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

Chapter 77, On the Eve of the Opening of the Secret Realm, a Race from the Depths of the Battlefield

The team's base, downstairs.

Lin Ran went to a reception room and had Lin Sheng bring the three of them over.

"sit."

Lin Ran gestured to the sofa opposite her and looked at the three people.

The man in the middle was wearing a suit, but he was no more than twenty years old, and he seemed to be trying too hard to appear mature.

The person on the left has blue hair and ice-blue eyes.

The person on the right has red hair and eyes that look like dancing flames.

Changes in hair color and eyes are generally related to a certain martial art or one's own attributes.

However, this is actually a manifestation of not being able to fully control one's own spiritual energy. Only the uncontrolled spiritual energy will reach the end point and change the body.

The changes in the eyes are due to insufficient mental strength, which prevents the eyes from remaining in their original state.

After the three were seated, each presented the other with a storage ring.

Man in a suit: "Hello, Captain Lin. I am a member of the Suit Thugs. The captain is Zhao Xifeng."

Red-haired man: "Hello, Captain Lin. I am a member of the Fire King Palace. My captain is Li Yan."

Blue-haired man: "Hello, Captain Lin. I am a member of the Ice King Palace. The captain is Sun Bing."

Lin Ran: ...

What a cringeworthy team name... But these three team leaders are all teenagers, so it's normal for them to be a bit cringeworthy.

Lin Ran: "Um, what brings you here?"

The man in the suit said, "The captain noticed that you weren't attending the banquet and thought you might be facing difficulties, so he sent me to help Captain Lin."

Lin Ran: "No, anything else?"

Red-haired man: "Captain Lin, our captain knows that your team has two talented individuals with fire attributes. Would there be an opportunity for them to exchange skills?"

Lin Ran: "How many alien races did your captain kill?"

Red-haired man: "This... I don't know."

Lin Ran: "You spend your free time hunting alien races and scheming against each other here. Do you think you're so powerful? You bully the weak and fear the strong."

Red-haired man: "..."

Lin Ran looked at the blue-haired man: "And you?"

Blue-haired man: "The captain's abilities lean towards strong control, and he wants to cooperate with Captain Lin in the upcoming secret realm operation."

"Yes, we can cooperate if there's an opportunity. If there's nothing else, you may leave."

Lin Ran nodded slightly and gave the order to leave.

The three exchanged a glance, and the man in the suit suddenly stood up.

"Captain Lin, I have another request to make this trip."

"explain."

The man in the suit said, "Captain Lin has managed to assemble an eight-person team, and all of them are first-rate planners. His abilities must surpass those of ordinary talents. I would like to spar with Captain Lin..."

Lin Ran suddenly waved his hand, his mental energy condensing into three lines, forcefully breaking through the mental defenses of the three people and impacting their minds.

The three of them simultaneously fell into a daze, their minds going blank.

Lin Ran waved her hand, and a strong gust of wind swept up the three people, along with the three rings, and threw them all outside the gate.

bang bang bang...

"Tsk, I thought something serious was going on, but it turns out they're just here to cause trouble. What a waste of my time."

Lin Ran clapped her hands: "Lin Sheng, find someone to send them back to where they came from."

Lin Sheng: "Okay, Mr. Lin."

……

Baiyujing.

The three captains looked extremely gloomy, and their faces turned even uglier after hearing the three men in suits relay their account!

The captain in the suit, in particular, immediately stood up: "I'll go find him myself and spar with him, to see if he'll do it again!"

The red-haired captain stopped them: "These are special times. We can't afford to fight amongst ourselves, or it will lower our rating. If we go too far, we might even lose the entire plan."

The captain in the suit sat down again and remained silent.

He knew this, of course, and he wouldn't have gone to find it if no one had stopped him.

After a moment of silence,

The red-haired captain said, "Since he's so uncooperative, let's go into the secret realm and see how much of his boastful promises he can actually deliver."

Blue-haired captain: "You'll probably be disappointed; he's not as simple as he seems."

The captain in the suit said, "Then when we invade alien races in the future, he will be the sharpest knife!"

……

Team's base.

After seeing the three people off, Lin Ran went to the Enlightenment Room to continue her cultivation.

The secret realm will open in three days, but you don't necessarily have to enter it immediately.

The powerful figures in the alliance have said that this secret realm is extremely difficult, and only those below the Divine Fire Realm are allowed to enter, raising the difficulty of its exploration to another level.

Therefore, the first group of people to enter may not necessarily get the most resources.

Inside the Enlightenment Chamber.

Lin Ran began cultivating primarily using the Soul Nourishing Technique, along with the Eight Gates Formation and Dragon Scale Shield skills.

The experience gain rate of the Soul Nourishing Method can reach 10 experience points per hour in the Enlightenment Room.

However, the Eight Gates technique actually slows down the progression speed after opening the Gate of Injury; one can only gain a little experience per hour in the Enlightenment Chamber.

The Dragon Scale Shield, like the Soul Nourishing Technique, is not affected by the Eight Gates Formation.

However, when calculated, the Eight Gates Formation actually consumes the most resources!

Lin Ran believed that this was the reason why Lin's combat power surpassed that of most extraordinary individuals.

For the next three days, Lin Ran stayed in the Enlightenment Chamber.

[Dragon Scale Shield LV5→LV6: 220/3000]

【Soul Nourishing Technique - Level 2 LV6: 1410/3000】

[Eight Gates Formation LV3: 602/1500]

……

The secret realm is about to open, and the wilderness is teeming with people, with various colors of spiritual energy shimmering everywhere you look.

The hovercar slowly approached and stopped at the edge of the wilderness.

Lin Ran and the others got out of the car and then put the hovercar away.

This wilderness is a dark place without the Mother Realm or any star covering it.

Dozens of miles away, a crack resembling a single eye stretched across the sky, with pale blue starlight flowing into it and a faint white glow spreading out from the edge of the crack.

At this moment, there was a distinct white light shield outside the crack, enveloping the crack of unknown size and preventing any living beings from entering.

But the shield's energy is rapidly diminishing and will soon disappear completely.

Xinglu stepped forward: "Brother Lin, we've basically figured it out. There are two races from the depths of the battlefield of the heavens: the Feathered Race and the Soul Race, as well as the Demon Race. We haven't seen the Abyss Race yet."

"The Soul Clan and the Feather Clan..."

Lin Ran's gaze moved, and she quickly found two obvious open spaces among the densely packed creatures.

One of them had a dozen or so winged creatures standing together.

The Feathered Race is a humanoid race that looks like humans, but has a pair of real wings on its back. They can fly from birth, and not only can they fly, but they can also use it as a means of attack.

The Soul Clan was once known as the "Ghost Clan" in the history of the human race, but it was later discovered that there were significant differences between the two.

Both exist as soul entities, mostly appearing in human form, with a small number appearing in beast or other forms.

True Soul Race beings possess complete thought processes.

The Ghost Clan is an existence that arose from the loss of different parts of the mind of the orthodox Soul Clan.

They are prone to obsession and easily stimulated by certain conditions. Once they fall into a "shutdown" state, it is difficult for them to wake up unless their strength is completely exhausted.

If the Ghost race loses some of its consciousness and retains only a small amount of thinking power, it will become a [Strange Being].

【Strange】Possesses specific rules for activities, limited thinking ability, but possesses the power of 【rules】.

Therefore, as long as you successfully hunt a [Strange] creature and digest and integrate the [Rules], it's equivalent to having a path to transcendence!

After observing for a while, a sound suddenly came.

"Human, you killed my race's little wolf god!"

(End of this chapter)