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

"Really?" Shangguan Mengqing didn't quite believe it.

"Of course you can. You go back and look after them. I'm leaving now. Otherwise, there will be more and more monsters!" Lin Ran gave instructions and turned into a stream of light and went into the forest.

Shangguan Mengqing watched Lin Ran disappearing, but she didn't insist on following him because she knew Lin Ran.

Although she always said that she was not good enough and was very bad, there was always a sense of pride and unwillingness to admit defeat hidden in her heart. The more she performed, the more Lin Ran would throw a tantrum to protest.

"Hope everything goes well for this guy!"

……

He flew quickly through the woods. At this point, many monsters had already awakened and rushed over when they smelled the human scent. Lin Ran waved the Qiuyu Sword in his hand and slashed at them all the way.

After rushing at full speed, they finally arrived at the halfway point of a small hill. Lin Ran came to a small cave and said softly, "It's me, Lin Ran!"

After a while, the vines covering the front of the cave were pulled open.

Lin Ran glanced around and after making sure there was no problem, he went in.

In this small cave of only about ten square meters, a night-shining pearl was placed in the middle, illuminating the cave. Chang Wei and several others sat around the night-shining pearl.

When Chang Wei and others saw Lin Ran, they couldn't help but reveal a somewhat evil smile, and said excitedly: "Thank you, Mr. Lin, we were just discussing whether to wash our hands tonight!"

"You bunch of brats!"

Lin Ran cursed with a smile, then sat down as well.

Chang Wei next to him was very sensible and handed over a wine pot. Lin Ran took it and drank a few sips. The spicy wine irritated his throat. He couldn't help but spit at the side and said, "Did anyone find out that you were being followed when we were retreating?"

"We were very careful when we retreated. We even checked our bodies several times to make sure that no one from Lingjing Holy Land had left tracking marks on us. We also found a secluded place to change our clothes as quickly as possible..." Chang Wei and others reported to Lin Ran.

Lin Ran nodded and said, "We must keep this a secret this time. Don't be silly and use it as a topic of conversation. If people find out, you will be in trouble!"

"Hey, Mr. Lin, we won't." Chang Wei and others responded with a smile.

Lin Ran shook his head and stopped talking. Anyway, this group of people were from the Sword Sect. If they were really exposed, Shangguan Mengqing would have to worry about it.

"Pack up, I'll take you back later!" Lin Ran said.

This stunned Chang Wei and the others. Chang Wei took the lead and asked, "Mr. Lin, shouldn't we continue to hide here and wait for you to find us in front of the Holy Spirit Land in a few days?"

"The plan has changed. Gao Tianwen is very alert. Although I don't know the specific reason, she finally refused to team up with us, so I plan to take you back directly." Lin Ran said.

Originally, Chang Wei and others were the backup left by Lin Ran. Now that Gao Tianwen is not coming, there is no point in keeping this backup. If anything happens to these guys, we will have to come back to rescue them.

Chang Wei and the others didn't say anything. They had long regarded Lin Ran as their backbone. With this captain around, they just had to focus on their work.

After cleaning up the area and making sure that no obvious traces were left, Lin Ran took Chang Wei and the others away. He also took a long detour with them.

Although it was unlikely that the people from Lingjing Holy Land would come to monitor near their base, and faced with the group of violent monsters at night, they would probably want to be wiped out directly by the monsters. But for safety reasons, Lin Ran still took a detour and took a look at other areas to see if there were any other forces.

Lin Ran took the lead and took on a large part of the pressure for Chang Wei and others. Some of the small monsters that were missed were left to Chang Wei and others to deal with.

Lin Ran rushed forward and was thinking about turning when the pair of golden eyes penetrated the darkness and noticed something strange ahead.

About a hundred meters ahead, there was an ancient city wall. Under the red moonlight, the dilapidated, moss-covered city wall looked a bit eerie, and the central city gate entrance was even darker, revealing a scarlet, brutal and wild atmosphere.

"There is an ancient city wall here. There must be a big secret inside..."

Lin Ran had an idea, but did not rush over. After making a mark nearby, Lin Ran led the team to turn and leave.

But what Lin Ran didn't expect was that the terrain of the road he turned to was so complicated. They seemed to be trapped in a natural maze, winding and with no end in sight.

There were huge, strange and thick trees with thorny bark everywhere, smooth rock walls, and the muddy ground was very wet and soft. There was even a misty drizzle in the sky, which made it even more difficult for them to see the road ahead.

