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

Li Zhu Wanwan understood, spread her phoenix wings, and the true flames of the phoenix poured out.

The crimson-gold flames enveloped Lu Wangchuan's primordial spirit.

"No!"

Lu Wangchuan let out a piercing scream as his primordial spirit struggled violently in the flames.

"You can't kill me! I am the Supreme Elder of the Qingxuan Sect! I am destined to ascend to the Upper Realm! I..."

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking free, a hint of madness flashed in Lu Wangchuan's eyes.

"Since you won't let me live, then nobody else should live either!"

His primordial spirit suddenly expanded, and the remaining power of the Nascent Soul stage within his body surged wildly, rushing towards the direction of the underground spiritual veins.

On the surface of the ore vein, an array slowly lit up.

"Oh no!" Lin Ran's pupils shrank suddenly.

"He's detonating a mineral vein!"

Before the words were even finished, the entire wasteland trembled violently.

A deep rumble came from the depths of the earth, like a giant beast that had been sleeping for thousands of years being awakened.

Rumble!

The ground began to crack, and dazzling light gushed out from the cracks.

Violent spiritual energy surged from the cracks, churning across the earth like giant, glowing dragons.

Subsequently, the mine was detonated.

boom!

With a deafening roar, the entire hill was hurled into the air.

The rubble, soil, and spiritual light mixed together, forming a huge mushroom cloud that shot into the sky.

The shockwave swept across the entire wasteland, crushing everything in its path.

Lu Wangchuan's primordial spirit was completely shattered by the Phoenix True Flame and the explosion, turning into nothingness.

Zhu Wanwan immediately spread her wings and flew in front of Lin Ran. The Phoenix True Flame opened a curtain of fire, blocking the shock wave outside.

But others were not so lucky.

The cultivators lying on the ground were swept head-on by the shockwave, their bodies torn apart.

Two of the Nascent Soul cultivators, who were seriously injured, barely managed to maintain their protective spiritual light, but it shattered inch by inch under the continuous impact and was eventually engulfed in the explosion.

In a short time, most of the survivors of the blood sacrifice array died.

As the shockwave dissipated, the smoke and dust slowly settled.

The entire wasteland was blasted into a huge crater, several miles in diameter and hundreds of feet deep.

The pit walls were as smooth as a mirror, as if they had been sliced ​​open by something.

At the bottom of the pit, a spiritual light emanated, and the spiritual energy was so dense that it was almost tangible.

The original low-grade spirit stone vein disappeared, revealing a deeper mid-grade spirit stone vein.

The entire bottom of the pit was densely packed with mid-grade spirit stones.

Its texture is pure and its spiritual energy is incredibly abundant.

Moreover, in the very center of the vein, there is a place with the most concentrated spiritual energy, where the concentration of spiritual energy flowing within it surpasses that of high-grade spirit stones.

In the core area of ​​this mineral vein, there are actually hidden top-grade spirit stones.

Lin Ran stood at the edge of the deep pit, looking at the scene at the bottom, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"Some arrogant guy thought this mine was worth at most tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones, but little did he know that he was standing on a top-grade mine."

Li Zhu Wanwan folded her phoenix wings and landed beside Lin Ran: "Could this be considered a blessing in disguise?"

"I've always been very lucky," Lin Ran said with a proud expression.

He withdrew his gaze and scanned the entire room.

The blood sacrifice array had already left many people severely injured and on the verge of death, and an explosion directly claimed the lives of half of them.

Those who are still alive are barely breathing and urgently need medical attention.

Lin Ran walked up to the crowd and looked down at them.

"Now, I'm giving you a chance to live."

Wan Chongqiu struggled to lift his head, his face deathly pale: "Young friend, what do you mean by this?"

"Oh, right." Lin Ran glanced at him, "You don't have a chance."

He snapped his fingers.

As Zhu Wanwan spread her phoenix wings, the true flames of the phoenix poured down.

Wan Chongqiu's pupils suddenly contracted, and he opened his mouth as if to say something.

The flames had already engulfed him.

In the crimson flames, Wan Chongqiu's body turned to ashes, and his primordial spirit was also burned to ashes.

He didn't even have time to let out a scream.

"Elder Wan!"

"What are you doing!"

"He just helped you!"

Several Nascent Soul elders shouted angrily.

Lin Ran glanced at them: "Help me? Didn't you see him deliberately luring the dragon lizard to attack me?"

Everyone was speechless for a moment.

