Chapter 140: Another Dao Law

Under Lin Bai's guidance, the remaining four sects began to compete fiercely.

The miserable players finally tasted the joy of playing a game without spending money, and their feelings for Lin Bai were beyond words.

If there were a poll for the most popular NPC on site, it would undoubtedly be Lin Bai.

Players were happy to develop unpopular professions in the game and carry them forward; in their hearts, the officials would not design a profession for no reason.

If this profession is not powerful, it must be that you haven't found the right way to play it.

They didn't mind gambling on an unpopular profession; besides, signing up just now was free, and now they could even earn a little money, so why not?

Long queues formed again in front of the four major sects' recruitment booths, and the heads of each sect breathed a sigh of relief in unison.

Whether NPC or player, no one mentioned killing Lin Bai anymore.

However.

In the end, the queue at the Beggar Sect was still longer; Lin Bai's strength had truly won him fans, and the image of him fighting five Golden Core experts alone was too cool, so it was normal for him to attract players.

Yet Tong Cha and the others couldn't even pick a fault with it.

At the beginning, Lin Bai had even sacrificed the Beggar Sect's interests to accommodate them!

It was purely their own doing, ruining a perfectly good fair environment...

Players like 【Gelige】, 【Golden Lion】, and 【Living Under the Crotch】 who died at Lin Bai's hands were squatting at the Resurrection Point, not daring to go out, each of them looking miserable.

"Great God Ge, what should we do now?" 【Golden Lion】 asked with a livid face; he was the first to enter the Blood Shadow Sect and had been developing step-by-step, and he might well have been the number one person in the Blood Shadow Sect, but such a good prospect had been ruined by his own play, not to mention how depressed he was.

【Living Under the Crotch】 felt the same way.

They knew this couldn't be blamed on 【Gelige】; after all, no one expected Lin Bai to be truly that powerful, but since it happened, they had to find someone to take the blame...

【Little Cat Doesn't Eat Fish】, 【Zhuge Zhuifeng】, and others also cast suspicious gazes at 【Gelige】; the evil sects being wiped out by Lin Bai was equivalent to cutting off their future.

Even if they knew the evil sects would take revenge, what were they supposed to do in the meantime?

Wait at the Resurrection Point, or wait offline?

Everyone else was racing against time to learn new Skills, were they just going to let their prime time go to waste like this?

You can't practice Skills at the Resurrection Point!

Moreover, one cannot rule out another possibility: what if the evil sects were defeated by Lin Bai again?

Lin Bai was vengeful, and the Beggar Sect disciples under him were gathering in increasing numbers; if they dared to show their faces in Qian City, they would likely be killed back to level zero, which would be no different from deleting their accounts and starting over!

Furthermore, the advertisers would likely hold them accountable as well.

The advertising effect was too poor; after shouting one slogan, there was no follow-up, and no one would be satisfied with that...

It could be said that 【Gelige】's leaky plan led to their total defeat.

Unlike 【Gugao Laoren】, the players who besieged Lin Bai at that time were just some casual players; although they offended Lin Bai, their backgrounds were clean.

But they were equivalent to sect outcasts; they couldn't find a reason to defect to the Beggar Sect, and even if they lowered their pride to join the Beggar Sect, 【Gugao Laoren】 and the others probably wouldn't tolerate them.

After all.

What they did before was cutting off the Beggar Sect's roots.

Cutting off someone's livelihood is like killing their parents.

"Do you have any good ideas?" 【Gelige】 raised his head and scanned the crowd; although his voice hadn't changed, one could clearly feel his exhaustion.

"Great God Ge, I think I want to quit the game for a while." 【Jinzhao Wujiu】 looked at 【Gelige】, his face somewhat pale, "When Lin Bai's anvil smashed you to death, you might not have felt anything. But you were smashed to death right before my eyes; whenever I close my eyes, that scene involuntarily appears before me. I think I need to find a psychologist to help me process this."

