain-splitting mountain would have already toppled the main hall."

The bloodlust was readily admitted.

"The blood body formed from the wedding invitation is enough to handle ordinary tribulations, but imagine how it can suppress and cleave mountains from 370,000 miles away. It still needs a Domain Lord's Seal."

She reached out her hand to Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran did not return the Blood Sea Domain Lord Seal, but instead separated a blood-red tiger talisman from the square seal.

"The main seal will remain in the unified army register, and the tiger tally will be temporarily under your control."

Bloodlust looked at the tiger tally hanging in front of him, a dangerous glint in his eyes.

"Are you afraid that I'll go back on my word after taking the Domain Lord's Seal?"

"The Lord's Seal now connects the 300,000 soldiers and also the path of the divine messenger's descent."

If taken rashly, the Rift Mountain Society will immediately realize that the military register has lost its support.

Zhou Ran handed the tiger tally to her.

"The Blood Sea is your territory, and those imprisoned in the Blood Pool are your former subordinates."

"I will grant you military power, but I will not avenge you."

Bloodlust gripped the tiger tally, a slow smile spreading across his lips.

"You certainly know how to split the spoils. As for my own grudges, of course I'll take them personally."

Her bloody body began to disintegrate from her feet.

The red dress, long hair, and skin transformed into a vast cloud of blood mist, flowing directly into the Blood Sea Main Hall along the military power passage within the Tiger Talisman.

At the same time, the ancestral pool, which had been silent for many years, suddenly exploded, and a pale hand emerged from the blood and grabbed the blood-red spear stuck in front of the hall.

The next moment, the entire sea of ​​blood overturned.

The River of Blood and Bones surged into the sky, transforming into a long, blood-red bridge that spanned twelve cities.

The bloodthirsty true form stepped out of the ancestral pool, its armor still bearing the cracks left from 30,000 years ago, but the Domain Lord's Seal that had been given to Zhou Ran was missing from its chest.

When the 300,000 Blood Demon soldiers saw her, they were first silent, and then they knelt down in droves.

"Welcome, Your Excellency!"

The soul sound passed through the Domain Lord's Seal, causing the main hall of the Devouring Heaven Demon Palace to tremble slightly.