I'm the protagonist's dad, but the heroines want to kill me

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Chapter 104 The Location of the Inner Courtyard

In an open space in Linghua Academy, Lin Ran, Wen Qianyi and many elders of the academy were here. At this time, Lin Ran was communicating with Wen Qianyi and asked curiously: "The location of the inner courtyard has been made mysterious by you. Is there any treasure in it that can speed up cultivation?"

A group of elders in the academy were all shocked when they heard Lin Ran's words.

Wen Qianyi also looked at Lin Ran in surprise and said, "Senior Lin, how did you know?"

"Ah, there really is one. I just guessed it. What do you mean? Can I also use that to practice?" Lin Ran didn't expect that what he said was really right, so he asked quickly.

If there is something good that can help him practice, then his progress in the Nirvana realm will be faster. At most, he will suffer a little more. I can bear it!

Seeing Lin Ran's impatience, one of the gentle and beautiful women in a blue dress advised: "Vice President Lin, if you knew the harmfulness of that thing, you wouldn't think of using it to practice. In the past, there were many strong people in Linghua Academy, and they were all trained with that thing, but later..."

"Isn't it?"

Lin Ran saw that all the elders had serious expressions on their faces. They all advised Lin Ran not to touch that thing. Lin Ran was a little scared.

Looking at Wen Qianyi, he asked cautiously, "Is that thing really that scary?"

Wen Qianyi smiled and said, "When the time comes, I'll take Senior Lin in to take a look and you'll know!"

Lin Ran's curiosity was aroused, and he was itching to know it right away, but students were coming one after another, and he had to start fulfilling his duties as the vice-president.

In every inner courtyard selection competition, only the top fifty students can enter the inner courtyard. When fifty students gathered on the field and no one was absent, Lin Ran stepped forward, gave a loud speech of encouragement, and then handed it over to Wen Qianyi.

Wen Qianyi picked up the emerald jade flute and began to play a melodious tune. After a while, two black shadows appeared in the blue sky and flew towards this side. After a moment, the black shadows gradually enlarged. They were two huge flying monsters, or combat monsters.

When Wen Qianyi saw the flying monsters flying over, she waved her hand, and the monsters immediately circled and landed on the open space on the ground. Lin Ran glanced around and saw that there were people riding those flying monsters.

"Okay, students, go up in batches!" Wen Qianyi pointed at the two flying monsters and said with a smile.

Hearing Wen Qianyi's words, the students on the open space also walked up one after another. There were seats on the monster. They just needed to sit on them and they would be stable. There were no problems in the process of boarding the monster. The girls still sat on the seats very steadily.

Seeing that all the students had sat on it, Wen Qianyi spoke a few words to the two trainers who were controlling the flying monster beasts, and the flying monster beast flapped its huge wings and flew back into the blue sky.

Lin Ran and his group of senior academy leaders also flew into the air and followed the flying monsters. Wen Qianyi explained in a loud voice: "Students, we will personally escort you along the way!"

The female students cheered, their eyes full of curiosity. The silver-haired girl in the team, Fu Yuemei, looked at Lin Ran, who was flying on the right side of the monster and talking to Elder Wen, the only male in the academy.

There was a hint of loneliness in her eyes. She was lonely because she lost in the inner courtyard trials to Chi Si Nian, who had crushed all opponents since the beginning of the competition.

She didn't hate the other person, she just hated herself for not being strong enough. If she were stronger, she would be able to get first place and become the vice-president's apprentice.

In the blue sky, two huge flying monsters flapped their wings and flew towards the seemingly endless back mountain of the academy. Lin Ran and others were protecting the flying formation on both sides of the monsters. The powerful spiritual power faintly emerged from their bodies, blocking all the strong winds.

"I'm becoming more and more curious about where the inner courtyard is. It's very secretive!" Seeing that they had been flying for a while, Lin Ran's curiosity became stronger and stronger.

