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

Jiuyou nodded.

No one made a sound inside the hall.

Qin San glanced at Tu Huai's body, which was bound by shackles.

This former general was just now accusing me of usurping the position and he was cursing me vehemently.

If the eyeballs inside his body could control his mind, how many of those treasonous words came from his heart, and how many were fueled by the Emperor's Rules behind the scenes?

Zhou Ran spoke.

"Investigate the other two first."

Less than a quarter of an hour later, Qiu Feng, the deputy general of the Blood Sea, and Ye Han, the scout of the Formless Domain, stepped into the main hall one after the other.

The two have very different styles.

Qiu Feng is a veteran under the Bloodthirsty Army, having spent six hundred years in the Blood Sea.

He disarmed himself upon entering the hall and knelt on one knee.

"On the night the Emperor's decree was issued, I did indeed feel something moving in my head, and someone whispering in my ear."

"This humble general dares not conceal the truth. I beg Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly. This humble general will have no objection."

Ye Han was even more decisive.

This scout from the Boundless Domain was a spy trained by Huan Yin, and he was thin and frail.

He walked up to Xiaorou and offered his arm.

"Investigate."

"Three months ago, I was ordered to sneak into the fifth level of the Nine Nether Well to keep an eye on the Crimson Scale. After I came back, my right eye has been itchy ever since."

"I think it's death energy entering my body, and even after taking the Soul Cleansing Pill three times, it hasn't worked."

Xiao Rou released the Gu worms.

The golden natal Gu crawled up the arms of the two people and explored downwards along their meridians.

Deep within Qiu Feng's right eye socket, the Gu worm reflected a fragment of black gold that was not yet fully grown.

It was smaller than the eyeball inside Tu Huai's body, but the light channel had already been built.

Ye Han's situation is quite different.

The black gold fragments inside his body had long since become inanimate objects, their outer shells shattered and withered, leaving only a thin layer of skin.

Xiao Rou retrieved the Gu worm.

"His fragments were conveniently destroyed by Empress Huanyin's sealing technique."

"The Five Senses Sealing of the Formless Domain can cut off all external signal channels. The fragments, cut off from the Emperor's Rule's nourishment, can only wither and die."

Huanyin's voice drifted out from a hidden door on the side of the hall.

"Judging from this, when I sealed Tu Huai's five senses, I only killed the old fragments on his body."

"But before the ban was lifted, he had someone remotely awaken a new parasite."

She stepped into the main hall, her crimson dress sweeping across the stone slabs.

"The fact that the Emperor's son's fragments of rules can bypass my formless seal and plant new eyes shows that they do not follow the path of the five senses, but rather the path of the earth's veins."

Zhou Ran glanced at the three pieces of evidence on the table.

Tu Huai's complete eyeballs were still turning around, Qiu Feng's half-finished fragments were shrouded in the deathly aura of the Nine Netherworlds, and Ye Han's death shell was placed on the far right.

Three black and gold eyes, three different colors.

Bloodlust stood behind Qiu Feng, his red eyes sweeping over the fragmented projection deep in the eye sockets of his own subordinate general, his face covered in frost.

"Qiu Feng has followed Xue Hai for six hundred years and has never had a change of heart."

"The prince stuffed his eyes into my soldier's body, and I didn't even notice."

She gripped the spear tightly, and the butt of the spear slammed to the ground.

"The earth veins of the Nine Nether Well must be cleansed immediately."

Jiuyou didn't reply.

The mess left by her apprentice, Chi Lin, is something she should clean up.

But when she turned to Zhou Ran, a calculating look appeared in her eyes.

Jiuyou spoke in a very low tone.

"It will take at least seven days to cleanse the Nine Nether Well's earth veins."

"The official in charge of erasing the emperor's name will also arrive in seven days."

"There isn't enough time to handle both."

Zhou Ran arranged the three black gold fragments in a row.

Tu Huai's living eyeballs, Qiu Feng's unfinished product, and Ye Han's dead shell.

He stared at the eyeball that was still moving around.

"Not cleaned."

Bloodlust and Nine Netherworld both turned to look at him.

Zhou Ran reached out and picked up Tu Huai's intact black and gold eyeball from the table.

The worms circled around his fingers, not daring to approach.

He raised his eyes close to him, his vertical pupils pointing directly at his face.

