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

The Void Crystal stirred restlessly within the ring.

The impact was dull.

Each throb was like some sleeping behemoth turning over in the abyss.

It is under stress.

"The Void Realm?"

Zhou Ran gripped the storage ring, a cool rhythm emanating from his fingertips.

The rhythm resonated with the frequency of the "breathing" emanating from the depths of Longhu Mountain's earth veins.

The back mountain was pitch black.

The sound of the pine trees carrying something else.

A viscous, slow "breath" is surging from the depths of the earth.

That was the spiritual energy from underground, trembling.

"Boss, you're so stupid..."

Bai Xuan's weak sarcasm pierced the sea of ​​consciousness like an ice spike.

蠢？

Zhou Ran squinted.

It doesn't mean he can't form a golden core.

It means he played the game of chess too slowly.

Footsteps were disorderly outside the stone chamber.

Before Zhou Ran could think further...

Zhang Xuansu pushed open the half-closed door, his forehead covered in cold sweat:

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, your master requests that you proceed to the Celestial Master's Hall immediately."

"The earth's veins are flowing backwards."

Zhou Ran didn't say anything, and got off the bed.

Inside the Celestial Master Hall.

At the heart of the Nine Palaces Formation, Xu Yun sat cross-legged.

The seven elders stood on either side, their feet encased in chains of runes that firmly locked the ground.

A gelatinous substance seeped out from the cracks in the stone slabs.

Translucent, cloudy.

They wriggled, like a pool of living things.

"The third quarter of the hour of midnight."

Xu Yun opened his eyes.

The eerie shadow was reflected in his pupils.

"Not a demon, not a ghost, not a demon."

Zhou Ran answered calmly.

"It's 'illusory'."

Xu Yun's pupils suddenly contracted.

Then, he pointed his withered hand to the ground:

"False!"

Three thousand years of ancient texts, yet only eight characters record it!

The illusory tide invades the realm, and all phenomena are empty.

Could it be that a virtual world truly exists in this world?

Zhou Ran shook his head and looked down at the gelatinous substance on the ground.

This old Taoist priest looks like he's never seen the world before; he knows less than a mushroom that's lived for a thousand years.

It seems that what Bai Xuan mentioned, the thing that awakened beneath Longhu Mountain, is indeed something from the Void Realm!

The gel-like substance suddenly expanded.

A blurry human face was squeezed out of the gel.

It opened its mouth.

There was no sound, but the runes under the feet of all the elders instantly went out.

"It's consuming spiritual energy."

An elder roared, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

"The Golden Light Mantra can't hold on any longer!"

Zhou Ran fully activated his Purple-Gold Demon Eyes.

The world as we see it has changed.

Those are not matter.

It is a distorted "concept".

It was a fragment of some rule that should never exist in the world, which was forcibly landing using the Longhu Mountain ley line as its anchor point.

The ethereal crystal at my fingertips is scalding hot.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou."

Xu Yun turned his head to the side.

"There's something resonating within you."

Inside the hall, the gazes were like needles.

Without wasting any words, Zhou Ran directly revealed the Void Realm Crystal.

The instant the crystal leaves the body.

The gelatinous substance on the ground completely solidified.

next second.

They pounced on the crystal like madmen!

"Stop it!"

Zhang Xuansu pointed his sword into the air, while talismans swirled around him.

"Don't move."

Zhou Ran raised his hand, his voice like thunder.

He stared at the surging "illusions".

The image of the "Yi" body on Laoshan Mountain appeared in my mind.

It has no physical form.

They survive by gradually eroding the rules.

"It doesn't absorb spiritual energy."

Zhou Ran stood up and looked at the chaos on the ground.

"It's rewriting the definition."

Xu Yun's eyes widened in shock.

Rewrite the definition?!

Isn't this the work of Heaven itself?

"The Daoist Grand Array is based on the spiritual energy rules of this world."

Zhou Ran pointed to the surface of the gel-like substance.

"It spews out new rules that cover up the old ones."

When its rules become mainstream, your spells will naturally become empty.

The hall was deathly silent.

Only the dull thud of the gelatinous substance hitting the ground could be heard.

Zhang Xuansu gripped his sword, veins bulging:

"Can it be broken?"

