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

Chapter 151, Obstruction

Border City.

The killing of the traitor from the Sword Tomb was a big commotion, but Lin Ran had made prior arrangements and acted extremely quickly, so it was barely noticeable to the demons and beastmen outside.

Collect the complete list.

Lin Ran communicates with the traces and sets off towards the second goal.

In the city of the border, there are a total of twenty-three remnants of the Sword Tomb. More than sixty of them escaped from the Mother Realm, and the rest are scattered in different places. It would take a lot of time to find and kill them all.

Moreover, some traitors have very high cultivation levels, reaching the Upper Divine Fire Realm. If they have some fortuitous opportunities, it's not impossible for them to break through to the Lower Transcendent Realm.

After a moment's thought, Lin Ran headed to the location of the second traitor.

A dozen minutes later.

In a dilapidated courtyard, an old man greeted Lin Ran.

"No need for that. Although you've changed your face, your sword aura is undeniable."

Lin Ran waved her hand, refusing the old man's tea, and looked at him expressionlessly.

Behind her, Jian Linglong materialized into a physical form, floating in the air and looking down at the old man, her beautiful eyes filled with undisguised sorrow.

When the old man saw Jian Linglong, he knew that his identity had been exposed. He then revealed his true form, a handsome man with a beautiful face.

He frowned, puzzled by Jian Linglong's choice.

Why did you choose to become a Blade & Soul?

"I don't need to explain to you."

Jian Linglong shook her head slightly, her sadness disappearing. She grabbed a flying sword and rushed forward to fight the man.

But after only a few moves, the man was defeated; he had underestimated Jian Linglong's strength and sword intent.

In less than three minutes, the man's head was chopped off, destroying all his life.

Lin Ran patted the corner of her clothes, put away her storage ring, and headed to the next location.

The third location had more than one person inside when we arrived, and the formation wasn't activated.

Lin Ran walked straight in, glanced around, and found seven people, all of whom were on the wanted list.

He smiled.

"It seems you are ready."

"Hmph, considering we're all human, turn around and leave now, and we'll spare your life."

One of the seven people spoke up.

Lin Ran found the words strange yet familiar; it sounded like something he had said before.

Lin Ran shook her head and raised her hand.

Instantly, the courtyard was covered by the four colors of spiritual energy: earth, fire, wind, and water. After the spiritual energy intertwined, it became gray spiritual energy, which covered the seven people.

"Let's get started!"

The remnants of the Sword Tomb had grim expressions and drew their longswords to attack Lin Ran.

The gray spiritual energy surged downwards, engulfing all the attacks and disintegrating them completely.

The seven people's expressions changed simultaneously, and they scattered and fled without hesitation.

However, after rushing into the gray spiritual energy, he found himself disconnected from the outside world. In his sword intent perception, the gray spiritual energy seemed endless, as if he had entered another world.

An attack was launched, but it was like a stone thrown into the sea, leaving no trace.

Some people frantically used flying sword escape techniques, believing they were running through a world of gray spiritual energy, but in reality they were staying in one place without moving.

Lin Ran slowly closed his five fingers, and gray spiritual energy invaded the bodies of every remnant of the Sword Tomb, devouring and decomposing their spiritual energy, extinguishing their vitality, until everyone died in the gray spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy dissipated, leaving no corpses on the ground, only a small amount of ashes, indicating that people had once been here.

Lin Ran took out the list and crossed out the names of the deceased.

The spirit actively uses its abilities to check if anyone has escaped by faking death or splitting their soul.

After a thorough examination,

The Spirit Lord said, "No one escaped if none of them were clones."

"Um."

Lin Ran nodded slightly and walked outside the courtyard.

In front of the gate, several demons and beastmen blocked the way, staring at Lin Ran as she slowly walked out with hostile expressions.

Without exchanging words, their breaths began to clash.

Then, the expressions of the demons and beastmen changed simultaneously. They tried their best to attack Lin Ran, but it was like entering a bottomless pit, with no reaction whatsoever!

So they knew that this person was not someone to be trifled with and that they couldn't confront him head-on. Even if this human was eventually killed, they would have died long before that.

The creatures stared at each other for a moment, and then a dog-headed, human-bodied orc stepped out.

"This human, we won't interfere in the internal affairs of our own race, but the buildings here were constructed by us."

"Is that so? Is this compensation enough?"

Lin Ran smiled and tossed a storage ring to the dog-headed orc.

The main reason is that there are many extraordinary individuals in this city, whom he cannot defeat; otherwise, he would not have given these orcs and demons a friendly look.

Some materials also mention storms and wild ideas.

Seeing Lin Ran's sunny smile, the kobold beastman didn't have the courage to open his storage ring to check, so he put it away and nodded.

"That's enough, let's go."

The demons and orcs left.

Lin Ran withdrew her gaze and rubbed the Spirit Master's head.

"Let's continue."

……

On the other side of the long street.

The group of orcs and demons stopped. The dog-headed orc opened his storage ring and found that there was only one low-grade spirit stone inside.

"These humans are simply going too far!"

One of the demons was furious. It made a strange sound from its gaping maw and said it wanted to go back and settle accounts with Lin Ran.

However, the other demons and beastmen just watched it without making any attempt to stop it. After roaring for a while, the demons reluctantly shut up.

The dog-headed orc then spoke.

"That human is no ordinary person. Based on what I know about humans, he is probably one of the top talents in the elite program."

"I don't believe that someone like this can carry out a mission without protectors behind him. This is not a problem we can solve. Let's report it to the city lord's guards and let them handle this trouble."

"Indeed, I agree. It's clear from the first test that this human is no ordinary person. And then there are the elves beside him. Elves are always arrogant, so for them to be so willing to follow a human, I don't believe that he only has these tricks up his sleeve. Maybe he's waiting for us to come over."

"That's what another orc with fox ears said."

Other demons and orcs also chimed in, believing the mission to be very dangerous.

After reaching an agreement, the kobold orc took out a communication token and sent a message to the city lord's army.

……

the other side.

Lin Ran hunted down the remaining remnants of the Sword Tomb within the city.

After the seven people died at the same time, the remaining rebels seemed to have received the news and began to hide in the city.

However, this does not change their impending fate of death. With the original mark on their hands, they cannot escape the pursuit unless these remnants replace their souls.

These remnants are all at the lower level of the Divine Fire Realm. There are a few at the middle level of the Divine Fire Realm, but they are not in the border city; they are outside the city and are still planning something.

Lin Ran spent a lot of time killing ten remnants of the Sword Tomb. The remaining few fled outside the city when they saw that things were not going well.

In front of the city gate of the border city.

Lin Ran carefully sensed the primordial imprint and confirmed that there were no remaining remnants before leaving the city.

A cloud of black mist suddenly appeared in front of them, and then a tall minotaur stepped out.

It exhaled two streams of hot air from its nostrils, its crimson eyes fixed on Lin Ran, then shifted to the Spirit Master, bursting forth with divine light.

The Spirit Master frowned and hid behind Lin Ran.

Anger flashed in the minotaur's eyes as his view was blocked.

"Human, you have continued to wreak havoc within my imperial city; what is your punishment?!"

(End of this chapter)