After leaving the Ye Residence, he headed straight out of the city, but today brought an unexpected windfall! Before he had gone far, the System actually located a mighty demon at the Spirit Severing Stage! Lin Ran wasn't the least bit intimidated. His current combat strength already matched that of a great cultivator in the late Body Integration Realm, with few rivals in the world!
Rushing straight toward it, Lin Ran discovered to his astonishment that he had stumbled upon Pian Ran, who had just escaped from the Desolate Abyss!
He checked the panel again. Mystery solved! The mighty demon the System had located was Pian Ran!
Pian Ran warily sized up the huge tiger before her. What was with this tiger? Why couldn't I see through it?
"Hey, Miss Pian Ran! Looking for a CP-hit me up!" Lin Ran spoke in human language outright, but his words left Pian Ran utterly baffled.
"Hm? You know me?"
"I do. Did you just come out of the Desolate Abyss?"
Now Pian Ran was completely bewildered. What was with this tiger before her? How did he know so much about where she had come from?
"What do you want?" Pian Ran asked warily. Demons killing other demons for their cores happened every day.
"Relax, I mean you no harm. Otherwise, with your cultivation so badly damaged, you wouldn't be anywhere near a match for me."
"Fine, you win! You know me better than I know myself." Pian Ran simply gave up trying.
"Take me to the Desolate Abyss so I can learn the way, would you? I'm planning to have a look there in a while."
"Can I say no?" Pian Ran looked helplessly at Lin Ran, who shook his large head.
To make better time, Lin Ran carried Pian Ran on his back and raced toward the Desolate Abyss under her guidance.
Over three hours later, looking at the great canyon before him, Lin Ran knew that the Desolate Abyss lay below. Down there was the world of demons and devils, and a fine place for him to farm experience.
But that would have to wait until his combat strength reached the Mahayana Stage. If he went down now, he only had a ninety percent chance of getting out unscathed. How was that any different from throwing his life away?
As luck would have it, several demons and devils ran out of the Desolate Abyss, and Lin Ran took them all. These demons and devils were worth more than ordinary demons: killing one at the Golden Core Stage earned him three thousand Origin Points! Lin Ran was instantly thrilled. This place was practically his paradise!
Lin Ran blocked the entrance to the Desolate Abyss until dawn, taking care of every demon and devil that escaped that night. On the way back, he killed another two Golden Core Stage demons and gave Pian Ran five Golden Cores so she could absorb their power to heal her injuries.
It had truly been a bountiful night. After saying goodbye to Pian Ran, Lin Ran slipped back to the Ye Residence alone. In any case, he knew where the little courtyard Pian Ran had made her home in the imperial capital was, so he wasn't worried about being unable to find her.
The Ye Family was eating at the time. Lin Ran made himself right at home, running straight to Ye Xiwu's side to let her feed him. The others in the Ye Family watched him cheerfully. By now, they had all tacitly accepted Lin Ran's presence and treated him as part of the family.
They had even reserved a small spot for Lin Ran at the dining table, right between Ye Xiwu and her father.
After the meal, Lin Ran exchanged for fifteen Sacred Beast Origin Pills and swallowed them all in one go. The aura around him then began to strengthen steadily.
What Lin Ran hadn't expected was that the sacred beast origin within him had already reached a bottleneck! The origin contained in these fifteen Origin Pills was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
Sensing something wrong with his body, Lin Ran hurriedly jumped to the ground and raced out of the city.
Before long, in a mountain forest outside the city, a white tiger thirty meters tall at the shoulder burst into being, radiating a fierce, oppressive aura.
"System, what level is my combat strength at now?"
[The host has currently attained minor accomplishment sacred beast body. Your combat strength is sufficient to crush great cultivators at the late Mahayana Stage. Unless someone at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage appears, you are invincible!]
"Excellent. Tonight, I'll go farm experience in the Desolate Abyss!" Lin Ran grinned crookedly and shrank his body, planning to go back and let Ye Xiwu know. He had no idea how long he would stay inside the Desolate Abyss this time.
That night, Lin Ran left Ye Xiwu a note, then headed straight for the Desolate Abyss. Upon reaching its entrance, he leaped down without the slightest hesitation.
Once below, Lin Ran discovered that the Desolate Abyss was quite different from what he had imagined. Demonic qi churned within it, and the lairs of demons and devils were everywhere.
The mighty demons and devils each ruled their own territory, while the lesser ones eked out a precarious existence!
When he opened the map, it was covered in marked red dots! There were even quite a few Mahayana Stage demons and devils!
Lin Ran threw back his head and roared, the might of a sacred beast spreading in every direction, blanketing heaven and earth. With one swipe of his paw, he killed two lesser demons and began farming experience. In just one day, his savings reached a hundred thousand!
He had intended to buy more Sacred Beast Origin Pills, but the System informed him that the kind costing one thousand Origin Points each was no longer suitable for him. The System recommended an upgraded version of the Origin Pill! Fifty thousand Origin Points apiece!
Lin Ran grimaced. This System was such a rip-off! Surely it wasn't tearfully pocketing over forty thousand Origin Points in profit on each pill!
He exchanged for two and swallowed them, and a formidable aura erupted from his body.
"System, don't be angry. I admit I misjudged you!"
These pills were a hundred times more effective than the previous Origin Pills! Lin Ran became even more motivated to farm experience.
Half a month later, Lin Ran stared blankly at the two devils before him.
The good news: he had encountered two mighty devils! The bad news: those two devils were Si Ying and Jing Mie!
"System, what level is their strength at?"
[Host, the two devils are at the middle Tribulation Transcendence Realm. However, with the enhancement of demonic qi within the Desolate Abyss, they can rival great cultivators at the late Tribulation Transcendence Realm!]
"Worthy of being the Devil God's right and left hands. Their combat strength has already reached the ceiling of the Mortal Realm!"
[The two devils bear the Devil God's karma. It is recommended that the host wait until that karma dissipates before killing them!]
"All right. I've killed most of the demons and devils in this Desolate Abyss anyway. It's time to head back!"
Lin Ran's combat strength had now reached the limits of the Mortal Realm. As long as no deity appeared in the world, he was invincible.
With a casual strike, he sent the two devils flying, then charged straight out of the Desolate Abyss.
He barreled all the way back to the Ye Residence. He didn't find Ye Xiwu, but instead came across Ye Bingchang first. Lin Ran blinked, noticing something different about Ye Bingchang.
Could she have obtained Pian Ran's Love Thread during this time?
Lin Ran gave it no further thought and headed straight for Ye Xiwu's chambers, only to learn that she and Chun Tao had gone hunting!
"Hunting? In this freezing weather? What are they hunting, air?" Looking puzzled and worried that they might encounter danger, Lin Ran swept his divine sense outward and locked onto their location.
He discovered that their so-called hunt was actually taking place inside the imperial palace. How was this hunting? Wasn't it just children playing house?
Without giving it much more thought, Lin Ran charged straight into the imperial palace. With his current strength, these people couldn't detect him at all.
When he reached the mountain forest where the hunt was taking place, the first person Lin Ran encountered was actually Dandan Jin!
"Little Jinjin, who invited you here?"
"Who else could it be? Xiao Lin, of course. In this imperial palace, do you think I have another friend besides him?"
"That's true. Don't worry, your big brother will have your back from now on!" Lin Ran jumped onto Tantai Jin's shoulder and patted him.
"What I gave you last time-"
Before Lin Ran could finish, a sharp arrow came flying toward him. Tilting his little head, he dodged the arrow, which looked as slow as a snail to his eyes, then turned to look at the newcomer.