In such a strange place, there are many strange monsters, even more in number than in other places. In the foggy and dim woods, monsters with scarlet eyes keep rushing forward. Such a scene makes people feel cold.

Fighting against the tide of monsters all the way, even Lin Ran, who was very strong, began to feel exhausted. At the same time, he was a little puzzled as to why there were so many monsters in this place.

The long swords in the hands of Chang Wei and others behind were even broken, and there were many wounds on their bodies. Seeing this, Lin Ran did not continue to move forward towards this place. There must be something fishy here.

"Turn around, let's leave here!" Lin Ran transmitted the message through his spiritual power.

When the few of them were about to turn around and leave, they found that behind them there was a layer of fog that was so thick that it was almost tangible. Chang Wei rushed over, but was bounced back by the fog.

"what!"

Lin Ran looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned. He and his team were in big trouble now. They had directly entered such a ghost place.

"Mr. Lin, what should we do next?"

Chang Wei and others looked at Lin Ran in panic. They had never experienced such a scene before. Now they were trapped here and were all panicked. They could only place their hopes on Lin Ran.

Lin Ran forced himself to remain calm, thinking quickly about what to do. He looked at the monster rushing towards him, while also paying attention to the strange rock walls around him. It seemed like they were trapped in a canyon, and the only way forward seemed to be to keep moving forward.

“This rock wall…”

Lin Ran looked at the rock wall and felt very strange, so he performed a dragon fist and hit the rock wall. The rock wall shook and mysterious deep blue runes lit up on the rock wall, which actually absorbed all of Lin Ran's attacks.

"what?"

Chang Wei and the others were all stunned. Mr. Lin's attack, which was powerful enough to kill a Lingdan realm cultivator, was actually absorbed by this seemingly ordinary rock wall.

Lin Ran was not shocked that the rock wall could absorb his attack, but that there were runes flashing on the rock wall. He thought that this might be a secret place used for inheritance and to test the inheritors. Perhaps this place was not a dead end, but had a solution.

"keep going!"

Lin Ran took out a bottle of pills that restored spiritual power and poured them into his mouth like he was eating candy beans.

"What...Mr. Lin, are you really going to move on?" Chang Wei and others said in trembling voices.

"Maybe... maybe if we hold on here until tomorrow morning, everything in front of us will disappear?" said one of them.

They were really scared. One after another, big and small, strange and terrifying monsters rushed towards them. The roars of the monsters were almost everywhere in their ears. What's more, the dark and misty road seemed to have no end. The double torture of mental and physical torture really made everyone suffer both physically and mentally.

"If we don't move forward, perhaps we will never be able to leave here..." Lin Ran looked at the charging monster, slowly gathered golden spiritual power in his right hand, and continued: "It is my fault that you and I are in danger together. I will definitely take you out. Follow me, let's go!"

"Dragon Fist, first move!"

Lin Ran roared in a low voice, and the fist in his right hand, which was filled with surging energy, suddenly slammed out. The golden light pierced through the darkness in an instant. The golden dragon head made a deafening dragon roar, bared its fangs, and smashed all obstacles on the way.

Chang Wei and the others in the back were also filled with the golden light. They only saw Lin Ran standing alone in the front, using his power to open up the road ahead for them. Their hearts were suddenly filled with courage to face despair, and they couldn't help but shouting loudly:

"Damn it, there's nothing to be afraid of these monsters, Mr. Lin, we will follow you!" Chang Wei and his companions also became brave and picked up their swords and followed Lin Ran's steps.

Lin Ran smiled, and then took a big step forward, sprinting forward without hesitation. No matter what happened ahead, his fists would tell him the answer...

.....

In the Sword Sect’s camp, Shangguan Mengqing, who was sitting in front of a cave, felt more and more that something was wrong. She began to feel a little uneasy.

The place where Chang Wei and his friends live is not too far from here. It was the place that she and Lin Ran chose together. Why hasn't he come back yet? It's been so long.

"Something must have happened to that guy..."

Shangguan Mengqing couldn't help but frown and rubbed her temples gently. Sometimes she really admired Lin Ran's ability to stir up trouble. As soon as she didn't follow him, something went wrong immediately.

"You said before that you hope everything will go well, but you have to make it go wrong, right?"

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Chapter 139 Things have changed!

