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

"Growing like crazy!"

Chen Ya slammed her hands hard against the cement ground.

The underground pipes at the dock, which had been abandoned for many years, suddenly burst open, and dozens of dark green vines as thick as a child's arm burst out of the ground.

They were like living snakes, precisely coiling around seven or eight fully armed Western mercenaries.

The scream had barely begun when the barbs on the vines pierced deep into the flesh.

With a flash of green light, the blood and energy in the mercenaries' bodies were instantly drained, turning them into shriveled corpses that collapsed to the ground.

"Nirvana".

Lin Qingxue took a step forward, a gray-white light swirling deep within her pupils.

Wherever she looked, the air seemed to stand still.

The two burly men who were firing machine guns suddenly froze.

The steel guns in their hands quickly oxidized and rusted, silently turning into ashes along with their bulletproof vests and flesh.

There was no bloodshed, only pure annihilation.

On the other side, Xiao Hongli flicked her wrist, and the Gathering Yin Banner swelled in the wind.

"go."

The dark red spider lilies on the banner lit up, and dozens of fierce ghosts with bared fangs and claws shrieked as they charged into the enemy ranks.

Before the mercenaries could even fire, their joints were frozen stiff by the yin energy, and the vengeful ghosts burrowed into their seven orifices, instantly devouring their souls and leaving behind a pile of corpses with their eyes wide open in death.

In less than half a minute, the outer mercenary group that the Holy Radiance Consortium was so proud of was completely wiped out.

On the second floor of the container, Zhou Ran, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, watched this scene indifferently.

Barely passed.

Although his use of spiritual power is still somewhat rudimentary, he has developed the decisiveness to kill.

"FUCK!"

Yellow-skinned bitch!

Seeing their subordinates slaughtered, the surviving wind and earth elemental users were enraged.

The two exchanged a glance, a hint of madness flashing in their eyes.

"Great abyss, grant us authority!"

Both of them bit their tongues at the same time, spitting out a mouthful of black blood.

He chanted an extremely obscure and difficult incantation.

In an instant, the temperature at the dock dropped to freezing.

Thick black smoke billowed from the ground, climbing up the legs of the two men.

Their bones crackled, and their bodies grew two meters taller in an eerie manner.

The earth-type ability user's body was covered with a layer of pale white bone armor, and his eyes had turned into a ghostly green without pupils.

The wind-type ability user's back was torn open, and a pair of black wings made of pure death energy grew out.

"Possessed by a spirit?"

Xiao Rou, who was standing at Zhou Ran's feet, let out a gasp:

"They possess the power of the underworld!"

These foreigners are not only stealing spiritual energy, but also stealing the laws of the underworld!

"Go to hell!"

The mutated earth-elemental ability user slammed his fist into the ground.

A massive thorn of eerie green fire burst forth from the earth, heading straight for Chen Ya.

Chen Ya urged the vines to intertwine and form a shield, but the shield was burned to ashes by the Yin Fire on the ground spikes the moment it made contact.

The immense impact sent her staggering back several steps, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

Lin Qingxue's light of annihilation swept over the wind-type ability user, but the other party's wings only dimmed for a moment before he swung out a jet-black wind blade, forcing Lin Qingxue and Xiao Hongli back at the same time.

"mortal!

This is the power of the gods!

The mutated wind-elemental ability user hovered in mid-air, looking down at the three women. His voice was hoarse and overlapping, as if several people were speaking at the same time.

"Tremble, soul!"

Your souls will become our finest offering to our great king!

"Gods?"

A soft laugh broke the oppressive silence.

Zhou Ran flicked the cigarette butt off.

The moment the cigarette butt hit the ground, he had vanished from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was standing right between the two mutated superhumans.

"Borrowing a bit of death energy from the underworld, you dare to call yourself a god before me?"

Zhou Ran did not activate the Primordial Qi and Blood, but instead clasped his hands together in front of his chest.

hum-

The space trembled violently.

A dazzling golden sun suddenly burst open, centered on Zhou Ran.

It's not spiritual energy, it's not true essence.

It is purely the power of Buddhist vows and purification.

The Great Sun Tathagata Purification Mantra.

There is no more effective way to deal with such a half-baked practitioner who borrows the foul energy of the underworld than this technique.

The golden light of Buddha transformed into tangible ripples, sweeping across the entire dock like a tsunami.

"ah!!!"

The superhuman who was just moments before was now arrogant and domineering, but the moment he touched the Buddha's light, he let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.

Their white bone armor and black wings melted away quickly, like ice and snow exposed to the scorching sun.

The wisp of remnant soul from the underworld attached to their bodies didn't even have a chance to escape; it was directly transformed into wisps of smoke in the Buddha's light.

boom!

boom!

Without the support of the power of the underworld, the two people's physical bodies could not withstand the backlash of the rules and exploded into two blobs of foul-smelling pus and blood.

Sold out instantly.

There was no room for resistance.

Zhou Ran withdrew his Buddhist light, straightened his suit cuffs, and turned to look at the trembling Second Elder and Third Elder of Black Witch Village in the corner.

thump!

Their legs gave way and they knelt heavily on the blood-stained cement floor, kowtowing frantically.

"Master Zhou, spare my life!"

Lord Zhou, spare my life!

We were also misled by the Sheng Hui Consortium!

"My brother and his men were killed at the bottom of the river a few days ago, and that's why they're forcing us to cooperate with them!"

"Yes, yes, and they've joined forces with the underworld gods. We also want to restore the glory of Black Witch Village."

That's how they unwittingly fell into their trap.

The Third Elder's crotch was soaked, showing no dignity whatsoever of a powerful figure.

Zhou Ran narrowed his eyes slightly.

He walked slowly to the two elders.

laugh!

Two beams of purple-gold energy shot out from his fingertips, precisely piercing through the lower abdomens of both men.

"ah!

My dantian!

The two collapsed to the ground in pain, clutching their lower abdomens and rolling around on the floor.

Their decades of painstaking cultivation of witchcraft energy were completely sealed off.

When his dantian was pierced by the Zanpakuto, he had already been corrupted by Zhou Ran's demonic energy.

At this moment, if Zhou Ran had even the slightest thought, the two of them would become corpses.

"I am a very kind person."

I won't kill you.

Zhou Ran kicked the Second Elder to the ground and looked down at him.

"Go back to the Southern Frontier. Tell your chieftain that your holy maiden is in my hands, and I've set my sights on the Black Witch Village."

"I, Zhou Ran, will visit you in person at a later date."

The two old men scrambled and stumbled as they fled into the darkness.

"Master, are we just going to let them go like this?"

Xiao Rou stepped forward, handed over a clean white handkerchief, and asked, puzzled.

"The dog that goes out to explore always needs to be leashed."

Zhou Ran wiped his hands and casually threw the handkerchief into the pool of blood.

At that moment, Chen Ya's phone vibrated rapidly.

She answered the phone, listened for a couple of sentences, and her face suddenly darkened.

"husband."

Chen Ya quickly walked to Zhou Ran's side.

"Just received the message."

The Shenghui Consortium led a group to forcibly break into the headquarters of the Xiao Group.

They've locked up our external funding chains and threatened to take over all our assets in the south at rock-bottom prices before dawn.

Zhou Ran looked up and glanced at the pale light that was just beginning to appear in the east.

He loosened his tie, a smile playing on his lips.

"Industries in the South?"

"I was just worried that Black Witch Village couldn't be used for my own purposes, so consider these properties as my gift to you."