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

The Moon Emperor's remaining will in the Void Realm can enter the body in the ice simply by following this bloodline channel.

He borrowed his younger sister's body to rebuild his physical form for the tribulation.

resurrection.

Zhou Ran's palms felt numb.

He lowered his eyes and focused his inner energy on his dantian.

Six gray lines clung to the nascent soul, pulsating rhythmically in perfect harmony with the heart of the celestial corpse beneath the earth.

He had previously thought that the gray markings were just a message from the Heavenly Corpse, and also a shackle to assimilate him.

The orb of light that governs rules once said that the more gray lines there are, the deeper the entanglement between him and the Heavenly Corpse.

Thirty days later, his soul will be dragged into the Heavenly Corpse, becoming part of this ancient god's body.

It now appears that gray patterns have another use.

Traction.

Pull the "key" back into place.

From the bone-chopping nail to refining the essence of impermanence;

From altering the Book of Life and Death to stepping into the Heavenly Corpse;

Then, we climbed this sacred mountain.

With each step, the gray lines grew longer.

He thought he was breaking the deadlock.

But standing on the Moon Emperor's chessboard, he had long been worn down into a key.

His idealistic nascent soul can determine its own path of life within the laws of the virtual world.

Only he could protect Lin Qingxue's split soul, allowing it to pass through the deepest part of the Heavenly Corpse's heart and merge with Yue Zhao's body.

Zhou Ran clenched his five fingers, and his metacarpal bones pressed out a soft sound.

"What a deep scheme."

Thirty thousand years.

This network has been laid out since Lin Qingxue's first reincarnation.

Zhou Ran chuckled softly.

Calculations are one thing, but another.

This game, unfortunately, left a weakness.

The Moon Emperor could foresee the appearance of the key.

But who could have predicted that the key might be used to cut the lock?

If a key is an inanimate object, it will naturally be at the mercy of others.

But Zhou Ran is still alive.

Whether or not it's inserted into the lock is up to him.

The moment the thought crossed his mind, the void outside the laboratory shook violently.

The entire laboratory shook, dust fell from the split walls, and the broken metal plates scraped against the ground with a screeching sound.

Within Zhou Ran's dantian, six gray lines jumped simultaneously.

The Yin-Yang Communication Bone Piece did not respond.

The connection with the mortal realm was severed by the laws of the void realm.

The other communication talisman in his arms glowed red.

That was the mark he left for the three demon dukes before he left.

The lines gleamed, and several lines of hurried handwriting emerged.

"My lord, a powerful enemy has broken through our defenses."

"The remnants of the Black River tribe have colluded with the White Fang tribe."

"The High Priest of White Fang has personally arrived; he is in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm."

Zhou Ran lowered her eyelids.

He razed the Black River tribe's stronghold to the ground, killed the Headhunter Bone Cutter at his hands, and crushed the Black River High Priest to pieces by the demon army.

Instead of fleeing for their lives, those remaining troops climbed up to the White Fang tribe.

Of the four tribes, White Fang ranks second.

High Priest White Fang, late stage of the Divine Transformation realm.

They feared that he, this "key," would alone reach the top of his heart, so they blocked the door before the final stretch of the journey.

Zhou Ran put away the communication pattern.

He looked at the ice stone with its flowing, seven-colored light, and then felt the six gray lines in his dantian.

The 29-day countdown continues.

Outside, a high priest in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm was breaking down the barrier he had left behind.

Zhou Ran was about to get up.

Inside the ice stone, the silver-haired woman's fingertips suddenly twitched.

The finger tucked inward, grasping something unseen.

Zhou Ran's Purple-Gold Demonic Eyes froze.

A very thin wisp of bluish-white life force was drawn out from the void.

The source is at the other end of the bone fragment.

Thousands of miles away.

Inside Lin Qingxue's body.

The life force pierced through the void towards the ice stone, and towards Yue Zhao's curled fingertips.

Zhou Ran did not hesitate.

The Great Wilderness Black Blade was drawn.

The blade flashed, slashing right in the center of that bluish-white life force.

He struck neither the ice stone nor Yue Zhao's finger.

Cut only the thread that is draining Lin Qingxue's life force.

The blade swept across, severing the boundary on the spot.

The life force drawn from Lin Qingxue's body broke off abruptly; the first half disappeared into the ice stone, while the second half scattered into bluish-white light spots in the void.