"Me too," said 【Ding Gouzha】, "It's not like I haven't died before, but I don't know why, the visual impact this time was too great. Even if I enter the game later, I probably won't choose a combat class; I might just live a casual life in the game!"

【Gelige】 was stunned for a moment and asked, "Have you made up your minds?"

The two looked at each other and nodded simultaneously.

【Jinzhao Wujiu】 sighed, "Maybe our psychological endurance is a bit poor! Besides, there's no direction right now; watching livestreams outside is also quite interesting."

"Alright!" 【Gelige】 looked at them, "I owe you this time; whenever you want to return to the game, I welcome you!"

After 【Jinzhao Wujiu】 and 【Ding Gouzha】 went offline, 【Gelige】 looked at the remaining few: "Let's delete our accounts and start over!"

"Great God Ge, are you serious?" 【Little Cat Doesn't Eat Fish】 was stunned.

"We still know too little about Lin Bai," 【Gelige】 nodded and looked around at everyone, "The Beggar Sect is the sole dominant power; joining any sect now won't provide an opportunity for development, so it's better to delete our accounts and start over. Changing our identities and joining the Beggar Sect is also an option. Lin Bai has caused such a stir that it won't be long before the world is in chaos; choosing a suitable sect then will be much better than sitting here waiting for death.

Everyone, this is my solution; whether you listen or not is up to you. You haven't lost a cent of your money; whether you hate me or not, I don't owe you anything. My conscience is clear. We part ways here, and I hope we never meet again."

Outside the recruitment venue.

Two people wearing Daoist robes hid in the shade of a tree, looking at each other, and for a long time, neither spoke.

"Senior Brother Qing Shui, we were overconfident. Longxi was right; Huilong Temple should have dispatched everyone to have a chance to kill Lin Bai." The slightly younger Daoist looked at the direction of the recruitment venue with lingering fear, his voice trembling slightly.

The two Daoists were the reinforcements brought by Longxi and Qingfeng Daoist; they arrived at the same time as the players from Yimu City, thinking they weren't too late and could join forces with Qingling to kill Lin Bai in one go and restore the reputation of Huilong Temple.

Who would have thought they would happen to see Lin Bai displaying his divine might, using Lightning Storm to kill five evil sect True Persons.

The two were so scared that they didn't even dare to enter the recruitment venue.

"That's right, Senior Brother Qingling is likely in grave danger too," Qing Shui Daoist swallowed, "If we go in, we're just throwing our lives away. Let's go back and explain the situation to our master. Lin Bai killed five major evil sects alone; his cultivation is at least Nascent Soul, if not higher. With so many lightning bolts, no matter how many Golden Core experts come, it's useless. Only if our master takes action will we likely be able to take him down."

"Shall we go then?" Qinglin Daoist tentatively asked.

"Let's go," Qing Shui Daoist said very decisively, "While Lin Bai is still in the venue, we'll grab a few Heavenly Descended to take back; it won't be a wasted trip."

Players from Jiamu City and Dinghuo City arrived one after another.

Jiamu City was Lin Bai's lair.

The players there had joined the Beggar Sect long ago; this time, with the road opened, they came to Qian City merely to meet up with 【Lao Mi】 and, incidentally, to learn high-level Skills from Lin Bai.

After the players from Jiamu City arrived, the Beggar Sect's prestige under 【Lao Mi】 grew even stronger, and Lin Bai gained another wave of free Qi Luck Value, as well as more Positive Emotion Value.

There are no secrets among players; Lin Bai's divine might at the recruitment venue had long since spread.

……

However, by this time, Lin Bai had already left the venue with Xiaobai and Jiang Qingqin.

In the eyes of outsiders, the players were quiet, rarely speaking unless necessary.

But in Lin Bai's eyes, with thousands of players gathered at the job fair, the sound of private messages was so noisy it made his head feel like it was going to explode; it was better to leave early to find some peace and quiet.

