The great purge has begun.

At the bottom of this dark, misty abyss, an extremely bizarre scene unfolded.

What should have been a site for intruders to explore cautiously has now turned into a one-sided hunt.

Li Er stood with his hands behind his back, his steps steady, as if strolling leisurely in a garden.

With each step he took, he would casually utter a single word.

"Disperse!"

Every time he spoke, it was accompanied by the roar of the power of the rules!

Vast numbers of skeleton warriors, without even being able to scream, were mercilessly annihilated, turning into ashes scattered across the sky.

Ding ding ding ding—!

The system's crisp reward notification sound became the most beautiful symphony in Zhou Huai's ears.

million!

Three million!

Five million!

The merit points were jumping wildly on the panel at an insane speed.

Xiang Yu followed closely behind Li Er, silently enduring wave after wave of insignificant backlash, like a dutiful bodyguard.

In this way, Li Er, like a human bulldozer, crushed everything in his path with unstoppable force.

We fought our way from the outer plaza of the ruins all the way to the deepest part of the ruins.

When the magnificent and ancient underground palace finally came into view, Zhou Huai glanced at the panel.

"I've gained another ten million merit points!"

Zhou Huai sighed with satisfaction, "This round of purchasing was a huge profit!"

at this time.

Li Er's footsteps finally stopped in front of the magnificent and ancient palace of the imperial palace.

The atmosphere here is clearly different from that of the surrounding area.

In the square, there were no skeletal soldiers like cannon fodder, only dozens of massive skeletal generals exuding a terrifying aura.

In their lifetimes, they were at least top-tier powerhouses at the SS level or above!

Even behind them, several hellish ancient dragons, their bodies engulfed in ghostly flames, were coiled up!

"The Emperor's resting place—anyone who trespasses—dies!!!"

The leader, a skeletal general, wielded a massive black battle axe, and terrifying red light emanated from his empty eye sockets.

It roared, its body surging with deathly energy, and led the generals and ancient dragons behind it, transforming into dozens of black streaks ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) of light, trying to block Li Er's path.

The combined pressure from multiple SS-level powerhouses was enough to annihilate any large army outside.

However.

Zhou Huai's consciousness coldly observed all of this.

He had no interest in even asking Xiang Yu to take action.

Facing the soaring black death aura, Li Er slightly raised his eyelids.

Just a few words. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"Disperse, all of you!"

The cold words fell.

The domineering rule of "words become law" that ignores level and defense erupted in the square in front of the Hall of Eternity!

"roar--!"

Ugh!

The hellish ancient dragons that were about to unleash their dragon breath, along with those arrogant SS-class skeleton generals, froze in mid-air during their charge!

Their indestructible dark gold bones, under the erosion of the laws, were as if they had undergone millions of years of weathering!

The screams abruptly stopped.

It didn't even have a chance to get within ten meters of Li Er before it crumbled inch by inch in mid-air, turning into gray dust that fell everywhere!

Those remaining generals, barely clinging to life, felt their souls tremble violently at the sight.

But the instinct of loyalty still drives them forward.

But the result was exactly the same.

Li Er didn't even raise his hand; he merely gave a glance and uttered a single, powerful word.

The remaining generals fell one by one on the cold jade steps in front of the Hall of Eternity, vanishing into nothingness.

The entire square fell silent once more.

Only a thick layer of bone powder remained, telling the story of the one-sided massacre that had just taken place without any suspense.

"All the things that were in the way have been cleared away."

Zhou Huai, controlling Li Er, stepped onto the steps and stood before the towering bronze gate of the Eternal Hall, which was tens of meters high.

Squeak—

It was as if it sensed the presence of the person who had entered, or perhaps the owner inside the door had already made some kind of decision.

The bronze doors of the Eternal Hall opened slowly to both sides with a dull, teeth-grinding scraping sound.

An aura, a mixture of ancient decay and imperial majesty, wafted from inside the hall.

Zhou Huai looked up.

At the far end of the empty, dimly lit hall.

The human emperor still sat upright on that throne of white bones.

But now, he no longer possessed the arrogance and invincibility he had shown when he braved the heavenly lightning outside.

The dark golden bones were covered with dense cracks like a spider web, riddled with holes, and covered with charred marks from being struck by purple lightning.

Even so.

He remained sitting upright.

He placed his hands flat on the armrests of the throne and slightly raised the broken skull.

Even when he was at his wit's end, even when he was on his last legs, his unparalleled charisma as a ruler could not be concealed!

The gate was open.

The Emperor's faint gaze passed over the main hall and quietly looked at Li Er outside the door.

He had just watched helplessly as his last generals and soldiers turned to dust and vanished completely outside the door.

But his skeletal face showed no superfluous emotion.

There was no anger, no resentment, and no despair.

Yes, it's just a kind of calm that comes from having seen through life and death, from the triumph of the winner to the loser.

The main hall was completely silent.

for a long time.

Zhou Huai controlled Li Er, who stood quietly outside the palace gate, not in a hurry to step inside.

His gaze pierced through the dark and deep hall, landing on the lonely white bone throne at the far end.

The Human Emperor.

What an arrogant, yet fitting title.

Zhou Huai's heart was surprisingly calm at this moment.

There was no sense of satisfaction from avenging a great enemy, nor any excitement from slaying a powerful foe.

He was just thinking.

Consider what kind of obsession burned in the eyes of this king of the old era when facing the heavenly tribulation that could obliterate everything.

Consider the determination and unwillingness he expressed in his phrase "daring to contend with Heaven."

"Who...are you?"

The Emperor's voice, hoarse and weak, still carried an undeniable majesty, echoing in the empty hall.

Zhou Huai did not answer.

He simply lifted his foot, step by step, across the ashes-covered square, up the cold steps, and slowly entered the palace that once belonged to the king.

As he approached, the restrained golden light of merit emanating from Li Er seemed to be drawn by some kind of inspiration, becoming even brighter.

The radiance of righteous spirit intertwined with the ultimate truth of heaven and earth illuminated the dark hall, dispelling the deathly aura and gloom accumulated over millions of years.

On the throne, the Human Emperor stared intently at Li Er, his eyes still burning with the remnants of purple flame.

From that golden light, he sensed an aura that was both incredibly familiar and utterly repulsive.

That's... the taste of the Way of Heaven.

It has the flavor of rules.

It was the smell of the shackles that imprisoned everything in the world and that he had been resisting all his life!

"hehe......"

The emperor's jaw opened and closed, emitting a dry, grating laugh, as if two pieces of rotten bone were rubbing against each other.

The laughter was full of sarcasm and disdain.

"I see...I see..."

"I thought it was someone like-minded who had broken free from their cage."

"I never imagined... that in the end, I would just be a groveling dog under the feet of Heaven."

His broken skull tilted slightly, and the two purple soul flames that were about to be extinguished in his empty eye sockets suddenly burst forth with a terrifying light!

"Why should I be a lackey of Heaven's Way?!"