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

Chapter 182, The Beginning

The Blazing Realm, at its center, the Deathmatch Arena.

Lin Ran felt a blur before her eyes and found herself teleported to the outermost edge of the void area.

Zhou Yu, the Spirit Lord, was teleported to two nearby deathmatch arenas, where his opponents were only fourth-tier alien races.

Further away were other races of similar strength, likely arranged by Yan Lingfei to cause them to fight each other.

Lin Ran looked at the alien opposite him. The alien's strength was only at the early stage of the sixth rank, and he was looking at him warily.

The alien's appearance resembled a crystal-transformed human, surrounded by three crystal shields that were interconnected, forming a larger shield.

Lin Ran smiled slightly and vanished into thin air.

The Crystal Alien's expression changed, and he immediately raised three shields in front of him. Then, Lin Ran's figure appeared.

He was enveloped in a brilliant golden light, and then a fist emerged from the light, striking the crystal shield with what appeared to be a slow but actually swift motion.

boom!

After a moment of silence, the shockwaves swept out in all directions.

The first crystal shield shattered with a crash, but the golden fist imprint, undiminished in power, shattered the second shield, then the third, before landing on the crystal alien whose expression had drastically changed.

boom!

In an instant, the crystal alien's body was torn to pieces, its broken limbs flying in all directions, and the crystal blue liquid scattered with them.

At this moment, a translucent soul emerged from the shattered crystal and rushed towards Lin Ran.

Lin Ran's eyes flashed, and the bright silver light transformed into sword energy, piercing the soul of the crystal alien at an even faster speed, pinning it to the air.

boom!

The crystal alien soul shattered.

A white light appeared out of thin air, enveloping the corpses and soul fragments of the Crystal Clan, then completely dissolving them, and the digested power was poured into Lin Ran's body.

Lin Ran took a deep breath, and his stamina was quickly restored. Then, his progress in the Eight Gates Formation improved slightly.

However, the Crystal Alien was only at the early stage of the sixth rank, and after deducting the consumption, the remaining power was very small.

Look around.

Zhou Yu stood motionless in the air, while the alien race in front of him froze, its body sprouting numerous human faces that cried, screamed, and laughed... The human faces almost completely covered the alien race, frantically devouring everything in its path.

the other side.

The Spirit Master has already started the second round. She is not good at fighting, so Jian Linglong is following her.

At this time, the Spirit Lord was in the mid-level Divine Fire Realm/mid-to-late stage of the fifth rank. With the assistance of Jian Linglong, killing a late-stage fifth rank cultivator was a piece of cake!

Yan Lingfei did not let the Spirit Lord face the sixth rank.

Look back.

Lin Ran looked ahead and saw that he had been teleported a short distance closer to the pyramid, arriving at a new deathmatch arena.

The opponent was also a sixth-tier early-stage being, and outwardly appeared to be a demon race being.

Upon seeing Lin Ran, the demon's expression changed instantly. Then, a thick layer of horny armor grew from its body, completely covering its body, including its eyes, turning it into a giant sphere.

Lin Ran couldn't help but smile upon seeing this.

"Will it work?"

He raised his right hand, transforming it into the shape of a palm blade. Golden blood energy covered it, and after some optimization according to the way sword energy circulated, it became an arm-shaped longsword.

Then, the raised arm fell towards the monster that had shrunk into a ball, and a crescent-shaped sword aura shot out instantly.

Sensing danger, the monster rapidly shrank its body, reducing its diameter by half, and its horny armor became even thicker, completely blocking the path of the incoming sword energy.

In an instant, the sword energy collided with the demonic beast.

The beast paused for a moment, its body trembled, and then its thick keratinous armor was cleaved by the sword energy, without even being able to hold out for a second!

Then, a crescent-shaped sword aura sliced ​​through the monster's body, cleaving it in two from head to tail!

Lin Ran dispersed his sword energy, a bright silver light flashing in his eyes. His mental blade precisely pierced the demonic beast's soul, instantly pinning it to the ground.

A white light descended.

The monster's corpse was decomposed and melted, turning into specks of light that entered Lin Ran's body, instantly restoring all his stamina. However, because the monster's defense was very high, the recommended progress of the Eight Gates Formation was not much.

"team leader!"

The voice of the Spirit Master came from the side. She held the sword Linglong's true form and waved to Lin Ran.

Lin Ran smiled and nodded in response, only to see the Spirit Lord suddenly teleported away and encounter a powerful fifth-order alien race.

He couldn't help but shake his head and smile as he entered the next deathmatch arena to continue hunting down sixth-tier alien races.

time flies.

After breaking through the deathmatch arena twenty times in a row, Lin Ran chose to take a break for the time being.

Twenty sixth-tier alien races died at his hands, but because they were all at the early sixth-tier stage, the progress of the Eight Gates Formation was quite touching.

Near the pyramid, there are more than a dozen deathmatch arenas, each containing two peak sixth-tier fighters.

However, they did not engage in combat; they simply stood there, seemingly waiting for something. Only two seemingly sworn enemies, peak sixth-tier alien races, were fighting.

Most of the other late-stage sixth-tier players also refrained from fighting, quietly waiting for their opportunity.

There are more battles in the mid and early stages of Tier 6.

Clearly, the other races also understood that the result of fighting amongst themselves would only benefit the human race.

However, the barrier in the deathmatch arena was set up using inherited techniques, comparable to a Rule Realm expert personally taking action. The barrier was completely unshakeable, and one could only wait for an opportunity.

Fortunately, the powerful beings from the battlefield of the heavens have not yet arrived here, so they still have a chance to join forces. Even if they do not obtain the inheritance, they can still obtain many other good things.

Lin Ran looked around and her brows furrowed.

After a moment's thought,

"Ling Fei, bring on a late-stage Tier 6 fighter."

A flash of white light appeared in the deathmatch arena, and a late-stage sixth-tier alien being teleported there.

It was momentarily stunned, then recognized Lin Ran and immediately launched an attack on her.

A dark light appeared in Lin Ran's eyes, and in an instant, everything stopped, and the world turned gray and white.

Then, he rushed in front of the alien race, his golden fist slamming into its head. His mental blade pierced its soul with precision, carrying enough power to shatter it.

After finishing, Lin Ran returned to her original spot, and the world regained its color.

boom!

The alien race, at the late stage of the sixth rank, had its head explode instantly, and its soul vanished in an instant, then melted into the white light descending from the death arena.

Lin Ran stretched his body, and his physical strength was quickly restored. He used a portion of it to replenish the time rules he had consumed, and used the rest to advance the Eight Gates Formation.

Adding to the previous progress,

[Eight Gates Formation, Experience +24]

The sudden battle drew the attention of the various alien races. Some of them had a glint in their eyes as they carefully observed the battlefield where Lin Ran was located, but unfortunately, the barrier prevented them from seeing anything clearly.

"It seems to be a rule? To master a rule at the sixth level and use it so smoothly and freely, truly worthy of a race of the Mother Realm level."

"Hmph, just a race that only reaches the first level of the rules. It's just a pity they haven't met me yet. Otherwise, I would have shown them what the rules are. Their method of using them is too crude."

"Unfortunately, the referee is one of his people."

"..."

(End of this chapter)