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

The woman with the iron ring stared with two unfocused gray eyes.

The area behind the eyeballs is empty, a void; no living person has eyes like that.

"You can't stop me."

The sound stopped.

But the vibrations in the space continued.

That sentence wasn't even directed at him.

This sentence was "written" in this space.

Zhou Ran was not surprised.

Was it addressed to the Fifth Prince, who did not rebel?

But now is not the time to think about that.

Space is fluctuating.

The gravel underfoot, the dust on the rock face, and the particles suspended in the air vibrated at the same frequency, perfectly matching the tone of that sentence.

This thing doesn't need to speak.

It directly inscribed the will into the laws governing the movement of matter.

Within Zhou Ran's dantian, three gray cracks lit up simultaneously.

My heartbeat has changed.

The whole rhythm was being pulled outwards by something.

A hand reached into the chest cavity, grabbed the heart, and forcefully dragged it towards another drumbeat.

thump.

The sound came from his own chest.

But the frequency didn't belong to him.

His heart was forcibly pulled into the rhythm of the Heavenly Corpse.

The black and gold patterns of the Primordial Bone climbed from the left arm to the shoulder.

The power within the bones was resisting this synchronization, but the gray cracks, like three termites, were drilling deeper into the Golden Core.

Zhou then bit down and broke one of his molars.

The taste of blood filled my mouth.

The pain tightened his mind again.

The idealistic law is activated.

He didn't try to withstand the resonance.

Going against the rule output of a being in the Tribulation Transcending stage is like banging your head against a city wall.

Instead of passively receiving the resonance of your heartbeat, it's better to actively follow it.

The root of the idealist principle has never been in power, but in the definition of the mind.

As his cultivation level increased, his ability to define also grew stronger.

A layer of purple-gold light film emerged from the surface of the golden pill.

It was so thin it was almost transparent, but the outward expansion of the gray cracks was firmly contained.

The resonance did not break.

The master-servant relationship has been reversed.

At the same moment, the golden light of the Heavenly Dao flashed on the surface of the pill.

A wisp of true essence was drawn away.

The interest from altering one's fate through divine intervention.

Punctual, never late.

Zhou Ran ignored him.

He was more concerned about the "megaphone" in front of him.

The Iron Ring Woman's corpse remained in the position of staring at him with her gray eyes.

The lips didn't move, but the vibration in the space changed frequency.

This time, the female corpse did not speak.

Instead, he gave Zhou Ran a meaningful look.

Then, the new information was "written" in the space.

"Xiao Family Manor, East Wing, with blue tiles and white walls."

Your woman is wearing a navy blue long dress.

Zhou Ran's expression remained unchanged.

The tremors continued.

"Another woman sat cross-legged in the east wing, her hands forming a mudra, her index finger resting on the second joint of her middle finger."

That was Su Qingling's meditation habit.

Zhou Ran's eyelid twitched. This thing's ability to see through nothingness was far stronger than his current Demon Eye.

The Heavenly Corpse is still "speaking".

It was accurate to the number of fallen leaves on the third sycamore tree at the manor's main gate, and even to the newly replaced silver ring on Lin Qingxue's left ring finger.

It's just proving one thing.

It can see the world of the living.

They can see other worlds, and see them clearly.

Zhou Ran had his hands in his pockets, silently calculating.

He remained unmoved, enduring the barrage of information.

My mind has already gone through eight hundred turns.

Why would something so all-knowing and all-powerful need to show off its eyesight to an ant?

How did you determine that?

Gray silk thread?

Lin Qingxue once said that thousands of gray threads extend from the ground, connecting the dying.

Xiaorou's final report showed 6,300 entries.

Those threads are the eyes of the Heavenly Corpse.

The silk threads connected all the dying people.

Perhaps those who are half-dead at the cusp of life and death are born to be the best signal relays.

Cut the thread, and you cut off its vision.

How far it can see depends entirely on how wide the silk threads are spread.