"You will know when the time comes, senior. By the way, senior, have you accepted Chi Si Nian, who won the first place in the selection competition, as your apprentice?" Wen Qianyi, who was next to Lin Ran, thought of this and couldn't help but ask.

She was also a little curious. Would the first place in the outer courtyard this time be worthy of the seniors?

Lin Ran stroked his chin and said, "That child is not suitable for the inheritance I gave her. I can only teach her some training and combat skills. I won't accept her as a disciple, but I will teach her for a while."

"So that's how it is. It seems that senior has very high standards!" Wen Qianyi smiled with her hands covering her mouth.

"Where is that?"

Lin Ran was looking for the successor according to the requirements of Hua Sect, and the conditions were really harsh. Hua Sect's skills required that person to have an extremely strong affinity for flowers, which was also related to physical constitution, so it was very difficult to find such a person. It also required a good character. The task given by Hua Qianqian was not easy!

The journey ahead would not allow Lin Ran and Wen Qianyi to chat leisurely. Many high-level monsters came out one after another, exuding a ferocious aura. Some weaker ones were frightened by the powerful momentum of Lin Ran and others and shrank back, not daring to act rashly.

Some of the powerful ones were not affected by this and came directly towards their team. But Lin Ran didn't even need to take action, as several elders would skillfully display their martial arts, and their powerful spiritual power turned into a powerful offensive, blasting the monsters into pieces, which exploded into boiling blood that flew all over the sky.

The strong smell of blood attracted more and more monsters. Lin Ran also joined in, and did not let these monsters break through the blockade of this group of academy's senior leaders.

Flying all the way, there was a constant smell of blood in the sky. Lin Ran finally understood why so many elders were needed and why he had to be brought along. It turned out that there were quite a few high-level monsters along the way. Some of the more cunning and restless Lingdan realm monsters also came up to join in the fun, but were bombed by Lin Ran with just one punch. Such a powerful strength also caused the students to scream and cheer, and they had a deeper understanding of the new vice-president.

After flying for nearly an hour, some buildings finally appeared in the forest below, and the flying beast slowly landed.

Only then did Lin Ran realize that there was actually an ordinary town below. Outside the town, there was already a group of elders wearing Linghua Academy training uniforms waiting there. Among them was Li Qiu Shui, with whom Lin Ran had had a fierce battle.

Lin Ran and the other elders landed there first. When Li Qiushui saw Lin Ran, he strode up to him, looked at him with fiery eyes and said, "Lin Ran, when are you free? Let's have a passionate battle!"

Lin Ran leaned back slightly, moved his feet a little behind Wen Qianyi, and said with a stiff smile on his face: "Elder Li, why don't you think carefully about the failure of the last battle, so that our next battle will be more meaningful!"

"Too!"

Li Qiushui thought seriously, nodded after a while, and said: "Wait until I find your weakness, I will definitely make you lose miserably next time!"

"Next time, definitely next time!"

After Li Qiushui and the others went to hand over the students, Wen Qianyi looked at Lin Ran, who seemed relieved, and couldn't help but smile: "If you have time, you can really learn from Elder Li. Maybe you can improve your strength faster."

"Then maybe next time!"

Lin Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the student who came down from the flying monster beast and was taken over by the elders from the inner courtyard. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are the elders from the inner courtyard going to do next?"

Wen Qianyi, who was standing at the side, also explained with a smile: "It's not that easy to be a student in the inner courtyard. Next, we have to go through the tests set by the elders of the inner courtyard. We elders can go directly to the inner courtyard. They have to pass the tests before they can enter the inner courtyard."

“So cool!”

Lin Ran looked at the group of students and felt an inexplicable sense of refreshment in his heart.

This is a bit like the exam torture I suffered when I was a student, and then when I grew up and became a teacher, I started to torture my current students. My sense of morality is a little lacking, but when I see their smiles gradually disappear and appear on my face, my heart is filled with joy.

