Chapter 142: Big Brother's Ideal

Good heavens!

Players are indeed players; they are capable of anything, even sending out undercover agents.

In this strange world, the locations of various sects have always troubled Lin Bai.

After all, he is not a player and has no map display.

Those sects never invited him to visit from start to finish, not even the Hundred Flowers Valley, which had received immense benefits from him.

Of course.

Even if sects like the Chaoyuan Sword Sect were to invite him, Lin Bai feels he would not dare to go.

He can still put up a fight while outside, but if he delivers himself to their doorstep and the other party harbors malicious intent, wouldn't that be like a lamb walking into a tiger's den?

It is said that the Medicine King Valley has three thousand Golden Core cultivators, right?

It is much better now; with players acting as the vanguard, all sorts of sect information has been exposed.

Moreover, at this stage, only the Beggar Sect has the capability to handle undercover work; other sects couldn't do it even if they wanted to, as they lack the resources and have not earned the players' trust.

"Have the disciples captured by Huilong Temple transmit information back at any time," Lin Bai instructed.

The few evil sects he wiped out have their pressure shared by sects like the Chaoyuan Sword Sect; without players reporting the news, the information about the recruitment fair might not spread back that quickly, so there should be a buffer period of a few days.

But Huilong Temple is different.

After all, the conflict between him and Huilong Temple not only involves players but also a Lingjie Fengxi!

Therefore.

What needs to be guarded against more right now is Huilong Temple.

"Understood," Gugao Laoren replied; although Lao Mi is the Chief Beggar in name, all the affairs of the Beggar Sect, big and small, are managed by Gugao Laoren, and no one feels there is anything wrong with that.

After a pause, Gugao Laoren asked, "Shopkeeper Lin, our Beggar Sect has stolen the spotlight at this recruitment fair, and the other four sects combined have only recruited a little over two thousand Heavenly Descended. Should we take some preventive measures in advance? I am worried they might act against the Beggar Sect."

"And the evil sects you wiped out, they will definitely take revenge on the Beggar Sect," Lao Mi said, "Shopkeeper Lin, Golden Core True Persons are too powerful. Although the Beggar Sect has many people, currently only about sixty of us have learned the Nine Suns True Scripture. If a Golden Core True Person comes knocking, I fear we will be unable to cope."

If this were the real Beggar Sect, after Lin Bai caused such a huge disaster, the tree would have fallen and the monkeys scattered long ago.

But players do not care about such things; they even think this is a plot quest and are eager for things to be as chaotic as possible!

The bigger the commotion, the higher their rewards.

"The Nine Suns True Scripture and the Dragon Subduing Palm can be opened to all Beggar Sect disciples," Lin Bai scanned them, "I can also teach you the Blade Technique 'Cold Pride Six Colors', the movement art 'Bow Body Single Shadow', and the defensive technique 'Golden Bell Cover', and let all disciples practice them. Except for little Deng; before his Dragon Subduing Palm reaches Great Completion, he cannot practice other Martial Arts."

Having obtained the Card System, Lin Bai no longer values Martial Arts as much, and besides, with strong enemies at the gates, the Beggar Sect disciples really need to improve their strength.

Human power has its limits; it is impossible for him to always be the one charging into battle at the front.

The players showed joy, providing Lin Bai with a huge wave of Positive Emotion.

Only Deng Li Buduo looked at Lin Bai gloomily, feeling that he, the personal disciple, was being deliberately targeted.

But seeing the envious gazes cast at him by the surrounding players, he instantly felt at ease again; perhaps the Justice Sect has special requirements for personal disciples!

Lin Bai's transmission of techniques was within the players' expectations.

But players are greedy; they want more than just a few sets of Martial Arts. While the Beggar Sect is surrounded by crises, it is best to squeeze more things out of Lin Bai.

Gugao Laoren looked troubled: "Shopkeeper Lin, learning these Martial Arts probably won't be enough to deal with a Golden Core True Person! Do you think your Palm Thunder could be taught to us?"

Even though they guessed that the way to obtain Palm Thunder is through 'Words Manifesting into Law', they still held a glimmer of hope—what if they could learn the Palm Thunder Skill directly from Lin Bai? Then they would only need to worry about proficiency.

"No," Lin Bai knew their thoughts from their private chats and decisively went along with them, "Palm Thunder is not a Martial Art, but an incidental effect of Words Manifesting into Law. If you want to learn Palm Thunder, you can only practice Words Manifesting into Law yourselves. Once you succeed in your cultivation, you will naturally learn Palm Thunder, and you can even customize the incantations."

It really is a hidden Skill!

Having received Lin Bai's confirmation, the players were instantly excited and discussed it fervently, moving the task of Palm Thunder up their schedules. Customized incantation Palm Thunder—is there any Martial Art cooler than this?

To deceive others, one must first deceive one's own people.

Lin Bai needs the Beggar Sect disciples to set an example for the people of Hundred Flowers Valley.

If they spend a day speaking softly as spring and still haven't learned Palm Thunder, that means something went wrong on their end; what does that have to do with him!