Lin Bai believed that even if he were not at the scene, Tong Cha and the others would not dare to stir up any more trouble.

……

Lin Bai walked down the road side-by-side with Jiang Qingqin while holding Xiaobai, with Deng Li Buduo following behind them to serve.

Occasionally, life-profession players who were unwilling to enter the job fair would run over to greet Lin Bai.

Lin Bai responded to each one with a smile; from time to time, he would buy one or two dolls from a street stall, tear off their ears, ruin the paint on them, infuse them with Internal Energy for a day, and then turn around and give them to Jiang Qingqin as gifts.

He never tired of it.

Before long, Jiang Qingqin was holding a pile of flawed little toys, and her depressed mood had long since vanished because Lin Bai had taken the initiative to give her gifts.

She didn't even mind that the gifts Lin Bai gave her were all flawed; she snuggled up to Lin Bai, beaming with joy: "That's enough, that's enough, I don't need that many."

"Jiang Qingqin, are you interested in becoming my Incomplete Promotion Envoy?" Lin Bai asked with a smile, nonchalantly buying another porcelain dish, flicking a small chip into it with his finger, and then tossing the dish to Jiang Qingqin.

"Of course I'm willing." Jiang Qingqin agreed without hesitation, then immediately asked, "What does it do?"

"Incomplete Promotion Envoy," Lin Bai repeated.

"What is it for?" Jiang Qingqin asked.

"Like me, to make everyone you meet accept flaws, get used to flaws, and create flaws." Lin Bai pointed to the large pile of flawed items she was holding and explained.

"Does this have any meaning?" Jiang Qingqin asked hesitantly; suddenly, she realized, "This... this... this wouldn't be practicing a Dao Method, would it?"

"You guessed it." Lin Bai snapped his fingers. He looked back at Deng Li Buduo and said, "The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Dao functions with forty-nine, and one is hidden away. The Heavenly Dao is inherently flawed; the hidden one is a glimmer of survival. By realizing the Dao from within flaws, one can glimpse a trace of Heavenly secrets. This is a technique no weaker than 'Words Follow the Dao'."

"……" Deng Li Buduo was stunned for a moment and hurriedly closed his livestream. While moved, he was also somewhat depressed—did this master just pass on a technique without any warning at all?

Jiang Qingqin was also stunned: "So, you are making a big deal out of the Incomplete Dao in Jiamu City, and you even published the 'Collection of Heavenly Flaws'. You... the method you use to get other people's names is through the art of Heavenly secrets realized from the Incomplete Dao?"

The lies he had told were all strung together just like that!

I am just this smart.

Lin Bai nodded with a smile: "Indeed. What I have realized is still only a minor Dao. The Nine Ancestors of the Righteous Sect once flawed the heavens and the earth, realizing the Incomplete Dao to Great Completion; he was the true sage who knew five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future. In his eyes, no one had any secrets."

"So amazing." Jiang Qingqin gasped in admiration.

Now, she believed whatever Lin Bai said.

After all, Lin Bai had demonstrated sufficiently powerful strength, and everything he said and did could be accounted for. She looked at Lin Bai with admiration and asked, "Did that ancestor ever read your fortune?"

"The Nine Ancestors long ago shattered the void and went who knows where," Lin Bai said with a look of longing. "But before he left, he prophesied everything about the Heavenly Descended, and even stated the method to break 'Words Follow the Dao'. After the Nine Ancestors, no other ancestor in the Righteous Sect has been able to practice the Incomplete Dao to Great Completion. But unlike 'Words Follow the Dao', the Incomplete Dao is almost a mandatory technique for every Disciple of the Righteous Sect."

"Practicing it to minor completion is also not bad!" Jiang Qingqin said. "Being able to know everyone's name in advance is already very impressive. However, the way your Righteous Sect practices techniques is so strange!"

