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

No one made a sound from inside the cave.

Yan gripped the bone spear tightly, the veins on the back of his hand taut.

Ashi's eyes were red, and he took a half step forward, but the woman grabbed his waist tightly from behind.

Bone Sha lowered his head and looked at the old man on the ground.

"What's your name?"

"Return to your lord, old mole."

Bone Shake nodded.

"good."

The old man's cheek muscles relaxed, and the corners of his mouth turned up.

The next instant, Bone Claw stomped down.

boom!

The old man's body was half-fried into minced meat. A laugh escaped from his throat.

"Those who have no interest are not worthy to give their names."

A child in the cave opened his mouth, but before the cry could even escape his throat, the woman slapped it into her palm.

The whites of Yan's eyes were covered with red veins.

Zhou Ran stared at the pool of minced meat, the smile on his lips fading away bit by bit.

He dislikes traitors.

But I dislike even more things that treat people like animals and trample them.

Bone Chariot raised the giant white bone pestle, its tip pointing towards Zhou Ran.

"Outside rats, kneel down."

"I can eat your leg first."

Zhou Ran ignored him; he was focusing on sensing his dantian.

The Golden Elixir of the Mind had expanded to its limit.

Cracks covered the entire surface.

Six gray lines were cut from the outside in, each cut deeper than the last.

If this were on Earth, a celestial tribulation would have descended by now.

It's time for Heaven to punish these people.

Thirty percent of your true essence must be obediently handed over.

But it's not here.

This is inside the Heavenly Corpse.

The rules are fragmented, chaotic, and primitive.

This does not discuss the laws of Heaven.

It all comes down to who has the final say.

Seeing that he remained silent, Bone Cutter grinned.

"Stunned?"

He took a step forward.

A pressure of divine transformation level descended.

The cave walls are cracked on all four sides.

The lifeless people were all lying on the ground, blood and foam squeezing out of their mouths and noses.

Yan bent down with both legs, the bone spear was half a foot into the ground, and his body was still sinking inch by inch.

The Black River warriors behind Bone Cutter laughed.

"Hui Yan still wants to stand?"

"Peel off the skin on her back, I want that shoulder line."

"I left that little boy with me; his bones were thin, making him suitable for grinding needles."

Ashi bit his lower lip, and blood flowed down to the tip of his chin.

The inkstone is still holding up.

The runes at the severed arm wound cracked and spewed out blue light, which then disappeared.

Bone Shake walked up to her and reached out to grab her hair.

"Let's start with you."

The five bony fingers hadn't even landed yet.

A sentence was passed from behind.

"Who gave you permission to touch her?"

The Bone Brake stopped in mid-air.

He turned to look at Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran stood still.

The pressure of a Nascent Soul cultivator struck him, but he didn't budge an inch.

His abdominal wound had completely reopened, and his sternum hadn't healed properly, but his spine was straightening up vertebra by vertebra.

Inside the dantian.

Click.

The first cracking sound.

The Golden Elixir of the Mind has shattered.

That's the sound of a shell hatching.

Zhou Ran closed his eyes.

He saw himself inside the Golden Core.

The silhouette of an infant sits cross-legged in the center of the karmic lotus platform.

The purple and gold dual-color laws swirled around his body.

Left eye: gray pupil; right eye: demonic light.

Black and white hooks hang from behind.

A black lotus was burning at the soles of his feet.

Above their heads, a pattern resembling the bones of a primordial dragon descended from the void.

The Forgotten River Seal transformed into a halo of pale yellow light, floating behind the Nascent Soul's head.

The six gray lines stopped eroding inwards.

They were held tightly in the Nascent Soul's hands, like six chains.

Zhou Ran could hear her own heartbeat.

With each sound, the laws of the surrounding void were rewritten by an inch.

The nascent soul opened its eyes.

Zhou Ran also opened his eyes.

boom!

The nascent soul takes shape.

There was no tribulation by lightning.

There were no auspicious clouds.

There was no congratulations from Heaven or Earth.

Only the gray mist outside the cave dispersed in all directions.

Zhou Ran's wounds gradually closed up.

The broken ribs were put back in place, and the flesh and blood in the abdomen were regenerated.

The piece of flesh that had been wiped off his shoulder was filled back in under the dual suppression of the Forgotten River Seal and the Primordial Bone.

Black gold scales emerged from under the skin.

Each piece is heavier and denser than the last.

The Primordial Overlord Body has officially entered the fourth level.

The smile on Bone Shatter's face froze.

He sensed a change, and it wasn't just a simple improvement in his cultivation level.

It's as if the rules of this silent land have suddenly come to recognize a master.

