Chapter 145: Warm-Hearted Lin Bai

"Master, you are truly great." After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, the little white fox nestled in Lin Bai's arms looked up at his increasingly handsome face, her eyes filled with admiration.

"Xiaobai, my greatness is not limited to humans; it applies to Demon Beasts too!" Lin Bai, keeping in mind the unfinished lie task, subconsciously filtered the truth from his words.

"I know." The little white fox's voice lowered. "I knew it that day. The reason Master made the Beggar Sect target the Beast Taming Sect was all for me. Although I didn't say it at the time, I knew it in my heart."

As expected.

His own little white fox was still the most innocent!

Much cuter than that old fox, the City Lord.

Lin Bai habitually stroked the fox, feeling the pleasure brought by her soft fur, and sighed: "Yes! How I wish that one day, humans and beasts could live in peace, and there would be no more slaughter between the two races!"

"Master, you are so kind." The little white fox affectionately rubbed against Lin Bai's palm, enjoying the sense of security that belonged only to her.

"When that day comes, Xiaobai can play when she wants and eat when she wants, without having to think about practicing Martial Arts every day just to save her life." After teaching the little white fox the Nine Suns True Scripture, the little fox remained greedy for food and play. If it were before, Lin Bai would have directly ordered her to practice, but now, for the sake of the lie task, he had to hint circuitously that the little fox should practice.

"No, Master, I will work hard to practice." The little white fox lifted her head, looked up at Lin Bai, and said earnestly, "I cannot hold Master back."

As expected.

A white lie is much more reliable than a hurtful truth.

Lin Bai smiled and said nothing more.

With a grand plan in place, the little white fox, who had been idling away her days, finally began to practice seriously. When the little white fox started her cultivation, a notification of task completion appeared in Lin Bai's mind:

【Increase your pet's combat power (Completed); Reward: Intelligence Pill x10, Transformation Pill x1 (Issued)】

【Find a suitable Cultivation Method for your pet; Reward: Positioning Ring (After putting it on the pet, you can sense its current location)】

Sure enough, the Nine Suns True Scripture was not universal; at least, it was not suitable for the little fox.

The Pet System task was stuck.

To find a suitable Cultivation Method for the little white fox, perhaps he needed to find her mother, or take a trip to the Beast Taming Studio.

In the end, he couldn't avoid a trip to the Beast Taming Studio!

Looking at the little white fox sitting cross-legged and practicing seriously, Lin Bai thought for a moment and temporarily set aside the follow-up tasks of the Pet System.

He had too many systems; it didn't matter if he put aside unimportant tasks.

Besides, as long as the little white fox knew how to chant spells, her combat power was as high as his; when would he ever need her to charge into battle personally?

Furthermore, the Positioning Ring rewarded by the task seemed useless to Lin Bai. Keeping the little white fox by his side was a powerful and efficient early-warning device; why would he want to be separated from her?

Besides, the little fox was so soft...

The next day.

The Beggar Sect Disciples who had learned Martial Arts for a night finally became active.

Some continued to practice;

Some continued to negotiate advertising matters with wealthy merchants;

Those skilled in business began purchasing shops in the city in large quantities;

Others entered the city and began to interact extensively with NPCs, attempting to discover Hidden Tasks in Qian City;

Some even ran out of the city into the mountains and forests, looking for new leveling spots, plotting to capture a cute beast similar to the little white fox...

It was no secret that Shopkeeper Lin had asked Huayishen and others to research the Intelligence Pill.

The Intelligence Pill could awaken the intelligence of animals, so why not raise a Beast-Ear Girl of one's own from a young age?

Unless something major happened within the sect, the players' time was arranged freely.

They were here to play a game, not to work in a factory; no one wanted to be bound by rigid sect rules;

In the end, the Beggar Sect was just a place for players to earn money and learn Skills.

Lao Mi and Gugao Laoren also understood this point and did not have many requirements for the Beggar Sect players.

They were happy to let the players explore the map themselves. The whole world was too strange to them, and there were too many things that needed to be re-understood and recognized...

However, after obtaining the Cultivation Methods for two Hidden Skills, the Beggar Sect players' style changed drastically upon entering Qian City.

They were like a swarm of locusts, destroying everything they encountered.

When eating, they would chip the shopkeeper's bowl;

They would knock an ear off the stone lion crouching at the entrance of a wealthy household, get chased all over the streets by the servants, and while running, shout things at the pursuers behind them like, "Your smile is so sweet, I wish you to become the person you want to be..." or "Having your company in my life makes me feel so happy and satisfied," infuriating the servants and guards to the point of jumping in anger...

Similar things happened in every corner of Qian City, and these new players took less than half a day.

They ruined the good reputation the Beggar Sect had accumulated completely.

One complaint after another was submitted to the City Lord's Mansion.

Guo Yuan was overwhelmed, finally realizing the specific meaning of the "Heavenly Descended" being lawless as Lin Bai had described.