Zhou Ran placed the three fragments back on the table side by side, his tone calm, yet every word struck the eardrums of everyone in the hall.

"The prince is staring at us."

"We can also let it see the play we've arranged."

The hall was silent for a moment.

Mingcang was the first to realize what was happening.

"Does the Emperor mean to use the Black Gold Eye to send false information to the Imperial Prince?"

Zhou Ran stuffed Tu Huai's living eyeballs into a transparent coffin formed from the death energy of the Netherworld.

The vertical pupils of the eyes were still moving, but the light they were transmitting was blocked by the coffin.

"A mixture of truth and falsehood."

"A completely false statement is easy to arouse suspicion, but a half-truth and half-false statement is the most dangerous."

Huanyin walked to the long table and circled her fingertips over the three fragments.

"I understand."

"You'll use this eyeball as bait to put on a grand show for the prince."

Zhou Ran nodded.

"The Emperor's son, Mo Ming, will arrive in seven days. He needs to figure out the military deployment of the Sixth Heaven before he can choose a place to settle down."

"Its black and gold eyes are its spies."

"We'll keep the eyes open so they can keep working and watch the formation we've set up."

Bloodlust held his spear upright at his side.

"What do you want it to see?"

Zhou Ran opened the Unified Army Register and circled three earth vein nodes near the Nine Nether Well.

"Large-scale military drills in the area of ​​the Nine Nether Wells."

"The aura of more than ten late-stage Tribulation Transcending experts has been gathered by the Four Domains Allied Forces in preparation for battle."

"If the official in charge of the nameless were to see this scene through his eyes, he would definitely bypass the Nine Nether Well and choose a place that he considers undefended when he arrives."

Mingcang frowned.

"But we simply can't muster more than ten late-stage Tribulation Transcending cultivators."

"Including all four regions, there are only three empresses at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending Realm, and at most five at the late stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm."

"If the imperial prince were to investigate in person, this empty city ploy would be exposed."

Zhou Ran turned to Huan Yin.

Huan Yin chuckled softly, her crimson soul power rubbing into dozens of points of light at her fingertips.

"The most impressive thing about the Formless Illusion Technique is turning three people into thirty."

"I can imitate 90% of the aura, posture, and magical power fluctuations."

"The black and gold eye has limited vision; it cannot distinguish between an illusion and a living person."

A bloodthirsty question.

"Where is this aura coming from?"

Huan Yin's illusion technique can mimic a physical body, but it cannot replicate the cultivation fluctuations of someone in the late stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm.

That level of pressure requires real money to maintain.

Bloodlust asks and answers itself.

She opened her left hand, revealing a cut on her palm, from which the essence of blood oozed out.

"The Blood Sea Ancestral Pool contains the residual power of past domain lords."

"I can extract twelve portions of the blood energy fluctuations of the Tribulation Transcending stage and pour them into the Phantom Core."

"It won't last long. As long as the eyeballs can be seen during the active period, that's enough."

Jiuyou stood in the corner, her fingers tracing the hem of her black dress.

"The ley lines of the Nine Nether Well have been tainted by the Crimson Scales, which is a bad thing."

"But think about it the other way around. The Emperor's eyes transmit signals through the earth's veins. When the signal passes through the Nine Nether Well, it will be interfered with by the death energy, so the image transmitted back is not clear."

"If you can't see clearly, it's even more difficult to distinguish between real and fake."

The three peak-stage Transcending Tribulation experts each offered their own strategies for cooperation.

They didn't wait for Zhou Ran to give orders; after hearing the outline, they took the initiative to fill in the details.

The tacit understanding that has developed after the unification of the four regions is gradually being established.

Zhou Ran picked up the half-finished fragment dug out of Qiu Feng's body.

"Can this underdeveloped observation object be reawakened?"

Xiao Rou stepped forward, her Gu worm circling the fragment three times in her hand.

"become."

"It only stopped growing when the sustenance provided by the Imperial Son's rules was cut off."

"If you infuse it with some black gold energy, for example, by peeling a strand off from Tu Huai's intact eyeball, you can bring it back to life."

Zhou Ran pointed out the location in the military register.

"After waking it up, place it on the fifth level of the Nine Nether Well array platform."

"Let it see the whole picture of the military drills."

"The complete eyeball remains in the Devouring Demon Palace to oversee daily operations."

"If the messages from both eyes match, the prince won't suspect anything."