Some of the elders from the outer courtyard flew back, while Lin Ran and Wen Qianyi said hello to Li Qiu Shui and other elders from the inner courtyard. Then, under the leadership of Wen Qianyi, Lin Ran came to a mountain stream.

Here Lin Ran could feel strong spatial fluctuations. There might be something like some kind of space formation in front of him.

Wen Qianyi took out a jade space token with the school emblem of Linghua Academy. When she took it out, she explained: "This is something that every elder or teacher in the inner courtyard has. With this, the elders can leave the inner courtyard at any time, while students must be approved before leaving the inner courtyard.

By then, you will also have a token and can come and go freely!"

Next, Wen Qianyi infused the token with spiritual power and placed it in the space in front. Suddenly, a silver gate appeared, and waves of silver energy spread out in ripples. Inside the silver gate was a different scene. What Lin Ran saw was actually the city gate.

"Let's go!"

Wen Qianyi walked in first, and Lin Ran quickly followed.

After both of them entered the silver gate, the silver gate slowly closed. When the last circle of silver space energy dissipated, the silver gate seemed to have never appeared, and this place became an extremely ordinary mountain stream again.

When Lin Ran was in a trance for a moment, he saw the huge city gate with an ancient plaque of Linghua Academy on it. At this time, there were guards wearing Linghua Academy uniforms at the city gate. When they saw Lin Ran and Wen Qianyi passing through the space gate, they hurriedly shouted, "Hello, elders!"

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Chapter 105: Ice Spirit Jade Lake

After Lin Ran walked into the city gate, he found that the inner courtyard was actually built around a high mountain. The mountain was full of densely packed buildings. Many figures could be seen flashing and jumping between the buildings, and the streets were also crowded with people, coming and going in all kinds of clothes.

"I didn't expect that this inner courtyard is even bigger and more prosperous than the outer courtyard!" Lin Ran couldn't help but sigh.

"It was even better before than it is now. Come on, senior, I'll take you to that treasured place for cultivation!" Wen Qianyi smiled and led the way.

Along the way, Wen Qianyi introduced Lin Ran to all kinds of information about the inner courtyard, including that Wen Qianyi usually stayed in the inner courtyard more often, but she would also often go to the outer courtyard and Linghua City, basically running between the two places.

The inner courtyard has more and more advanced facilities than the outer courtyard to condense spiritual power, such as the spirit gathering array to speed up cultivation. Last time, Wen Qianyi and the others escorted two sets of advanced spirit gathering arrays, which were purchased together with Songling Academy. Although a lot of manpower was lost, they were finally able to use that set of advanced spirit gathering arrays in the inner courtyard, which greatly improved the students' strength.

This inner courtyard does not have any training courses. Students divide up territories and fight for power and resources. They can go to the arena to earn credits, and then exchange the credits for martial arts, techniques, and precious training materials. It is like a small society. However, compared with other academies, the inner courtyard of Linghua Academy does not have much to offer. Other academies have their own training sites that can greatly improve students' training speed.

There is one in Linghua Academy, but it is difficult to develop it for students to use. If you want to practice there, you may not improve your strength much and end up killing yourself first. There really are not many students who can practice in that kind of place.

Lin Ran felt like he had indeed entered a country of women, where he, as a man, was an outlier. Walking along with Wen Qianyi, he received many strange looks. There were even a number of bold female students who came up to him and asked who he was, and some even boldly expressed their love for him, which almost scared Lin Ran.

Sure enough, if a large group of women stay together for too long, things will start to get weird, and the reform of Linghua Academy is indeed imminent.

The fights in the inner courtyard are more frequent than those in the outer courtyard. Once someone starts fighting over a disagreement, it will immediately attract a lot of people to watch. Seeing this scene, Lin Ran couldn't help but marvel at it.

Wen Qianyi was not surprised at all, and could not help but say, "These are all normal in the inner courtyard. If you don't often spar and fight, don't improve your strength, and don't have the courage to fight, you will definitely be bullied when you go outside."