Xiaobai nodded while hiding in Lin Bai's arms, deeply agreeing.

Not just strange, it was strange to the point of absurdity; even the Demon Race didn't have such ridiculous ways of practicing.

Yet these ways of practicing were all real; this was like absurdity's mother opening the door for absurdity—it was absurd to the extreme.

Was Jiang Qingqin the only one brainwashed by Lin Bai?

"There are even stranger things you don't know yet!" Lin Bai smiled. "How could the practice of Great Dao laws be the same as ordinary cultivation?"

"Great Dao laws?" Jiang Qingqin looked at Lin Bai and asked, "Is this the reason why you are so powerful at such a young age?"

"I suppose so!" Lin Bai laughed sheepishly. "Actually, before I left the sect, I didn't know that people outside were so weak. I was cautious in everything I did, afraid of bringing disaster upon myself!"

"The trouble you caused this time is not small," Jiang Qingqin said with concern. "Lin Bai, tell me honestly, what is your cultivation level now? Do you have a Nascent Soul?"

"I don't think so!" Lin Bai shook his head. "What I practice is different from yours; the division of realms is very vague."

"Vague?" Jiang Qingqin frowned. "I don't quite understand what you mean. Even if it's not the same as the outside world, doesn't your sect have a standard for evaluation?"

Lin Bai thought for a moment: "No. We call cultivation 'realizing the Dao'. Realizing the Dao does not have a logical growth process. It is possible that today I cannot even beat someone in the minor Qi Refining stage, but once I realize the Dao, perhaps tomorrow I could directly fight a Nascent Soul. It's hard to say..."

【Joy from Jiang Qingqin and Xiaobai; +1+1+1】

"Lin Bai, if I become an Incomplete Promotion Envoy, does that mean I am also realizing the Incomplete Dao?" Jiang Qingqin asked hopefully.

Compared to Lin Bai's Righteous Sect, she already felt that her Hundred Flowers Valley was trash.

No, not just Hundred Flowers Valley; the Seven Righteous Sects weren't even fit to carry the shoes of the Righteous Sect.

Others were just practicing techniques, while the Righteous Sect was always realizing the Dao...

"Yes." Lin Bai nodded affirmatively.

The Wanwu Youque System was clearly expanding its influence step by step. He decided to get ahead of the system again and promote the philosophy of flaws; that way, when he completed tasks in the future, it would be a matter of course, and he wouldn't have to worry about it.

Realizing the Dao was clearly a very good excuse.

Through Deng Li Buduo, letting the players follow along to realize the Dao and create flaws everywhere would be even faster.

Jiang Qingqin suddenly became excited: "Lin Bai, you have already leaked two divine techniques of realizing the Dao. Aren't you afraid that others will learn them and turn them against you or your sect?"

"That would require them to have the ability," Lin Bai said with a disdainful smile. "Since I dared to pass on the method of realizing the Dao, I am not afraid of others learning it. Furthermore, even if others learn it, wouldn't they want to go to the Righteous Sect to learn more methods of realizing the Dao? Jiang Qingqin, your worry is completely unnecessary; your perspective is too small..."

Great Dao laws?

Without system rewards, if you really could refine Great Dao laws, I would admit you are Ouyang Feng...

"Oh." Jiang Qingqin responded gloomily and whispered in defense, "Lin Bai, I just don't want you to suffer a loss. Although you practice Great Dao laws, your understanding of the human heart is not as good as mine, right? Just like this job fair, you treated everyone with all your heart, but how did they treat you? If it weren't for your powerful strength, you might have been plotted against by them. One must always be on guard against others!"

Uh!

Lin Bai was stunned. He looked at Jiang Qingqin strangely. She actually said I was innocent; he hadn't expected such a deeply hidden noble quality to be discovered by her. He was so moved!

"Mm, I will." Lin Bai nodded earnestly. "Qingqin, don't worry, I will never let such a thing happen again in the future."

(End of chapter)