Are hidden Skills really that easy to learn?

"Shopkeeper Lin, I heard from little Deng that you are going to appoint an Incomplete Promotion Envoy? I wonder if we are qualified for this?" Gugao Laoren asked again.

The players speculated that 'Peering into Heavenly Secrets' must be a detection-type Skill.

There are no health bars visible in the game; perhaps after comprehending an Incomplete Skill, one could detect the health bars or Skills of NPCs or bosses in advance?

In any game, identification and detection-type Skills are god-tier Skills.

Lin Bai glanced at Deng Li Buduo and said, "Little Deng, do you still remember the virtues I taught you? In the future, without your master's permission, do not spread certain things."

Although he knows the players have live streams, warnings are still necessary; acting like a real native can help him harvest more information.

Moreover, it prevents the players from leading him by the nose.

"Understood, Master," Deng Li Buduo replied respectfully, not taking Lin Bai's instructions to heart at all. After the proportion of players increased, Lin Bai had already been relegated to a plot NPC and a Skill NPC in his heart, no longer as important as before.

Players can do the quests issued by NPCs, but there is no need to truly respect an NPC. No matter how realistic the game is, an NPC is just a string of data.

"The Incomplete Promotion Envoy is not as simple as you think; it also hides a set of cultivation methods." After admonishing Deng Li Buduo, Lin Bai turned to Lao Mi and the others, saying, "However, since you already know, then spread it out and let every Beggar Sect disciple practice it! Being able to comprehend the Incomplete Dao within it is also your own destiny.

But I must tell you in advance, the Incomplete Promotion Envoy is not just a title; it is about implementing 'incompleteness' into every single thing in your life. For example, the weapons you use, the clothes you wear, even the items you see—if you can turn them into something incomplete, then do so. Only through perseverance will you have a chance to comprehend the Incomplete Dao."

"This is a quantity-based quest, right!" Fengzi Nan said.

"It should be," Bitter Melon Vine said.

"It's simpler than Words Manifesting into Law; just destroy things as you encounter them," Baiyin said, "We've been doing this all along; incompleteness is the specialty of the Beggar Sect!"

"Let all the Beggar Sect disciples practice it; it's a convenient task anyway," Gugao Laoren said, "I reckon Words Manifesting into Law and the Incomplete Dao won't be hidden for long. Players entering the game should all give it a try. In the future, when with Shopkeeper Lin, unless it's a grand scene requested by a 'Gold Master' daddy, don't live stream at other times. Otherwise, if the Justice Sect's hidden Skills leak out, we will be at a huge disadvantage."

Listening to the players' private chats, Lin Bai smiled and encouraged them: "Everyone, these two abilities look simple but are difficult to execute. If any of you manage to master one of them, I can make an exception and admit you into the Justice Sect, teaching you more methods for cultivating the Great Dao Laws."

The Wanwu Youque System only required Lin Bai to find 49 Flaw promoters, but he had directly produced nearly three thousand; once 【Gugao Laoren】 passed on the matters discussed tonight, the reward for the Great Demon Liberation Manual should be in his hands instantly.

At this moment, what Lin Bai had his eyes on was no longer the Martial Art rewarded by the Flaw System, but the massive Flaw promotion battle team.

Having grasped the true meaning of the Flaw, for every item Lin Bai caused to be flawed, he gained one more day of Internal Energy.

One day of Internal Energy might not seem like much, but with nearly three thousand Beggar Sect Disciples, even if each person caused ten things to be flawed every day, he could increase his Internal Energy by over thirty thousand days.

He didn't know if the items destroyed by players who grasped the Dao of the Flaw through live streaming would count toward his total, but if one-third of the Beggar Sect Disciples persisted, the Internal Energy he would obtain would be an astronomical figure.

This was much faster than the Internal Energy feedback from the Haoweirenshi System System System.

Lin Bai felt he had caught another bug in the system.

With an increase of several decades or a century of Internal Energy a day, which player's cultivation speed could keep up with him?

With Internal Energy rising like this, he would never have to worry about running out of mana again, and as for refining any pills to increase Internal Energy, there was simply no need...

In the Xianxia World, it was inevitable that there would be all kinds of hidden old monsters.

At the speed he caused trouble, relying on system rewards and the meager Internal Energy feedback from 【Deng Li Buduo】 would never be fast enough.

This way was much more satisfying.

It was a pity that apart from Palm Thunder, he had no large-scale means of attack.

Although using players to create a Lightning Storm was sharp, if the players were taken out first, his strength would instantly drop by more than half; in the final analysis, those were all external forces.

He wondered when the Wanwu Youque System would reward true Immortal Arts, or Martial Arts with greater power...

The harvest tonight was already quite substantial.

But 【Gugao Laoren】 was still somewhat unwilling to give up; he glanced at the little white fox in Lin Bai's arms and asked tentatively, "Shopkeeper Lin, can we also have a pet like Xiaobai?"

All the players held their breath at the same time.

When the little white fox underwent Form Manifestation, 【Weapon Refinement Master】 had started a live stream, and the cute, adorable Beast-Ear Girl image had long since exploded on the Xianxia World forums.