They were a group of true pests.

Guo Yuan even felt that Lin Bai had deliberately let the Heavenly Descended perform for him to prove his point; after all, the behavior of the Heavenly Descended was too deliberate.

The old City Lord, with a dark face, sent people to the Beggar Sect to tell Lin Bai to restrain the members of the Beggar Sect.

But Lin Bai, who was in the middle of the lie task, had already lost the ability to communicate normally, so he wrote "Act according to the law" with a brush and dismissed the people from the City Lord's Mansion.

That same day, the City Lord's Mansion posted a notice: Anyone who destroys others' property without cause shall be sentenced to imprisonment of varying lengths, depending on the value of the item.

At the same time, the City Guard was dispatched everywhere, arresting the destructive players throughout the city. Only after detaining many people was this unhealthy trend of wanton destruction suppressed.

And at this time, Qian City had been turned upside down by the rowdy players.

While suffering from a headache, Guo Yuan also had to consider Lin Bai's words; perhaps it was right to find some stimulating things for these restless Heavenly Descended.

At this moment, he hoped more than ever that the evil factions would attack, preferably giving these Beggar Sect Heavenly Descended a harsh lesson and leading them toward cultivation and revenge...

After a batch of people were thrown into prison, the players of the Beggar Sect realized that it was simply unrealistic to destroy things in a reasonable and legal manner; after all, Qian City was not Jiamu City, which had been remodeled by Lin Bai.

And making them spend money to buy things only to destroy them was not very cost-effective.

Although the Beggar Sect had money.

But now, the number of people in the Beggar Sect had also increased!

The Beggar Sect would pay a salary to every member, but that money was meant for living expenses, not for buying things to destroy.

The money from their sugar daddy was also money and should be used where it mattered most; they could not be allowed to squander it endlessly.

And to spend one's own money to cultivate a Skill that one didn't know when would become effective was a bit cost-ineffective.

Consequently.

A group of players naturally took the Cultivation Method of the Incomplete Dao as another scheme by the game officials to rake in money, cursing the developers for their craftiness; they had joined the Beggar Sect to make money, not to spend it...

Being an Incomplete Promotion Envoy for Shopkeeper Lin was not so easy...

F***, pay-to-win game!

So, if you aren't a rich person, you aren't qualified to join the Beggar Sect?

It turned out the standards set by Shopkeeper Lin during recruitment were serious; being a Beggar really wasn't something ordinary commoners could play well!

Fortunately, the Beggar Sect had another hidden Cultivation Method, Words Follow the Law, which didn't require spending money; one only needed to persistently say nice things.

Although the Cultivation Method for Words Follow the Law had been spread through live streaming.

But people outside the Beggar Sect didn't know the mysteries behind the Cultivation Method, so it was estimated that not many could persist.

Just half a day later, most Beggar Sect players voluntarily gave up their status as Incomplete Promotion Envoy to specialize in Words Follow the Law.

Although Words Follow the Law was also difficult to practice, at least it didn't require any investment, and the process was quite joyful.

After all, it wasn't easy to keep saying things as warm as spring at all times; one might slip up if not careful, and while talking, one might even get stuck and run out of words...

This damn Cultivation Method was a test of one's literary foundation.

But it had to be said.

The cultivation of Words Follow the Law filled the entire Beggar Sect with laughter.

Are you playing a game?

You can't just think about leveling up and fighting monsters; relaxation is also very important...

In just half a day, over three thousand Beggar Sect Disciples went out to cause a round of destruction, leading to Guo Yuan's City Guard arresting people.

Lin Bai gained over two hundred years of Internal Energy out of thin air; on average, each Beggar Sect Disciple had crippled at least thirty items, and he easily obtained the reward of the Foot-Splitting Technique.

The follow-up task of the Incomplete System was still to have the Promotion Envoy destroy more items, and the reward was still a Cultivation Method from the Great Demon Dissolution; this time it was the Severed Limb Technique.

Head, feet, hands, limbs...

Once he collected this set of Cultivation Methods, Lin Bai felt his chances of saving his own life would greatly increase.

If he encountered an attack he couldn't dodge, he might just be able to dodge it by tearing himself apart, and he might even scare the enemy!

Furthermore.

Although most players stopped cultivating the Incomplete Dao, there were still some players persisting, and Lin Bai's Internal Energy was growing slowly but firmly, much faster than his own cultivation.

Now his Internal Energy was quite profound; even without the Card System, Lin Bai didn't have to worry about Palm Thunder exhausting his Internal Energy.

It wasn't just Internal Energy.

The Negative Emotion of the Beggar Sect Disciples cursing the game developers, and the joyful Positive Emotion brought about when practicing Words Follow the Law, were both growing rapidly.

Lin Bai's Spirit Fruit Tree was already densely covered with fruits, too many to count.