In the ice, Yue Zhao's grasping fingers loosened little by little, returning to slumber.

Zhou Ran took out the Yin-Yang Communication Bone Fragment and poured his true essence into it.

The signal was intermittent, like it was being ground by gravel.

He ignored all of this and pressed the Nascent Soul Law into the bone fragment, carving the character "封" (seal) on its surface.

"Zhiyao".

When the signal was connected, Zhou Ran spoke immediately.

"Take Qingxue out of the manor's barrier."

Three kilometers away, no, the farther the better.

A hurried, static-filled voice came from Li Zhiyao's end: "What happened?"

"Something is draining her life force from between two realms."

Zhou Ran speaks very quickly.

"I've cut off one, but there will be another."

The manor's barrier couldn't stop them; the earth's veins were connected.

Take her away, as far away from the underground of Jiangcheng as possible.

"I'll do it right away..."

The bone fragment flashed with light, and the connection was severed.

Zhou Ran no longer had time to care about the mortal world.

He turned around, his black knife held horizontally in front of him.

The air in the center of the laboratory began to swirl, and gray light seeped out from the void, coalescing into a human shape.

The thing had no face or features, and was entirely grayish-white.

The aura was consistent with the regular light sphere that Zhou Ran had previously seen in the spinal canal.

The instinct of the Heavenly Corpse's heart.

Why bother?

A gray, humanoid opening.

Those words, without even being heard, were directly etched into Zhou Ran's consciousness.

"The lifeline you severed should have been returned to its rightful place."

It said:

"Lin Qingxue is the divided soul, and Yue Zhao is the original soul."

The path they should take is for their two souls to merge into one.

Zhou Ran stared at it.

"continue."

Gray-light humanoid path:

"I can make a deal with you."

You let Yue Zhao absorb enough life force, and I will help you clear away the six gray lines.

From this day forward, you have no further connection with the Heavenly Corpse; the twenty-nine-day period is null and void.

Zhou Ran did not respond.

"More importantly, Lin Qingxue will not die."

The gray-light humanoid continued:

"The return of her divided soul to its rightful place stemmed from her own original wish."

She had been reincarnating for 30,000 years, waiting for this day.

"By stopping her, you'll only hurt her."

Only the faint light of flowing ice stones remained in the laboratory.

Zhou Ran looked at the gray light and suddenly smiled.

"Original Wish?"

He raised the tip of his knife.

"Has she just woken up?"

Have you spoken up yet?

Did you personally nod in approval?

The gray-light humanoid did not answer.

Zhou Ran took a step forward.

"You're going to speak her original wish on her behalf?"

"Are you worthy?"

The gray-light humanoid figure swayed slightly.

Zhou Ran lowered his voice.

"Yue Zhao's life was extended to a perfect state, her original soul returned to its place, her divided soul was infused, and her life force was replenished."

"That body has fully awakened."

"The Moon Emperor's will entered through his bloodline, using his younger sister's body to reshape her physical form for the tribulation."

He stared at the gray, humanoid figure.

"By then, all thirty million living beings on Earth will become the nourishment for this body."

The gray-light humanoid paused for a moment.

Now that you've seen it, you should accept it.

It said:

"This is the general trend."

The Moon Emperor will eventually return.

You can't stop it, and Lin Qingxue can't save it either.

All you can do is make this less painful.

"yes."

Zhou Ran raised his black knife, the tip pointing at the gray light.

"I have a question."

"You said you were just a celestial corpse driven by instinct."

The will bestowed upon me by the Moon Emperor has long since dissipated, leaving only awakening.

"Right?"

The gray-light humanoid paused.

"right."

"Then what are you afraid of?"

Zhou Ran took another step forward.

"Since it's just instinct, why did you stop me from destroying my heart?"

"They tempted me, threatened me, and used deals to stall for time."

"Does instinct lead them to use these tactics?"

The gray-glowing humanoid remained silent.

Zhou Ran approached.

"I'll speak for you."

"You don't even have a complete instinct."

"The Moon Emperor's will has not completely dissipated."

She left you an order.

"Protect this body until it is returned to its place."

The tip of the black knife was nearly three inches away.

"So you're afraid."

"You're afraid I'll destroy my heart before I can gather enough life force."

"I'm afraid I'll ruin Yue Zhao's useful body."

"I'm afraid that this 30,000-year plan will ultimately fail in my hands."