"The strength of the inner courtyard is still too weak. Are there so few people in the Spirit Transformation Realm?" Lin Ran looked around and found that there were not many people in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Wen Qianyi rolled her eyes at this, and she said helplessly: "Senior, if you could see that there are people in the Spiritual Transformation Realm everywhere in our academy, then our academy would not need to reform. The resources available for cultivation in our academy are far superior to those in other academies. It takes a lot of effort to get a person in the Spiritual Transformation Realm, and we can't even think about getting a person in the Spiritual Pill Realm.

But the other academies, especially the top three, have the most powerful ones at the Spiritual Pill Realm, and some are at a very high level. The gap between us is too big!"

"Come on!"

Lin Ran smiled, stomped his feet hard, and leaped into the air, flying into the air with Wen Qianyi. After running for more than ten minutes, a vast mountain appeared in front of Lin Ran.

Then, Wen Qianyi lowered her body and took Lin Ran into the mountains. They hurried through the woods, running here and there. Finally, Wen Qianyi and Lin Ran came to a tightly closed stone door.

The stone gate was covered with moss, and there seemed to be a very terrifying energy surging on it. It was obvious that there were extremely powerful restrictions here.

Wen Qianyi took out her token once again and made a strange seal in her hand. The token, which was surging with green spiritual power, floated in the air. The space in front of her was actually rippling with silver ripples. A silver door slowly opened, revealing the true appearance of the stone door.

"This is really a grand deal! This is a more advanced application of spatial power!" Lin Ran secretly sighed in his heart. He can be considered to have seen the world. After all, he has a powerful wife who has taken him to see many good things.

Although there is also a space barrier in the inner courtyard in front, it is obviously not as advanced as the one here. The space here is constantly overlapping, and there are imperceptible space folds. This is a method of using space power called "space lock", which is used to protect this area.

Such a grand move is not easy to accomplish. Only someone like Mu Shishuang, who is in the immortal realm, can fully understand the power of space.

This kind of space barrier requires a special token and special techniques to open, and it can also protect this precious land for cultivation very well. After all, such a space barrier may not be broken even if a person in the Dragon Transformation Realm casts a spell with all his strength.

This also made Lin Ran even more curious about what exactly this precious land for cultivation was. It must be something extraordinary that made Linghua Academy spend so much effort to protect it.

"Let's go in!"

Wen Qianyi smiled at Lin Ran, took the token back, and led the way in. After Lin Ran and the others walked in, the silver space gate disappeared instantly.

Before Lin Ran could be surprised, Wen Qianyi formed seals with her hands, and the green spiritual power turned into a beam of light and shot into the stone door in front of her. With a muffled sound, the stone door slowly opened to both sides, and a bone-chilling breath blew in. Lin Ran couldn't help but shivered, rubbed his hands, and said, "Why is it so cold all of a sudden!"

"Senior, it will get colder and colder. Remember to activate the spiritual power shield to protect yourself!" Wen Qianyi reminded and took the lead to walk into the stone gate.

Lin Ran followed behind and found that there was a long staircase extending all the way to the underground. Entering the stone gate, he could feel the bone-chilling cold. It was so bad here, Lin Ran didn't dare to imagine what was going on below.

Wen Qianyi walked in front and would wave a flame to light the lamps on both sides. This also allowed Lin Ran to clearly see the white frost appearing on the walls and stairs as he went deeper.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, a slightly brighter exit appeared in front of Lin Ran. Wen Qianyi was standing at the exit, waving at Lin Ran. When Lin Ran came to her side, Wen Qianyi pointed at the dark and vast space and said, "Senior, please light up this place and have a look!"

"Ok?"

Lin Ran was stunned for a moment, then without any suspicion, he threw a ball of golden spiritual light into the air. The dazzling golden light illuminated the space. Lin Ran could clearly see the scene in front of him. It turned out to be a vast, deep dark blue lake. The liquid in the lake was almost solidified, as if it were a smooth mirror.

