CHAPTER 68: CHAPTER 67: TRAITOR PURGE

"Waste."

Lin Qiubai’s voice was as cold as a winter night, his tone resolute: "You’re fantasizing."

"Aside from running away..."

"What else can you do?"

Wan Haihao opened his mouth, trying to retort.

But...

Once praised as an "excellent debater," he now felt a complete blank in his mind, a bitter taste in his mouth, unable to find any arguments to refute the opponent.

Lin Qiubai, with just a few words, directly broke his defenses, leaving him completely disheartened.

This Sword Master spoke harshly, arrogantly nauseating, but Wan Haihao admitted that the other party was right.

This is indeed the kind of person I am...

...

In the neighboring dormitory, Ma Ran slowly opened his eyes, a hint of a smile spreading in their depths.

When unfamiliar light first appears, it often startles people more than darkness.

[Script Two: "Sword Master’s Soul"]

[Protagonist: Lin Qiubai]

[Player: Ma Ran]

[Flaws: Arrogance, no physical body.]

"Cangming Star, Seven-Spiral Sword Sect, Sword Master Lin Qiubai."

"This person spent his life loving, mastering, and being obsessed with swords, with one thought breaking the void, a myriad swords returning to the sect!"

"In pursuit of a higher realm, he, at the ultimate level of Sword Dao, used himself as fuel to unleash a world-shocking sword."

"Splitting the Sky, breaking space-time, reversing Yin and Yang, transformed!"

"A shred of Lin Qiubai’s residual soul traveled through a wormhole, descending upon Earth, temporarily residing in a young man from China..."

Ma Ran thought of setting the second character to full glory.

If he could directly manifest all of Lin Qiubai’s abilities from this script, within at least one year, he alone could crush through the catastrophes faced within China, completing it solo.

Unfortunately, that’s not possible.

In the current state, the multiplication ability medals Ma Ran obtained include [Academic Demon], [Inner Qi Genius], and [Fragment Prophet].

Besides, the Black Rock Martial Arts also reached the level of Seventh Rank of Inner Qi.

The Youwen Illusion Technique system is a good thing, with the combined experience of two lives of Ma Ran, reaching almost the level of "Master Youwen."

However...

It can only enhance special effects, amplify expressiveness, embellish, but cannot directly change reality.

Forcibly setting Lin Qiubai to a full glory state would lead to an awkward situation—

When the Sword Master strikes a world-shocking sword at his peak, with blossoms falling from the sky, the earth flooding with golden lotuses, after the sword, the surrounding environment shows almost no change.

Although it can be strongly explained as "energy highly concentrated and gathered, not the slightest leakage," it’s too deliberate.

The researchers from various academic societies are not fools.

Although current technology is helpless against surreal entities like Class A Radiation, at least "energy level detection" can roughly estimate some data.

A display of a hundred-point attack, inflicting one point of damage, it’s truly supernatural if it doesn’t give away.

Instead of creating a full-glory powerhouse and constantly labeling him as "severely injured" or "in deviation," it’s better to set him as a residual soul from the beginning.

This makes it easier for Ma Ran to [play].

Though set as a residual soul body, the importance of "Sword Master" is in no way inferior to the first script’s "Pseudo-Wisdom."

It is an important tool for Ma Ran to race against time and seize the initiative!

The voices Wan Haihao heard earlier were just one of the illusions constructed by Youwen.

Essentially...

"Lin Qiubai" is Ma Ran.

However...

The persona of this character is not yet fully established.

There aren’t enough audiences yet, so the [play] ability cannot receive feedback.

The perfect stage for Sword Master Lin Qiubai requires subtle hints, a thousand miles of groundwork, and the right timing, then add a blazing oil, to forge the medal Ma Ran wants.

For now, Ma Ran still has some matters to handle.

Fourteen days have passed since the Nightmare event in A3 District.

Under Ma Ran’s eager anticipation and strict urging, the Nightmare Mother 98725’s Chinese has reached the average level of a Chinese person.

The so-called "re-education through labor," naturally, does not only offer educational benefits.

It also requires labor reform!

Ma Ran allowed it to survive, not to let it become a lord.

So, tasks were issued one after another.

During this period, 98725 could be called a model worker in the industry.

It perfectly followed the "007" work code.

Starting duties at midnight given by Ma Ran and ending work at 24:00, working seven days a week.

Holiday?

Non-existent!

It’s not human.

To alien beings, Ma Ran never talked about morality.

"Back."

Vaguely feeling a familiar yet weak Spiritual Power rapidly approaching Grass Hut Academy, Ma Ran calmly pushed open the door and walked away from the dormitory area.

By the looks of it, he seemed tired from cultivation, coming out to get some fresh air and relax.

More than ten minutes later.

Ma Ran arrived in front of the Wolong Stele.

Where his gaze was focused, there seemed to be nothing.

In fact, that wasn’t the case.

The Nightmare Mother 98725 was hovering invisibly in the air.

Seeing Ma Ran arrive, it shivered and timidly drilled into the pocket.

"The task was completed within the specified time!"

So...

This time, there shouldn’t be any punishment, right?

The little walnut in the pocket trembled in fear.

This hairless bipedal is simply insane!

In 98725’s eyes, Ma Ran was an inhumane slave master!

Fail to complete the task, get beaten!

Complete the task, but exceed the given time limit, get beaten!

If the task isn’t completed beautifully, leaving traces, still get beaten!

Ma Ran felt 98725’s resentment but only silently put a hand in his pocket, holding it.

A pure stream of Spiritual Power slowly transferred over, which he crushed with Youwen and absorbed bit by bit.

Ma Ran’s eyes flashed with bright violet, fleetingly.

"The nineteenth traitor."

The weather was gloomy, black clouds covered the sky.

But his mood was exceptionally bright!

Before rebirth, various alien influences invaded Earth.

In the defensive struggles, many heroes like Su Qiangwei, Wan Haihao, Wu Di, and Song Chu emerged, shining with the brilliance of humanity, yet many traitors also appeared.

Backstabbing comrades, selling crucial intelligence...

Guides, undergoing genetic surgery, becoming alien pseudo-militaries, massacring civilians...

Varied methods.

Thinking of some of these hideously grotesque faces even now made Ma Ran furious, wishing he could immediately hunt them down and kill them all!

The foreign traitors were beyond his reach, and Ma Ran was temporarily too lazy to bother.

The domestic traitors he had long wanted to hunt down and deal with!

What?

Theoretically, those traitors haven’t yet had the chance to betray Earth?

Shouldn’t be killed?

Come on!

Ma Ran is an Earth Civilization Guardian, not a judge.

As someone who has long danced on the edge of a knife, in a hail of bullets, are you expecting him to talk about evidence?

With the blessing of the [Academic Demon] medal, all traitors noted in secret files are well remembered by Ma Ran.

With his temperament, those guys, not a single one could escape!

Ma Ran would never allow such vile scum to pass on their revolting genes.

So...

After being captured by Ma Ran, the Nightmare Mother became his best asset at the stage.

Apart from study time, it rushed around the city, silently carrying out Ma Ran’s "traitor extermination" missions.

Double-dealing?

Killing a random Earth person outside the list to make up numbers?

Stop joking!

still wants to live a few more days!

Is Ma Ran someone easy to fool?

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