If Shangguan Mengqing had the ability to predict the future, she would definitely go with Lin Ran.

Unfortunately, there is no way to regret now. She can only find a way to contact Lin Ran. Currently, she can feel from the Phoenix Bracelet that Lin Ran’s soul is still very strong, which means there is no problem for the time being.

"Lin Ran, can you hear me?"

Shangguan Mengqing poured her spiritual power into the Phoenix Bracelet and transmitted her soul to Lin Ran.

In the forest, one place was shrouded in thick dark red fog. Inside the fog, Lin Ran was soaked all over, and he led Chang Wei and a few others to attack the tide of monsters.

Shangguan Mengqing's intermittent voice that reached his soul made Lin Ran stunned. He was secretly surprised: "Shangguan Mengqing can even transmit voice in such a strange place. Is this bracelet so powerful?"

Lin Ran did not stop his movements and continued to charge forward, while in his mind he responded to Shangguan Mengqing's words: "I heard it, when Chang Wei and I were going back, I took a detour and fell into a strange place. It was shrouded in dark red mist, with only one road, unbreakable stone walls, and endless waves of monsters..."

Not long after that, Shangguan Mengqing also received Lin Ran's intermittent voice.

Although it was intermittent and unclear, at least I could hear the complete meaning.

"This guy…"

Shangguan Mengqing didn't know whether to say that Lin Ran meant well but did something bad, or that he was just too unlucky. She probably understood why Lin Ran took a detour.

The first reason was that he wanted to check the surroundings to see if there were any other forces near their base. The second reason was that he was afraid that the Lingjing Holy Land might send people to keep an eye on the area and detect any clues, and then suspect the Shangjian Sect.

In fact, at the beginning, she and Lin Ran both wanted to wipe out all the people in Lingjing Holy Land. But later, Shangguan Mengqing realized the weirdness of the clearing behavior of Lingjing Holy Land, and thought that Lingjing Holy Land must have some means to predict the future, otherwise why did they target the things in this lake so clearly not long after coming in?

Since they have such means, if they wipe them out at once, and then the Lingjing Holy Land spends a lot of effort to find out who did it, it will really be a formidable opponent for the Sword Sect for no reason.

So in the end Shangguan Mengqing decided not to kill the people from Lingjing Holy Land, at least not from their Sword Sect. But if she didn't kill the people from Lingjing Holy Land, was there any other way to avenge the disciples in the sect and get the crystal ball from Gao Tianwen and the others?

Lin Ran came up with this idea. He would snatch the treasure first, and let some of the disciples pretend to be people from the Beiming Holy Land to deal with the people from the Lingjing Holy Land. On the other hand, they would lead a team to rush out to help, to "help those in need when seeing injustice."

But they really didn't expect that after dealing with the underwater monsters, Lingjing Holy Land had lost all its combat effectiveness, and their disciples in the Spirit Transformation Realm could bully them at will. Moreover, Gao Tianwen was also bold enough to hold such an important treasure directly in her hands, allowing Lin Ran to get it easily.

So they turned a blind eye and let those disciples bully the powerless people from Lingjing Holy Land, giving them a chance for revenge.

Chang Wei and the others were indeed quite wild, and seeing that Gao Tianwen was about to be driven into a panic, Shangguan Mengqing and Lin Ran brought people out to smooth things over.

Although this method is a bit dirty and can be said to be an unfair and immoral victory, since Lingjing Holy Land was originally hunting down the disciples of the Sword Sect, it should have thought about the consequences of not killing them.

However, perhaps because it was Lin Ran who came up with this idea, the unlucky Lin Ran would have to bear the consequences first.

If they hadn't plotted against Lingjing Holy Land, perhaps they wouldn't have fallen into such a strange and dangerous place. Even Shangguan Mengqing couldn't come up with any good solution for the time being.

“There is only one way…”

Shangguan Mengqing murmured in a low voice. She felt that this might be a point worth further investigation, as well as the stone wall that could not be broken. If she could get more information from Lin Ran, perhaps she would know whether this was a place where people were doomed to die, or a place where opportunities and challenges coexisted.

After that, Shangguan Mengqing continued to ask patiently, and after a while, Lin Ran would reply with detailed information. After a while, Shangguan Mengqing relied on the various experiences and knowledge in his mind to reply: "This may be a test similar to the one we faced with the rock monster. The place you are trapped in may only appear at night.

