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

Of the remaining 70%, half went into Lieshan's private treasury.

The mountain split open, triggering the blood pact, and a large cloud of blood mist rose from the surface of the pool.

"Fake!"

"Since Swallowing Bones is dead, anyone can use an account book to frame me!"

"You'd rather believe an outsider who's been in the Demon Realm for less than a year than the Grand Duke who has guarded the Blood Sea for three hundred years?"

Some veterans still hesitated.

Zhou Ran did not argue with him.

Mingcang took out 327 condolence receipts from the interlayer of the ledger.

These secondary tokens are the receipts left by the Bone-Swallowing Core when it reimbursed the Mountain Rift; each token corresponds to a member of the Blood Sea's kin.

When the military ID card detects the secondary tag, the names of the relevant soldiers and their families automatically light up.

The amount due, the amount actually received, and who signed off on the withholding were all displayed above the army formation of the twelve cities.

Not a single one of the secondary seals of Lieshan is missing.

Zhou Ran closed the ledger.

"The magic crystals in the Devouring Bone Treasury will be used to make up for the pensions owed for the past three hundred years."

"All twelve blood crystal mines, four private blood pools, and all fiefdoms under Lieshan's name shall be reclaimed and added to the Blood Navy Treasury."

"After rescuing the 100,000 blood slaves, the blood contracts were burned in a concentrated manner."

"50,000 former soldiers were reinstated to their original military status."

"Those who survived will pay their dues, and those who fell will have their remains and blood returned."

Zhou Ran raised the Blood Sea Domain Lord's Seal.

"I will not let you exchange your lives for mine."

"150,000 people were exchanged for a fake road. I will not accept this debt."

"If you want to save people, then grip your weapon tightly."

"Let the Blood Sea settle its own score."

Chi Feng's eyes quickly reddened as he looked at his father's name, which had reappeared in the military register.

He no longer asked Bloodlust to agree to the conditions set by Rift Mountain.

The long sword was drawn and hammered into the city wall.

"Descendants of the Red Tide Camp, heed my command!"

"Seal off the outer perimeter of the blood sacrifice array and sever all the blood supply array's cores!"

"Anyone who sends another drop of blood to Rift Mountain will be a mortal enemy of the Crimson Tide Camp!"

Three thousand old soldiers turned and brandished their swords.

Three thousand longswords slashed into the city's lifeline, extinguishing the array patterns in patches.

The response spread from one city to twelve.

Five thousand people.

Ten thousand people.

30,000 people.

Among the remaining loyalists of Lieshan, some also removed their black robes and withdrew from the altar formation.

As Lieshan watched the array nodes lose their bloody light one by one, he bit his tongue and spat his primordial blood into the center of the blood pool.

"Since you're all going to betray me, then you'll all become my provisions!"

150,000 blood pacts were ignited simultaneously.

The remaining blood of the 50,000 old soldiers was forcibly drained, and the stone pillars beneath the feet of the 100,000 blood slaves began to melt.

Blood energy surged into the sky, and the entire thousand-mile-long river of blood and bones was covered by blood sacrifice array patterns.

Within the Blood Sea Domain's main seal, an old decree sealed for 30,000 years opened on its own.

The Demon Emperor's blade intent swept across the military register.

As soon as Zhou Ran saw the words "Blood Sea Guardian", Bloodlust charged toward the altar with his spear.

When the spear was still a hundred feet away from the mountain-splitting formation, a demonic emperor pattern rose from within the blood sacrifice array.

The bloodthirsty body hovered in mid-air.

The spearhead was suspended, unable to advance even half an inch further.

In the center of the blood sacrifice array, a ten-thousand-foot-tall blood-red body stood up, stepping on the river of blood bones.

On the bloodied body's chest, the ancient Demon Emperor characters left by Ye Futian lit up one by one.

[The Blood Sea Guardian is forbidden to be killed in battle.]

The bloodthirsty spearhead was kept a hundred feet away.

There were no walls inside the Blood Sacrifice Array, but the old decree left by Ye Futian severed her connection with the Ancestral Pool.

If the spearhead advances another inch, the prohibition will backfire along the source of the blood sea, and the earth veins of the twelve cities will also be damaged.

The mountain-splitting creature, hidden in the heart of a ten-thousand-foot-tall body of blood, burst into loud laughter.

"My lord, you have forgotten this command, but I have remembered it for three hundred years."

"Night's Bane of Heaven's Personal Handbook Seals Blood Sea Guardian General."

