My father is the main character, but the female leads want to kill me.

"What's wrong with your character...?"

Just as Lin Ran was about to refute Fan Hua's words, his gaze was drawn to the stone wall to his left. Embedded in the stone wall was a heavy stone door with patterns, giving off a sense of ancient desolation.

"There really is something down there!"

Lin Ran exclaimed softly. He hurried to the stone door and looked at it. It seemed that more than half of the stone door was still buried in the bricks and stones. He asked Fan Hua anxiously, "How do we open this stone door?"

Fan Hua cautiously asked, "Should we continue smashing?"

Lin Ran: "..."

So, the only option is to force the door open? But the problem is, if you start smashing things up, are you sure you won't bury yourself in the process?

Seeing that Lin Ran remained silent, Fan Hua grew anxious, thinking that Lin Ran was unhappy. She rattled off a series of methods: "See if there's an array on this door, or use your blood to open it, or channel your spiritual power into it, or..."

"Stop, stop... I'll try each method one by one!"

Lin Ran simply couldn't stand Fan Hua's incessant chanting. It was like Sun Wukong wearing a headband being chanted by Tang Sanzang; her head was buzzing with excitement.

Lin Ran walked to the stone gate and looked at the ancient stone gate in front of him. He could not sense any residual power on the stone gate with his soul power.

He thought for a moment, then channeled the spiritual energy within his body to his right hand. A rich golden light filled the underground space. He took a step forward and placed his right hand above the stone door.

When Lin Ran's spiritual power touched the stone door, his soul trembled inexplicably, and the spiritual power within his body surged outwards wildly and uncontrollably.

"Another one like this?!"

Lin Ran's face turned pale with fright. He recalled how the woman inside that egg had drained him of his blood last time. Now, if she did the same thing again, how could he possibly withstand it?

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Lin Ran tried, he couldn't break free from the stone door's pull, and his spiritual energy was rapidly decreasing, almost reaching its limit.

"Oh shit!"

Lin Ran couldn't help but curse. A brief feeling of weakness from losing his spiritual power surged up, and he knelt down helplessly, but his hands were still firmly stuck to the stone door.

Having his spiritual energy drained so intensely and instantly, even Lin Ran's physical strength couldn't withstand it. His vision went black, and a wave of dizziness washed over him. He almost fainted, but he gritted his teeth and bit his tongue. The pain brought him back to his senses.

Just when only a drop of spiritual energy remained in his body, the stone door stopped absorbing it. Lin Ran barely managed to lift his head and realized he could let go. He quickly withdrew his hand, not daring to touch the stone door again.

"These monstrous things, they suck people's spiritual energy and blood without warning, like vampires..."

Lin Ran grumbled and cursed as he looked at the golden stone gate in front of him, which was filled with a heavy and ancient aura. He felt even more distressed and quickly took out some pills to restore his spiritual power and stuffed them into his mouth like candy.

If I don't quickly recover my spiritual power, I won't even have the ability to protect myself if I encounter any danger later.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, the stone door made a dull sound and slowly opened to both sides, instantly illuminating the inside with a pale white light.

Just as Lin Ran was about to get up, the golden light on the stone door transformed into thousands of beams of light that rushed toward Lin Ran. The golden light, like fine rain, merged into Lin Ran's body and transformed into purer spiritual energy that fell into Lin Ran's dantian.

As if hearing his complaints, the stone gate returned his spiritual energy to him. Moreover, the returned spiritual energy was even purer, seemingly improving its quality.

"It doesn't seem too bad after all!"

Lin Ran breathed a sigh of relief. After the golden light filled his dantian with spiritual energy, the remaining amount went into the tunnel and quickly disappeared.

Feeling the renewed surge of spiritual energy within his body, Lin Ran shook his hands, bent down, looked at the somewhat narrow entrance, thought for a while, and decided to slowly climb in.

Since we're already here, we should at least uncover all the secrets of this place, otherwise it will just benefit others!

After Lin Ran crawled into the stone door, Fu Yuemei and Mulan stood outside the huge hole at the top, looking down into the dark, unlit cavern, and wondering how deep it was. They couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Mulan glanced at Fu Yuemei and advised, "Why don't we wait outside? Your master should be fine. He probably just discovered some secret about this hall!"

