There’s Always Someone Better

Ever since the system was activated in the Eight Directional Mountain last time, it had been silent for a long time. Now that he suddenly heard the system’s voice, Lin Ran was not used to it.

After a few seconds, Lin Ran came back to his senses.

However, Lin Ran ignored the system because he had already figured out the pattern of signing in.

Every time a new location was detected, especially a special location, the reward for signing in for the first time would be the best. If he used the divine sword he had never signed in for the first time, the chances of obtaining a top-grade reward would also increase greatly.

It was not easy to find a “special location”. In any case, he had already figured out the route. It was not too late to find a new divine sword and come back to sign in later.

Lin Ran calmed himself down and was about to ask Yuan Yangguo where he saw that mysterious person when he suddenly paused. He turned around and saw a young man in white standing on a stone pillar a hundred steps away.

That person was dressed in white. At first glance, Lin Ran thought that it was Huo Qiyun, but when he took a closer look, he knew that it wasn’t. This was because that person looked clearly much more mature than Huo Qiyun.

The white-robed young man stood tall and straight on the stone pillar, as if he had been there since the beginning. The wind blew his clothes up, making him look like he was standing on the cloud.

There was a faint smile on the young man’s lips. Other than his sinister expression, he looked like a gentle scholar.

“Stop lying on your stomach. The enemy is here.”

Lin Ran looked at the young man in white from afar and said to Yuan Yangguo, who was behind him.

With just a glance, he was certain that the white-robed young man was the mysterious person Yuan Yangguo had met previously. His sinister eyes were exactly the same as the one in the portrait.

Before Yuan Yangguo could respond, the white-robed young man suddenly leaned forward and fell to the ground with his head facing down!

Lin Ran’s heart tightened. Although he didn’t expect to find this person so easily, if he fell to his death here, Lin Ran would have come here for nothing.

Fortunately, what Lin Ran was worried about did not happen.

The white-robed young man fell to the ground like a meteor. However, when he was about ten feet away from the ground, he suddenly turned in the air and landed gracefully.

“Are you Lin Ran?”

As soon as the young man in white landed, he asked. His voice crossed nearly a hundred steps and entered Lin Ran’s ears.

Lin Ran narrowed his eyes and nodded expressionlessly. “Who are you?”

“I’m Xuan Wushang.”

Xuan Wushang bowed in a strange manner. Then, he stretched out two fingers on his right hand and took out a piece of cloth that was two fingers wide and nearly a foot long from his left sleeve. “Do you recognize this?”

Lin Ran narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a moment. Then, he shook his head. “I’m too far away to see clearly. Can I go closer?”

“I know what you’re thinking.”

Xuan Wushang smiled, and the sinisterness in his eyes seemed to have faded a lot. “This distance is very good. Let’s not ruin this harmony.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xuan Wushang raised his hand gently, and the cloth was blown into the air by a breeze.

Lin Ran’s expression immediately turned solemn. He did not feel any internal energy fluctuation from Xuan Wushang, but the cloth seemed to have eyes and was slowly flying towards him!

There were only two possibilities.

Firstly, Xuan Wushang cultivated some kind of secret technique that allowed him to control wind and use a very small amount of internal energy to send out the cloth.

Secondly, Xuan Wushang’s cultivation was not inferior to Lin Ran’s.

Even in the entire world, there were very few people who could enter the Half-Saint Realm. However, Lin Ran had never seen a cultivation technique that could be used without any weapon.

Therefore, even if Lin Ran didn’t want to admit it, he was still more inclined to believe the latter possibility.

While he was thinking, the cloth was already in front of him.

Lin Ran grabbed it and realized that it was a sword belt woven of sisal.

The texture of the sword belt was tough and resistant to wear. In the Heavenly Saint Dynasty, many martial artists would use this sword belt to keep the sword. However, the craftsmanship of this sword belt was very exquisite. There were golden threads sewn on the edges. It was clearly not something ordinary martial artists could afford.

“Is it Zou Hao’s?”

Xuan Wushang revealed an expression that looked like he was neither smiling nor angry. “As expected, he was sent by you.”

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Lin Ran asked coldly, “Where is he?”

“In a very safe place—for us, at least.”

Xuan Wushang smiled and the sinister expression returned to his face. “I advise you to stop investigating. Otherwise, you won’t be able to bear the consequences.”

Lin Ran frowned slightly. “What do you mean? Investigate what?”

This time, Xuan Wushang did not answer. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew over, causing his robe to flutter and wrapping his entire body in clouds. Then, he quietly disappeared into the thin air.

Lin Ran’s eyes widened and he instantly arrived where Xuan Wushang was standing in a flash, but there was no longer anyone around.

His vast divine sense swept out and instantly covered a radius of a few kilometers. However, he did not find any signs of anyone passing by.

Only then did Lin Ran really become nervous.

All along, although he had never behaved arrogantly, in the depths of his heart, he did have the thought of being the number one in the world.

After all, even Grandmaster Realm martial artists were rare in the Heavenly Saint Dynasty. As a sixth level Half-Saint, why couldn’t he be conceited?

However, in just a few minutes, this meeting with Xuan Wushang had overturned Lin Ran’s understanding of this world. It reminded him of an old saying, “There’s always someone better.”

After being shocked for a moment, Lin Ran wanted to ask for Yuan Yangguo’s opinion. After all, although his cultivation was ordinary, he always seemed to be able to notice some details others couldn’t.

However, as Lin Ran turned around, he saw that Yuan Yangguo had fainted at some point.

“Sigh… Huo Qiyun is more reliable!”

Lin Ran sighed and was about to step forward when he suddenly sensed something and looked up at the sky. He saw more than ten black dots flying towards him at an extremely fast speed!