Gao Wu: Oh no! Young Master Zhen is a cultivator!

The voice of the Lord of Xuan Chen resounded in his mind: "It's a pity you can't use the Soul-Capturing Bell yet, otherwise you could simply shake it and capture him!"

"Say something useful!"

"Send him to the Nine Heavens Grotto-Heaven." The Lord of Xuan Chen said with certainty, "There, his realm will never surpass yours. Even if he possesses the soul of a Golden Immortal, he will only be trapped in this low-level body, forever suppressed by you."

"Great idea!"

Lin Ran is currently in the Nascent Soul stage, and the highest level of beings in the Nine Heavens Cave is only the Nascent Soul stage.

At the same level, no one could defeat him, who was equipped with a body full of spiritual treasures.

"But in that case, won't the Nine Heavens Cave be polluted by him?" Lin Ran hesitated slightly.

"Once he enters the Nine Heavens Grotto, he won't have a choice anymore." The Lord of Xuan Chen's tone was somewhat sinister.

Lin Ran immediately understood.

Inside the cave dwells a Xuanjiao and a Three-Eyed Golden Lion, which can give this guy a double whammy every day, leaving him no chance to do anything bad.

Lin Ran looked at Xuan Ming and revealed a chilling smile.

"I'll take you to a good place!"

After saying that, Lin Ran raised his hand, lifted Xuan Ming by the back of the neck, and strode towards the door.

"Let me go!" Xuanming's limbs and tentacles writhed wildly. "What are you trying to do?"

You'll find out soon enough!

Lin Ran arrived outside the door, raised his hand to open the Nine Heavens Cave Heaven, and was about to throw Xuan Ming into the cave heaven.

"Damn it! Let me go!"

Xuanming's face showed terror, and his tentacles danced wildly.

Unfortunately, with his physical body only at the Inner Breath Realm, he was completely unable to break free from Lin Ran's control.

"Go inside!"

Lin Ran threw the person into the cave and then casually closed the space.

He turned around and saw a family standing behind the door, secretly watching him.

"Don't worry." Lin Ran clapped his hands casually. "He'll never be able to get out again."

Lin Zhiyao patted her chest: "Thank goodness, thank goodness you're back!"

Song Yishu hesitated for a moment: "Haozhe, he..."

"Strictly speaking, he is no longer Lin Haozhe."

Xuanming devoured Lin Haozhe's soul and took over Lin Haozhe's body.

Although he possesses Lin Haozhe's memories, subjectively speaking, he is still just Xuanming.

Song Yishu looked slightly disappointed: "I know, but I still feel a little reluctant."

Lin Hongbo held Song Yishu's hand and comforted her gently, "Xiao Ran has avenged Hao Zhe."

Lin Ran thought to himself, "Not only did I avenge Lin Haozhe, but I also avenged your own son's life-or-death feud. I'm truly a great philanthropist."

A celebratory dinner ended in a lukewarm reception.

Back in the living room, Lin Zhixia poured a glass of warm water and placed it next to Song Yishu.

Lin Zhiwan and Lin Zhiyao sat on either side of Song Yishu.

"Mom, don't be sad." Lin Zhiyao's voice was very soft: "Lin Haozhe was a wicked man to begin with, and now he has ended up like this, it's his own fault."

Song Yishu sighed, her eyes filled with melancholy: "I know, but after raising him for eighteen years, I still feel a little empty inside."

"Mom, you still have us." Lin Zhixia held Song Yishu's hand.

Lin Zhiwan nodded: "Yes, we're all here."

Looking at her three daughters, Song Yishu's expression softened, and she managed a smile.

"I'm fine, you don't need to worry."

Lin Hongbo patted Lin Ran on the shoulder and tilted his head towards the study.

"Come with me."

Lin Ran followed him into the study, and the two sat facing each other.

Lin Hongbo leaned back in his chair and rubbed his temples. "How many days will you be staying this time?"

"In the next couple of days, I guess." Lin Ran leaned back on the sofa, his posture casual. "I still have some things to take care of over there."

"The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, can't we go later?"

"The longer you wait, the more things can go wrong. It's better to deal with some things as soon as possible."

He himself didn't seem to care.

With his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, he is capable of protecting himself whether on Blue Star or in the Azure Profound Realm.

The key is that there are people he cares about on Blue Star, and these people he cares about also have relatives and friends.

