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

Xu Youwei's eyes were fixed on the blankets.

Her silver eyes, hidden beneath the cloth strip in her palm, twitched.

Zhou Ran raised his hand.

The white bone pen wrote a word above her palm.

stable.

Silver eyes immediately shrank back into the depths of the cloth strip.

Xu Youwei gritted her teeth and didn't look at the hospital bed again.

Li Zhiyao stopped at the entrance of the archives room.

"here."

The archive room door opened by itself.

The rows of metal cabinets inside began to vibrate.

The cabinet doors popped open simultaneously.

Medical record.

Prenatal checkup report.

Birth certificate.

Payment records.

Sheets of paper hung in mid-air, arranged in a long line according to the year.

The pages turn without wind, and the years seem to recede into the past.

All the pages stopped being printed the year Lin Qingxue was born.

Zhou Ran glanced at the pages.

All birth records at the maternal and child health hospital were available that year.

Lin Qingxue was the only one missing.

Deep inside the archives, an iron cabinet remained closed.

The cabinet door was sealed with a tape.

The seal had turned yellow, and a few words were written on it:

Delivery room number three, special record kept.

Li Zhiyao stepped forward, pressing the ancient musical instrument tray close to the cabinet door.

The ancient characters on the plate were bounced off by a layer of gray light as soon as they touched the seal.

She withdrew her hand, a thin cut appearing on her fingertip.

"There is a definition of the virtual realm here."

Qin San drew his sword half an inch.

"Split it open?"

Zhou Ran shook his head.

"Don't rush."

He walked to the metal cabinet and pressed his hand against the seal.

Something is jumping below the seal.

It is not a living thing, but it follows certain rules.

Zhou Ran's grayish skin on his chest began to feel hot.

The nascent soul in the dantian opened its eyes, six gray lines swirling around it, and the half-open door pattern also lit up briefly.

The pages in the archives were turned over one by one.

All the recorded patient names were erased, leaving only one name clearly visible.

Lin Qingxue.

Zhou Ran's eyes darkened.

"The Moon Emperor didn't start his scheme from the heart of the Heavenly Corpse."

Li Zhiyao chimed in, "She had already left a foothold in the mortal world."

Xu Youwei looked at the iron cabinet.

"What happened here twenty-seven years ago, on the day Lin Qingxue was born?"

Black-gold qi and blood emerged from Zhou Ran's palm.

"You'll know once you open it."

He did not use a knife.

They didn't use a bone pen either.

He gripped the edge of the seal with his knuckles and tore it down.

The seal cracked.

There were no files in the metal cabinet.

There was a baby scale inside.

On the scale pan, there was half a bluish-white umbilical cord.

The umbilical cord had dried up, yet it was still glowing.

There was also a birth record next to it.

The paper was yellowed, and the handwriting was so fresh it was glaring.

Name: Lin Qingxue.

Time of birth: midnight.

Birth status: Souls not yet complete.

The section for the midwife was crossed out with a black line.

The section for family members' signatures was also crossed out.

Only the last line of red text was not covered up.

If the eyes of the present world awaken, the path home will open from the old building housing women and children.

The silver eye in Xu Youwei's palm began to writhe under the strip of cloth.

On Li Zhiyao's ancient musical instrument plate, ancient characters are displayed upside down.

Qin San tightened his grip on the knife.

Zhou Ran stared at the half of the umbilical cord, but didn't touch it.

Suddenly, Lin Qingxue's voice came from the direction of the manor within the bone fragments.

Her tone was much more urgent than before.

"Zhou Ran".

"I can see delivery room number three."

Zhou Ran asked in a low voice, "You were at the manor, how could you have seen it?"

Lin Qingxue paused for a moment.

"I wasn't the one watching."

"It's the old building of the Women and Children's Hospital that's using my eyes to see you."

Zhou Ran immediately said, "Li Zhiyao, notify the manor."

"Let the Su sisters reverse the tide formation to obscure Lin Qingxue's vision."

"Chen Ya, cut off all reflective surfaces in the basement."

Li Zhiyao's response came from the bone fragment.

"clear."

As soon as he finished speaking, the red light in the delivery room at the end of the third floor began to flash.

The pages in the archives all flipped over, revealing the same sentence on the back.

Family members are requested to proceed to delivery room number three.

Zhou Ran did not go upstairs immediately.

He turned and looked into the depths of the metal cabinet.

A metallic scraping sound came from the bottom of the cabinet.

A hidden compartment pops up.

There were no medical records inside.

There was only one baby wristband.

Zhou Ran reached out and picked it up.

The wristband has turned yellow.

Two words were written on it in blue ballpoint pen.

