Chapter 139: Kind-hearted Lin Bai

"Wild, domineering, cool, flashy, and arrogant!"

"Holy crap, this isn't a bug; Lin Bai is the real bug. I've never seen an NPC borrow a player's skill to use. I've learned something new today..."

"Is it really appropriate for a boss of his level to appear in the newbie village?"

"This time, I'm truly speechless."

"Being speechless is useless. Shopkeeper Lin's mana is practically infinite. Using 'holy crap' to drain Shopkeeper Lin's mana will only make you look like a clown."

"No matter what anyone says, I'm joining the Beggar Sect. Not for the money, just for that beggar outfit."

"Shopkeeper Lin is too cool."

"Damn, I thought Shopkeeper Lin fighting Qingming Daoren was already his limit, but I didn't expect him to take on five at once this time."

"Just how much strength is he hiding?"

"I suspect this still isn't his upper limit. After all, he's completely unscathed."

"Rather than saying he's hiding his strength, it's more like Shopkeeper Lin is growing. Looking at Shopkeeper Lin's several battles, the methods he uses are all different. Last time, when fighting the seven Disciples of the Blood Shadow Sect, he didn't even use his large-scale Palm Thunder, and in the end, he even let the Blood Shadow Sect people go."

"It really does look like growth. Back when Gugao Laoren led people to besiege Shopkeeper Lin, if he had half his current level, wiping out the players would have been easy, and he wouldn't have had to pay off the reinforcements."

"It's too terrifying. What is the intention of the dog developer in designing such a character?"

"To lead into the Righteous Sect. Judging by the current situation, the Righteous Sect should be the final boss."

"Should we still push Lin Bai in the future? Players simply can't keep up with his growth speed."

"Ordinary players can't, but big financial groups might have a chance."

"Although Shopkeeper Lin has the upper hand, he has also offended the NPCs. His days probably won't be easy either."

"What's not easy about it? Haven't you noticed that after Jiamu City, Lin Bai has almost monopolized all the players in Qian City and the newbie villages below it?"

"Damn it, this broken game has been all about Lin Bai showing off from start to finish. Where are the players' highlight moments?"

"..."

"All the players have been overshadowed by Lin Bai's radiance."

"The game can officially be renamed 'Xianxia Lin Bai Zhuan'."

"Only when Lin Bai dies can the players get ahead."

"If you want to take down Lin Bai, you have to wait until he's alone. A group of Beggar Sect Disciples chanting tongue twisters and pulling out Lightning Storms at every turn—no matter how high your level is, you can't withstand it!"

"Even if you can't withstand it, you have to try. The game can be lost, but Lin Bai must die."

"Forget it, upstairs. The great god Gelige, who shouted this slogan, has now even cut off his own retreat."

"The Beggar Sect has found a treasure!" Gugao Laoren ignored the barrage of comments before him, his gaze fixed on Lin Bai as he muttered.

"Indeed. I always thought Shopkeeper Lin's Palm Thunder was a bug; I never expected it to be his finishing move. This setting is truly one of a kind," said Lao Mi.

"I wonder when I'll be able to learn Shopkeeper Lin's Palm Thunder," said Deng Li Buduo.

"You?" The Madman looked at Deng Li Buduo with contempt. "Even if you learned Palm Thunder, could you afford to use it? Two bolts of lightning and your Internal Energy would be drained dry."

"..." Deng Li Buduo was silent for a moment, then said, "I feel like Master's Palm Thunder is related to the length of the incantation, not the content. Master only suddenly learned Palm Thunder after talking nonsense for a day..."

Gugao Laoren and Lao Mi exchanged a glance and said in unison: "Words become law!"

After saying this.

Gugao Laoren's expression instantly became serious. He pulled the few people around him into a private chat channel: "Regarding the relationship between Palm Thunder and 'words become law', no one is allowed to leak it. It must only be digested within the Beggar Sect; we will practice it in secret."

Bitter Melon Vine looked at the group: "Does it even matter if it's leaked? Shopkeeper Lin didn't care about this technique at all; he even passed it on to Jiang Qingqin."

"It's different." Old Man Gugao shook his head. "The technique for 'words become law' was passed on, but it's been so many days—has anyone practiced it? Even Baiyin and Jingbuyi, who knew about this technique first, didn't take it seriously, right!"

"I practiced it." Baiyin gave a bitter smile. "But I couldn't master it at all. I'd get distracted and lose focus, and when I practiced, I always felt like a lunatic. Things like proficiency levels wouldn't even appear on the Skill list."

