"By the way, Second Protector, has Brother Lin left yet?" Mad Bull glanced around the great hall and did not see Li Lin, immediately asking.
"That monster, seems to be even more terrifying than Hong Ling." The Second Protector immediately smiled bitterly before speaking.
"What happened to him?" Mad Bull instantly widened his eyes in shock.
"Within eight hours, he reached the fourth level of the Fourth Realm; he has already been in the Fourth Realm for three hours now." Watching Mad Bull, the Second Protector said indifferently.
"What..." Mad Bull gasped in shock. Eight hours, from the First Realm to the Fourth, Li Lin was just a First Realm martial soul, after all. When Yun Hong Ling broke through the martial soul, it took her ten hours from the First Realm to the Third, which already shocked the entire Yun Yang Sect.
"When he was at the Ninth Realm martial master, he could defeat Huang Hu with one move. Perhaps this Fourth Realm cannot trap him either." Mad Bull said with a helpless smile.
At this moment, Li Lin was observing a gigantic puppet in front of him, three meters tall, entirely red, humanoid, yet it had four arms, each arm like a sharp claw, emitting a cold light.
Li Lin fought his way through, reaching the fourth level of the Fourth Realm. On the first, second, and third levels, there were some fourth-order early-stage demon beasts and fourth-level early-stage puppets, which couldn't stop him at all.
However, this puppet at this time caught Li Lin's interest. This puppet was a fourth-level mid-stage puppet, with absolutely formidable attack power. Even a Fifth Realm martial soul, or even a Sixth Realm martial cultivation faced with it, would likely be in a tough spot.
"Shoo shoo..."
In an instant, the puppet's figure charged like lightning, with two palm prints and two claw marks coming at him rapidly, twisting the space and airflow, the sharp breaking wind sound was piercing to the ears.
"Flame Burst." A smile crossed Li Lin's mouth; along the way, he had made significant progress in practicing Flame Burst and Windstorm.
With a change of hand seals, a palm-sized fireball appeared on his right hand, and as the fireball appeared, the entire space's temperature suddenly soared, a strong aura pressing down, directly enveloping the surrounding space.
The fireball spun out, then rapidly expanded, with a fiery red light bursting forth, tearing a fiery arc through space, dispersing the surrounding air currents, a terrifying heat spreading out like a tsunami.
"Explode!" With a change of hand seal, Li Lin clenched his hand from afar, and when the fireball expanded in front of the puppet, already about a dozen meters in size, it suddenly turned into a terrifying wave of fire and exploded.
The unmatched flames swept across the sky, the terrifying temperature instantly evaporating all the moisture in the space, even turning the spatial ripples red, a massive sonic boom echoing in the sky...
"Bang bang..."
Energy dispersed, exploding in mid-air, shaking the space and causing intense ripples, a red energy dispersing like fireworks.
As the wave of fire swept through, visibly, the fourth-level mid-stage puppet was instantly blown away, this terrifying power directly destroying two of its arms.
When everything turned into energy and vanished in space, Li Lin frowned, only to see that the fourth-level mid-stage puppet was still standing in its original place, only its four arms were now missing two, and its body was also cracked, but it was not completely destroyed yet.
"Fourth-level mid-stage puppet, really is terrifying." Li Lin thought to himself, even using his full strength to activate the Yellow-level high-grade martial technique Flame Burst, he still couldn't completely destroy the puppet.
"Shh..."
At this moment, Li Lin's view suddenly changed, and two stone doors appeared in front of him, one with the word "exit" written on it, and the other with the words "Fifth Realm." This was the fourth time Li Lin had seen these two stone doors.
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"Passed again?" Li Lin said lightly, the Fourth Realm's first to fourth levels of martial realm really weren't that difficult.
"It's about time, I'll come back another day." After hesitating for a moment, Li Lin walked into the exit stone door. As he entered, the stone door inside immediately filled with a dazzling light, blinding to look at.
"Passed the Fourth Realm..." Inside the great hall, the Second Protector looked at a mysterious jade stone in the hall, with many lights flashing on it, probably only he could understand its mystery. Watching the flashing lights on the jade stone, the Second Protector's expression changed dramatically.
"One day passed through the Fourth Realm, the cultivation of a First Realm martial soul, really is terrifying." Mad Bull was dumbfounded, he was very clear, being able to pass through the Fourth Realm's Fourth Level, probably even a Fifth Realm martial soul, could definitely compete, the difficulty of each level in this Martial Spirit Illusion Realm is not small, not easy to break through.
