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

Xiao Rou opened her eyes.

"alright."

The cane in Mingcang's hand suddenly lit up.

That is the general command of the Devouring Heaven Demon Palace.

Hundreds of tiny holes appeared inside the token, and a golden Gu worm crawled out of one of them and landed on the back of Ming Cang's hand.

The ghost storehouse remained unmoved.

The General Command is connected to his soul; forcibly damaging it will harm him.

The Gu worm did not destroy the token; it merely consumed the blood pact left by the Bone Devourer.

The sound of mechanisms turning came from behind the palace gate.

The first layer of restrictions is closed.

The second layer is closed.

The twelve layers of restrictions extinguished one by one, and the gates of the Demon Palace opened to both sides.

The eight thousand guards behind Mingcang simultaneously took a half step back.

"What did you do?"

Xiao Rou sat on the gunwale, swinging her legs.

"Your formation is too dirty, so I had the insects clean it up."

Ming Cang stared at the token in his palm, wanting to restart the Blood Refining Array.

No response.

Xiao Rou added, "The burning formation inside is also turned off, so don't press it."

Mingcang stopped.

Zhou Ran stepped off the warship and passed by him without stopping.

"Are you waiting for someone from Rift Mountain?"

Mingcang's shoulders slumped down.

Only he and two close confidants knew about this matter.

Zhou Ran hadn't guessed all of Ming Cang's plans, but this one sentence was enough.

"This old servant is merely acting in accordance with palace rules."

Who set the palace rules?

"The Bone-Swallowing Grand Duke".

"He's dead."

Zhou Ran walked through the palace gate.

"Starting today, someone else will write the rules."

The eight thousand garrison troops received no orders, yet none of them stepped forward to stop them.

Mingcang stood there and did some calculations.

The Bone-Swallowing Demon died, lost its authority over the main array, and was completely devoured by the Gu worms.

If I continue to guard this place, I will gain nothing but to show my loyalty to the Duke of Lieshan.

The messenger of the Duke of Lieshan did not even arrive.

Mingcang put down his cane and knelt down.

"This old servant, Mingcang, respectfully welcomes Your Majesty to the palace."

Zhou Ran did not turn around.

"Give the account book to Qin San first."

Mingcang was taken aback.

He had prepared many words of loyalty, but the first thing he didn't expect was to check the accounts.

Qin San walked up to him.

"Not a single ledger from six hundred years ago should be missing."

Ming Cang glanced at Qin San, then looked at Zhou Ran's back.

"This old servant needs three days to prepare."

You only have two hours.

"Six hundred years of accounts, numerous and complex..."

"Then let's start with the 870,000 high-grade magic crystals you're missing from your private treasury."

Mingcang shut his mouth.

Gu Ji stood behind and could see it clearly.

Ming Cang was not defeated by his cultivation level; he didn't even get a chance to bargain.

The Devouring Heaven Demon Palace has officially changed hands.

Qin San took over the military equipment, tax deeds, and rosters, Xuan Ying led his men to seal off all teleportation arrays, and Gu Li led his troops to guard the twelve side halls.

Gu Ji was in charge of reorganizing the Palace Guard, separating the Bone-Swallowing Private Guard from the regular demon army.

Xiao Rou then led the Gu worms throughout the Demon Palace.

Ignoring the main hall and the treasury, she first searched the bedroom, bathhouse, kitchen, and secret passages.

There are seven escape routes hidden beneath the Bone-Swallowing Palace.

Two of them lead to the side hall where the maids lived, one leads to the treasury, and the other only leads to the adjacent bath.

Gu Li stood at the entrance of the passage, his expression strange.

"What's the point of repairing this?"

Xiao Rou looked at the mechanism on the wall.

"The bathtub can be locked from the inside."

Xuan Ying sealed off the passage with a blank expression.

"Don't ask."

Half a day later, the treasure vault opened.

Having ruled the eastern part of the Sixth Heaven for many years, Tun Gu had over four hundred boxes of high-grade magic crystals, ninety-seven boxes of Nascent Soul level spiritual materials, and eleven complete Tribulation Transcending artifacts in his private treasury.

There were also mining deeds, city deeds, and slave deeds, filling the three stone halls.

Zhou Ran only looked at it once before having Qin San pick out all the slave contracts.

"Burn it."

Mingcang stood to the side, his eyelids twitching with heartache.