"I…"

Fu Yuemei was at a loss. She looked at Mulan, then at the bottomless, enormous hole. She wanted to go down to find her master, but she was afraid that if she went down, it would cause trouble for her master. Not knowing whether her master was safe made her extremely anxious.

Just then, some noises came from outside. Yue Lei strode into the main hall, and when he saw the huge hole, his eyes widened. He even rubbed his eyes, somewhat incredulous. He looked at the two people standing beside the hole and asked, "This is what Brother Lin did?!"

When Fu Yuemei saw Yue Lei arrive, she rushed to his side, her small face filled with anxiety. She looked at Yue Lei and pleaded, "Senior Yue, please go down and check on him!"

"Ah this..."

Yue Lei scratched his head, walked over to the hole and looked at it a few times, his expression changing.

After a while, Yue Lei looked at Mulan and Fu Yuemei and said, "You two go back to the caravan outside first. If any caravans pass by, pretend to be resting there, understand?"

"But Senior Yue, Master..."

Fu Yuemei was surprised that Yue Lei wanted them to go back. She was a little anxious, but just as she was about to say something, Mulan grabbed her arm. She nodded and said, "Thank you for your trouble, Mr. Yue!"

"Yuemei, let's go, we'll wait for your master outside!"

Mulan dragged Yuemei to the center of the square with great effort. As soon as they gathered with the people from Linghua Academy, Yuemei broke free from Mulan's grasp and looked at Mulan with a cold face, asking, "Sister Mulan, why did you drag me out here!"

Chi Sinian and the others were taken aback by this sudden turn of events. Why were the two of them suddenly at each other's throats after their return?

Seeing Fu Yuemei's expression, Mulan quickly explained, "Yuemei, listen to me first. With your master's strength, there's definitely no problem. Even if there is a problem, what help can we possibly offer?"

Mulan's words left Fu Yuemei speechless for a moment.

That's indeed the case. She herself is at the Spirit Pill Realm and the Mulan Transformation Realm. If she encounters a problem that even the Nirvana Realm would find difficult to handle, then they really might as well ask for a miracle to save them.

"I'm sorry... Sister Mulan!"

Fu Yuemei was intelligent and quickly figured it out. She lowered her head and apologized to Mulan.

Mulan rubbed her nose, a little embarrassed, and said, "It's alright, I know you care about Master, let's leave here first!"

"Well, let's get out of here first!"

Fu Yuemei nodded and led her team away from there. As she climbed the ruins, Fu Yuemei looked back at the direction of the main hall. She saw Senior Yue Lei guarding the entrance of the main hall. She glanced at him a few times, then looked away and jumped down.

……

123. The Dragon Clan

After Yue Lei saw the group of students from Linghua Academy return, he turned around and looked at the huge hole behind him. Besides being filled with disbelief and surprise, he also felt a bit of admiration.

"I must say it's Brother Lin. He stirred up quite a storm in that secret realm last time, and even in such a dilapidated group of ruins, he still managed to find something!" Yue Lei exclaimed.

Although he was a bit embarrassed and invisible in that secret realm last time, he still knew some of Lin Ran's deeds from his own students, and how she stirred up trouble alongside that fairy from the Sword Sect.

It's a pity that the most important inheritance of the final secret realm was obtained by that prodigy from the Sword Sect, but it can also be considered a good thing, since Linghua Academy can't keep such an opportunity.

"Hey, Brother Lin, I'll keep watch here for you. I don't think anyone will want to come here to look. Brother Lin, hurry up and finish your search, then pretend nothing happened and leave!"

Yue Lei found a flat, large rock and sat down on it, glancing at the large hole from time to time. He did this to repay a favor to Lin Ran.

The best students at Songling Academy today all followed Lin Ran back then. Lin Ran did her best to protect those students, sometimes even risking her life.

Yue Lei didn't know how to repay such a heavy favor. Perhaps this was also the reason why he was willing to be tricked into giving Linghua Academy so many supplies last time.

