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

"Have these two sisters become quite capable?"

"Aren't you coming out to see me now?"

Zhou Ran said seriously.

He had assumed the two sisters might have gone to some shopping mall.

But after he entered the room, he stayed on the second floor for five hours and still couldn't sense the presence of the two people at all!

Because the two of them weren't even in the manor, or even within a hundred miles!

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin San stumbled in through the doorway.

"Boss, please calm down!"

Qin San swallowed hard and hesitated before speaking.

"It's not that the two Miss Sus don't value you..."

They're the ones outside...

"I can't get away from performing religious rituals outside!"

Zhou Ran stopped tapping his knee with his knuckles.

"speak."

There is only one word.

Qin San took two deep breaths and spoke very quickly.

"There's a rich young man named Liu Yu who's been coming to our manor gate every day lately."

"Every day, he would change sports cars, carry haute couture jewelry, and use all sorts of tricks to fawn over the two Miss Sus..."

Showing excessive courtesy.

These three words flashed through Zhou Ran's mind.

He did not use any special techniques.

There wasn't even much of a fluctuation in my emotions.

However, a trace of Golden Core aura emanating from him spread along the edge of the coffee table.

Click.

A million-dollar solid wood coffee table shattered right in the center.

The shattered wooden blocks, mixed with sawdust, collapsed on the spot, raising a ring of gray dust.

Zhou Ran!

Don't misunderstand!

Seeing this, Xiao Hongli quickly stepped forward and blocked the pile of broken wood.

"Qingling and Qingwu never even glanced at that rich young master!"

"The guards swept everything that was delivered more than ten meters away from the manor!"

Xiao Hongli explained the situation in a very fast-paced manner.

"The real problem is that Liu Yu bought an abandoned old house from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the south of the city."

"The construction team had just broken ground when they ran into an extremely troublesome evil spirit."

"An excavator unearthed an ancient mirror covered in green mold and rust from the ground in the backyard, along with red embroidered shoes stained with black mud."

"After nightfall, the whole neighborhood can hear women singing sad songs."

"The two Taoist priests that Liu Yu hired went insane within half an hour of entering the room, and bit off their tongues in a fit of madness."

Xiao Hongli's tone was solemn.

"Then the young master had no choice but to shamelessly offer an exorbitant reward on Qin San's black market, begging cultivators to exorcise the evil spirits."

"The two younger sisters saw that the place was too evil and were afraid that it would affect the common people, so they went to investigate."

Performing rituals to exorcise evil spirits for others.

Zhou Ran narrowed his eyes slightly.

"How long have you been at that old house?"

"I've been going there almost every day for the past month."

Chen Ya also added at the appropriate time,

"Hongli and I both went to see it, and only the methods of the Taoist sect can restrain it."

After learning the whole story, Zhou Ran nodded.

The Su sisters possess the Tidal Sacred Body, which is naturally able to restrain Yin Souls and Corpse Fiends.

Both of them were already late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

By combining their strength to form a water formation, they can withstand even an early-stage Golden Core cultivator without being at a disadvantage.

Even if you let them go every day, they still won't figure it out.

It is definitely not some kind of folk evil spirit or ghost.

It must be a powerful force from the underworld that has overstepped its bounds and extended its reach into Jiangcheng.

Zhou Ran grabbed the black trench coat from the sofa and walked straight out.

"Performing rituals for others?"

"With their meager skills, they're probably exhausted by now and being used as fuel for someone else's cauldron."

His tone was extremely cold and harsh.

Upon reaching the steps outside the gate, Zhou Ran turned his head and instructed the personnel remaining on duty.

"Chen Ya, Xiao Hongli."

"Gather all available personnel in the manor and guard every entrance and exit with all their might."

"Maximize the spirit stone consumption of the mountain-protecting formation and activate all killing formations."

He looked away and glanced to the other side.

"Li Zhiyao, go and bring Wang Pangzi and Xiaorou with you."