"Unkillable."

Zhou Ran retrieved the Void Realm Crystal.

The things on the ground exploded instantly, and tentacles thrashed about.

"But it can be covered."

Two points of light burst forth in Xu Yun's eyes:

"You mean...?"

"I've seen these things before; they don't belong to this plane."

Zhou Ran turned around, his gaze piercing through the palace wall and shooting straight into the depths of the back mountain.

"Find that point, and suppress it with even more domineering rules."

"What rules should we use?"

Zhou Ran did not answer.

Deep within his consciousness, the wisp of "nothingness" he had shed from "Yi" was burning intensely.

That is not power.

Those are eyes that see through the boundary between "existence" and "nothingness".

"Give me a stick of incense."

Zhou Ran strode towards the palace gate without looking back.

Zhang Xuansu wanted to follow.

Xu Yun raised his hand to stop him.

The old master stared intently at Zhou Ran's retreating figure, his voice trembling:

"Let him go."

"This kid's methods are even more unorthodox than ours."

Back to the stone room of the inn.

Sit cross-legged.

His consciousness sank into his dantian.

The three-colored elixir embryo hangs in the sea of ​​consciousness.

The Great Wilderness, the True Dragon, and the Heavenly Tribulation.

Four more fundamental elements are still missing.

Bai Xuan said, "All spirits return to their origin."

At this moment, another thought popped into Zhou Ran's mind.

If this embryonic development is destined to have no future in this world.

Then I'll forge my own path.

From the perspective of the virtual world.

Define "Dan".

Just like Ji Yue, who forged her own path!

He placed his finger on his brow.

That understanding of "nothingness" transformed into a cool current of air, flowing straight down the spine and piercing deep into the dantian.

The purple-gold light on the surface of the embryo instantly subsided.

Instead, there is absolute transparency.

It is a void that can even devour light.

The light inside the stone chamber began to distort.

At the edge of the wall, the boundary dissolves.

Zhou Ran opened her eyes.

He no longer uses "seeing" but "feeling".

He felt his hands.

At the same time, one can also perceive the infinite void beyond one's hands.

Between these two, the once unbreakable boundary is now as thin as a cicada's wing.

"rule……"

He spoke very softly.

Outside the door, a scream suddenly erupted.

It's Miao Yingying.

Zhou Ran burst through the door.

At the end of the corridor, the seeping gelatinous substance had blocked the entrance.

Fatty Wang's arms turned black.

The light of the Golden Body Technique melted away rapidly in the gelatinous substance, like a candle meeting a flame.

"Ran-ge!"

This thing can't be broken; it's absorbing energy!

Fatty Wang roared, his body trembling.

Miao Yingying's dove staff runes are collapsing, and even her soul fluctuations are starting to get out of control.

Su Qingwu stood in front of her sister, and the tidal spiritual power that had just emerged in her palm was instantly swallowed up by the vortex on the surface of the gelatinous substance, without even causing a ripple.

"Don't use spiritual power."

Zhou Ran spoke indifferently.

He strode across the threshold.

Barefoot, stepping on the gelatinous substance.

It doesn't feel real.

But the pressure coming from under my feet is the tearing apart of the rules.

It wanted to assimilate Zhou Ran into this pool of slime.

Zhou Ran squatted down.

Spread your fingers wide and press them firmly onto the gelatinous substance.

In his sea of ​​consciousness, that wisp of understanding of "nothingness" poured in like water bursting through a dam.

Those were his rules.

It is a more domineering "existence".

The gelatinous substance suddenly froze.

The face that emerges from the surface freezes in time.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the Void Crystal.

"Certainly."

A colorless ripple emerged from his fingertips.

The gel-like substance expanded violently, then suddenly contracted.

Three breaths later.

The eerie face was captured within the crystal.

On the ground, however, an unfathomable black hole of rules remains forever.

That is 'empty'.

Fatty Wang was stunned:

"this……"

"It's not over yet."

Zhou Ran stood up.

Deep in the corridor, the walls are cracked.

An endless stream of "tide" is overflowing from the crack.

The ancient, powerful voice of Xu Yun resounded through the air:

"Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

The earth's veins have collapsed!

The mountain-protecting formation has completely dissolved!