Yue Zhao.

It's not Lin Qingxue.

It is Yue Zhao.

Xu Youwei's breath hitched.

Li Zhiyao's expression also changed.

Qin San cursed, "These bastards, they don't even spare babies."

Zhou Ran remained silent.

He pressed the Forgotten River Heart Seal onto his wristband.

A pale yellow light fell.

The paint on the walls of the entire archive room began to peel off.

layer.

Two layers.

Finally, the blood-written words deep within the wall were revealed.

It is not a modern script.

It is an ancient law.

Li Zhiyao read the line of text aloud.

"This girl had a second heartbeat when she was born."

The words fell.

The sound of a baby crying came from the third floor.

It's very light.

But it caused all the lights in the building to turn on at the same time.

The cloth strip in Xu Youwei's palm split open automatically.

Silver eyes opened.

It neither screamed nor pretended to be Lin Qingxue.

It simply looked upstairs and said in a stiff voice:

She wasn't born here.

"She was sent back here."

Zhou Ran slammed the ball down with a backhand dunk.

The white bone pen hovered above Xu Youwei's palm.

Black and gold runes suppressed the silver eyes.

Explain yourself.

The pupils of his silver eyes shrank to pinpoints.

It no longer opens its mouth.

Zhou Ran sneered.

"It's fine if you don't want to tell me."

"The ledgers have been found."

He looked up and gazed toward the stairs.

"Walk."

Xu Youwei followed and asked in a low voice, "Was this a trap set by the Moon Emperor?"

Zhou Ran gripped the hilt of the Taihuang Black Blade.

"It's a situation."

He stepped onto the first step of the stairs.

"It's also the account book she left behind."

Chen Ya's voice came from the bone fragment.

"I've found a new lead."

"explain."

"Twenty-seven years ago, there was a power outage at the maternity and children's hospital."

"The time is 2:13 AM."

"The incident lasted seven minutes."

"All surveillance cameras are damaged, and the backup power supply has not started."

Zhou Ran asked, "The midwife?"

"The records show that he resigned and went abroad six months later."

Chen Ya paused for a moment.

"The actual trajectory has been erased."

"I continued my investigation and discovered that the Sheng Hui Early Foundation was behind it."

Zhou Ran's eyes turned cold.

Sheng Hui is not a recent entrant into the game.

They had met on the night Lin Qingxue was born, twenty-seven years ago.

"Send it back?"

Qin San tightened his grip on the knife.

"How do you send a baby back to its birthplace?"

No one answered.

The sound of crying still echoed on the third floor of the old hospital.

One sound after another.

The sound was nailed to the wall and climbed down the stairs.

Zhou Ran looked up at the stairs.

"Go up."

Li Zhiyao whispered a reminder: "The entire building is starting to change formation."

Without her saying anything, everyone saw it.

Long black nails protruded from the corridor walls.

Every nail pierced the ward doorplate.

Gynecology Ward 1.

Prenatal observation room.

Neonatal ward.

Delivery Room No. 3

There was a faint green glow on the nail.

That's not spiritual energy.

It is vitality.

Zhou Ran recognized him at a glance.

"Vitality Nail"

Xu Youwei asked, "From Shenghui?"

"Um."

Zhou Ran reached out and pulled out the nearest one.

The moment the nail left the wall, a woman's scream echoed from the ward.

Xu Youwei's face turned pale.

Zhou Ran did not stop.

He crushed the nails.

The vibrant green life spread out, imprinted on the heart of the River of Oblivion, and turned into ashes.

"It was implanted in Jiangcheng in its early years."

Li Zhiyao looked at the nail marks.

"Every nail is connected to the earth's veins."

"The hospital is not a node, but the key point of the battle."

Zhou Ran said, "Returning to the Embryo Formation."

Li Zhiyao looked at him.

Zhou Ran continued walking upwards.

"Vitality nail, old delivery room, umbilical cord, second heartbeat."

"When these four things are gathered together, it's like putting something that has already been sent away back into the womb."

"The Moon Emperor wants Lin Qingxue to return to that night twenty-seven years ago and become a vessel again."

Xu Youwei's silver eyes in her palm suddenly widened.

It was provoked by that statement.

Silver light began to seep out from under the strips of cloth.

Xu Youwei let out a muffled groan, and her right finger bones cracked softly.

"It's watching."

Zhou Ran did not turn around.

The white bone pen fell to write the second character.

close.

Silver Eyes was pressed back into the palm by the black and gold runes.

The red light on the third floor suddenly shone brightly.

The words "Delivery Room No. 3" on the doorplate were stained with blood.

In the delivery room, a second heartbeat sounded.