Zhou Ran raised his hand.

Inside the cave, the cracked breath lines on the bodies of those who had fallen lifeless were held up by a gentle force.

The sinking of Yan's knees stopped.

She looked up, her face full of disbelief.

The oppressive aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator pressing down on her was cut open.

Zhou Ran stood beside her, looking up at Bone Sha.

"Whose leg did you just say you wanted to eat?"

The veins on his forehead were bulging out.

He didn't believe in this superstition.

Even if an external Golden Core cultivator breaks through, they are nothing more than a lower-level insect.

He roared, and the nine breath patterns on his chest suddenly lit up.

"Playing tricks!"

The giant white bone pestle crashed down.

As the pestle fell, the surrounding air was compressed into layers of gray folds.

He forcibly pulled in the laws of the illusory realm, which combined to create immense pressure.

Zhou Ran held up two fingers.

Snapped.

He held the giant white bone pestle between his two fingers.

The giant pestle stood still in mid-air.

The knuckles cracked from the impact, and two fine cracks appeared to run up the knuckles, with black and gold blood seeping from between the fingers.

Bone Cleaver's arm muscles bulged, and the ground beneath his feet shattered.

The giant pestle remained completely still.

Zhou Ran looked up.

"Transformation into a Divine Being?"

"this one?"

Bone Cutter's eyes turned completely red.

The laughter of the Black River warriors behind them suddenly stopped.

Zhou Ran applied pressure with two fingers.

Click.

The giant white bone pestle split open.

The cracks stretched all the way to the base of the palm.

The bone splinter loosened and he retreated violently.

Zhou Ran did not press his advantage.

He is sensing the nascent soul.

During the Golden Core stage, the idealistic laws write words within the gaps of the rules.

At the Nascent Soul stage, in this space where one feels completely at ease, one can directly use a pen to modify paper.

Bone Cutter roared.

"Release the dogs!"

The twelve Heihe warriors released their grip simultaneously.

Twelve gray-eyed hunters pounced.

His chest and eyes shone brightly.

The gray light intertwined into a net, enveloping Zhou Ran and everyone at the cave entrance.

The color drained completely from Yan's face.

Now, the entire gray inkstone area has to be wiped clean.

Zhou Ran raised his hand.

"stop."

One word.

The twelve streaks of gray light struggled for half a breath.

Then they all froze in mid-air.

The twelve gray wires were almost welded shut.

No one was breathing, either inside or outside the cave.

Zhou Ran clenched his fist with all five fingers.

"broken."

The gray light crumbled and broke apart inch by inch.

The main eyes on the chests of all twelve gray-eyed hunters exploded simultaneously.

Zhou Ran grabbed again.

He pulled twelve gray symbols from the hunter's body and held them in his palm.

He looked at the Black River warriors.

"You guys like to let your dogs out?"

"Then I'll do it once too."

The twelve symbols ignited the Asura's demonic fire and shot back.

Puff puff!

Twelve soldiers from Heihe had holes pierced through their chests.

The deep blue breath patterns on their bodies flashed wildly, yet they couldn't stop the symbols from flowing back.

The Grey-Eyed Hunter's creation command backfired on its master.

Eyeballs began to grow on their bodies.

One.

Ten.

One hundred.

The screams tore into the gray fog.

Yan's hand, gripping the spear, trembled uncontrollably.

The high-ranking warriors who used to skin the flesh of the undead were eaten by their own hunting dogs.

Bone Cutter's expression finally broke down.

"What did you do?"

Zhou Ran said in a flat tone: "The dog leash has been given a new owner."

The twelve soldiers fell to the ground and rolled around.

The skin and flesh were torn apart by the eyeballs, and the breath lines were swallowed up in reverse.

Bone Cutter has gone mad.

He pressed his hands against the nine breathing lines on his chest and forcefully tore open the skin and flesh.

A deep blue light shot into the sky.

A black, illusory river appeared behind him.

Countless lifeless faces floated in the river.

Yan's breath hitched.

"Black River Ritual Crest!"

"He's going to sacrifice those life lines that were stripped away!"

Zhou Ran's eyes darkened.

Within the illusory image of the Black River, countless faces opened their mouths and howled silently.

One of the faces bears a resemblance to the human-shaped rock outside the cave.

Yan's hand, gripping the spear, trembled even more violently; that was her brother.

Bone Cutter burst into laughter.

"Did you see that?"

"You lowly insects, even when you die, you'll be used as firewood!"

The Black River falls.

The pressure from the Divine Transformation Realm surged.

With a single step, Bone Claw transformed into a black shadow and charged towards Zhou Ran.