Zhou Ran swallowed this conclusion.

But what was his purpose in doing this?

Zhou Ran couldn't explain it.

The vibrations in the space changed again.

The pressure has subsided.

What followed was a warm, inviting sensation.

The corners of the iron-ringed woman's mouth curled up, and a glowing path was reflected in her gray eyes.

The light spread out, extending all the way to the direction of the eighth layer of seal.

At the end of the road lies that heart.

The meaning conveyed by vibration is simple and straightforward.

There is an aura of emptiness about you.

As long as you touch the heart, the Golden Elixir of the Heart will be perfected on the spot.

Zhou Ran's golden core did indeed react.

The three gray cracks stopped wriggling and moved closer to Danxin, as if they had found their home.

This feels very comfortable.

so comfy.

At least from this moment on, all the power belongs to him.

Moreover, this power does not exist in this plane and will not be taken away by the Heavenly Dao.

Zhou Ran activated his Purple-Gold Demon Eyes.

A purple-gold light shone from his eyes, piercing through the rocks, passing through the eighth seal, and revealing directly what lay below.

A heart.

It has a diameter of over 100 zhang (approximately 33 meters).

It is entirely gray.

It hangs in the very center of the eighth floor.

The surface is covered with cracks, and two cracks are slowly healing.

The healing process was visible to the naked eye; it closed a little more with each breath.

But all the surrounding blood vessels were severed.

The areas around the heart that should be connected to other organs are empty.

It was the only organ that recovered.

All the other organs of the Heavenly Corpse were lying still.

Not to mention the limbs, they didn't even leave a trace under the seal.

The Black and White Impermanence have oversimplified the matter of awakening the Heavenly Corpse.

To truly resurrect the Heavenly Corpse, an enormous amount of energy is required.

It's far beyond what a single altar could accomplish.

The half-dead people connected by the gray threads are the energy supply channels for the Heavenly Corpse.

Zhou Ran looked away.

Seeing that Zhou Ran remained unmoved, the Iron Ring Woman's corpse collapsed at that moment.

He crawled toward the eighth seal, his ten fingers scraping white marks on the rocky ground.

The Heavenly Corpse is manipulating this corpse, attempting to break the eighth seal.

Zhou Ran stomped down.

The sound of the spine cracking was especially crisp in the sealed space.

The Asura Demon Fire poured into the corpse from the sole of the shoe, and the black flames spread along the bones, burning the entire corpse and the remaining fragments of the Heavenly Corpse's consciousness to ashes within three breaths.

The moment the fire went out, Zhou Ran clearly sensed the emotions of the Heavenly Corpse.

A condescending mockery.

This is what it means when an adult sees a child crushing an ant with their foot.

The connection at the end of the gray line is broken.

The space quieted down.

But the heartbeat beneath my feet didn't stop.

It's as if it's saying that it's not in a hurry at all.

Zhou Ran squatted down and placed his palm on the end of the gray line.

The idealistic principle was at work, and he carved the character "观" (observe) at the end of the gray line.

The moment the words were engraved, the gray line trembled slightly before returning to its original state.

To what extent have the organs of the Heavenly Corpse been activated, and to what stage has the heart recovered?

This line is being kept in check for him.

Zhou Ran stood up, turned around, and walked towards the seventh layer of the seal.

But before he had gone more than thirty feet, two more words were written in.

"Penglai?"

Zhou Ran stopped in her tracks.

The frequency has changed again, indicating that the Heavenly Corpse's tone has changed.

It was neither threatening nor sarcastic.

There's something indescribable hidden between the lines.

Only something that has waited for countless millennia would speak in such a tone.

"It seems the waters of the underworld are deeper than I imagined."

The Heavenly Corpse wrote these two words in the underworld.

This means that whether it's the Three Palaces or King Qin Guang, whether it's the rebels or the necromancers of the Holy Radiance Foundation, they all saw these two words.