Like a net, if he wants to protect the people he cares about, he has to protect the whole net as much as possible.

Once the Azure Profound Realm discovers Blue Star, it will most likely treat it as a secret realm and explore it freely.

In this process, killing and bloodshed are inevitable.

Although Blue Star is now surrounded by various mutated creatures, it is still too comfortable compared to the living conditions in the Cangxuan Realm.

"The law of the jungle" is an adjective on Earth, but in the Cangxuan Realm, it means the literal meaning.

Therefore, he must nip it in the bud before it happens.

As long as he takes over the Qingxuan Sect and makes the rift entrance a forbidden area of ​​the Qingxuan Sect, Blue Star will naturally be safe from danger before the Qingxuan Sect is destroyed.

Lin Hongbo was silent for a moment: "Since you have made your decision, I will not try to persuade you any further."

He changed the subject, his tone becoming serious: "But remember, no matter where you are, you must protect yourself!"

"I'm someone who values ​​my life a lot," Lin Ran said with a smile.

Before today, he might have had security concerns.

Now that he has become a Nascent Soul cultivator, he is not afraid at all, even when facing a Deity Transformation cultivator.

Lin Hongbo nodded, picked up his teacup and took a sip: "A lot has happened in the past few months."

Tell me about it.

"The Wang family has lost two Martial Venerables in succession and has broken with the Zhou family, and is already on the verge of decline." Lin Hongbo put down his teacup.

"The Zhou family was jointly suppressed by the nine major families, and most of its businesses were divided up, leaving it almost an empty shell. However, Zhou Rongxing is still alive, and the Zhou family can barely maintain its facade."

Upon hearing this, Lin Ran revealed a playful smile: "The fact that the Zhou family has managed to survive shows how soft-hearted the nine great families are."

"It wasn't out of kindness," Lin Hongbo said with a hint of sarcasm. "These powerful families all believe in fighting without breaking apart."

"Perhaps they thought that if their family declined, they wouldn't be taken advantage of when they were down."

"Moreover, even if the Zhou family is gone, new powerful families will take its place. Rather than that, it's better to let the Zhou family continue."

He paused, then continued, "A Zhou family that is outwardly strong but inwardly weak is more in line with the interests of other powerful families."

"These people are quite strange." Lin Ran shook his head slightly.

"You say they follow the rules, but they resort to all sorts of underhanded tactics. You say they don't follow the rules, but they have their own set of survival rules."

Lin Hongbo said in a low voice, "Perhaps only when faced with invasion, or even imminent national extinction, will these people truly awaken."

"Hmph." Lin Ran sneered, "It doesn't matter. As long as they stop bothering me, I don't have time to deal with them."

At this point, his eyes turned slightly cold: "If they still dare to jump out, I wouldn't mind letting them experience what it means to be wiped out."

Lin Hongbo changed the subject: "Speaking of the calamity that wiped out our family, three months ago, the Sakura Kingdom was attacked by sea monsters, and all the warriors in the city died in the battle to resist them."

"A calamity has wiped out countless families. The sea is teeming with strange beasts. If one day these sea creatures come ashore, I wonder how humanity will cope."

"Cough cough cough..." Lin Ran coughed twice, suppressing his laughter: "Let's not worry about what happens in the future, at least the sea beast did something good this time."

As the instigator of the whole incident, he felt a strange sense of satisfaction upon hearing the news.

Unfortunately, the eighth-order mutated creature was no match for the Martial Saint; otherwise, things might have been even more interesting.

"By the way, did the Secret Realm Protection Organization cause any more trouble afterward?"

Four of the twelve zodiac animals have died, including the Dragon, who was at the Martial Venerable realm. The Secret Realm Protection Organization will certainly not admit defeat.

Several months have passed; something should have happened by now.

Lin Hongbo glanced at him: "The Secret Realm Protection Organization hasn't caused any trouble in China these past few months, but they haven't been idle either."

"Previously, the Sakura Country was going to host the Blue Star Youth Martial Arts Tournament, which gathered martial arts elites from various countries. Unfortunately, the tournament was ruined by the Secret Realm Protection Organization before it even started."

"To this day, the Secret Realm Protection Organization continues to wreak havoc throughout the Sakura Kingdom, causing immense suffering to the entire country. This inhumane organization is far too rampant."