"During wartime, no domain lord may execute the garrison commander; those who disobey this order will be treated as traitors."

He manipulated his blood body to raise his palm, and thousands of streams of blood energy pressed down on the old army below.

"Zhou Ran can check accounts and alter military records, but he can't change the prohibition that the Demon Emperor personally inscribed into the Ancestral Pool."

"Now that you have submitted to me, I will forgive and forget your past transgressions."

"If you continue to follow this fake emperor, everyone will have to enter the blood pool!"

Some of the old soldiers took a half step back.

Thirty thousand years have passed since Ye Futian's fall, yet the Demon Emperor's decree still connects him to the Ancestral Pool.

If Bloodlust forcibly breaks the order, the first thing to collapse will be the ley lines of the twelve cities.

Chi Feng stared at the towering, blood-soaked body, the veins on the back of his hand taut with each passing moment.

The accounts have been opened, and the army has succumbed to bloodlust.

Unfortunately, Lieshan also occupies the position of "Guardian of the Blood Sea".

Inside the main hall of the Devouring Heaven Demon Palace, the dark red demonic light in Huan Yin's eyes gathered together.

"This is a military order left behind by Ye Futian when he conquered the Third Heaven."

"Back then, the Blood Sea Guardian was attacked by the enemy and nearly killed by the Domain Lord."

"Ye Futian added this layer of protection to the Blood Sea to prevent the frontline domain lords from taking the opportunity to purge their generals."

Her fingertips traced the projection of the ban.

"Military orders are linked to the ancestral pool."

"If we change the words directly, all twelve cities will collapse along with them."

After hearing this, Bloodlust's spear emitted a grating scraping sound.

"That old bastard caused me trouble when he was alive, and even after he's been dead for 30,000 years, he's still protecting a traitorous dog."

"After dealing with Lieshan, I will dig out all the old orders he left in the Blood Sea."

Zhou Ran attached the half-bone pen to the Blood Sea Domain Lord's seal.

"Keep it for now."

Each word in the ban was enlarged.

The Demon Emperor's sword intent left behind by Ye Futian repelled the probing, and the Taihuang Black Blade immediately hummed, suppressing the old sword intent.

Zhou Ran bypassed the main text of the injunction and traced the ownership lines to the seal of the garrison commander on Lieshan's chest.

The ban only recognizes official seals, not names.

The conditions for commanding troops under the garrison commander's seal are also clearly written.

The domain lord bestows the seal.

The deputy seals of twelve cities responded.

More than half of the active-duty military personnel obeyed orders.

Currently, eleven of the twelve secondary seals have been sealed into the formation by the garrison troops of each city.

More than 220,000 active-duty military personnel refused to carry out the blood sacrifice order.

Zhou Ran looked at the towering, blood-soaked body.

"Ye Futian is protecting the Blood Sea Guardian."

"You can't even hold onto the command of a garrison commander, yet you expect to use that position to take the fall for you?"

Lie Shan's laughter abruptly stopped.

He manipulated his blood-red body to reach for the blood pool, preparing to hasten the sacrifice.

Gu Ji had already led the six thousand demon soldiers of the Devouring Heaven Demon Palace out of the teleportation array.

Instead of attacking Rift Mountain, he turned to deploy his forces on the east bank of the Blood Bone River, separating the 100,000 Blood Slaves from Rift Mountain's direct descendants.

Gu Ji raised the military order.

"The Emperor has decreed that the Blood Sacrifice Array be sealed."

"No one may offer a single drop of blood to the altar before all twelve city seals have been returned to their positions."

The mountain roared in fury.

"I have guarded the Blood Sea for three hundred years; the position of garrison commander was personally bestowed upon me by the Lord!"

"A few lowly soldiers who defied military orders, do they dare to depose me?"

Gu Ji did not argue with him, but simply added the records of the twelve cities refusing orders to the Unified Army's register.

Military records lit up one by one.

Twenty thousand.

80,000.

150,000.

220,000.

The Blood Sea Guardian's Seal throbbed violently.

Lie Shan channeled his remaining primordial spirit, attempting to force the Guardian Seal back into his body.

The eleven sealed deputy seals were simultaneously rejected, and the garrison commander's seal had already begun to detach itself from the outside.

Zhou Ran grasped the Blood Sea Domain Lord's Seal and crossed out a line of permissions on the Rift Mountain Military Register.

[Splitter Mountain, Blood Sea Guardian, dismissed from his post.]