"It's highly likely a hidden Skill!" said Gugao Laoren. "We can't rule out the programmer's twisted sense of humor; the Skill might only be revealed after meeting certain conditions. I think we can try it in private. If you fail, the worst that happens is you spend a day talking nonsense; if you succeed, you'll make a huge profit. If it really is 'words become law', the Skill's methods definitely won't be limited to just Palm Thunder."

The players all agreed in unison.

【Challenge above your level: Defeat an opponent stronger than you together with your card; Reward: ten Blank Cards, three Silver-Edged Cards, one Gold-Edged Card (can seal an opponent one level higher than you, 30% success rate, reusable, becomes invalid upon character death)】

【Fight alongside your pet and cultivate combat synergy (Completed); Reward: 10 Enlightenment Pills (already issued)】

【Experience a brutal battle with your pet and win the battle (Completed); Reward: 10 Enlightenment Pills, 1 Transformation Pill (already issued)】

【Let your pet undergo Form Manifestation; Reward: 1 Transformation Pill】

【Low-tier idol: Have one thousand fans (Completed); Reward: 10 Faith (already issued)】

【Town superstar: Have three thousand fans; Reward: 20 Faith, Primary Idol Aura (when with your fans, increase their combat power by 10%)】

War is indeed the best way to accumulate wealth.

After one battle, Lin Bai gained six card helpers, a pile of miscellaneous rewards, and even unexpectedly harvested two new Temperament Fruits, as well as an unknown number of Spirit Fruits.

Harvesting Positive Emotion is clearly much harder than Negative Emotion.

All in all, the harvest was quite bountiful.

Aside from the card helpers, the most useful reward should be the Pet System's Transformation Pill.

Waiting for the little white fox to undergo Form Manifestation on its own would take who knows how long. Having the Transformation Pill makes things much more convenient. As an aspiring youth of the new century, Lin Bai is actually quite interested in things like Beast-Ear Girls...

As for the Primary Idol Aura, in Lin Bai's view, it's not very useful. Currently, most of his fans are girls, and they don't like leveling up anyway, so that 10% boost doesn't really matter. It's better to practice their tongue twisters!

With so many systems, there are bound to be one or two that aren't very effective. Lin Bai doesn't really take the unimportant systems to heart anymore; it's better to just let nature take its course.

Opposite.

The Chaoyuan Sword Sect and other righteous factions were quiet.

Tong Cha and the others looked at Lin Bai, feeling somewhat at a loss.

No one expected that a perfectly fine recruitment fair would end up developing to this point...

The members of the Demonic Path who were in the same venue as them, along with their Disciples, were actually wiped out!

Heaven only knows.

These people were only in Qian City because Lin Bai suggested it; if the sects behind these people knew what happened in Qian City, they would surely hate Lin Bai to the bone!

Lin Bai's methods were extremely like those of the Demonic Path, but he had wiped out all the Demonic Path members with such overwhelming force that you couldn't just push him to the Demonic Path side because of his Martial Art style...

The most critical thing was that the five sects of the Demonic Path couldn't beat Lin Bai, so they certainly couldn't either! Furthermore, they were also missing Huilong Temple.

Fine!

Even with Huilong Temple, they couldn't beat him; back when they fought the Demonic Path, Lin Bai sealed one of Qingming Daozhang's Puppets, and now, he had at least six Puppets in his hands...

Now, everyone could understand the reason Lin Bai gave at the time for why the Righteous Sect didn't fear group battles; it was truly damnably getting stronger the more they fought—was there even any logic left to speak of?

But why had they never heard of the Righteous Sect before, despite it possessing such powerful magic?

If they had known the Righteous Sect was so overbearing, they wouldn't have used Lin Bai as an excuse to recruit the Heavenly Descended no matter what!

What a damn mess!

Tong Cha and the others knew the reason Lin Bai didn't kill them all was nothing more than to keep them as targets.

After all, Lin Bai had wiped out the entire recruitment of the Demonic Path; he couldn't afford to offend the Righteous sects as well. Otherwise, even if he were made of iron, how many nails could he withstand? But leaving them alive was a different story.

The Demonic Path people were all dead, yet the Righteous sect people were all left behind; once this matter spread, it would inevitably be seen by the Demonic Path as a deliberately planned trap.

It was like getting yellow mud in your pants—even if it isn't shit, it's still shit.

At the thought that the balance maintained for so many years had been broken by Lin Bai's impulsiveness, Tong Cha and the others wished they could tear Lin Bai into ten thousand pieces.

But now, they didn't even dare to say a harsh word.

Lin Bai's formidable martial prowess was one reason.

There was an even more important point.

Lin Bai was a lone wolf, and they didn't even know where the Righteous Sect was; the mess was truly impossible to clean up, and Lin Bai could just brush off his sleeves and leave.