"Come with me to the south of the city."

"Today I'm going to measure it myself with the soles of my feet."

"In this Jiangcheng, who is this tired of living, daring to scheme against my woman, Zhou Ran's woman?"

That concludes the explanation.

Zhou Ran's gaze passed over the broken pieces of wood and fixed on Qin San in the corner.

Qin San's knees buckled, and he knelt directly on the carpet, cold sweat splashing onto the floor.

"The special training is settled. Go and make the arrangements."

……

The night wind howled, whipping up the withered leaves on the ground.

Two pure black Rolls-Royces sped along and came to a steady stop outside the police cordon of the old house in the south of the city.

Zhou Ran pushed open the door and got out of the car.

A pungent smell of burning paper money wafted over.

An extremely abnormal scarlet light enveloped the old house.

The dilapidated red lanterns swayed under the eaves, and the surrounding silence was eerie.

"My lord, this formation does not belong to the mortal realm."

Li Zhiyao glanced at the sky.

"Someone used the lives of living people as a catalyst to forcibly infuse yin energy."

"Who cares where the formation is from, just smash it."

Without pausing for even a second, Zhou Ran strode to the rusty iron gate.

boom!

The two reinforced solid wood doors exploded into a shower of debris.

As the smoke and dust cleared, the devastation in the courtyard was laid bare.

The ground was covered with charred red cloth strips and joss paper.

Countless pale-faced paper figures with exaggeratedly red blush, along with several blood-dripping female ghosts in red, were rushing madly toward the center.

Su Qingling and Su Qingwu stood there back to back.

His face was deathly pale, and blood was trickling from the corner of his mouth.

The pale blue tidal curtain of water was torn and riddled with holes, teetering on the verge of collapse.

Behind the stone lion in the corner, Liu Yu, the spoiled young master who originally wanted to play the hero and save the damsel in distress, now found his crotch soaked with sweat.

He clutched a broken peach wood sword tightly, tears streaming down his face.

"Help!"

"Two fairy maidens, please save me!"

I'll give you extra money!

The loud crash of the door caused the evil creature in the yard to pause for a moment.

When Liu Yu saw Zhou Ran and Fatty Wang striding in, he scrambled over to them.

"You're here to rescue people, right!"

"Get me out of here right now!"

My uncle is Liu Zhenguo, I'll give him ten million!

Zhou Ran stopped in his tracks.

Looking at the wriggling creature at his feet, his purple-gold eyes were filled with disgust.

What level is it?

You dare to try and steal my people?

He didn't even bother to say a word, and slapped her across the face with his backhand.

Snapped!

The crisp sound of a slap drowned out the wailing and howling that filled the courtyard.

Before Liu Yu could even scream, he spun three times in mid-air before crashing heavily into a brick wall more than ten meters away.

"An eyesore."

Zhou Ran's gaze was fixed on the paper figures and the female ghost that had regrouped in front of him.

His left sleeve ripped open instantly, and the pitch-black Primordial Totem burst forth with blinding light.

The Asura Demon Flame spread wildly along his arm.

"roll."

He threw a punch.

A raging black-gold fire dragon, imbued with the terrifying pressure of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, swept across the entire central courtyard.

Those ghostly paper figures that could ignore ordinary physical attacks didn't even have the right to scream; they turned into a pile of black ash under the demonic fire.

The crisis was averted, and the tidal water curtain collapsed on the spot.

The Su sisters could no longer hold on and their legs gave way.

Zhou Ran stepped forward in an instant and gently pulled the two soft bodies into his arms.

"Zhou Ran..."

Su Qingling's eyes were red, and she gripped his clothes tightly, her voice extremely weak.

"It's alright now."

Zhou Ran channeled two strands of pure Yang energy into their bodies, forcibly stabilizing the turbulent spiritual veins.

"Leave the rest to me."

He raised his head, his gaze fixed on the far end of the courtyard.

There is a bottomless dry well there.