Owning a Beast-Ear Girl as a pet had become the goal of every player.

Nowadays.

The little white fox's popularity among players was no less than Lin Bai's, and there was even a trend of it surpassing him.

Following the Beggar Sect, the Beast Taming Studio had become the players' new choice.

The Beast Taming Studio was a subordinate sect of the Beast Taming Sect; there wasn't one in Qian City, and one had to go to Zhen City to enter the Beast Taming Studio.

After the image of the little white fox after Form Manifestation spread.

The players in the several novice villages under Zhen City were simply going crazy; now they were single-mindedly waiting to leave the novice village so they could go to the Beast Taming Studio to apprentice and adopt a little Demon Beast of their own!

Players who couldn't apprentice at the Beast Taming Studio and couldn't get into the Beggar Sect began to ponder how to go into the mountains and wilderness to capture Demon Beasts and tame them personally!

Lin Bai hadn't spoken yet.

The little white fox had already bristled; she jumped out of Lin Bai's arms, transformed into human form, and glared at 【Gugao Laoren】 and the others: "No, what do you take the Demon Race for? Why should the Demon Race become your pets? Whoever dares to catch Demon Beasts, I will be the first to disagree..."

"Wow! So beautiful!"

"My Xiaobai!"

"I must have a Beast-Ear Girl of my own no matter what."

"I really want to hug her."

"Too cute."

"I am willing to do anything for her."

"I'm in love."

The little white fox's expression of anger through Form Manifestation had the complete opposite effect; no player cared about her anger level, and the players even expressed that the Beast-Ear Girl was so cute even when angry, it was simply adorable.

"Xiaobai, come back." Lin Bai spoke up and called the little white fox back.

"Master." The little white fox returned to Lin Bai's side, aggrieved, hugged his arm, and begged, "Don't agree to them, okay? The Demon Race is most free in the mountains and forests; not a single member of the Demon Race wants to be someone's pet..."

"Xiaobai, we don't mean to treat the Demon Race as pets." 【Gugao Laoren】 hurriedly explained, "We are different from others; we will treat you as partners, we will take care of you, protect you, and are even willing to give our lives for you. You have misunderstood us."

"That's right, that's right. Can't you trust the people of the Beggar Sect? We will treat them as well as Shopkeeper Lin treats you." 【Gengmi】 said, "Whoever dares to abuse you or treat you badly, I will be the first to disagree."

"We can swear." Even a leveling-focused straight man like 【Fengzi Nan】 raised his hand to guarantee, "If possible, we can even change the status of the Demon Race in this world; whoever dares to harm the Demon Race is our enemy."

"Yes, that's right." 【Baiyin】 said.

The players echoed one after another; at this moment, they all seemed to have become sycophants for Xiaobai.

The little white fox was stunned by the players' attitude and looked at them strangely: "Are you serious?"

"Absolutely true." The players guaranteed.

"The Beast Taming Sect is the greatest enemy of the Demon Race." Xiaobai looked at the group of players, rolled her eyes, and said, "If you can defeat the Beast Taming Sect, I will believe you."

"No problem." 【Lao Mi】 said, "From now on, destroying the Beast Taming Sect is the responsibility of the Beggar Sect, the mission of every Beggar Sect Disciple."

【(Long-term Quest) Big Brother's Ideal: Big Brother has a new dream and goal; as his little brothers, how can we not help Big Brother realize his ideal? Assist Big Brother in destroying the Beast Taming Sect; Reward: Auspicious Qi】

Damn!

Did I get this wrong?

Lin Bai was stunned; a single sentence from the little fox playing a trick, a single sentence from 【Lao Mi】 to brush things off, and it just like that triggered a super-major quest for him?

Is this what it means to have a dream forced upon you as a Big Brother! Is the Beast Taming Sect just like that, now an enemy?

Having offended Huilong Temple, the Heavenly Dao Sect was basically already a hostile force!

Now, to make matters worse, there's another Beast Taming Sect?

Previously, Jiang Qingqin said that the Transformation Pill would very likely attract the Beast Taming Sect, and in the blink of an eye, he was given a quest to destroy the Beast Taming Sect?

Could it be that the mission the system stuffed him with is to unify the world?

However.

I don't even know what this rewarded Auspicious Qi is, there isn't even an explanation...

Seeing Lin Bai remain motionless for a long time, the little white fox asked timidly: "Master, did I say something wrong?"

"No." Lin Bai shook his head, looked at Lao Mi with a smile, and said, "Big Brother, a man must keep his word. Since you want to destroy the Beast Taming Sect, then go do it! Consider it a test for the Beggar Sect. If you can truly accomplish it, I wouldn't mind merging the entire Beggar Sect into the Justice Gate."

"..." Lao Mi was stunned.

The little white fox was also dumbfounded: "Master."

Gugao Laoren looked at Lin Bai, then at Lao Mi, and asked in the private chat channel: "Does this count as us having a long-term mission? Isn't Shopkeeper Lin a bit hasty in issuing missions?"

(End of this chapter)