In the world of martial arts, one works tirelessly to attain enlightenment.

Chapter 126, The Elf's Response, Sword Linglong's Breakthrough

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Lin Ran's expression was quite strange as she faced the seven elves.

"Where do you get the audacity to represent the Elven race?"

"you!……"

The elf being mentioned turned pale and instinctively wanted to retort.

Suddenly, Lin Ran's body was covered in golden light, and then he threw a punch in this direction.

The moment the fist was thrown, all seven elves felt a premonition of death, frantically reinforcing their defenses and launching an attack on Lin Ranfa.

However, all of this had no effect whatsoever in the face of the golden fist imprint.

Completely crushing everything in its path!

The bodies of the seven elves were torn apart, their souls mixed in with their destroyed bodies, and together they were ripped into countless fragments.

Lin Ran lowered her fist and looked around with a hint of doubt.

Apart from these fourth-tier spirits, no other spirits appeared.

But normally, there should be even stronger Pokémon here.

"That's it?"

Lin Ran checked several times, refusing to believe it, but still couldn't find any other sprites.

The killing intent slowly subsided, and Jian Linglong, surrounded by red and black sword energy, emerged from it. Her eyes remained clear, and her rationality was not affected.

"Linglong, are there no other spirits?"

"I didn't find it, so it should be gone."

Jian Linglong shook her head. She hadn't killed enough yet. This wave of slaughter had greatly enhanced her killing sword intent. After digesting it, she could reach the fourth level after a few more rounds!

Lin Ran scratched his head, not understanding why the elves would suddenly send a wave of attacks.

"Never mind if you don't have it."

He reached down and collected all the relatively intact corpses, put them into a separate storage ring, and tossed it to Zhou Yu, who was studying various strange curses in the cultivation room.

Zhou Yu's voice came through: "Captain, give us some serious work next time."

"You'd better break through quickly, otherwise even if you capture me, you won't be able to hold onto me."

Zhou Yu fell silent.

Lin Ran looked around, then at Jian Linglong, and shook his head. If he were to leave, there would be no main combatant in the team for the time being.

"Let's wait a little longer."

……

The area a few kilometers away from the building.

A group of werewolves stayed inside a three-story building, watching as a group of fourth-tier elves were swiftly and decisively defeated by Lin Ran, who didn't even have to exert much effort.

The atmosphere seemed to freeze. After a long silence, one of the werewolves said, "The target has already broken through to the fourth rank. His minimum combat strength is mid-fourth rank. Early fourth rank is suicide."

Another werewolf said, "Not only that, this person hasn't shown his full strength yet. He only used one sword. I estimate his combat strength is equivalent to the late stage of the fourth tier."

"I believe this person's danger level should be classified as fifth-tier. Don't forget, he also possesses the inheritance of the Eight Gates Formation. It's impossible to tell directly how far he has cultivated it."

After these words were spoken, the werewolves remained silent for a long time.

"Send a message to the circular plaza, increase the strength of the formation to the fifth level, and find a way to extend the time before the outer inheritance is obtained."

……

Inside another unnamed building.

The Soul Clan used projection techniques to fully display the battle taking place around the building.

The Feather Clan and the Soul Clan secretly joined forces and obtained firsthand intelligence.

However, both the Feather Clan and the Soul Clan remained silent in the face of this outcome.

A creature of the Feathered Clan said, "This person is a great enemy of our clan and must not be allowed to live."

The Soul Clan creature sneered, "You're going to kill them?"

The winged race fell silent.

After a while, the Soul Clan being said, "I have a premonition that since the fifth rank has not appeared, this person will be the strongest in the secret realm."

"A fifth-tier member of our clan is on his way to kill this person."

The Soul Clan looked at the Feather Clan, awaiting their response.

After discussing among themselves for a while, the Feather Clan said, "Our clan has a mid-stage fifth-order being on their way, but to enter the secret realm, there needs to be an outsider within the secret realm who breaks through to the fifth order."

Soul Clan: "Simple. You and I, along with the Werewolf Clan, the Elf Clan, and the Crystal Clan, will each select one member to provide resources to upgrade to Tier 5."

The winged creature pondered for a moment: "Okay."

……

The training room.

After killing a batch of elves last time, it was quiet for two whole days.

Lin Ran simultaneously cultivates four skills: [Eight Gates Formation], [Soul Nourishing Technique], [Pupil Technique: Truth], and [Four Pillars Yuan Technique].

The skill panel has a fixed path; he only needs to devote a small amount of attention to maintaining the skill's operation to increase his experience.

It's just that after breaking through to the Lower Divine Fire Realm, the speed of gaining experience has become extremely difficult.

Even with sufficient resources, it still takes four hours to gain one point of experience using the Eight Gates Formation.

It would take more than 400 days, or even more than a year, to break through to the next level.

The Soul Nourishing Method and the Four Pillars Yuan Method are reasonably fast, much faster than the Eight Gates Formation, and can gain 11 experience points in four hours.

In summary, the three skills work synergistically to improve each other.

The [Pupil Technique: Truth] grants one point of experience for each full-power use, roughly equivalent to seeing through the Spirit Lord's essence.

These past two days he's been using the Spirit Master to grind proficiency, to the point that the Spirit Master is completely numb to it. He's been stared at all, but hasn't done anything else.

The Spirit Lord felt that Lin Ran was somewhat abnormal.

Lin Ran didn't care about the Spirit Master's reaction; after all, she didn't say anything, which meant she didn't care much.

On average, it takes about three minutes to gain one point of experience. I gained 960 experience points in two whole days.

In the following two days, there was some commotion outside, but it was all involving ordinary alien races, none of them were fourth-tier, the highest being only the late third-tier. These were all left to Jian Linglong to deal with.

On the fifth day,

[Pupil Technique: Truth, Experience Maxed Out]

[Skill evolving...Evolution complete]

[Eye Technique: Truth LV4→LV5: 1/2500]

The upgrade process was quiet. Lin Ran only felt a cool sensation in her eyes for a moment, and then there was no other reaction.

At this moment, a fourth-order fluctuation came from outside the training room; it was Jian Linglong's.

Lin Ran smiled; finally, someone had reached the fourth rank.

He waved his hand, using spiritual energy to envelop the courtyard, preventing Jian Linglong's breakthrough from affecting others, as the killing intent of the sword had a great impact on consciousness.

Normally, Jian Linglong deliberately keeps a low profile so as not to affect others.

Two hours later.

Jian Linglong's aura calmed down, and all the sword energy transformed into pure blood color, like flowing crystal, without a single impurity.

Before her floated a long, beautiful flying sword, as clear as autumn water, echoing the killing sword energy.

Lin Ran glanced at it and saw the soul inside the flying sword.

"Sword spirit? Spirit sword?"

"Yes, the Spirit Sword."

Jian Linglong stood up, with flying swords circling around her, making them appear very close.

However, upon approaching Lin Ran, the flying sword became confused.

How can there be two owners?

Lin Ran flicked her finger at the flying sword, sending a small amount of [spatial rules] and [temporal rules] into the sword's interior, which then sealed itself away.

"Well done, here's your reward."

Lin Ran rubbed Jian Linglong's head; it felt really nice.

Jian Linglong sensed something and said, "I'll go deal with the elves."

"Go ahead, and come back to get help if you encounter any danger."

Jian Linglong nodded and transformed into a beam of sword light, departing.

(End of this chapter)