The hardest debt to repay in this world is the debt of gratitude owed to others!

……

Below the cave, Lin Ran had already climbed through the narrow passage that was almost completely blocked by mud. He landed on the bluestone ground, and the solid feeling under his feet made him breathe a sigh of relief.

He turned around, and behind him was compacted soil, with only a small space less than half a meter high above it that he could crawl into.

Lin Ran didn't take a torch, but instead used a luminous pearl, and walked alone into the dark tunnel. To be honest, walking alone was quite eerie.

"Fan Hua, come out and take a walk with me!"

Lin Ran summoned Fan Hua, and in the empty passage, a golden light emerged from between Lin Ran's eyebrows, landing to the side and transforming into a beautiful woman dressed in a golden dress.

Fan Hua's face showed impatience. She looked at Lin Ran and said with utter disdain, "Are you scared?!"

"It's not that I'm scared, it's just that if I could have an encyclopedia like you with me, I could spot any problems in advance!" Lin Ran explained earnestly.

But Fan Hua had been with Lin Ran for a while, so she knew perfectly well that Lin Ran was talking nonsense. She snorted and crossed her arms, saying, "Then let's walk together. Don't be so scared that you need me to protect you!"

The passageway was very long. It took Lin Ran and Fan Hua nearly ten minutes to reach the end. But when Lin Ran saw that the end was a sealed wall, she was momentarily stunned. Had they walked for so long only to end up in a dead end?

"It can't be a dead end; there's no need to design it like that!"

After taking one look, Fan Hua immediately dismissed the idea that it was a dead end. She looked at Lin Ran and said, "Try the method from the stone gate again?"

"Not this again?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Ran instinctively put his hands behind his back. He already suffered from aftereffects from having his spiritual energy and blood forcibly drained like this every time.

However, facing Fan Hua's gaze, Lin Ran finally mobilized her spiritual power and placed her golden hand on the sealed wall.

This time, nothing was as terrifying. After sensing Lin Ran's spiritual power, the stone walls automatically shrank to both sides.

Lin Ran lowered her hand, looked at the darkness ahead, and hesitated to go any further.

"There shouldn't be any danger. The design of this ruin makes me feel more like it's a sealed place."

"But there were so many sealed places back then, I don't know what exactly the Azure Emperor and the Azure Dragon Clan sealed in those places. But for them to join forces to seal something, it must be something amazing, right?" Fan Hua muttered to herself.

Are you sure you won't unleash a major attack later?

Lin Ran recalled those sealed places before, especially the one belonging to the Mirror Moon Holy Emperor. It was practically a breeding ground for poisonous insects. But for the Mirror Moon Holy Emperor back then, it was already quite remarkable that she, as a half-emperor, had accomplished all of this.

"I'm not entirely sure, but we're already here, and even if there is something wrong, you can handle it, right?"

Fan Hua playfully punched Lin Ran and teased, "You are the successor of the Azure Emperor, so maybe there are some treasures left behind by the Azure Emperor that you can use!"

"Hopefully!"

Lin Ran smiled and looked at the dark opening in front of him. He condensed a golden ball of light in his right hand and shot it forward as a beam of light. The golden ball of light made a "poof" sound in mid-air and turned into a sky full of golden light spots.

The dazzling golden light also illuminated the dark opening.

Upon seeing the scene before him, Lin Ran's pupils constricted sharply. What came into his view was a giant dragon with a completely black body. The dragon's collar shimmered with black and gold light, and from his position, he could see the head of the dragon.

Although the dragon did not open its eyes, its majestic and boundless aura filled people with awe.

Lin Ran saw that the dragon's head had horns that resembled curved ram's horns, and it emitted a dark red light, though very faint, it was indeed shining.

Doesn't this mean... that the dragon in front of us is very likely alive?

"Can we head back? If we release such a huge creature, are you sure it won't cause trouble?" Lin Ran looked at Fan Hua, but found her staring blankly at the dragon. He couldn't help but ask, "Do you know this Void Evil Clan member?"

"This is not the Void Evil Clan!"

Fan Hua rolled her eyes at Lin Ran and said.