Leaving them to face the revenge of the Demonic Path—who could endure that when the time came?

Therefore.

Lin Bai keeping them, and their sects keeping Lin Bai, was actually the best choice...

As for whether this would trigger a war between the righteous and the demonic, they couldn't worry about that much; they had to clean up the mess in front of them first. The matter had already happened, so what was the point of thinking so far ahead? Just take it one step at a time!

At the thought that they were forced to be tied to Lin Bai, these Righteous sect members felt exceptionally uncomfortable in their hearts. At a time when the Heavenly Descended were causing chaos in the world, how did such a troublemaker like Lin Bai appear?

City Lord's Mansion recruitment area.

The aide asked the scholar blankly: "Zhao Xiansheng, are we still drinking with him?"

"Drink my ass." The scholar wiped the sweat from his forehead incessantly, yet it only increased, "Killing Lan Nuotian is one thing, but how could he kill all the Demonic Path members? This kid is too impulsive and has brought big trouble to Qian City. You handle things here; I'm going back to the City Lord's Mansion to discuss with the City Lord what to do next. If there's any situation, send someone to notify me at any time."

"Yes." The aide replied in a low voice.

The scholar turned and left in a hurry.

What broke the silence were the players present.

Actually.

Their private chats had never stopped; Lin Bai was too cool, and both his combat style and aura had crushed everyone present.

Witnessing this battle with their own eyes was enough for them to discuss for a long time.

Players were different from the natives; they didn't have so many entanglements of interest in their hearts. Following whoever was strong was their principle; learning the skills of Shopkeeper Lin one day and slaughtering in all directions just like him was the result they pursued.

"Shopkeeper Lin, does what you said earlier about the Beggar Sect canceling the registration fee still count?" A player called 【Pen Hair Flying Everywhere】 looked at Lin Bai expectantly and asked loudly.

"Of course." Lin Bai replied with a smile. Times had changed; his personal strength had already completely suppressed the entire scene, so why should he still be submissive?

Except for Jiang Qingqin, the rest of the Righteous sect members were providing him with a steady stream of Negative Emotion, each one unconvinced and resentful. If he didn't knock them down a peg, how could he make them lower their noble heads?

Besides.

The Big Brother's career path still needed to be developed, so the more people in the Beggar Sect, the better.

Whether it was the Card System or the success rate of the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set, it was inseparable from Luck, and what the Chief Supporting Role System rewarded him with was precisely Luck.

Although the limelight of this supporting role had completely overshadowed the Big Brother, the system clearly didn't care about that...

As soon as Lin Bai's voice fell.

All the players quickly lined up in long queues in front of the Beggar Sect's stall; even the players who had already signed up for other sects rushed out of their lines and ran toward the Beggar Sect's recruitment point, without even saying a word of greeting...

They didn't care about any principles!

The Positive Emotion value in Lin Bai's background was instantly maxed out.

The faces of several Righteous sect leaders turned extremely ugly in an instant; only then did they understand Lin Bai's painstaking efforts.

It turned out that if they didn't add restrictions to the Beggar Sect, they wouldn't even be able to catch up to the leftovers!

It was laughable that they had even used Lin Bai as an excuse to recruit the Heavenly Descended...

"Brother Lin, didn't you say just now that you wanted to negotiate the distribution of the Heavenly Descended?" Tong Cha watched the queue in front of the Beggar Sect getting longer and longer, breaking out in a cold sweat of White Hair, and said with a forced smile.

"That's right, all the Heavenly Descended going to the Beggar Sect goes against the original intention of holding the recruitment fair!" Wang Jintian echoed; among everyone, he was the most wary of Lin Bai.

The Spirit Tool Pavilion was famous for its Dharma Treasure; when going out to fight, what mattered was the delicacy and sharpness of the Dharma Treasure, but the weapons Lin Bai used to smash people made him feel terrified. No matter what kind of Dharma Treasure it was, it would be ruined after one smash—who could stand that?

Pei Lie was right; Lin Bai's few Dharma Treasures were the nemesis of the Spirit Tool Pavilion.

Yet his few Dharma Treasures looked like a Blacksmith's tools for forging iron, which left him even more speechless. Tools for forging weapons had become weapons for destroying Dharma Treasures; it was truly hellish...

"I saw you hadn't spoken for a long time and thought you didn't want to talk anymore! Actually, lifting the restrictions and letting the Heavenly Descended choose freely is the true fairness." Lin Bai looked around at everyone, his gaze lingering on Jiang Yuru's face for a moment, and he shook his head slightly.