He could now eat Spirit Fruit like candy; anyway, eating one permanently added 10 to Spirit, so he would just let it keep adding up. Lin Bai's dream of becoming X Jiaoshou had never been shattered.

There was no such thing as diminishing returns from eating too many Spirit Fruit; every time a Spirit Fruit landed in his stomach, Lin Bai would feel his thinking and his observation of the outside world increase significantly. He could already process various task pop-ups in the background while simultaneously Listening to the players' real-life conversations and private chats, and they wouldn't interfere with each other.

The situation where many systems entered his body at the beginning, bringing about such overload that his whole person collapsed, should no longer occur.

Lin Bai felt that if he kept eating Spirit Fruit, he wasn't sure if he could become X Jiaoshou, but turning himself into a supercomputer should be no problem.

It turned out that the Spirit Fruit provided by the Emotion System was for the many systems hidden within his body to be able to run simultaneously and to consolidate his foundation.

No wonder the Emotion System appeared at the very beginning.

Three positive Temperament Fruit had grown, and Lin Bai had eaten them all.

This thing didn't need to be accumulated; Temperament represented charm. A man with Temperament, no matter what he said or did, would get twice the result with half the effort, and it was useful for showing off...

In short.

No matter what his three thousand Beggar Sect Disciples did, Lin Bai had gains.

With the growth of his strength, Lin Bai was no longer as repulsed by the players as he was at the beginning; the leeks growing in his own field were, of course, the better the more robust they were.

"Lin Bai, did you teach the Cultivation Method of Words Follow the Law to the Heavenly Descended?" When Jiang Qingqin came to find Lin Bai, she was stunned by the sweet words filling her ears.

"No, they realized it themselves." Lin Bai flatly denied it; the lie task had been stuck for too long, and while other system tasks were in a stagnant state, he had to clear it quickly.

Jiang Qingqin's expression was a bit unpleasant: "Don't lie to me. If you hadn't told them the mystery of Words Follow the Law, how could they have cultivated so actively?"

"When have I ever lied to you?" Lin Bai shook his head and said; if he had known, the lie task would have been the easiest to clear. Look, it didn't affect normal communication at all...

"You clearly know that the cultivation of Words Follow the Law relates to the safety of the entire world, so why did you reveal it to the Heavenly Descended?" Jiang Qingqin frowned slightly, "What if they manage to master it? Will there still be a way for us to survive?"

"I did this to make you value the cultivation of this Cultivation Method more; only with competition is there pressure. You are all too lazy." Lin Bai sighed.

"I..."

Jiang Qingqin choked and suddenly didn't know how to respond to Lin Bai.

He was right; even though she had obtained the Cultivation Method for Words Follow the Law, no one, including her, had ever practiced it seriously. Most had just laughed it off and gone through the motions, their enthusiasm not even as high as the Heavenly Descended of the Beggar Sect.

She also knew that the people of the Beggar Sect were causing destruction everywhere in the city.

As an Incomplete Promotion Envoy for Lin Bai, she hadn't even destroyed a single item from yesterday until now!

Plus the betrayal at the recruitment fair.

Perhaps.

It was that Lin Bai was too disappointed in them!

For a moment, Jiang Qingqin felt a complex mix of emotions in her heart.

The Five Great Sects and Huilong Temple had already become Lin Bai's enemies, and the few allies she had found were wavering, constantly thinking of seeking benefits for themselves; caught between these people, it was too hard for Lin Bai.

It was only right that he chose to improve the strength of the Beggar Sect Disciples.

After all, at the recruitment fair, only the Beggar Sect Disciples had truly helped him.

"I wronged you." Jiang Qingqin's eyes turned slightly red, and she lowered her head in shame, "Lin Bai, from now on, no matter what you do, I will not blame you."

Lin Bai subconsciously wanted to nod, but he paused and changed his approach, saying softly, "Don't be like this. People still need to have their own thoughts while living; you must live for yourself, not for anyone else in the world."

Jiang Qingqin's tears streamed down instantly. She rushed up excitedly and hugged Lin Bai, burying her head in his chest, and choked out, "Lin Bai, you are so kind. I don't want to return to Hundred Flowers Valley anymore. Can I stay in the Beggar Sect from now on? My master only wants to use me, making me get close to you to spy on information about you and try to extract as many secret manuals from you as possible. I never knew my master was that kind of person before. Compared to you, living with them is too exhausting..."

"..." Lin Bai suddenly didn't know what to say, because he discovered that whether he agreed to Jiang Qingqin or rejected her, even he couldn't tell if it was the truth or a lie.

Why was it like this?

Telling a lie is not difficult; what is difficult is lying all the time!

Perhaps this was the reason why his lie mission had never been passed!

After pondering for a moment, Lin Bai gently patted Jiang Qingqin's shoulder and said softly, "Don't be like this, your master is a good person!"

(End of this chapter)