"I don't care what you think," Lin Ran said calmly. "Right now, you only have two paths in front of you."

"Either swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao, acknowledge me as your master, and let me plant your soul imprint."

"Either you die."

"You brat! You're just a Nascent Soul cultivator, how dare you be so presumptuous?" A Nascent Soul elder struggled to his feet, barely managing to circulate his spiritual energy.

Lin Ran raised his hand and pointed.

The Swift Sword flew out, its light piercing through his brow.

The elder's eyes widened as he slowly collapsed to the ground.

The nascent soul escaped from the body, only to be burned to ashes by Li Zhu Wanwan's blazing flames.

"Who else?" Lin Ran looked around at everyone.

A cultivator at the peak of the Golden Core stage gritted his teeth and stood up: "We cultivators would rather die than surrender!"

"I'll grant your wish."

Another flash of sword light.

The cultivator at the peak of the Golden Core stage collapsed instantly.

After killing several people in succession, the remaining people finally fell silent.

"I...I agree." A Golden Core cultivator lowered his head.

"I agree too."

"promise……"

Twenty-three Golden Core cultivators and five Nascent Soul cultivators all swore an oath to Heaven, recognizing Lin Ran as their master.

Lin Ran planted soul imprints on each person one by one, and after confirming that everything was correct, he began to treat everyone's injuries.

He first took out the remaining Grade 7 healing pills and gave them to the people with the most serious injuries.

He then activated the Rejuvenation Technique, and pale green spiritual energy surged into the body of a Nascent Soul elder.

The severed meridians were reconnected, the shattered bones slowly healed, and the depleted vitality gradually returned.

One, two, three.

Lin Ran's spiritual power seemed inexhaustible; he healed more than a dozen people in succession, and his complexion remained unchanged.

"This spiritual energy reserve is just too deep!"

"Is he really at the Nascent Soul stage?"

The Nascent Soul elders looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock.

"What are you looking at? If you're all better, then help the others heal!" Lin Ran said, looking displeased.

"Yes, yes, we're coming right away."

Several hours later, everyone's injuries had fully healed.

Lin Ran had a space cleared out and gathered everyone around to sit.

"Although Lu Wangchuan is dead, there must still be people of his in the Qingxuan Sect."

A Nascent Soul elder echoed, "Just as the Lord said, none of Lu Wangchuan's lineage came with us to the secret realm this time, leaving behind their sect under various pretexts."

"Yes." Lin Ran nodded. "If I'm not mistaken, the sect leader of Qingxuan Sect has changed."

"Then what should we do?" asked a Nascent Soul elder.

"Simple." Lin Ran said with a relaxed expression: "After we get back, I'll transform into Lu Wangchuan and lure all the remaining villains together to wipe them out in one fell swoop."

"This plan is brilliant!" A Golden Core cultivator exclaimed in admiration. "The people of Lu Wangchuan's lineage would never have guessed that the Supreme Elder is already dead."

"Even if they suspect the plan has failed, they'll all welcome Lu Wangchuan back to the sect. Then we can wipe them all out in one fell swoop, leaving no one alive!"

Lin Ran glanced at him: "You're quite good at responding."

"Your subordinate is foolish; it is Your Majesty's strategy that is superior." The man smiled awkwardly.

"Alright." Lin Ran waved his hand. "That's settled then. There are other things to take care of now."

He stood up and looked around: "Since this secret realm will be my private mine from now on, I have to get rid of the strange beasts inside. Otherwise, how will I mine it?"

"Let's clear out the beasts first, then go back to the sect to clean up the mess."

Everyone readily agreed.

Over the next two days, the strange beasts in the secret realm suffered terribly.

Lin Ran led five Nascent Soul elders and twenty-three Golden Core cultivators, starting from the core of the mine and advancing outwards in a carpet-like fashion.

Li Zhu Wanwan, Xuan Jiao, and Ao Zheng also joined the extermination. Wherever the three eighth-order spirit beasts passed, the strange beasts scattered and fled.

Earth Vein Stone Claw, Crystal Eye Rock Lizard, Stone Joint Sandworm, and various low-level exotic beasts were all killed.

Within Lin Ran's Nine Heavens Pendant, the inner cores of exotic beasts were piled up like mountains.

Two days later, not a single living beast could be found in the entire wasteland.

The threats surrounding the mine have been completely eliminated.

Lin Ran stood on the hill, looking down at the empty wasteland.

"That's about it."

He turned to look at the crowd: "Return to the sect."