Jiang Yuru was embarrassed beyond measure. She turned her head to look at her disciple, reached out to brush her hand, and the acupoints were unsealed. Jiang Qingqin was like a fledgling bird leaving the forest, flying out of the Hundred Flowers Valley stall and arriving in front of Lin Bai. She looked him up and down, her eyes brimming with tears: "Lin Bai, are you okay? I... I was frozen by my master just now and couldn't come to help you..."

"I know, you don't need to blame yourself; your master is blaming herself even more than you are right now!" Lin Bai smiled and comforted her.

【Resentment from Jiang Yuru; +1+1+1】

Jiang Qingqin turned her head to glance at Jiang Yuru, her gaze somewhat complex. After a long moment, she let out a soft breath: "Lin Bai, I want to quit Hundred Flowers Valley and join the Beggar Sect!"

"Stand to the side first; we'll talk about your matter in a moment." Lin Bai gave her a surprised look and smiled.

Jiang Qingqin nodded and silently retreated to the side.

Jiang Yuru's expression became even uglier.

"Brother Tong, if I were you, I would try to recruit the Heavenly Descended, instead of waiting for me to arrange things. Otherwise, wouldn't all the power of speech be grasped by me?" Lin Bai looked at the righteous sect leaders who had already lost their composure and shook his head. "For example, your Chaoyuan Sword Sect could completely say: join the Chaoyuan Sword Sect to learn the Sword, and you will immediately be gifted one hundred taels of silver; joining the Sword Sect includes teaching and mastery, room and board, and a Golden Core..."

【Resentment from Tong Cha, Wang Jintian, Cao Ru'an...; +1+1+1】

Tong Cha froze, the veins on his forehead throbbing; he wished he could immediately draw his Sword and strike at Lin Bai.

This was too much.

Why is it that your Beggar Sect charges money to recruit Disciples, while we have to pay out of pocket to recruit one?

Comparing the two, wouldn't it mean my Chaoyuan Sword Sect isn't even as good as your lousy Beggar Sect...

Not to mention.

If we do exactly as you say, wouldn't that make me look like I have no face?

Unlike Tong Cha and the others.

After Lin Bai helped offer ideas, the players provided nothing but Positive Emotion.

After all, Shopkeeper Lin's ideas were for their own good.

Nowadays, the players present found Shopkeeper Lin more and more adorable; it was rare to see an NPC who helped players fleece the Game Company...

"That's right, that's right! If there's money for signing up, I don't care what I learn." Players who loved to watch the chaos immediately chimed in.

"Whoever has the best conditions, I'll sign up for them!" more players shouted.

The Beggar Sect was good, but too many people were joining; there was no guarantee of getting a share of the money. It would be better to go to other sects and gamble on one's luck!

Isn't playing a game all about doing as one pleases?

What's the point of being a beggar in the same old way?

Amidst the clamor stirred up by the crowd of players, Lin Bai looked at the bewildered righteous sect leaders, plucked two ripe Temperament Fruit from the Positive Emotion Tree, stuffed them both into his mouth, and smiled: "Brother Tong, Brother Wang, the times have changed. If you stick to the old, outdated dogmas, even without me, you will be abandoned by the Heavenly Descended. Spending some money to get the Heavenly Descended to join is much better than all the players joining the Beggar Sect and you having no way to report back!"

Looking at the increasingly loud Heavenly Descended, then looking at Lin Bai, Cao Ru'an and the others looked at each other in dismay and sighed simultaneously. Although Lin Bai looked quite punchable, it had to be said that what he said made a lot of sense.

Tong Cha took a deep breath and said sullenly: "All Heavenly Descended, join my Chaoyuan Sword Sect, and you may receive a sect reward of 100 taels of silver for the Disciple quota, plus one green steel Sword..."

Cao Ru'an was not to be outdone: "Join my Medicine King Valley, and not only will there be a silver reward, but you will also be gifted a bottle of Qi-Refining Pills to help find your sense of Qi and improve your True Qi..."

Jiang Yuru: "Join my Hundred Flowers Valley..."

Although everyone had proposed new recruitment conditions, for some reason, their hearts were filled with mixed feelings; they didn't know what to make of it. Originally, they didn't need to pay so much at all...

In Lin Bai's backend, he could clearly feel everyone's emotions:

【Resentment from Tong Cha, Cao Ru'an, Su Yuru...; +1+1+1】

【Joy from Little Sweetie, Pen Hair Flying to the Sky, Invincible Handsome Guy...; +1+1+1】

A smile crossed the corner of Lin Bai's mouth. Whether it was players or natives, there might be gains and losses, but here with him, there was never a losing business!

(End of this chapter)