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

Chapter 431 Eye Contact Across Boundaries

The tightly closed eyeball inside the lampshade emitted a viscous black sheen.

Xu Youning's indifference finally crumbled, and her skin tightened.

Lin Qingxue raised her head.

A river breeze swept by, causing the white silk to flutter up and down.

A point of black light pierced through her skin and appeared right between her eyebrows.

Its luster is neither silvery-white nor bluish-white.

It was completely pure black.

This is the product she painstakingly forged after she stripped herself of her legal knowledge and groped her way through the darkness.

There is no divine origin whatsoever.

There is no divine authority over the Heavenly Corpse.

This light contained only her own thoughts about how to live in this world.

Zhou Ran lowered his voice and spoke:

"You've grown up, Lin Qingxue."

Stop being so cheeky.

She uttered those three words.

Zhou Ran's lips twitched, forming a pleasant arc.

"Okay, I'll do as you say."

The black eyes open upwards.

The entire dark river city, along with the bridge piers, shook violently.

All the closed eyeballs inside the lampshade and on the high-rise wall began to tremble.

They tried desperately to open their eyes, but the pure black light held their eyelids firmly in place.

Xu Youning staggered backward, her figure retreating rapidly.

The black light between Lin Qingxue's eyebrows shone directly on Xu Youning.

Behind the white-robed Taoist nun's back, a thin silver thread was visible.

The silver thread pierced through this dreamlike space, stretching far into the unknown depths.

Xu Youning's facial features are taut and hard.

"Your eyes are blind; how can you possibly see into the depths of this dream?"

Lin Qingxue replied, "I truly cannot see."

"But I can tell what you are afraid of."

Zhou Ran pushed off the bridge surface with his feet and lunged forward.

The Taihuang Black Blade detached itself from its sheath.

A flash of light precisely slashed at the silver line.

collapse!

The silver thread is cut in the middle, separating the beginning and end.

Xu Youning let out a painful groan, and the illusory figure that maintained its human form began to twist and sway.

She hurriedly raised her arm, attempting to wield the bronze ruler to alter the rules of this dream world.

But deep within the cracks in the bridge surface, black chains emerged from the ground.

The chain is formed from the river water beneath the bridge.

The shadows extending from Lin Qingxue's feet were cast.

It originated from the blindfold she built herself.

Xu Youning's wrists were entangled and pulled by multiple chains, and her face showed a mixture of panic and anger.

"You actually transformed your own consciousness into a prison?"

Lin Qingxue's tone was calm and composed:

"The moment you stepped into this place, your way out was sealed off."

Zhou Ran's gaze swept over Lin Qingxue.

"You're pretty ruthless."

Lin Qingxue replied, "I've been influenced by your behavior since I was little."

"I'm not taking the blame for this."

Zhou Ran replied.

Xu Youning strained her lips and let out a few dry laughs.

What's the point of going to such lengths to lock up even a shadowy figure of mine?

Zhou Ran stepped forward and stopped three feet away from Xu Youning.

"It depends on how many valuable cards you can reveal."

Xu Youning's eyes locked onto Zhou Ran.

"You cannot kill my true form."

Where is your true identity hidden?

Xu Youning remained silent.

Zhou Ran raised his palm, and the phantom of a white bone pen took shape at his fingertips.

Xu Youning's eye muscles contracted.

"You actually seized the right hand of the Heavenly Corpse from the one holding the pen?"

"A broken authority."

Zhou Ran flicked his wrist.

"However, it's more than enough for making an interrogation record."

The white bone pen tip moves.

A line of writing was left in the void of the dream.

"Xu Youning, you must not give false military reports, and you must answer all questions."

The bronze ruler fragments engraved in Xu Youning's body subsequently produced a repulsive backlash.

Her upper and lower teeth were clenched tightly, and grayish-white blood seeped from the corner of her lips.

"you……"

"I'm asking you a question."

Zhou Ran bent his knees and half-squatted in front of her.

"Where is the real body hidden?"

Xu Youning grinned, and a hoarse sound came from her chest.

"If you press me for answers now, the opportunity will have already passed."

The black chain wrapped around Xu Youning's wrist suddenly tightened.

The black light emanating from Lin Qingxue's brow descended upon her.