"Eh, could it be that I didn't move at all just now." In the stone chamber, the light dispersed, and Li Lin found himself still in the stone chamber he had just entered, not having moved at all, everything was like a dream, and everything in the dream, was clearly imprinted in his mind.
"What a strong illusion." Li Lin couldn't help but take a cold breath, the illusion was too terrifying, he always thought he was real, in the illusion, his Windstorm and Flame Burst also progressed through practice, his martial technique attacks, every move was so real, but waking up to know, everything was a dream, not only what he saw, including those demon beasts were fake, even his person, was just his consciousness gathering, so he would firmly believe he was real, in fact, in the illusion, even he was illusory, Mad Bull said, being killed inside doesn't matter, because what's killed is just his consciousness, not his real body.
Opening the stone door, Li Lin walked out somewhat surprised, this Martial Spirit Illusion Realm really is powerful.
"Brother Lin, you're too powerful, you passed through four illusionary realms in one day." Seeing Li Lin come out, Mad Bull immediately came forward and said.
"Brother Mad Bull, why are you still here?" Li Lin said to Mad Bull: "Did I only spend one day in the illusion?" Li Lin was puzzled, he felt like he had spent four or five days, having gone through several nights and days inside.
"In the Martial Spirit Illusion Realm, it's like this, I was also surprised the first time I entered." Iron Palm Mad Bull said lightly.
"Li Lin, you've broken through the Fourth Realm's Fourth Level, you can continue to break through the Fifth Realm, the longer you stay, the greater the benefit to you, it's best to be killed before coming out, often in life and death, you can understand the most thoroughly." The Second Protector said to Li Lin.
"Understanding between life and death..." Li Lin murmured, he naturally knew the Second Protector's words, the real training, should be between life and death.
"Thank you for the Second Protector's guidance, I will continue to come tomorrow." Li Lin said lightly.
The Second Protector nodded slightly, showing a smile that seemed to say 'a student willing to learn'.
Leaving the mountain peak inside the great hall, Li Lin only then realized it was dusk, quickly summoning the Sky Wing Snow Lion, and after saying goodbye to Mad Bull, he hurried away.
Before returning to his residence, Li Lin went to Li Wushuang's mountain peak again, but still did not find Li Wushuang, which made Li Lin puzzled, wondering if Li Wushuang was in closed-door cultivation.
"Li Lin, you're finally back, it's not easy to find you every time." When Li Lin returned to his mountain peak, the figure of a protector also arrived in front of Li Lin.
"Disciple was in the Martial Spirit Illusion Realm during the day, making the protector wait for a long time, I wonder what the protector is here for?" Li Lin bowed slightly, this protector was one of the three protectors in charge of the Earth Dragon Peak, his strength level was not as strong as the Second Protector of the Martial Spirit Illusion Realm.
"Li Dajiang's challenge has been laid down for three months now, the first month you were in closed-door cultivation, the second month you were breaking through, and now it's the beginning of another month, can you accept the challenge this month, I came to confirm." The protector asked.
Li Dajiang's challenge, already missed two months, today Li Dajiang came to him again to urge the fight, so he came to confirm.
"Dragon List ranking twenty, Seventh Realm martial soul." Li Lin's eyebrows slightly raised, touching his fingertip to his nose, said: "I will accept the challenge at the beginning of next month, please arrange it, protector."
"Do you really want to accept the challenge? You can still regret it now, I heard Li Dajiang has already reached the peak of the Seventh Realm martial soul, and breaking through to the Eighth Realm is not far off." The protector hesitated for a moment, then said to Li Lin again.
"I'm sure, thank you for the protector's kindness." Li Lin smiled slightly.
"Alright." The protector said lightly, then summoned a third-order flying beast and left in the night.
"Zhao Wuji, this time, I will play with you again." Watching the distance, Li Lin's eyes passed a hint of coldness, he had already planned for the beginning of the month's competition.
"Where's Little dragon!" When he got to the courtyard, Li Lin only then realized something, Little dragon seemed to have not appeared in front of him all day.
With a probe of his mind, following the invisible guidance of the blood pact, Li Lin found Little dragon in a corner of the courtyard coiled up after a moment.
"About to break through...?" Li Lin's eyebrows lifted in joy, seeing Little dragon surrounded by a faint yellow light, Little dragon had told him before that he was about to break through again, it seems Little dragon was already preparing for the breakthrough.
After instructing the Blood Lizard to protect Little dragon, Li Lin did not return to his room to cultivate but went to the mountain peak again, forming a hand seal, continuing to practice Flame Burst and Earth Shield.