"Your Majesty, among these slaves are three thousand weapon refiners, one thousand medicine slaves, and six hundred beautiful demonesses. If we release them all, the loss will be at least..."

Zhou Ran turned to look at him.

Mingcang changed his tune: "This old servant will burn it now."

Zhou Ran took the Nascent Soul Demon Crystal from the treasure vault and entered the deepest cultivation room in the Demon Palace.

The news needs to be blocked, and my cultivation level needs to be improved.

The method of "slaying the bone" has already been used once. If other dukes come at the same time, an empty shell cannot stop them.

Zhou Ran placed 360 Nascent Soul Demon Crystals into the array eye, and then pressed the residual power intercepted from the Emperor's Son's Tribulation into his primordial spirit.

After Xiao Rou took over all the restrictions, she stood guard outside the door, holding the Gu box.

Qin San then led his men to clean up the secret chamber for swallowing bones.

There was no gold or silver in the secret chamber, only a pool of blood, three bone mirrors, and a large number of cross-dimensional coordinates.

When Qin San flipped to the back of the third bone mirror, a low hum came from inside the wall.

A sound transmission array the size of a palm is glowing.

The formation did not contain demonic runes, but rather black and gold imperial bone patterns.

Qin San didn't touch it, and turned to call Zhou Ran.

When Zhou Ran arrived at the secret room, the sound transmission array had already been activated by itself.

First, a faint, intermittent noise came from the other end, and then a familiar voice pierced through the array patterns.

The voice was exactly the same as the voice projected from White Tower Island when the Emperor's Son spoke.

"Swallowing bones."

"How is your mission, Your Highness, progressing?"

No one spoke in the secret room.

The person on the other end of the formation did not urge them any further.

Zhou Ran looked at the black and gold patterns on the sound transmission array, checked the cross-dimensional coordinates, and walked around the outer perimeter of the array.

This is not an ordinary sound transmission array.

The array contains fragments of imperial bones, which can transmit divine sense and open small interdimensional channels at crucial moments.

The Bone-Swallowing Sect hid it in a secret chamber, where even the Underworld Warehouse was not allowed to approach.

The Emperor's son set up the White Tower on Earth and also left a backup plan in the Demon Realm.

This line is deeper than expected.

The fact that Tun Gu interfered with Taihuang Black Blade from a distance on White Tower Island and sent the coordinates of the Old God Altar to the deep sea of ​​Blue Star was by no means a spur-of-the-moment decision.

He has been serving the emperor's son.

However, the other side of the formation has not yet received news of Devourer's death.

This is the information gap that can be exploited.

Qin San pressed down on the hilt of the knife and lowered his voice.

"Master, should we destroy it?"

"It's ruined, he'll have someone else investigate."

Zhou Ran squatted down and ran his fingertips along the edge of the formation.

"The news of Tun Gu's death in Black Wind City has spread throughout the Six Heavens, and it can be kept secret for at most two days."

"The fact that they didn't directly ask about my life or death, but only about the mission, means they haven't confirmed that I've arrived in the Demon Realm yet."

Xuan Ying looked at the fragment of the Emperor's Bone.

"If there is a response, the other party will identify the person through their spiritual aura."

"So we need to let the Bone Swallower speak."

Zhou Ran took out two broken pens from the storage space.

The White Bone Brush broke when it was cutting the Swallowing Bone, and most of the original rules within the brush were lost.

The remaining part can still rewrite the atmosphere, but it can no longer withstand large-scale rules.

That's enough to mimic the fluctuations of the divine soul.

Xiao Rou squatted down beside her.

"Can it still be used even if it's broken?"

"Can be used once."

"What happens after you finish using it?"

"Break it a little more."

Xiao Rou looked at the pen, which already had only two pieces, and stopped asking questions.

Zhou Ran placed a drop of primordial blood left by the Bone Swallower in the center of the formation and pressed two pieces of white bone pen on either side of the bloodstain.

The Taihuang Black Blade was drawn half an inch from its sheath, and the aura of the Demon Emperor on the blade covered the surrounding fluctuations.

The soul of the Bone-Eating Divine Being has been destroyed, making a complete imitation unrealistic.

However, the transmission of sound through the array will diminish the details.

If the other side wants to verify, they can only distinguish the soul rank, cultivation technique attributes, and the Emperor's contract at most.

All three of these are present in the original blood of the Bone Swallower.