Because I have investigated the vicinity before, you might have broken into a dark red foggy place that I saw from afar one night before.

Since there are so many monsters along the way, they may be used to stop you. There may be a more powerful monster at the end. After defeating it, you may be able to get out!"

Lin Ran, who was charging at the tide of monsters, suddenly broke through a thin dark red barrier. Then, all the monsters in front of him disappeared at that moment, and his vision suddenly became clear.

He came to a vast plain, which seemed to have been used for sacrifices. At the end of Lin Ran's sight, there were several huge rock statues on the mountain wall, and below the statues were bluestone steps covered with dark red moss. On the high platform leading to the stairs, a huge altar could be vaguely seen.

The misty drizzle continued, and this messy plain was littered with ruins, rusty and broken swords and spears. With the decoration of the drizzle, this place became very slippery, and the bluestone or the swords and spears emitted a strange luster.

"Senior...Senior, where is this...are we out yet?" Chang Wei came to Lin Ran and said blankly at the strange scene in front of him.

"I haven't gone out yet, look behind..." Lin Ran said helplessly.

Everyone quickly looked back and found that the dark red mist was still behind them, which made Chang Wei and the others feel a little disappointed, but they still held out hope, because they had successfully rushed out of that desperate tide of monsters, and they would definitely be able to defeat them next.

"Don't leave my vicinity, we will move forward slowly. You must always be alert to any unusual movements around you..." Lin Ran instructed.

Chang Wei and the others nodded, then formed a formation and followed Lin Ran.

Seeing this, Lin Ran slowly moved over and got a little closer. He also saw that there were many strangely shaped trees on this wide flat ground. There seemed to be not only swords and spears on the ground, but also white bones wearing armor.

"It seems that a fierce battle took place here..." Lin Ran thought secretly.

Even if he tried his best to avoid stepping on the bones, someone would always get hurt.

The little brother next to Chang Wei accidentally stepped on a bone and broke it. The crisp breaking sound was instantly amplified in this quiet place.

It was like a switch that activated the entire place. The altar immediately lit up with a dark red light, and a torrent of dark red mud suddenly gushed out from the altar, rushing down the bluestone steps. In the blink of an eye, the steps turned into a dark red waterfall.

The dark red mud instantly covered most of the square.

"It's the Void Evil Clan!"

Lin Ran's pupils suddenly shrank. He knew that all secret realms were related to this, because one of the characteristics of the Void Evil Clan was to occupy various spaces, draw energy from these spaces to strengthen themselves, until the origin of the space was completely absorbed and the entire space was completely transformed into a lifeless wasteland, and then they would rush to the next one.

Chang Wei and his companions could recognize that they were the Void Demon Clan, but they had never seen the Void Demon Clan in such a large formation. What level of Void Demon Clan were they?

The little fat man next to Chang Wei's legs were shaking, and he said tremblingly: "Void... Void Evil Clan... We are doomed... We have no means to deal with the Void Evil Clan... We are going to die..."

If it was just an ordinary monster, they would not be afraid, but as for the Void Evil Clan, you have to know that every year the Sword Sect not only loses many people in dealing with the Void Evil Clan, but also spends a lot of financial resources.

One of the main reasons is the lack of means to deal with the Void Evil Clan. There are only a few methods passed down, and they are difficult to practice. Only the direct descendants of the Sword Sect can practice them, so they can only purchase magic weapons from the Divine Artifact Sect that are specifically used to deal with the Void Evil Clan.

But those guys in the Artifact Sect are also half-baked. The magic weapons used to deal with the Void Evil Clan are very expensive, but they are scrapped after just a few uses. They are even more useless against the powerful Void Evil Clan, but you have to buy them.

Even if the major super sects joined forces to put pressure on the Divine Artifact Sect, those guys couldn't come up with any useful magical weapons. The price did come down a lot, and there were free shares and financial assistance, so all parties felt better.

But this illustrates one thing, that is, even the eight super sects in the Jiuzhou Continent currently lack the means to deal with the Void Evil Clan, not to mention Chang Wei and his gang who are only considered slightly more advanced disciples in the Sword Sect.

Lin Ran had an unsightly look on his face and frowned. He could feel that this time, this guy from the Void Evil Clan would not be as easy to deal with as before. Before, due to various reasons and the special nature of Lin Ran's martial arts, it would be easier to deal with him.