Xu Youning's body could not resist the strong pressure. His meridians were locked by the black light, and he was forced to squeeze out the place name from his throat.

"The left eye of the Heavenly Corpse."

Zhou Ran's gaze was sullen.

Xu Youning continued:

"I carried the last fragment of the bronze ruler from Penglai to the closed left eye plane of the Heavenly Corpse."

"You have already grasped the three powers that the Moon Emperor craved."

"The power of the heart is hidden within the things left behind by Meng Po."

"As for the right to see, it can only be restored by reopening the left eye."

Zhou Ran asked, "Are you planning to reopen her eye?"

Xu Youning shook her head.

"No."

Her gaze shifted to Lin Qingxue.

"I want her to witness firsthand what the real Yue Zhao is."

Lin Qingxue clasped her fingers together in her palm.

Zhou Ran's voice dropped to a low hue: "Explain yourself clearly. What exactly is your intention?"

Xu Youning closed her eyes.

"You all see Yue Zhao as a victim in this game."

"But what you don't know is that 30,000 years ago, when the Moon Emperor made his last attempt to descend, it was Yue Zhao himself who was responsible for pushing open that door."

The black light between Lin Qingxue's eyebrows trembled violently a few times.

Zhou Ran reached out and placed his palm firmly on Lin Qingxue's shoulder.

"Don't let her words disturb your mind."

Xu Youning scoffed, "Feeling scared?"

Zhou Ran raised his wrist and slapped her across the face with a backhand motion.

A loud slapping sound rang out.

Xu Youning's head was twisted to one side by the slap.

"I find your endless chatter annoying and it's slowing down my process of gathering information."

Xu Youning, bound in chains, let out another dry laugh.

"Zhou Ran, you can shield her from one disaster and two calamities."

"But you can't stop the true face of history from seeing the light of day again."

Lin Qingxue interrupted, "Lock her up."

Zhou Ran turned her head to the side.

Lin Qingxue said, "This shadow body is connected to her real body. By following this line, I can figure out the exact location where she is hiding."

"What price will we have to pay?" Zhou Ran asked.

Lin Qingxue kept her lips tightly closed and did not respond.

Zhou Ran emphasized his words.

"Lin Qingxue, tell the truth."

She lowered her voice: "It'll just be some pain from the tearing of flesh and bones."

Zhou Ran's eyes were fixed on her face.

Lin Qingxue was also facing Zhou Ran's direction.

Her eyes were covered by white silk.

But she did not turn her head to avoid Zhou Ran's scrutiny.

After a while, Zhou Ran withdrew his hand from her shoulder.

"I'll stay here and keep watch."

Lin Qingxue nodded.

The river water beneath the bridge flows upwards and rises into the air.

One black chain after another pierced into Xu Youning's shadow body from all directions.

Xu Youning's facial features are misaligned.

"Are you out of your mind?"

"If you use extreme punishment on me within this sea of consciousness, the remnants of the Bronze Ruler's laws will return to you intact!"

Lin Qingxue said, "Then let it backfire."

The chains all contracted inwards and tightened.

Xu Youning's figure was firmly pinned to the center of the cross-river bridge.

The silver thread that had been severed lit up again, pointing towards the unknown void.

Zhou Ran stretched out his hand and pressed his palm against the broken end of the silver wire.

The fragments of the White Bone Brush, the half of the Dharma Eye's origin, and the black Dharma Eye between Lin Qingxue's brows burst forth with dazzling brilliance.

Above the dark city of Jiang, a completely new scene was forcibly torn apart.

The sky was a heavy, deathly gray.

A massive, tightly closed, vertical eye stretches across the sky and earth.

Below is a broken and collapsed bronze altar.

Xu Youning knelt on both knees directly in front of the Heavenly Corpse's left eye, holding the last piece of bronze ruler high in her palm.

Her forehead slammed against the ground, and her white clothes were stained with blood.

Behind her stood a figure that should have been sleeping in the ice.

Her long silver hair reached all the way down to her waist.

Blood-red patterns, a mix of blue and white, were wrapped around his wrist.

His facial features were exactly the same as Lin Qingxue's beside him.

Yue Zhao.

Her eyes were wide open.