But this was not what surprised Lin Ran the most. What surprised Lin Ran the most was the extremely terrifying energy that was fed back by his inspiration and perception. It could be said that it was extremely dense. It seemed that if someone was weaker, they would be blown up by the extremely dense energy if they just took a breath here.

"It's damn cold in here!"

Lin Ran was surprised for a moment, then was awakened by the biting cold. He quickly strengthened the spiritual power shield to resist the horrible cold here.

Wen Qianyi saw Lin Ran shivering there, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Senior, I've reminded you, be careful when you come here, this is the Dark Spirit Jade Lake!"

"What the hell is Bingling Jade Lake?" Lin Ran was stunned and couldn't help but ask.

Wen Qianyi explained softly, "If the news of this Ice Spirit Jade Lake were to be spread out, many people would definitely come here to admire its reputation. The dark blue liquid in the lake has extremely pure energy. If the cold air can be removed, it can be used directly by people for cultivation.

If you are a practitioner of icy martial arts, you can ignore the cold air and directly absorb the pure energy in it to quickly improve your cultivation.

But there is a huge disadvantage here. In addition to the extremely harsh environment, the cold air once inhaled into the body will be like a maggot attached to the bones.

To give an example, fire poison is the best example. These, as our predecessors said, are cold poisons. If you inhale too much and do not clean them up, you will eventually die from the poison.

Many elders of the academy had died here before. I tried my best but was unable to save them because the poisoning was too severe. I really didn't want to look at those pale bodies that were even bleeding dark blue poisonous blood.

So later on, the academy banned people from coming here to practice. My sister used to come here often, so her strength improved faster. But now she doesn't come here anymore. You can see that no one has been here for a long time."

After listening to Wen Qianyi's explanation, Lin Ran finally understood why those people in the academy avoided this place like the plague. It turned out that although this was a precious land, it had huge side effects. Compared with the improvement of strength, life was more important.

Just hearing the simple description of the death caused by the cold poison outbreak, Lin Ran felt a little horrified. He didn't want to become such a person, but suddenly thought of a question. He looked at Wen Qianyi and asked curiously, "Qianyi, you have the Skyfire. This place should be something you can come here often, right?"

"Me? I seldom come here to practice. Most of the time I practice by refining medicine. Occasionally I would exchange ideas with the elders of the academy to practice my fire control skills. I have never tried to practice here!" Wen Qianyi said embarrassedly.

"It's okay, you can try it today. If you have the Heavenly Fire protecting your body, you can filter out the cold air. I have a dual cultivation technique here. Let's cooperate. Maybe we can use this treasure land to quickly improve our strength!" Lin Ran felt that he was really smart. Suddenly, he had an idea and thought of such a wonderful idea. If he could use this place, he might be able to reach the peak of Nirvana quickly, and it would not be impossible for him to even break through the Dragon Transformation Realm!

"What, dual cultivation!"

When Wen Qianyi heard this word, she immediately thought of the introduction to dual cultivation in the ancient books she had read. Her face turned red, her head felt like smoke was coming out, and her heart suddenly became a mess.

"Senior...how could you think of this? Should I agree to it?" Wen Qianyi thought to herself.

Although the Ice Spirit Jade Lake was extremely cold, Wen Qianyi felt hot all over, like a shrimp in a steamer, all red...

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Chapter 106: Cultivation Attempt at the Ice Spirit Jade Lake

The term "dual cultivation" always carries many connotations. Wen Qianyi's understanding of the term basically comes from the many ancient books she has read. Those related to dual cultivation, without exception, all involve unspeakable things between men and women, and are even labeled as evil.

In addition, there is a famous evil sect called Sun Moon Sect in the Dangerous Triangle. They specialize in dual cultivation between men and women and improve their strength through unspeakable things. The relationships between men and women there are extremely chaotic and all kinds of play are available. Even most of the brothel industries in the Dangerous Triangle belong to the Sun Moon Sect, and some famous courtesans are its disciples.